Curriculum Vitae

Education

• Ph.D., South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDSMT), Rapid City, South Dakota, Present

• M.S., University of Georgia (UGA), Athens, Georgia, May 2022 - Department of Geology Outstanding Graduate Student

• B.S., Winona State University (WSU), Winona, Minnesota, May 2019 - Outstanding Graduate Award for Geology

Research Experience

• Geochemistry, paleoclimatology, geochronology, and sedimentology of the Paleogene White River Group lacustrine carbonates

• Gamifying Learning in the Geosciences to Support Student Success

• Megaflora fossils from a dinosaur excavation site in the Late Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation

• Tidal Influence in a prograding Cretaceous coastal plain: Hell Creek Formation near Marmarth, North Dakota 

• Faunal Analysis of a fossil microsite from the Late Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation, North Dakota 

University Teaching Experience

• Upper-level courses: Sedimentary Geology lecture and lab, Structural Geology lecture and lab

• Upper Level Field courses: Field and Analytical Methods, Black Hills Field Geology Summer Course

• Lower-level courses: Earth’s History of Global Change Lab, Exploring Earth’s Surface: Landforms and Environments Lecture and Lab, Lifestyles of the Big and Famous Lecture, Earth and Life Through Time Lab, Catastrophes and Extinctions Lab

Undergraduate Mentorship

• Graduate Mentor for C3 REU, Summer 2025

• Anna Luessman, Summer 2022

• Alexander Smith, Summer 2021

Fieldwork Experience (56 weeks)

• 2025 South Dakota   10 weeks Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition

• 2025 North Dakota   2 weeks Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Hell Creek Formation 

• 2024 North Dakota   7 weeks Paleontology of the Hell Creek Formation

• 2023 Montana and the Dakotas 7 weeks Sequence stratigraphy of the Hell Creek and Fort Union Formation

• 2022 North Dakota   7 weeks Paleontology of the Hell Creek Formation

• 2022 Montana   3 weeks Sequence stratigraphy of the Hell Creek and Fort Union Formation

• 2021 Montana and North Dakota 6 weeks Sequence stratigraphy and paleontology of the Hell Creek Formation

• 2019 South Dakota   2 weeks Field assistant instructor for structural geology

• 2018 Western US 7 weeks Mapping and stratigraphy (Precambrian-Cenozoic) of western Montana

• 2016 North Dakota 2 weeks Paleontology of the Hell Creek Formation

• 2015 South Dakota 2 weeks Mapping structural geology of the Black Hills 

• 2015 North Dakota 2 weeks Paleontology of the Hell Creek Formation

Professional Development

• Preparing for an Academic Career in the Geosciences course, hosted by NAGT, 2024

• Pedagogy of Writing in the Disciplines course, hosted by UGA, 2023

• Designing Courses for Significant Learning course, hosted by UGA, 2023

• Preparing to Pivot to Online Instruction short course, hosted by UGA, 2020

• Certificates: Certificate in Diversity and Inclusion (UGA), GradTeach Certificate (UGA), Interdisciplinary Certificate in University Teaching (UGA)

Selected Publications and Presentations

• Khatri, S.I., 2024, Developing and Implementing a Fluvial Landscape Board Game for an Undergraduate Introductory Geoscience Lab: Preliminary Results: Earth Educators Rendezvous, Geoscience Education Research, #31.

• Khatri, S.I., Beatty, W.L., Holland, S.M., 2021, Nonmarine sequence-stratigraphic architecture of the Upper Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation, near Marmarth, North Dakota: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 53, no.6.

• Khatri, S.I., Beatty, W.L., 2018, Faunal analysis of a fossil microsite from the Late Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation, North Dakota: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 50, no. 6.

Service and Outreach

• National: Geological Society of America Student Advisory Council, SEPM Student Committee

• University: Graduate Programs Committee Graduate Representative (SDSMT), Graduate Student Association Council Secretary (UGA), Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee Graduate Liaison (UGA), The Classic Journal Editorial Board Reviewer (UGA), Student Advocacy and Campus Issues Committee Graduate Representative (UGA), College of Science and Engineering Council Student Representative (WSU)

• Community: Georgia Museum of Art student volunteer, The Great River Shakespeare Festival (GRSF) student volunteer, Kashubian Cultural Institute & Polish Museum student volunteer

Selected Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

PhD Student, SDSMT

• RMS-SEPM Donald L. Smith Research grant

• AGeS3 (Advancing Geochronology Science, Spaces, and Systems) Grad Program Research Grant

• Tobacco Root Geological Society Field Scholarship

• Kate Simmons Teskey Fellowship from SDSMT for demonstrating a high level of academic achievement

Masters Student, UGA

• Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT)

• Tobacco Root Geological Society Field Scholarship

• Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Patterson Student Fieldwork Grant

• Geological Society of America Graduate Student Research Grant

• Paleontological Society Stephen Jay Gould Student Research Award

Undergraduate Student, WSU

• Outstanding Graduate Award for Geology

• Tuftin Award for excellence in academics, aptitude for fieldwork, and departmental service

• GSA North Central Section Student Travel Grant 

• Geoscience Alumni Leadership Endowment (GALE) Award