Opportunities for Students

I have/had undergraduate students working on a range of projects. Some past projects include:

• First CT-scan reconstruction of Graeophonus, a late Carboniferous whip spider (Arachnida: Amblypygi) from Coseley, Staffordshire, UK.

• Original spotted patterns on Middle Devonian phacopid trilobites from western and central New York

• Possible trilobite-in-trilobite sheltering behavior (Silurian Gun River Formation, Anticosti Island, Canada)

•Silicification of trilobites in the Cambrian Weeks Formation (House Range, Utah)

•Epilogue to the tale of the Triassic Amphipod: Rosagammarus is a decapod tail (Luning Formation, Nevada)

•The 3D morphology of the enigmatic Carboniferous arthropod, Schramixerxes gerem (Montceau-Les-Mines) via micro computed tomography (MicroCT)

•The evolution of the kazacharthran Almatium in central Asia

•A microCT reconstruction of a Triassic shrimp from Madagascar

•Thoracic leg variation along the anterior-posterior axis in the clam shrimp Cyzicus sp.

Potential Paleontology Projects:

•Trilobite preservation and ontogeny in the Weeks Formation (Cambrian; Utah)

•Phyllocarid cuticle preservation

•Description of new conchostracan species from several localities across the globe

•Description of new notostracan species from several localities across the globe

•Morphometrics of fossil clam shrimp

•Mississippian bryozoans preserved in glauconite (Illinois, USA)

•Description of a conulariid from the Ordovician Walcott-Rust Quarry

•Possible hyoliths from the Ordovician Walcott-Rust Quarry

or, design your own project

Potential Environmental Science Projects:

•Cladoceran biomonitoring and diversity in western New York

•Clam shrimp distribution, biology, and ontogeny in western New York

•Cladoceran SEM micromorphology

or, design your own project