Non-peer reviewed publications
Hegna, T.A. & R. Lerosey-Aubril. 2007. Trilobite publications: Statistics for the year 2006. Trilobite Papers 19:4-7.
Lerosey-Aubril, R. & T.A. Hegna. 2006. Trilobite publication statistics. Trilobite Papers 18:3-6.
Book reviews
Invited lectures
Hegna, T.A. 2025. Teaching Critical Thinking on a Flat Earth. Keynote at the Penn-York Undergraduate Research Conference, November 15th, Bradford, PA.
Hegna, T.A. 2025. Living Fossils, Sex and the Single Anostracan, and Doomsday Preppers: The Branchiopod Crustacean Fossil Record. Buffalo Geological Society October Meeting, Oct. 3rd.
Hegna, T.A. 2025. Teaching Critical Thinking on a Flat Earth. Kasling Memorial Lecture, October 7th, Fredonia, NY.
Hegna, T.A. 2025. Tales Told by Trilobites. Northshore Fossil Club Meeting, Cleveland, OH, June 21st, 2024.
Hegna, T.A. 2024. Living Fossils, Sex and the Single Anostracan, and Doomsday Preppers: The Branchiopod Crustacean Fossil Record. SUNY Fredonia Sciences brownbag. Fredonia, NY.
Hegna, T.A. 2024. Citations as DEI. SUNY Fredonia Sciences brownbag. Fredonia, NY.
Hegna, T.A. 2024. Mining for paleontological data in non-English language publications: tools and best practices. Paleobiology Database Summer Short Course, Washington, DC, July 2024.
Hegna, T.A. 2024. Tales Told by Trilobites. Geological Society of Minnesota March Meeting, March 11th, 2024
Hegna, T.A. 2024. Tales Told by Trilobites. Denver Museum of Nature and Science Earth Science Colloquium, Denver, CO. March 7th, 2024.
Hegna, T.A. 2023. Geological Critical Thinking: When does a hypothesis become a conspiracy theory? Buffalo Geological Society November Meeting. Nov. 3, 2023.
Hegna, T.A. 2023. Tales Told by Trilobites. Rochester Academy of Sciences, Fossil Section October Meeting, Rochester, NY. October 3, 2023.
Hegna, T.A. 2023. Geological Critical Thinking: Confronting Earth Science Myths & Conspiracies and How to Avoid Confirmation Bias in Your Everyday Practice. Buffalo Association of Professional Geologists (BAPG) April Dinner Meeting. April, 2023.
Hegna, T.A. 2022. Species, Vague Boundaries, and Biodiversity: Reframing Woodger's Paradox. William T. and Charlotte N. Hagan Young Scholar/Artist Award Ceremony Lecture, SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY.
Hegna, T.A. 2020. Insights from Pyrite: Trilobite Reproduction. Penn-Dixie Science Nights, Blasdell, NY.
Hegna, T.A. 2019. How did trilobites have sex? MidAmerica Paleontological Society Fossil Show, April, 2019. Iowa City, IA.
Hegna, T.A. 2018. The fossil record of branchiopod crustaceans. 9th International Crustacean Congress, Washington, DC.
Hegna, T.A. 2018. How did trilobites have sex? Burpee Museum of Natural History PaleoFest, Rockford, IL. March 2-4, 2018.
Hegna, T.A., R.R. Gaines, J. Ortega-Hernández, P. Van Roy, R. Lerosey-Aubril. 2017. The phylogenetic placement of the arthropods from the Cambrian Weeks Formation. International Workshop on Evolution of Cambrian Arthropods. 1-6 Sept., Xi'an, China.
Hegna, T.A. 2013. Pancrustacea and the Paleozoic Conquest of Land. Invited Departmental Seminar at the University of Illinois–Chicago. March 21st, 2013. Chicago, IL.
Chaired conference sessions
Crustacean Society Mid-Year Meeting, (Hong Kong), 2019: "Fossil and Modern Clam Shrimp" (With D.C. Rogers)
Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, (Indianapolis, IN), 2018: "Paleontology, Evolution, and Development" (with S. Tennakoon).
North Central Geological Society of America Meeting (Champaign, IL), April 2016: "The Contribution of Taphonomy for Understanding the Fossil Record."
Geological Society of America annual meeting (Denver, CO) 2013: "Unlocking Lilliput: New Approaches to Microscopy in Paleontology" (with K. Leo Pullin).
Geological Society of America annual meeting (Charlotte, NC) 2012: "The Origins of Arthropod Diversity: Phylogenetic Insights from the Living and the Dead (I & II)" (with Dr. Jo Wolfe).
Press coverage:
Quoted in article on why spiders have eight legs
https://www.livescience.com/animals/spiders/why-do-spiders-have-8-legs
Quoted in article on the largest arachnid.
https://www.livescience.com/what-is-largest-arachnid
Quoted in Coverage on Trilobite Reproduction:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/science/trilobites-sex-claspers.html (link to pdf of story)
Coverage of Parthenogenetic Anostracans (SUNY Fredonia undergraduate lead author):
https://www.livescience.com/fossil-fairy-shrimp-reproduction
Visiting Researcher from Argentina hosted by Hegna:
Field work in Utah:
http://www.wiu.edu/news/newsrelease.php?release_id=12873
Seeing the World Through Science Summer Camp:
Research on trilobite spots:
http://www.livescience.com/28196-ancient-trilobites-featured-spotted-camouflage.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/03/130327-trilobite-spots-marine-paleontology-science/
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v495/n7442/full/495412c.html
Research on trilobite eggs:
http://www.nature.com/articles/n-11997808
http://www.earthtouchnews.com/discoveries/fossils/wow-fossilised-trilobite-eggs
NSF SEM Grant:
http://www.wiu.edu/news/newsrelease.php?release_id=14839