Shannon Hsieh

Education

B.S. University of Toronto, 2010

M.S. University of Connecticut, 2015

Research Interests

Paleoecology, ecospace utilization, fossil record of sensory and behavioral complexity, trace fossils

Publications

Hsieh, S., and Plotnick, R. E. 2020. The representation of animal behaviour in the fossil record. Animal Behaviour. 169:65-80.

Pasterski, M. J., Bellagamba, A., Chancellor, S., Cunje, A., Dodd, E., Gefeke, K., Hsieh, S., Schassburger, A., Smith, A., Tucker, W., and Plotnick, R. E. 2020. Aquatic landscape change, extirpations, and introductions in the Chicago region. Urban Ecosystems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-020-01001-6

Hsieh, S. 2020. Does trace density reflect tracemaker density? A test using intertidal gastropods on San Salvador Island, The Bahamas. Ichnos. 27(3):268-276.

Hsieh, S., Schassburger, A., and Plotnick, R. E. 2019. The modern and fossil record of farming behavior. Paleobiology. 45(3):395-404.

Hsieh, S., Bush, A.M., and Bennington, J.B. 2019. Were bivalves ecologically dominant over brachiopods in the late Paleozoic? A test using exceptionally preserved fossil assemblages. Paleobiology. 45(2):265-279.

Getty, P.R., McCarthy, T.D., Hsieh, S., and Bush, A.M. 2016. A new reconstruction of continental Treptichnus based on exceptionally preserved material from the Jurassic of Massachusetts. Journal of Paleontology.90(2):269-278.

Presentation/Poster Abstracts

Hsieh, S. and Plotnick, R E. 2019. Taxonomic representation in the fossil versus modern behavioral records. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 51(5). doi: 10.1130/abs/2019AM-333380

Hsieh, S. 2019. Bright and early – Trends in cognition among Phanerozoic marine ecosystems. 11th North American Paleontological Conference Program with Abstracts. PaleoBios 36 (Supplement 1):175-176.

Hsieh, S., Schassburger A., and Plotnick, R.E. 2018. Say it ain’t sow? – A critical re-examination of agrichnia. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 50(6). doi: 10.1130/abs/2018AM-318690

Hsieh, S. 2017. More snails, more trails? The relationship between trace and tracemaker densities. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 49(6). doi: 10.1130/abs/2017AM-304198

Hsieh, S., Bush A. M., Daley, G.M., and Bennington, J. B. 2014. A massive change in theoretical ecospace utilization? Biomass versus relative abundance in the study of local fossil assemblages. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 46(6):631.

Hsieh, S., Getty, P., McCarthy, T. and Bush, A. 2014. An exceptional Treptichnus assemblage from Massachusetts and a new burrow reconstruction.November 2014. Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of Connecticut. University of Connecticut.

Hsieh, S., Getty, P., McCarthy, T. and Bush, A. 2014. An exceptional Treptichnus assemblage from Massachusetts and a new burrow reconstruction. STEPPE workshop: Biological and Environmental Transitions during the Neoproterozoic and Paleozoic. Smith College.

Awards

2017 Provost & Deiss Award for Graduate Research, UIC

2010 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Undergrad student research award