EDWARD B. DAVIS

 

October 12, 2022

 

 

Department of Geological Sciences

1272 University of Oregon

Eugene OR 97403

(541)346-3461

Museum of Natural and Cultural History

University of Oregon

1680 East 15th Ave
Eugene, OR 97403

 

 

edavis@uoregon.edu

 

Professional Preparation

 

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Department of Integrative Biology, 2005

B.S., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Summa Cum Laude, Honors Geological Sci., 1999

Professional Employment

 

2019-current    Associate Professor, UO Department of Earth Sciences

2022-current    Director of Fossil Collections,  UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History

2013-2019       Assistant Professor, UO Department of Earth Sciences

2016-2022       Curator of Fossil Collections, UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History

2008-2016       Fossil Collections Manager, UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History

2008-2013       Instructor, UO Department of Geological Science

2007                Faculty Fellow, University of Oregon

2006                Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UC Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

2002, 2004      Graduate Student Research Assistant, MIOMAP project

2001                Graduate Student Coordinator, North American Paleontology Convention

2000-2003       Graduate Student Research Assistant, UC Museum of Paleontology

1999-2005       Graduate Student Instructor, UCB Depts. of Int. Bio., Earth & Plan. Sci.

Publications (54) Student authors underlined, undergraduates with *

Refereed Journal Articles (48)

 

Ghezzo, E., Matteo, M., Davis, E. Accepted. Multispectral imaging allows detection of large individual fossils. Geological Magazine. 77pp.

 

Balk, M., Deck, J., Emery, K.F., Walls, R.L., Reuter, D., La France, R., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Barrett, P., Blois, J., Boileau, A., Brenskelle, L., Cannarozzi, N.R., Cruz, J.A., Dávalos, L.M., de la Sancha, N.U., Gyawali, P., Hantak, M.M., Hopkins, S.S.B., Kohli, B., King, J.N., Koo, M., Lawing, A.M., Machado, H., McCrane, S.M., McLean, B., Morgan, M.E., Pilaar Birch, S., Reed, D., Reitz, E.J., Sewnath, N., Upham, N.S., Villaseñor, A., Yohe, L., Davis, E.B., Guralnick, R.P. 2022 (online early). A solution to the challenges of interdisciplinary aggregation and use of specimen-level trait data. iScience. 44pp. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.105101

 

Brenskelle, L., Wieczorek, J., Davis, E.B., Wallis, N., Emery, K., LeFebvre, M., Guralnick, R. 2022. A Community-Developed Extension to Darwin Core for Reporting the Chronometric Age of Specimens. PLOS ONE 17(9): e0261044. 13pp. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261044

 

McLaughlin, W., Boatman, C.*, Davis, E.B., Hopkins, S.S.B. 2022. Total dental occlusal area as a feeding constraint feature in extant walruses (Odobenus rosmarus), and implications for the evolution of molluscivory in Odobenidae. Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 29: 571-583. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10914-022-09603-x

 

Wyatt, M.R.*, Hopkins, S.S.B., Davis, E.B. 2021. Using 2D dental geometric morphometrics to identify modern Perognathus and Chaetodipus specimens (Rodentia, Heteromyidae). Journal of Mammalogy. 102(4): 1087-1100. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyab052

 

Reuter, D.M., Hopkins, S.S.B., Davis, E.B. 2021. Carnivoran intraspecific tooth-size variation shows heterogeneity along the tooth row and among species. Journal of Mammalogy. 102(1):236–249.

 

Robson, S.V.*, Famoso, N.A., Davis, E.B., Hopkins, S.S.B. 2019. First mesonychid known from the Clarno Formation (Eocene) of Oregon. Palaeontologia Electronica. 22.2.35. https://doi.org/10.26879/856

 

Emery-Wetherell, M.M., Mathew, C.*, Church, C.*, Dellard, E.*, Davis, E.B., Roering, J. 2019. The correlation of topographically-derived relative wetness with terrestrial mollusk presence and abundance. Malacologia. 62(2): 225-236.

 

Seltmann, K.C., Lafia, S., Paul, D.L., James, S.A., Bloom, D., Rios, N., Ellis, S., Farrell, U. Utrup, J., Yost, M., Davis, E., Emery, R., Motz, G., Kimmig, J., Shirey, V., Sandall, E., Park, D., Tyrrell, C., Thackurdeen, R.S., Collins, M., O’Leary, V., Prestridge, H., Evelyn, C., Nyberg, B. 2018. Georeferencing for Research Use (GRU): An integrated geospatial training paradigm for biocollections researchers and data providers. Research Ideas and Outcomes. 4: e32449. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.4.e32449

 

Retallack, G.J., Theodor, J.M., Davis, E.B., Hopkins, S.S.B., Barrett, P.Z. 2018. First dinosaur (Ornithopoda) from Early Cretaceous (Albian) of Oregon, USA. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. e1486847: 5pp.

 

Marshall, C.R., Finnegan, S., Clites, E.C., Holroyd, P.A., Bonuso, N., Cortez, C., Davis, E.B., Dietl, G.P., Druckenmiller, P.S., Eng, R.C., Garcia, C., Estes-Smargiassi, K., Hendy, A., Hollis, K.A., Little, H., Nesbitt, E.A., Roopnarine, P., Skibinski, L., Vendetti, J., White, L.D. 2018. Quantifying the dark data in museum fossil collections as palaeontology undergoes a second digital revolution. Biology Letters. 14: 20180431.

 

Emery-Wetherell, M., Davis, E. 2018. Dental measurements do not diagnose artiodactyl species: implications for the systematics of Merycoidodontoidea. Palaeontologia Electronica. 21.2.23A. https://doi.org/10.26879/748

 

Famoso, N.A., Hopkins, S.S.B., Davis, E.B. 2018. How do diet and body mass drive reproductive strategies in mammals? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 124: 151-156.

 

Williams, J.W., Grimm, E., Blois, J., Charles, D., Davis, E., Goring, S., Graham, R., Smith, A., Anderson, M., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Ashworth, A., Betancourt, J., Bills, B., Booth, R., Buckland, P., Curry, B., Giesecke, T., Jackson, S., Latorre, C., Nichols, J., Purdum, T., Roth, R., Stryker, M., Takahara, H. 2018. The Neotoma Paleoecology Database: A multi-proxy, international community-curated data resource. Quaternary Research. 89: 156-177. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2017.105

 

Calède, J.J.-M., Kehl, W.*, and Davis, E.B. 2017. Cranial and dental morphology of Leptarctus oregonensis (Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae) from the Mascall Formation (Miocene) of central Oregon. Journal of Paleontology. doi: 10.1017/jpa.2017.78

 

Emery-Wetherell, M.M., McHorse, B.K., and Davis, E.B. 2017. Spatially explicit analysis sheds new light on the Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinction in North America. Paleobiology. 43: 642-655. doi:10.1017/pab.2017.15

 

Badgley, C., Smiley, T.M., Davis, E.B., DeSantis, L.R.G., Fox, D.L., Hopkins, S.B., Jezkova, T., Matocq, M.D., Matzke, N., McGuire, J.L., Mulch, A., Riddle, B.R., Roth, V.L., Samuels, J.X., Strömberg, C.A.E., Terry, R., Yanites, B.J. 2017. Biodiversity and topographic complexity: Modern and geohistorical perspectives. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 32: 211-226.

 

Barnosky, A.D., Hadly, E.A., Gonzales, P., Head, J., Polly, P.D., Lawing, A.M., Eronen, J.T., Ackerly, D.D., Alex, K., Biber, E., Blois, J., Brashares, J., Ceballos, G., Davis, E., Dietl, G.P., Dirzo, R., Doremus, H., Fortelius, M., Greene, H., Hellmann, J., Hickler, T., Jackson, S.T., Kemp, M., Koch, P.L., Krement, C., Lindsey, E.L., Looy, C., Marshall, C.R., Mendenhall, C., Mulch, A., Mychajliw, A.M., Nowak, C., Ramakrishnan, U., Schnitzler, J., Das Shrestha, K., Solari, K., Stegner, L., Stegner, M.A., Stenseth, N.C., Wake, M.H., Zhang, Z. 2017. Merging Paleobiology with Conservation Biology to Guide the Future of Terrestrial Ecosystems. Science. 355: eaah4787.

 

Levering, D.L.*, Hopkins, S.S.B., and Davis E.B. 2017. Increasing locomotor efficiency among North American ungulates across the Oligocene-Miocene boundary. Palaeo3. 466: 279-286. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018216307738

 

Famoso, N.A., and Davis, E.B. 2016. On the relationship between enamel complexity and tooth area in Equids (Mammalia, Perissodactyla). PeerJ. 4:e2181; DOI 10.7717/peerj.2181

 

McHorse, B.K., Davis, E.B., Scott, E., and Jenkins, D.L. 2016. What species of horse was coeval with North America’s earliest humans in the Paisley Caves? Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2016.1214595

 

Emery, M.M., Davis, E.B., Hopkins, S.S.B. 2016. Reassessment of the agriochoerid oreodont from the Hancock Mammal Quarry, Clarno (Eocene: Duchesnean), Oregon. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 36: e1041970-2 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2015.1041970

 

Famoso, N.A., Davis, E.B., Feranec, R.S., Hopkins, S.S.B., and Price, S.A. 2016. Are hypsodonty and occlusal enamel complexity evolutionarily correlated in ungulates? Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 23: 43-47. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10914-015-9296-7

 

Retallack, G.J., Gavin, D.G., Davis, E.B., Sheldon, N.D., Erlandson, J.M., Reed, M.H., Bestland, E.A., Roering, J.J., Carson, R.J., and Mitchell, R.B. 2016. Oregon 2100: Projected climatic and ecological changes. Bulletin, University of Oregon Museum of Natural History No. 26.

 

Stilson, K.*, Hopkins, S.S.B., and Davis, E.B. 2016. Osteopathology in Rhinocerotidae from 50 Million Years to the Present. PLOS: One. 11(2): e0146221 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146221

 

Gilmour, D.M., Butler, V.L., O’Connor, J.E., Davis, E.B., Culleton, B.J., Kennett, D.J., Hodgins, G. 2015. Chronology and ecology of late Pleistocene megafauna in the northern Willamette Valley, Oregon. Quaternary Research. 83: 127-136.

 

Sertich, J.W., Graham, R.W., Stucky, R.K., McDonald, H.G., Newton, C., Fisher, D.C., Scott, E., Demobski, J.R., Lucking, C., McHorse, B.K., and Davis, E.B. 2014. High-elevation Late Pleistocene (MIS 5-6) vertebrate faunas from the Zeigler Reservoir fossil site, Snowmass Village, Colorado. Quaternary Research. 82(3): 504-517.

 

Gavin, D.G., Fitzpatrick, M.C., Gugger, P.F., Heath, K.D., Rodríguez-Sánchez, F., Dobrowski, S.Z., Hampe, A., Hu, F.S., Ashcroft, M.B., Bartlein, P.J., Blois, J.L., Carstens, B.C., Davis, E.B., de Lafontaine, G. Edwards, M.E., Fernandez, M., Henne, P.D., Herring, E.M., Holden, Z.A., Kong, W.-s., Liu, J., Magri, D. Matzke, N.J., McGlone, M.S., Saltré, F., Stigall, A.L., Tsai, Y.-H.E., Williams, J.W. 2014. Climate refugia: joint inference from fossil records, species distribution models and phylogeography. New Phytologist. 204(1): 37-54.

 

Davis, E.B., McGuire, J.L., and Orcutt, J.D. 2014. Ecological niche models of mammalian glacial refugia show consistent bias. Ecography. 37(11): 1133-1138.

 

Famoso, N.A., and Davis, E.B. 2014. Occlusal enamel complexity in middle Miocene to Holocene Equids (Equidae: Perrisodactyla) of North America. PLoS: ONE 9(2): e90184.

 

Davis, E.B., and McHorse, B.K.* 2013. A method for improved identification of postcrania from mammalian fossil assemblages: multivariate discriminant function analysis of camelid astragali. Palaeontologia Electronica. 16.3.27A. http://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2013/539-discriminant-id-of-postcrania

 

Famoso, N.A., Feranec, R.S., and Davis, E.B. 2013. Occlusal enamel complexity and its implications for lophodonty, hypsodonty, body mass, and diet in extinct and extant ungulates. Palaeogography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 387:21-216.

 

McGuire, J.L., and Davis, E.B. 2013. Using the palaeontological record of Microtus to test species distribution models and reveal responses to climate change. Journal of Biogeography. 40(8): 1490-1500.

 

Davis, E.B. and Calède, J.J.-M. 2012. Extending the utility of artiodactyl postcrania for species-level identifications using multivariate morphometric analyses. Palaeontologica Electronica. 15.1.1A. http://palaeo-electronica.org/content/2012-issue-1-articles/68-artiodactyl-postcrania

 

McHorse, B.K.*, Orcutt, J.D., and Davis, E.B. 2012. The carnivoran fauna of Rancho La Brea: average or aberrant? Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 329-330: 118-123. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.02.022

 

Atwater, A.L.*, and Davis, E.B. 2011. Topographic and climate change differentially drive Pliocene and Pleistocene mammalian beta diversity of the Great Basin and Great Plains provinces of North America. Evolutionary Ecology Research 13: 833-850.

 

Calède, J.J.-M., Hopkins, S.S.B., and Davis, E.B. 2011. Turnover in burrowing rodents: The roles of competition and habitat change. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 311: 242-255.

 

Davis, E.B., Brakora, K., and Lee, A. 2011. Evolution of ruminant headgear: A review. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 278: 2857-2865.

 

Hopkins, S.S.B., and Davis, E.B.  2009.  Quantitative morphological proxies for fossoriality in small mammals. Journal of Mammalogy. 90: 1449-1460.

 

Crowley, B.E., Koch, P.L., and Davis, E.B. 2008.  Stable isotope constraints on the elevation history of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California.  GSA Bulletin. 120:588-598.

 

Davis, E.B., Koo, M.S., Conroy, C., Patton, J.L., and Moritz, C. 2008. The California Hotspots Project: identifying regions of rapid diversification of mammals.  Molecular Ecology. 17:120-138.

 

Prothero, D.R., Davis, E.B., and Hopkins, S.S.B.  2008.  Magnetic stratigraphy of the Massacre Lake beds (late Hemingfordian, early Miocene) and the “Proboscidean Datum” in North America.  New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 44: 233-238.

 

Prothero, D.R. and Davis, E.B.  2008.  Magnetic Stratigraphy of the upper Miocene (early Hemphillian) Thousand Creek Formation, northwestern Nevada. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 44:239-245.

 

Carrasco, M.A., Barnosky, A.D., Kraatz, B.P., and Davis, E.B. 2007. The Miocene Mammal Mapping Project (MIOMAP): An Online Database of Arikareean through Hemphillian Fossil Mammals.  Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 39:183-188.

 

Davis, E.B. and Pyenson N.D. 2007.  Diversity biases in terrestrial mammalian assemblages and quantifying the differences between museum collections and published accounts: a case study from the Miocene of Nevada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 250:139-149.

Davis, E.B. 2005. Comparison of climate space and phylogeny of Marmota (Mammalia: Rodentia) indicates a connection between evolutionary history and climate preference.  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 272:519-526.

 

Davis, E.B. 2005. Mammalian beta diversity in the Great Basin, western USA: Paleontological data suggest deep origin of modern macroecological structure. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 14:479-490.

 

Barnosky, A.D., Carrasco, M.A., and Davis, E.B. 2005. The impact of the species-area relationship on estimates of paleodiversity. Public Library of Science: Biology. 3(8):1356-1361.

 

Refereed Book Chapters (3)

 

Polly, D.P., Cardini, A., Davis, E.B., and Steppan, S. 2015. Marmot evolution and global change in the last 10 million years. Pp. 246-276. In: Rodent Evolution, Hautier, L., and Cox, P. Cambridge University Press.

 

Davis, E.B., Brakora, K., and Stilson, K.T.* 2014. The evolution, development, and functional role of horns in cattle. Pp. 72-81. In: The Evolution of Wild Cattle, Meletti, M. and Burton, J. eds. Cambridge University Press.

 

Davis, E.B. 2007.  Antilocapridae. Pp. 227-240. In: The Artiodactyla, Prothero, D. and Foss, S. eds.  Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, MD.

 

Editor-reviewed Papers (3)

 

McGuire, J.L., and Davis, E.B. 2014. Conservation paleobiogeography: the past, present and future of species distributions. Ecography. 37(11): 1092-1094.

 

Dawson, M.N., Algar,A.C., Antonelli, A., Dávalos, L.M., Davis, E.B., Early, R., Guisan, A., Jansson, R., Lessard, J.-P., Marske, K.A., McGuire, J., Stigall, A.L., Swenson, N.G., Zimmermann, and N.E., Gavin, D.G. 2013. An horizon scan of biogeography. Frontiers of Biogeography. 5(2): 130-157.

 

McDonough, K.N.*, Swisher, M.E., Jenkins, D.L., O’Grady, P.W., and Davis, E.B. 2013. An analysis of artifact, bone, and coprolite distributions in Paisley Caves Younger Dryas (Botanical Lens) and underlying Pleistocene deposits. Current Archaeological Happenings in Oregon 38(4): 17-19.

 

 

Grants and Fellowships (UO Total: $991,940)

 

2022                Submitted: Co-PI: NSF: BIO: DBI: Capacity: Bio Collections: Collaborative Research: Ranges: Building Capacity to Extend Mammal Specimens from Western North America. UO budget: $98,504

2020                DOI BLM: Conserving Oregon’s Fossil Heritage through Fossil Preparation, Extension. $115,126

2020                Co-PI: NSF GEO GI: Collaborative Research: Neotoma Paleoecology Database, a Multi-Proxy, International, Community-Curated Data Resource for Global Change Research. UO budget: $122,850

2019                DOI BLM: Conserving Oregon’s Fossil Heritage through Fossil Preparation. $57,566

2018                Lead PI: NSF BIO ABI: FuTRES, an Ontology-Based Functional Trait Resource for Paleo- and Neo-biologists. Total budget: $1,352,699; UO budget: $357,625

2017                Co-PI: NSF BIO RCN: Mammal diversification in relation to landscape history. Total budget: $495,276; UO budget $18,234

2016                DOI BLM: PFYC Oregon and BLM fossil curation at UO MNCH: $45,000

2016                Collaborator: NSF GEO GI: Neotoma Paleoecological Database. Total budget $89,166

2015                NSF EarthCube: Earth Life Consortium. UO budget: $70,088

2015                Co-PI: NSF ADBC: Eastern Pacific Invertebrate Communities of the Cenozoic. UO budget: $179,819

2014                Co-PI: Oregon Historical Society development grant, $5632

2010                BLM Funding for MNCH fossil cabinets: $20,000 (in kind)

2006-2007       Postdoctoral Fellowship sponsored by California State Parks

2001-2005       National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow

2004                GSA Research Grant

2002                Sigma Xi Grants-in-Aid of Research

 

Awards and Honors

 

2019    TCN representative for EPICC at iDigBio Summit, Gainesville FL

2019    Constituent database representative (MIOMAP), Neotoma Paleoecology Database All-Hands Meeting

2018    TCN representative for EPICC at iDigBio Summit, Gainesville FL

2017    Invited Participant, ZooArch Net Workshop on informatics

2016    Invited Participant, iDigBio Workshop on Georeferencing Best Practices

2016    Invited Participant, GRSciColl Workshop, Smithsonian Institution

2015    Constituent database representative (MIOMAP), Neotoma Paleoecology Database All-Hands Meeting

2015    Invited participant, iDigBio Workshop on Global Change Biology

2015    Invited participant, Integrating Biology and Paleobiology to Enhance Conservation of Terrestrial Ecosystems on a Rapidly Changing Planet, Workshop at UC Berkeley

2014    Invited participant, EarthCube Cyberinfrastructure for Paleogeoscience RCN workshop

2013    Invited participant, NESCent catalysis group: Integrating Phylogeography, Fossils, and Landscape History

2013    Invited participant, EarthCube workshop: PaleoGeosciences

2012    Invited participant, PAGES workshop on Glacial Refugia

2006    Invited participant, NESCent meeting: Taxonomic Databases for the 21st Century

2005    Invited participant, GEON Cyberinfrastructure Summer Institute for Geoscientists

2004    George D. Louderback Award, UC Museum of Paleontology

1999    Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society

1995    Roddy Merit Scholar— Four-year full academic scholarship

 

Invited Talks/ BLOG POSTS/TV Appearances

 

2022    Oregon’s Sabertoothed Salmon. Oregon Nongame Native Fish Workshop, Gateway OR.

2021    Fanged Fishosaurus: Oregon’s Sabertoothed Salmon.  ETSU web series.

2020    Fanged Fishosaurus: Oregon’s Sabertoothed Salmon. Central Washington University invited seminar (delivered remotely during COVID-19 emergency).

2019    Keeping your data alive with harmonized repositories. Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontology, Keynote presentation, Eugene OR

2018    Fanged Fishosaurus: Oregon’s Sabertoothed Salmon. Wallowology Science Seminar Series, Joseph OR.

2018    Fanged Fishosaurus: Oregon’s Sabertoothed Salmon. UO MNCH Darwin-Condon Lecture Series.

2017    Fossils as Guides to Conservation, National Fossil Day at UO MNCH

2017    Communicating Climate Chance Science through the UO MNCH Explore Oregon Exhibit, UO 6th Annual Climate Change Research Symposium

2016    Fanged Fishosaurus: Oregon’s Sabertoothed Salmon. Inland Northwest UO Alumni Assoc. presented at Spokane Museum of Arts and Culture

2016    Mysteries at the Museum (TV: Travel Channel): The Unwanted Elephant.

2015    Guest expert for Kick Ass Oregon History Podcast: Tusko’s Merry Christmas

2015    UC Berkeley Vertebrate Paleontology Lunch: Megafaunal extinctions and Glacial Maximum Niche Modeling: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Pleistocene.

2015    Fanged Fishosaurus: Oregon’s Sabertoothed Salmon. UO Alumni Assoc. Portland Science Nights

2015    Fanged Fishosaurus: Oregon’s Sabertoothed Salmon. High Desert Museum’s Natural History Pub

2015    Fanged Fishosaurus: Oregon’s Sabertoothed Salmon. Eugene Public Library Lecture Series

2015    The Vanishing Point: Living in the Age of Extinction. OMSI Science Pub, Eugene.

2014    Reel Science: Dinosaur 13. Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.

2013    Mysteries at the Museum (TV: Travel Channel): Battle Over a Space Rock.

2013    Evolutionary Hotspots. Eugene Public Library Lecture Series.

2012    In Search of Missing Field Books. Smithsonian Field Book Project, Guest Blog Post.

2012    Oregon’s Saber-Toothed Salmon: A Story of Natural and Sexual Selection. Geology Lecture Series at SW Oregon Community College.

2012    Global Climate Change: What Can We Learn from Eugene’s Fossils? Eugene Public Library Lecture Series, part of Eugene@150 Celebration.

2011    My, What Big Antlers You Have! Ruminations on the Evolution of Headgear. Science Pub Eugene (Public Lecture).

2011    Oregon’s Saber-Toothed Salmon: A Story of Natural and Sexual Selection. UO MNCH Darwin-Condon Lecture Series.

2009    Dinosaurs and the Origins of Birds. Evergreen Aviation and Science Museum, Dinosaurs Come Alive! event.

2007    Bringing the Condon Collection into the 21st Century. UO MNCH Public Lecture Series.

 

National & International Meeting Abstracts (106)

 

Titles available upon request

 

2022 European Association of Vertebrate Paleontology, Benevento, Italy. 2 abstracts, 1 first-authored abstract.

2020 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Held Virtually. 5 abstracts.

2020 Ecological Society of America Meeting, Held Virtually, 1 first-authored abstract.

2019 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Albuquerque, NM. 3 abstracts, 1 first-authored.

2019 Geological Society of America Meeting, Seattle, WA. 1 abstract.

2018 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Albuquerque, NM. 6 abstracts, 1 first-authored.

2018 Ecological Society of America Meeting, New Orleans, LA. 2 abstracts, 1 first-authored.

2017 Geological Society of America Meeting, Seattle, WA. 3 abstracts.

2017 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Calgary, AB, Canada: 5 abstracts, 1 first-authored.

2016 Geological Society of America Meeting, Denver, CO: 1 abstract.

2016 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT: 8 abstracts.

2016 IX Congreso Latinoamericano de Paleontología, Lima, Perú: 1 first-authored.

2016 Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology, Portland, OR: 4 abstracts.

2015 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Dallas, TX: 3 abstracts, 1 first-authored.

2015 International Biogeography Society Meeting, Bayreuth, Germany: 1 first-authored abstract.

2014 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Berlin, Germany: 2 abstracts.

2014 Geological Society of America Meeting, Vancouver, BC: 3 abstracts.

2014 North American Paleontological Congress: 3 abstracts, 1 first-authored abstract.

2013 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Los Angeles, CA: 8 abstracts, 1 first-authored.

2012 Geological Society of America Meeting, Charlotte, NC: 1 first-authored abstract.

2012 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Raleigh, NC: 6 abstracts, 1 first-authored.

2012 Fossil Preparation and Collections Symposium, Seattle, WA: 1 abstract.

2011 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Las Vegas, NV: 5 abstracts, 1 first-authored.

2011 Geological Society of America Meeting, Minneapolis, MN: 1 abstract.

2011 Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT: 1 abstract.

2010 Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis MO: 1 abstract.

2010 Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Layton Utah: 1 abstract.

2010 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA: 3 abstracts, 1 first-authored.

2009 Geological Society of America Meeting, Portland, OR: 4 abstracts, 1 first-authored.

2008 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Cleveland, OH: 1 first-authored abstract.

2007 Geological Society of America Meeting, Denver, CO: 2 abstracts, 1 first-authored.

2007 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Austin TX: 2 abstracts, 1 first-authored.

2007 American Society of Mammalogists Meeting, Albuquerque NM: 1 first-authored abstract.

2007 Evol. Change in Human-altered Environments: Int’l Summit, Los Angeles, CA: 1 abstract.

2006 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Ottawa, Ontario: 1 fist-authored abstract.

2005 Geological Society of America Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT: 2 abstracts, 1 first-authored.

2005 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Mesa, AZ: 1 first-authored abstract.

2004 Geological Society of America Meeting, Denver, CO: 2 abstracts, 1 first-authored.

2004 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Denver, CO: 3 abstracts, 1 first-authored.

2004 California Paleontology Conference, Los Angeles, CA: 1 first-authored abstract.

2003 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, St. Paul, MN: 1 first-authored abstract.

2003 Geological Society of America Meeting, Seattle, WA: 1 first-authored abstract.

2002 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Norman, OK: 1 first-authored abstract.

2001 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Bozeman, MT: 1 first-authored abstract.

2001 North American Paleontological Convention, Berkeley, CA: 1 first-authored abstract.

 

Teaching Experience

 

Lead Instructor

 

UGST 113                   Runway: The World Is Burning: How Do We Decide What to Save?

GEOL 103                  The Evolving Earth

ERTH 203                   History of Life

GEOL 304                  The Fossil Record

GEOL 305                  Evolution of the Dinosaurs

GEOL 308                  Geology of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest

ERTH 418/518            Analysis of Environmental Data

GEOL 431/531           Paleontology I

ERTH 607                   Academic Job Application Seminar

Honors 209H              Evolution of the Domestic Animals

Honors 424H              The Legacy of Thomas Condon: The Role of Religion in Science

 

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Analysis of Environmental Data

Evolution

Principles of Biodiversity

General Biology

Natural History of the Vertebrates

Morphology of the Vertebrate Skeleton

 

CURATORIAL work

 

2008-current    Oversee up to 12 volunteers and 3-4 student workers

2015-2020       Oversee ADBC-funded digitization and georeferencing effort to mobilize all Cenozoic marine invertebrate fossils in UO MNCH collections.

2012-2016       Assist in UO MNCH accreditation through AAM. Work included:

-Assist in creation of core documents, recording policy and planning for Condon Fossil Collection

-Self-assessment of Condon Collection policy and space, with related updates to align with best practices

2012-2015       Installation of 30 new museum cabinets, reorganization of paleobotany, invertebrate paleo. collections into these new cabinets

2011-2014       Consulting on design of Explore Oregon natural history exhibit

2011-2012       Installation of 70 new museum cabinets, reorganization of vertebrate collections into these new cabinets

2010-2012       Transfer of UO fossil collections database to Specify 6

2008-2012       Increased UO fossil electronic catalog from 6,000 to 41,000 specimen records

2011                Instituted new preparation guidelines

2010-2011       Oversaw creation of 10 fossil-themed web galleries

2008-2011       Oversaw rapid digitization of >9500 specimens

2010-2011       Coordinated ‘living exhibit’ volunteer curators in PaleoLab exhibit: 15,000 specimens cataloged

2009-2010       Consulted on design of PaleoLab exhibit

2010                Implemented centralized server for UO fossil collection

2009                Developed MOU between UO and UO Forest Service

2009                Brought UO fossil collection in line with BLM DM 4.11 standards:

–Installation of alarm system

–Instigation of climate monitoring activities

–Instigation of pest monitoring activities

–Creating and implementing museum policy handbook

–Move of all non-essential books and records from collections vault to curation space

–Instigation of new accession records policy

 

 

Professional Service

 

2021                Hosted third FuTRES trait database workshop, remote distributed workshop (Aug. 2021-Jan. 2022)

2020                Served on NSF BIO Advisory Panel (2x)

2020                Hosted second FuTRES trait database workshop, remote attendance only.

2019                Hosted first FuTRES trait database workshop, Eugene OR

2018-2019       Organizer, Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontology Meeting, Eugene OR

2016-current    Editor, Bulletin, University of Oregon Museum of Natural History

2015-current    Neotoma Paleoecology DB Steward, Miomap, Faunmap, Antigua databases

2013-current    Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Editorial Board Member

2016                Co-Host, Workshop on best practices in digital paleoecology, SVP

2016                Organizer, Open Town Hall Meeting on iDigBio, SVP

2014-2016       Process editor, Bulletin, University of Oregon Museum of Natural History

2012-2015       Paleontological Society Student Grants in Aid reviewer

2014-2015       Member, EarthCube ad hoc Science Steering Committee

2013                Invited symposium organizer: “The convergence of conservation paleontology and biogeography”, International Biogeography Society Meeting

2009-2012       SVP committee member: Ad Hoc Fossil Repositories and Collections Guidelines

2002-2005       PaleoBios Associate Editor

 

Peer-reviewer

 

2022: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Journal of Mammalian Evolution

2021: NSF GEO

2020: Acta Paleontologica Polonia, Journal of Biogeography

2019: Science

2018: Journal of Biogeography (2), Global Ecology & Conservation, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Science

2017: GSA Books (2), Global Ecology and Biogeography

2016: Journal of Biogeography, Journal of Paleontology, Palaeontologia Electronica, Journal of Morphology (2), Palaeoworld, Proceedings B (2), GSA Books

2015: Journal of Paleontology, Journal of Biogeography (2), Palaeo3

2014: Lethaia, Biology Letters (2), Paleobiology, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Ecography

2013: Journal of Biogeography, Journal of Mammalogy, Biology Letters

2012: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Journal of Paleontology, Rocky Mountain Geology, Palaeo3, Evolution of Wild Cattle Book, Biology Letters, NSF GEO, FWF (Austrian Science Fund)

2011: C.R. Biologies, New Mexico Museum Bull. (2), Acta Palaeont. Polonica, NSF GEO

2010: NSF GEO

2009: PaleoBios, PNAS

2008: Molecular Ecology, Proceedings B

2007: Geology, Palaeo3

Data not collected for 2006 and earlier.

 

Departmental/University Service

 

2022-current    UO Senate Task Force on Faculty Service

2021-current    UO Faculty Senator for College of Arts and Sci.: Nat. Sci. (Elected position)

2021-current    United Academics Chair of Organizing and Membership

2018-2022       College of Arts and Sciences, Natural Science Diversity Leadership Committee

2017-2022       UO Earth Sciences Department Diversity Committee (Chair 2018-2022)

2016-2021       UO Faculty Senator for Other Academic Units (Elected position)

2019-2021       United Academics Representative Assembly Chair

2018-2020       UO Core Education Council (Elected position)

2018-2020       UO Continuous Improvement and Evaluation of Teaching Committee

2016-2018       UO Senate Task Force on Course Evaluation

2015-2018       UO University-wide Diversity Committee

2012-2019       UO Department of Geological Sciences Computer Committee

2007-2019       UO Department of Geological Sciences Website Committee

2016-2017       UO Black History Month Celebration Planning Committee

2015-2017       UO Faculty Research Awards Committee

2015                Six talks at Kiwanis and Rotary Clubs for UO MNCH outreach/development

2014-2015       Canvas Migration Committee

2014                UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History Exhibit Designer Search Committee

2012                UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History IT Specialist Search Committee

 

Students mentored

 

Tate-Jones, Kellum     Ph.D.   exp. 2023

Helena Machado         Ph.D.   exp. 2024

Megan Pollak              B.S.     2021

Flora, Holley               M.S.    2019

Finkelman, Leonard   M.S.    2019

Famoso, Nicholas       M.S.    2013    Ph.D. 2017

Emery, Meaghan         Ph.D.   2016

Walters, Kendra          B.S.     2016

Atwater, Amy             B.S.     2013

Professional Societies

 

Geological Society of America (since 2000)

Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (since 1999)

Paleontological Society (since 2000)

American Society of Mammalogists (since 2012)

International Biogeography Society (since 2010)

Society for Preservation of Natural History Collections (since 2009)

Ecological Society of America (since 2018)