Student Projects
Undergraduate & Master's Students
Theses Projects:
16. Travis Stone - Examining Reef Mound Construction to Understand How Reefs Recovered After Mass Extinction. (Summer 2018) B.S.
15. Glenn Dunkle - Design For A Geospatial Database and Related Mobile Application. (Spring 2016) B.S.
14. Jolene Ditmar - The Paleoecology Of Pleistocene Oyster Beds, San Pedro, California. (Summer 2016) B.S.
13. Maree Kutcher - The Paleoecology Of Pleistocene Oyster Beds, San Pedro, California. (Summer 2016) B.S.
12. Bryan Rue - The Paleoecology Of Pleistocene Oyster Beds, San Pedro, California. (Summer 2016) B.S.
11. Edween Hernandez - A Paleoecological Study of the Middle Triassic within Favret Canyon, West-Central Nevada (Summer 2016) M.Sc.
10. Mihai Agui - Assessing A Late Triassic Fossil Sponge Reef Mound To Further Understand The Shift From Paleozoic To Modern Fauna (Fall 2014) B.S.
9. Beth Malenick - Deciphering Biotic Responses To Rapid Climate Change At The Plio-Pleistocene Boundary (Summer 2014) M.Sc.
8. Lorianne Benton - Paleoecology and Shallow Marine Taphonomy of a Late Pleistocene Whale Fall Habitat on the Southern California Coast (Summer 2014) B.S.
7. Kelly Vreeland- A Paleological Reconstruction of Oysters from Orage Countyn, California: Understanding the Past to Help Restore the Future (Spring 2014) M.Sc.
6.Michelle Gevedon - Testing The Assumption of Neutrality Within the Late Cretaceous Holz Shale, Santa Ana Mountains, California (Spring 2011) B.S.
5. Meredith A. Rivin – Early Miocene Cetacean Diversity in the Vaqueros Formation, Laguna Canyon, Orange County, California (Summer 2010) M.Sc.
4. Allison J. Cone - Turnover Rates Associated With the Mid-Carboniferous Boundary, Bird Springs Formation, Arrow Canyon, Nevada (Summer 2010) B.S.
3. Kelly K. Kathe - Documenting Regional Brachiopod Abundance and Diversity Across the Mississippi-Pennsylvanian Boundary: Bird Spring Formation, Arrow Canyon, Nevada (Summer 2010) B.S.
2. Pedro M. Monarrez – Assessing the Recovery of the End-Permian Mass Extinction (Summer 2009) B.S.
1. Emily Feldman – Is the Cenozoic an “All You Can Eat Seafood Buffet”? (Summer 2008) B.S.
Rest stop in Reno, NV after Mihai collected his sponge reef mound samples
"Collecting" fossils samples for Beth Malenick's thesis project
Photo session for Cooper Center PR
Meredith preparing fossils specimens at the Cooper Center