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Activity

2025

• THE UPPER CRETACEOUS WILLIAMS FORK FORMATION (LATE CRETACEOUS: CAMPANIAN–MAASTRICHTIAN), NORTHWESTERN COLORADO, AND ITS PALEOECOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS FOR LARAMIDIA
  38 Laramidia: Biota, Stratigraphy, and Paleogeography of the Late Cretaceous of Western North America II
  Tuesday, 20 May 2025

  1:30 PM - 3:15 PM

  Cascade E
• A NEW MICROVERTEBRATE ASSEMBLAGE FROM THE WILLIAMS FORK FORMATION (CAMPANIAN - MAASTRICHTIAN) OF COLORADO AND EVIDENCE FOR DISCRETE CLIMATE/FAUNAL ZONES ACROSS LARAMIDIA DURING THE ‘EDMONTONIAN’
  6 Laramidia: Biota, Stratigraphy, and Paleogeography of the Late Cretaceous of Western North America (Posters)
  Monday, 19 May 2025

  8:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Ballroom A&B

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2024

• MASSIVE COLLECTIONS OF MICROVERTEBRATES—IS THERE EVER TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING?
  44 Vertebrate Paleontology Research in North America
  Tuesday, 16 April 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Windsor Ballroom Salon B
• ANALYZING OTODUS MEGALODON JAWS AND TOOTH WHORL RECONSTRUCTIONS IN MUSEUMS, HYPOTHESIZING IMPROVEMENTS, AND INVESTIGATING WAYS OF CREATING RELATED EXHIBITS AND OUTREACH
  44 Vertebrate Paleontology Research in North America
  Tuesday, 16 April 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Windsor Ballroom Salon B
• HYDROGEN PEROXIDE GREATLY INCREASES BREAKDOWN OF FOSSILIFEROUS SEDIMENTS FROM UPPER CRETACEOUS MICROVERTEBRATE SITES IN THE WILLIAMS FORK FORMATION, NORTHWESTERN COLORADO
  44 Vertebrate Paleontology Research in North America
  Tuesday, 16 April 2024

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Windsor Ballroom Salon B

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2023

• NEW, WESTERNMOST OCCURRENCE OF LARGE-BODIED TEMNOSPONDYLS FROM THE UPPER TRIASSIC CHINLE FORMATION OF SOUTHERN NEVADA
  14 Paleontologic Advances in the Cordilleran Region
  Thursday, 18 May 2023

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Whitney Peak Ballroom 3

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2022

• THE PALEOPATHOLOGICAL RECORD OF NON-AVIAN DINOSAURS: IMPLICATIONS OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF DISEASE AND INCIDENCE OF INJURY THROUGHOUT THE MESOZOIC
  40 D9. Vertebrate Paleontology
  Friday, 8 April 2022

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  North Meeting Room 211
• 3D MODELING AND PRINTING AS A RESOURCE IN PALEONTOLOGICAL OUTREACH
  36 Undergraduate and Graduate Geoscience Student Showcase (Posters)
  Friday, 8 April 2022

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Junior Ballroom B

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2020

• THE PALEOPATHOLOGICAL RECORD OF DINOSAURS: THE DISTRIBUTION OF DISEASE AND INCIDENCE OF INJURY THROUGHOUT THE MESOZOIC
  23 D15. Paleontology (Posters)
  Friday, 20 March 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Grand Ballroom A–D
• GEOLOGY AND MICROVERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY OF THE J&M SITE (UPPER CRETACEOUS: ?CAMPANIAN), WILLIAMS FORK FORMATION, NORTHWESTERN COLORADO
  23 D15. Paleontology (Posters)
  Friday, 20 March 2020

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Grand Ballroom A–D

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2019

• A NEW SHORT-FACED ARCHOSAURIFORM FROM THE UPPER TRIASSIC (ADAMANIAN:NORIAN) PLACERIAS/DOWNS QUARRY COMPLEX, APACHE COUNTY, ARIZONA, EXPANDS THE MORPHOSPACE OCCUPATION OF TRIASSIC ARCHOSAURIFORMES
  157 D20. Paleontology: Vertebrate Paleobiology I
  Tuesday, 24 September 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 225AB, North Building
• FINDING FOSSILS ON FRIDAY: USING A "GUILD SYSTEM" TO DEVELOP A PEER-TRAINED UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH LABORATORY AND OUTREACH GROUP AT APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY
  T26 Importance of Involving Undergraduate and High School Students in Geoscience- and Environmental Science–Based Research (Posters)
  Sunday, 22 September 2019

  9:00 AM - 5:30 PM

  Hall AB, North Building
• A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF THE MOGAN SITE, A NEW LATE JURASSIC VERTEBRATE MICROFOSSIL SITE IN THE MORRISON FORMATION IN NORTHEASTERN, WYOMING
  31 Undergraduate Research II (Posters)
  Friday, 29 March 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Carolina Ballroom
• SHELLS, SHARKS AND STORMS: COMBINING FOSSIL AND SEDIMENTARY RECORDS TO DESCRIBE AN UPPER CRETACEOUS NEAR-MARINE FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE FROM NORTHWEST COLORADO
  31 Undergraduate Research II (Posters)
  Friday, 29 March 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Carolina Ballroom
• STRENGTHENING EARTH SCIENCE EDUCATION AND OUTREACH PROGRAMS THROUGH TEACHER AND STUDENT PREPARATION WITH CONTINUOUS SUPPORT THROUGH APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY
  7 Innovations in Earth Science Education (Posters)
  Thursday, 28 March 2019

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Carolina Ballroom
• THE GEOBAGO: HOW WE TURNED AN OLD RV INTO A MOBILE CLASSROOM TO MAXIMIZE OUR OUTREACH POTENTIAL
  21 Innovations in Earth Science Education
  Thursday, 28 March 2019

  1:40 PM - 4:40 PM

  Rutledge Room

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2018

• USING POLYMER CLAYS TO MAKE MOLDS AND CASTS OF FOSSILS FOR TEACHING AND OUTREACH
  10 D5. Geoscience Education (Posters)
  Thursday, 12 April 2018

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Room 301 DE/Henley Concourse
• NEW LATE CRETACEOUS (EARLY CAMPANIAN) MICROFOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE FROM THE UPPER CRETACEOUS OF NEW MEXICO
  20 Undergraduate Research II (Posters)
  Thursday, 12 April 2018

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Room 301 DE/Henley Concourse

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2017

• SYNTHESIZING INFORMATION THROUGH A DINOSAUR TOY: AN INTEGRATIVE ASSIGNMENT IN A LARGE NON-MAJORS’ COURSE
  25 Transforming Geoscience Teaching and Learning at 2Y and 4Y Colleges
  Friday, 31 March 2017

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Roanoke Room

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2015

• MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF TEETH OF CROSBYSAURUS HARRISAE (REPTILIA:ARCHOSAURIFORMES) FROM THE LATE TRIASSIC (ADAMANIAN), CHINLE GROUP, SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A
  28 Undergraduate Research I (Posters)
  Friday, 20 March 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Ballroom
• VARIATION IN PHYTOSAUR (DIAPSIDA:ARCHOSAURIFORMES) TOOTH ENAMEL MICROSTRUCTURE AND POSSIBLE IMPLICATIONS FOR PHYTOSAUR ECOLOGY
  28 Undergraduate Research I (Posters)
  Friday, 20 March 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Ballroom
• MICROVERTEBRATE ASSEMBLAGE OF THE UPPER TRIASSIC (ADAMANIAN) DOWNS’ QUARRY, ST. JOHNS, ARIZONA
  28 Undergraduate Research I (Posters)
  Friday, 20 March 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Ballroom
• THE GEOLOGY OF “MY HOMETOWN,” AN E-PORTFOLIO ASSIGNMENT FOCUSING ON THE RELEVANCE OF HISTORICAL GEOLOGY
  8 Geoscience Education (Posters)
  Thursday, 19 March 2015

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Ballroom
• SALVAGE PALEONTOLOGY AT THE VIRGINIA SOLITE QUARRY (UPPER TRIASSIC)—RESCUING A LAGERSTÄTTE
  18 Paleontology (Posters)
  Thursday, 19 March 2015

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Ballroom
• LATE TRIASSIC (ADAMANIAN) VERTEBRATE MICROFOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE FROM THE BLUE MESA MEMBER OF ARIZONA REVEALS COPROLITES WITH SCALE, BONE, AND TOOTH FRAGMENTS
  15 Traces Then and Now: One Ichnology
  Thursday, 19 March 2015

  1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

  Walker

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2014

• TINY TRIASSIC FISH FROM THE NEWARK SUPERGROUP: WHAT DO SMALL SHARKS AND LITTLE LUNGFISH SAY ABOUT PALEOENVIRONMENTS OF NORTH AMERICA’S TRIASSIC RIFT BASINS?
  12 Contextualizing the Importance of the Newark Supergroup to Understanding the Biotic Change in the Early Mesozoic
  Thursday, 10 April 2014

  1:00 PM - 4:40 PM

  Assembly Hall
• TRIASSIC INSECT REMAINS FROM THE VIRGINIA SOLITE QUARRY - HOW FAR DID THEY SINK?
  12 Contextualizing the Importance of the Newark Supergroup to Understanding the Biotic Change in the Early Mesozoic
  Thursday, 10 April 2014

  1:00 PM - 4:40 PM

  Assembly Hall
• PHYLOGENETIC SIGNALS IN PHYTOSAUR TOOTH ENAMEL MICROSTRUCTURE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR NEWARK SUPERGROUP PHYTOSAURS
  12 Contextualizing the Importance of the Newark Supergroup to Understanding the Biotic Change in the Early Mesozoic
  Thursday, 10 April 2014

  1:00 PM - 4:40 PM

  Assembly Hall

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2013

• USING ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY SURVEYS TO DETERMINE THE STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION OF THE UPPER TRIASSIC PLACERIAS QUARRY, EAST-CENTRAL ARIZONA
  T253 Arizona Geology: A Session on All Aspects of Arizona Geology Convened to Commemorate the 125th Anniversary of the Arizona Geological Survey (Posters)
  Tuesday, 29 October 2013

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall D
• TRACES AND TRACKS FROM THE MIDDLE TRIASSIC MOENKOPI FORMATION OF DINOSAUR NATIONAL MONUMENT, UTAH
  T145 Geology in the National Parks: Research, Mapping, and Resource Management (Posters)
  Monday, 28 October 2013

  9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

  Hall D

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2012

• EDUCATIONAL FIELD TRIP STOPS IN THE BLUE RIDGE AND SURROUNDING AREAS UTILIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AT APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY
  T251 Carolina Geological Society 75th Anniversary: The Geology of the Carolinas (Posters)
  Wednesday, 7 November 2012

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall B
• RECENT ADVANCES IN UNDERSTANDING THE LATE TRIASSIC VERTEBRATE FAUNA OF THE DEEP RIVER BASIN (NEWARK SUPERGROUP: CHATHAM GROUP), NORTH CAROLINA
  T147 Terrestrial Proxies of Paleoclimate and Paleoenvironment in Deep Time
  Tuesday, 6 November 2012

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  202AB
• TWO NEW AETOSAURS (REPTILIA:ARCHOSAURIA) FROM THE UPPER TRIASSIC PEKIN FORMATION (DEEP RIVER BASIN: NEWARK SUPERGROUP) OF NORTH CAROLINA AND THE PHYLOGENY AND DISTRIBUTION OF AETOSAURS
  89 Paleontology: Morphological Evolution & Morphology and Systematics (Posters)
  Monday, 5 November 2012

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall B
• QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTION OF UPPER CRETACEOUS ELASMOBRANCHS USING DIGITAL THREE-DIMENSIONAL MICROSCOPY
  T92 Sigma Gamma Epsilon Undergraduate Research (Posters)
  Monday, 5 November 2012

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall B
• A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF DINOSAUR ILLNESS AND INJURY THROUGH THE MESOZOIC: A POSSIBLE CASE OF NORTH AMERICAN BIAS?
  T92 Sigma Gamma Epsilon Undergraduate Research (Posters)
  Monday, 5 November 2012

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall B
• RECONSTRUCTING THE TRIASSIC VERTEBRATE FAUNA OF THE DEEP RIVER BASIN (NEWARK SUPERGROUP: CHATHAM GROUP), NORTH CAROLINA BASED ON NEW DISCOVERIES
  21 Applied and Environmental Paleontology: Using Fossils to Understand Modern and Ancient Environments
  Monday, 2 April 2012

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Grand Ballroom, Salon C2
• SEDIMENTOLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY AS A KEY TO THE TAPHONOMY OF THE UPPER TRIASSIC VIRGINIA SOLITE QUARRY LAGERSTATTE (DAN RIVER/DAN RIVER BASIN: NEWARK SUPERGROUP)
  17 Applied and Environmental Paleontology: Using Fossils to Understand Modern and Ancient Environments (Posters)
  Sunday, 1 April 2012

  1:30 PM - 5:00 PM

  Grand Ballroom
• WHEN WERE WHAT DINOSAURS SICK? A REVIEW OF THE RECORD OF DINOSAUR PALEOPATHOLOGY
  1 Undergraduate Research (Posters)
  Saturday, 31 March 2012

  7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

  Grand Ballroom
• SEDIMENTOLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE VIRGINIA SOLITE QUARRY, DANVILLE/DAN RIVER BASIN (NEWARK SUPERGROUP): A NEW "SHALLOW LAKE" INTERPRETATION FOR FOSSIL-BEARING, LAMINATED, LACUSTRINE SEDIMENTS
  3 News from the Newark Supergroup
  Sunday, 18 March 2012

  7:55 AM - 12:00 PM

  Ballroom D

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2011

• A BOULDER FIELD ADJACENT TO THE CLASSROOM—THE FRED WEBB JR. OUTDOOR GEOLOGY LABORATORY AT APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY
  29 Building a Foundation in Geoscience Education: Gathering Educators with Professionals to Create a Geoscience Literate Public II
  Friday, 25 March 2011

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Salon C
• A VIRTUAL BOULDER FIELD INSIDE THE CLASSROOM - THE INTERACTIVE ROCK GARDEN AT APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY
  29 Building a Foundation in Geoscience Education: Gathering Educators with Professionals to Create a Geoscience Literate Public II
  Friday, 25 March 2011

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Salon C
• TRIASSIC TETRAPOD FOSSILS FOUND ABOVE "JURASSIC" STRATA IN PICKETWIRE CANYON, SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO, REQUIRE MAJOR REVISION OF LOWER MESOZOIC STRATIGRAPHY ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HIGH PLAINS
  1 Graduate and Undergraduate Research (Posters)
  Thursday, 24 March 2011

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  Exhibit Hall

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2009

• VERTEBRATE FOSSIL DISCOVERIES PROMPT MAJOR SHIFT IN MESOZOIC STRATIGRAPHY OF PICKETWIRE CANYONLANDS, COMANCHE NATIONAL GRASSLAND, SOUTHEASTERN COLORADO
  T213 Geology in the National Forests and Grasslands—Stewardship, Education, and Research
  Tuesday, 20 October 2009

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

  Portland Ballroom 253
• LIMB ALLOMETRY AND LATERAL LINE GROOVE DEVELOPMENT INDICATES TERRESTRIAL-TO-AQUATIC LIFESTYLE TRANSITION IN METOPOSAURIDAE (AMPHIBIA:TEMNOSPONDLYI)
  96 Paleontology: Behavior & Function (Posters)
  Monday, 19 October 2009

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall A
• NEW ID-TIMS U-PB AGES FOR CHINLE GROUP STRATA (UPPER TRIASSIC) IN NEW MEXICO AND ARIZONA, CORRELATION TO THE NEWARK SUPERGROUP, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE “LONG NORIAN”
  36 Stratigraphy: A Global Perspective (Posters)
  Sunday, 18 October 2009

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall A
• NEW MICROVERTEBRATE FAUNAL ASSEMBLAGE FROM THE UPPER TRIASSIC BLUE MESA MEMBER OF THE PETRIFIED FOREST FORMATION IN THE BLUE HILLS, EAST-CENTRAL ARIZONA
  32 Paleontology: Paleoenvironments, Paleocommunities, Biogeography & Biostratigraphy (Posters)
  Sunday, 18 October 2009

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall A
• LAND-VERTEBRATE FAUNACHRONS, GIS AND CLADOTAXONOMY: TOWARDS A GLOBAL TRIASSIC TETRAPOD BIOCHRONOLOGY
  32 Paleontology: Paleoenvironments, Paleocommunities, Biogeography & Biostratigraphy (Posters)
  Sunday, 18 October 2009

  9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

  Hall A

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2008

• THE MONCURE MICROVERTEBRATE FAUNA (UPPER TRIASSIC: NORIAN), COLON CROSS-STRUCTURE/SANFORD SUB-BASIN, NORTH CAROLINA, USA
  20 Current Research in the Triassic-Jurassic Newark Supergroup Basins
  Friday, 11 April 2008

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• HEAVY LIQUID SEPARATION TECHNIQUES FOR MICROVERTEBRATE FOSSILS FROM A NEWARK SUPERGROUP DEPOSIT AND IMPLICATIONS FOR OTHER SITES
  23 Undergraduate Research Session (Posters) I
  Friday, 11 April 2008

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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2007

• TOOTH ENAMEL MICROSTRUCTURE IN PHYTOSAURIA (REPTILIA:ARCHOSAURIA) AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR PHYLOGENY, ECOLOGY, AND BIOSTRATIGRAPHY
  30 Undergraduate Research (Posters)
  Friday, 30 March 2007

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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2006

• A MICROVERTEBRATE FAUNA OF THE UPPER CRETACEOUS (LATE SANTONIAN – EARLY CAMPANIAN) MENEFEE FORMATION, NORTHWESTERN NEW MEXICO
  23 Paleontology/Paleobotany (Posters) I: Paleoecology, Taphonomy, and Early Life
  Sunday, 22 October 2006

  8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• A NEW MICROVERTEBRATE FAUNA FROM THE UPPER TRIASSIC (NORIAN) CUMNOCK FORMATION, DURHAM SUBBASIN, NORTH CAROLINA, USA
  15 Paleontological Perspectives: A Symposium in Honor of Frank K. McKinney
  Thursday, 23 March 2006

  1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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• COLOGNATHUS OBSCURUS CASE, AN UNUSUAL VERTEBRATE INDEX FOSSIL OF ADAMANIAN (ST. JOHNSIAN: LATEST CARNIAN) TIME, FROM THE UPPER TRIASSIC OF THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST
  17 Paleontology (Posters)
• TOOTH ENAMEL MICROSTRUCTURE OF SELECTED ARCHOSAURS REPTILIA: ARCHOSAURIA FROM THE UPPER TRIASSIC CHINLE GROUP, WESTERN USA: TAXONOMIC AND EVOLUTIONARY SIGNIFICANCE
  26 Paleontology (Posters) I: Faunas, Forms, and Phylogenies
• NEW MIXED MARINE-NONMARINE MICROVERTEBRATE FAUNA FROM THE UPPER CRETACEOUS (LATE SANTONIAN-EARLY CAMPANIAN) MENEFEE FORMATION, NORTHWESTERN NEW MEXICO
  26 Paleontology (Posters) I: Faunas, Forms, and Phylogenies
• A SPHENODONTIAN (REPTILIA:LEPIDOSAURIA) FROM THE UPPER TRIASSIC WHITAKER (COELOPHYSIS) QUARRY, ROCK POINT FORMATION (APACHEAN: NORIAN) AT GHOST RANCH, NEW MEXICO, U.S.A
  230 Paleontology/Paleobotany (Posters) II: Fossils in Time, Space, and Morphospace
• ENAMEL MICROSTRUCTURE IN THE TRIASSIC ARCHOSAURS REVUELTOSAURUS CALLENDERI AND KRZYZANOWSKISAURUS HUNTI AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR PHYLOGENY
  230 Paleontology/Paleobotany (Posters) II: Fossils in Time, Space, and Morphospace
• VERTEBRATE BIOSTRATIGRAPHY AND THE TRIASSIC-JURASSIC BOUNDARY
  230 Paleontology/Paleobotany (Posters) II: Fossils in Time, Space, and Morphospace