Masters of Science Projects

2006 (in process)

 Scott Hayes – Taxonomic Description and Paleoecological Relationships of the Pelmatozoan Echinoderms From West-Central Ohio.

 2008 (Completed)

 Fall Quarter

 Alex Chestnut – Using Morphometrics, Phylogenetic Systematics and Parsimony Analysis to Gain Insight into the Evolutionary Affinities of the Calymenidae Trilobita.

 Summer Quarter

Lisa Raterink - Morphology and Lateral Extent of an Exposed Carbonate Reef Evironment: Intracoastal Waterway, Horry County, South Carolina.

2009 (Completed)

 Spring Quarter

Lauren Williamson - Morphometric Analysis of the Morphologically Variable Clypeasteroid, Periarchus lyelli.

2009 (in process)

Angela Clayton – Pattern and Process in Macroevolutionary Trends within the Chondrichthyans Throughout the Phanerozoic.

John James - Morphology, Origination, and Chondrichthyan Species Diversity of a Mississippian Chert Lag Layer within the Harrodsburg Formation, Southeastern Indiana

Ben Riege - A Comparison of the Middle Devonian Chondrichthyan Faunas from Central Ohio and North-Central Ohio.

 Heather Beighle – Phylogenetic Analysis of the Neogene Broad-Toothed Lamniform Shark Carcharocles megalodon.

 Jennifer Soehner – Depositional and Stratigraphic Analysis of a Cretaceous – Pleistocene Complex Vertebrate/Siliciclastic Bearing Bed in East-Central South Carolina.