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David L. Fox (with Elliot Fox)
Professor, Earth Sciences
Director of Graduate Sciences
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Current Graduate Students

Francesca Socki
M.S. student, Earth Science, starting Fall, 2019
Nora Loughlin
Ph.D. student, Earth Sciences, started Fall, 2018
Evan Whiting
Ph.D. student, Earth Sciences, started Fall, 2016
3D ecomorphology and biogeography of modern North American and fossil squamates through the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum
David Birlenbach
Ph.D. student, Earth Sciences, started Fall, 2014
3D ecomorphological tests of competition between Paleogene rodents, multituberculates, and plesiadapiform primates

Current undergraduate students

Kirsten Meltesen
Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, started Spring, 2019
Biogeography of modern North American mammals
Hayley Orlowski
Earth Sciences, started Fall, 2018
Fossil equid teeth and the inhibitory cascade model of tooth development
Jenny Huang
Earth Sciences, started Fall, 2018
3D ecometrics of Plio-Pleistocene rodent teeth

former GRaduate students

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Daniel Maxbauer
Ph.D., Earth Sciences, 2013-2017, co-advised with Josh Feinberg, Earth Sciences
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Dissertation: 
Magnetic Minerals in Soils and Paleosols as Recorders of Paleoclimate

​Currently: Assistant Professor, Geology Department, Carleton College
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Nicole (Niki) Garrett
Ph.D., Anthropology, 2016, co-advised with Kieran McNulty, Anthropology

​Dissertation: 
Stable isotope paleoenvironmental reconstructions of the Early Miocene and Late Pleistocene deposits on Rusinga and Mfangano Islands, Lake Victoria, Kenya

​Currently: 

Wes Rutelonis
M.S., 2014-2017, co-advised with Mike Berndt, MN DNR

Thesis: Linking Riparian Flow-Concentration Integration Modeling and HSPF to Predict Background Methylmercury Concentrations in Northeastern Minnesota Streams.

​Currently: Hydrogeologist, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
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Andrew Haveles
Ph.D., Earth Sciences, 2009-2015

Dissertation: 
Ecology and Chemistry of Modern Small Mammals: Implications for Interpreting the Small Mammal Fossil Record​

Currently: Geoscience Assistant, Science Education Resource Center (SERC), Carleton College

Laura Vietti
Ph.D., Earth Sciences, 2008-2014, co-advised with Ray Rogers, Macalester College, and Jake Bailey, Earth Sciences

Dissertation: Insights into the microbial degradation of bones from the marine vertebrate fossil record: an experimental approach using interdisciplinary analyses

​Currently Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Geology and Geophysics, and Collections Manager, Geological Museum, University of Wyoming
Sara Morón
M.S., Earth Sciences, 2009-2011

Thesis: Paleosol carbon isotope stratigraphy, major oxides and rock magnetic record of climate change across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary in the Bogota Basin, Colombia

Completed Ph.D. at the University of Adelaide 

​Currently: research scientist, University of Melbourne
Chiji Ochiaga
M.S., Earth Sciences, 2009-2011

Thesis: Ecological Biogeography of African Mammals in Relation to Climate and Physiography
Peter Rose
Ph.D.., Earth Sciences, 2004-2010

Dissertation: Paleoclimate and Mammal Paleoecology During the Paleocene of North America: Insights from Stable Isotopes

Currently: ​Geologist, Minerals Management, Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Lansing, MI
Sam Matson
Ph.D.., Earth Sciences, 2004-2010

Dissertation: Stable Isotopic Investigation of Late Neogene Terrestrial Paleoecology and Paleoclimate of the Circum-Mediterranean Region

M.S., Geology, 2002-2004


Thesis: Evaluation of the Use of Stable Isotopes From Turtles, Crocodilians, and Fish to Understand Paleoclimates: An Example From the Paleocene-Eocene of the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming
Stacy Gohman
M.S., Geology, 2005-2008

Thesis: Vegetation change and the extinction of the wooly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) in eastern Siberia​
Rhonda Friberg
M.S., Geology, 2004-2006

Thesis: Macroecology of Mammals: An Analysis of Vegetation Composition as an Explanation for Patterns of Species Richness of Mammals in North America

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