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David L. Fox (with Elliot Fox)
Professor, Earth Sciences Director of Graduate Sciences 
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Current Graduate StudentsFrancesca 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 studentsKirsten 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
Daniel Maxbauer
Ph.D., Earth Sciences, 2013-2017, co-advised with Josh Feinberg, Earth Sciences Dissertation: Magnetic Minerals in Soils and Paleosols as Recorders of Paleoclimate Currently: Assistant Professor, Geology Department, Carleton College |
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: |
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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 |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 Currently: |