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Sandy Carlson (B.S. University of California, Santa Cruz; M.S. and Ph.D. University of Michigan) is Professor Emerita, following 36 years in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Davis. She has served in leadership roles with the Paleontological Society, constituting that society’s six-year cycle as President-Elect, President, and Past President and is a Centennial Fellow of the Paleontological Society. She received the Association for Women Geoscientists Encourage Award in 2016 and the Gilbert Harris Award from the Paleontological Research Institution in 2019, and currently serves as Member-At-Large on the American Geosciences Institute Board of Directors.
Lee Cone (B.S. Furman University; M.S. University of Rhode Island-Oceanography) is a retired educator with a passion for paleontology as an amateur collector. He is a member of GSA and the Paleontological Society, where he serves on two committees as the Avocational Representative. He also has served as a member of the Paleontological Society Fossil ID team for the past 4 years.
Jessica Cundiff (B.S. Missouri State University; M.S. University of Kansas) is the Curatorial Associate/Collection Manager for Invertebrate Paleontology in the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. She is a member of both the Paleontological Society and the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collection (SPNHC) and currently serves as the SPNHC representative to the Paleontological Society.
Stephanie Plaza-Torres currently works as a project assistant for the PRIMERS and COURAGE projects at the University of Colorado Boulder Department of Geological Sciences. Her work involves Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Outreach, Geoscience Education, and Science Policy.
Dr. Ashley Dineen (B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) is currently the Senior Museum Scientist of Invertebrates at the University of California Museum of Paleontology in Berkeley. She previously served the Paleontological Society as the Cordilleran Section Chair. Her current research includes quantifying functional diversity after mass extinction events and resolving food web structure during periods of ecological innovation.
Josh Lively is the Curator of Paleontology at the Utah State Eastern Prehistoric Museum and a committee member of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. He studies ecosystems of the Late Cretaceous using a combination of vertebrate paleontology, phylogenetics, stratigraphy, sedimentology, and studies of modern osteology to unlock the pattern and process of evolution in the context of changing environments. His research has mostly focused on ancient freshwater turtles and mosasaurs. PS 2024 Short Course Home |
Sandy Carlson
Lee Cone
Jessica Cundiff
Don Mikulic
Stephanie Plaza-Torres
Ashley Dineen
Josh Lively