PS 2024 Short Course Speakers and PanelistsPS 2024 Short Course HomeCollecting Section Talk Speakers Corinne Myers Corinne Myers is a paleoecologist specializing in the biogeography of Late Cretaceous marine invertebrates. She also works in understanding the triggers and kill mechanisms associated with large extinction events in the Phanerozoic. Hunter Olson Hunter Olson is a PhD student in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department at Stanford University, and his research focuses on how organic materials, like fossils, are preserved and represented in the rock record and how biases affect our interpretation of ecology and paleoenvironmental conditions through deep time. Hunter also works on tribal sovereignty issues surrounding Indigenous communities and geoscience/paleontological research within the United States. Jorge Vélez-Juarbe
Jorge Velez-Juarbe is the Associate Curator of Marine Mammals at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. His research focuses on the evolutionary history of marine mammals from across the Americas as well as the origins of the Greater Antillean vertebrate fauna. Collections Session Talk Speakers Ashley Dineen
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. Andy Farke
Don Mikulic
Dr. Don Mikulic has served on the PS Collections Committee since 1996. He is also a corresponding member of the Subcommission on Geo-Collections of the International Union of Geological Sciences, International Commission on Geoheritage. His research examines the impact of climate-driven extinction events on the composition of Silurian trilobite associations, the preservation of exceptional biotas, and the development of reef environments.
Short Course Panelists Austin Hendy Austin Hendy studies the biodiversity, biogeography and paleoecology of Cenozoic molluscan faunas. He has conducted research in many parts of the world, but especially the tropical Americas. He is also interested in bioinformatics and the application of natural museum specimens and data for K-12 education. Stan Finney
Emily Lindsey Lisa White Lisa D. White is the Director of Education and Outreach at the UC Museum of Paleontology. Her background and research training is in diatom micropaleontology and biostratigraphy of Miocene Monterey Formation. Brian Huber Brian Huber is a Curator of Foraminifera at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. His main research interests include Cretaceous and Paleogene paleoclimate and paleoceanography; evolutionary dynamics and extinction of Cretaceous and Paleogene planktic foraminifera; biotic and paleoenvironmental changes across mid-Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Events. Leigh Anne Riedman
Susannah Porter
Susannah Porter is a Professor of Earth Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on the origin and evolution of eukaryotes, the evolution of skeletal biomineralization, and Cambrian small shelly fossils. Scott Wing Scott Wing was born in New Orleans and grew up there and in North Carolina. His research focuses on ancient climate and plants and he has been curator of Mesozoic and Cenozoic fossil plants at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History since 1984. Jansen Smith
Jansen Smith is a conservation paleobiologist with an interest in improving data infrastructure and (re)use practices in paleontology. Margaret Fraiser
Dr. Margaret Fraiser joined the U.S. National Science Foundation as a permanent Program Director in the Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology (SGP) program from AGU (American Geophysical Union), an international nonprofit supporting more than half a million advocates and professionals in the Earth and Space sciences, where she held the position of Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Prior to AGU, Dr. Fraiser was an Associate Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), an R1 doctoral university. Pat Holroyd
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