Dr. Charles Mitchell

cem@geology.buffalo.edu

Research Interests

• Evolutionary dynamics, mass extinction

• Graptolite paleobiology,  phylogenetics, & systematics

• Ordovician geology & chronostratigraphy

• Appalachian Basin history (stratigraphy, sedimentology, & tectonics)

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Dr. Jörg Maletz

jorgm@acsu.buffalo.edu

Research Interests  

• Ecology of the Paleozoic marine environment

• Origin and evolution of the Hemichordata

• Paleozoic chronostratigraphy

• Biostratigraphy and ecostratigraphy of graptolites

• Paleozoic Radiolaria

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Tammy Dunlavey

dunlavey@buffalo.edu

James Zambito

jzambito@buffalo.edu

My MS thesis research looks at both spatial and temporal variation in a
dysoxic biofacies within the Middle Devonian Appalachian Basin.  I am
interested in identifying patterns in paleocommunity parameters based on
species relative abundance that can be correlated with environmental
stress gradients such as sedimentation rate, water depth, and oxygen
levels.  Broader implications include further understanding of
paleocommunity dynamics in association with evolutionary mode and tempo
on both macro- and microscales.

Posters and Presentations:

November 2005, Geological Society of America National Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah.  Poster presentation entitled “Slickenside surfaces within K-bentonite beds: A Potentially Sensitive Tool For Assessing the Timing of Far-Field Tectonic Compression, Volcanic Ash Illitization, and Diagenetic Ash Cementation”.

November 2004, Geological Society of America National Conference, Denver, Colorado.  Poster presentation entitled “Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Pyritic Shale”.

Kristi Belscher

Updating biostratigraphic information in the Indian Castle Shale

klb36@buffalo.edu