Dr. Charles Mitchell

Department of Geology
State University of New York at Buffalo
771 Natural Sciences and Mathematics Complex
Buffalo, New York,  l4260-3050
Telephone:  (716) 646-6800 ex. 3991

Ph.D.      Harvard University                            1983
                Dissertation Title:  Astogeny and Phylogeny of the Diplograptina (Graptoloidea), 338 pp.
                Advisor:  Dr. Stephen J. Gould

A.M.       Harvard University                             1982

M.A.       University of Western Ontario          1978
                Thesis Title: Middle and Upper Ordovician Strophomenids (Brachiopoda) from the Central Mackenzie
                Mountains, Northwest Territories, 305 pp. 13 pls.

B.Sc.       Ohio State University                      1975
                (with distinction)   

June-July, 1976-1978                          V-Zay Smith Assoc. Ltd., (Calgary, Alberta, Canada). Consulting Geologist

September-June, 1976-1978             Department of Geology, University of Western Ontario, Teaching Assistant

September-June, 1978-1983             Department of Geology, Harvard University, Teaching Fellow 

January-June, 1982                             Department of Geology, Boston University,  Lecturer 

September-December, 1983             Department of Geology, SUNY at Buffalo,  Lecturer 

January, 1984-August,  1989              Department of Geology, SUNY at Buffalo,  Assistant Professor 

September 1989-1998                        Department of Geology, SUNY at Buffalo,  Associate Professor 

September 1998-present                    Department of Geology, SUNY at Buffalo,  Professor 

January 2002-present                          Department of Geology, SUNY at Buffalo, Chairman 

May 2004-present                                Department of Geology, SUNY at Buffalo,
                SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor

1990-1991 Milton Plesur Award for Excellence in Teaching, State University of New York at Buffalo Undergraduate Student Association 

1994 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, State University of New York at Buffalo. 

1997-1998 Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics  Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, State University of New York at Buffalo 

August 1 to Sept. 31, 2002. James Chair Visiting Professor, St. Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia. 

I)  Memberships & Offices 

           Panel member, Geology and Paleontology Panel, National Science Foundation, Spring 2003-Fall 2005.

           International Paleontological Association,

          Graptolite Working Group, Secretary

          International Union of Geological Sciences,

          Subcommission on Ordovician Stratigraphy, Voting member

          Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), NE section president, 1998-2000

          Paleontological Society, Chairman for Northeastern Section, 1995-1996

          Paleontological Research Institute

          Co-director, Graduate Group in Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, SUNY at Buffalo.
 

II)   Activities

             A.  Symposia - Invited Participant (including topic presented) 

1.    North American Paleontological Convention IV: Tempo and Mode Part II. (Boulder, CO, 1986).  "Heterochrony and the tempo and mode of graptolite evolution."

2.    Systematics Association Symposium: Major Evolutionary Radiations.  (University of Durham, U.K., September, 1989).  “Directional Macroevolution of the Graptoloides: a product of astogenetic heterochrony and directed speciation.”

3.        Great Lakes Section, Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM),Symposium: Basement structural influences on Phanerozoic Sedimentation in the mid-continent area (North Central GSA Meeting, Madison, WI, May 2, 1997). “Stratigraphic sequences of the Sebree Trough and Jessamine Dome as an expression of basement reactivation during the Taconic Orogeny.”

4.        Annual Meeting Committee and Paleontological Society Symposium: Late Ordovician Mass Extinction — Silurian Recovery and Associated Perturbations of Global Earth Systems (Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, Oct. 22, 1997)  “Latest Ordovician to earliest Silurian graptolite succession from the Yangtze Gorges region, Southeast China.”  

5.        NE section, Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) Symposium: Extensional basins in the NE Appalachians: Stratigraphy, sedimentology, tectonics, and resource potential (NE sectional meeting, GSA, Providence RI, March 22-24): “Stratigraphic evidence of differential subsidence of the Sebree Trough during the Taconic Orogeny.”

          B.  Conference, Workshop, Field trip, & Symposium Leadership 

1.   International Palaeontological Association, Graptolite Working Group, Fourth Inter­national Conference, Nanjing, China, 1990.  Convener of "Classification of the Diplograptids" workshop.

2.   International Palaeontological Association, Graptolite Working Group, Fifth Inter­national Conference, Long Beach , CA, 1995. Post-conference field trip leader.

3.   NE Sectional meeting, Geological Society of America, Buffalo, NY, 1996, Technical Program Chairman.

4.   NE Sectional meeting, Geological Society of America, Buffalo, NY, 1996, SEPM-Paleontological Society Symposium “Bioevents & Sequence Stratigraphy.” Co-leader with C.E. Brett.

6.        NE Sectional meeting, Geological Society of America, Buffalo, NY, 1996,  Symposium “Taconic convergence: Orogen, Foreland Basin, and Cratonic Interactions I, and II. Co-leader with R.D. Jacobi.

7.        NE Sectional meeting, Geological Society of America, Providence, RI, 1998, Symposium Extensional basins in the NE Appalachians: Stratigraphy, sedimentology, tectonics, and resource potential.  Co-leader with M. Thompson, S. Barr, and R.D. Jacobi.

            C.  Book Reviews 

1985  Review with suggestions for revision of The Evolution of the Earth, 3rd ed. by R. H. Dott, Jr. and R. L. Batten, 1981, McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York at the request of College Text Division, McGraw-Hill, Inc.

1986  Review of The Evolution of the Earth, Chapters 1-8, 4th ed. by R. H. Dott, Jr. and R. L. Batten, McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, at request of Mr. Daniel Kaizer, College Text Division, McGraw- Hill, Inc.

1997  Review of Graptolites: Writing in the Rocks, D. Palmer and B. Rickards (eds.), Boydell Press, Woodbridge, U.K, and Rochester, N.Y.  Journal of Geological Education, 40:436-437.

2000  Good intentions gone bad: In Search of Deep Time, by Henry Gee.  American Paleontologist: 8(2):14-16.

1. National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, 1981 ($2,900; 3 yrs. ),

       S.J. Gould., P.I., C.E. Mitchell - research associate.
"Astogeny and Phylogeny among the Diplograptina. "

2.  SUNY at Buffalo  Research Development Fund, 1984 ($9,495; 1 yr.),

       C. E. Mitchell, P.I.

       "Graptolite Periderm Ultrastructure."

3.  SUNY at Buffalo/ UUP New Faculty Development Awards,  1985 ($820; 1/2 yr. ),

       C. E. Mitchell, P.I.

       "Graptolite Periderm Ultrastructure. "                         

4.  SUNY at Buffalo Research Development Fund 1987 ($450;  1/2 yr.),

       C. E. Mitchell P.I.

       "The Evolutionary Radiation of the Diplograptacea (Graptoloidea). "

5.  National Science  Foundation,  1988 ($98,408; 2 yrs.),

       C. E. Mitchell, P.I.  D. Goldman, graduate assistant.

       "The Evolutionary Radiation of the  Diplograptacea (Graptoloidea)."                              

6.  National Science Foundation,  1989  ($60,020; 2 yrs.),

       R.D. Jacobi, P.D., C. E. Mitchell - consultant.

       "A Model for Turbidite Deposition in the Catskill Sea:  Implications for sub-marine fans, sea level  and sequence
 stratigraphy."

7.  Petroleum Research Fund, American Chemical Society, 1989  ($30,337; 2 yrs.),

       S.M. Bergström, P.D.  C.E. Mitchell -  collaborator.  

       "Geologic Evolution of the Ordovician Sebree  Trough, A Ma­jor Sub-surface Feature in the North American 
 Midcontinent Region."

8.  Petroleum Research Fund, American Chemical Society, 1991($38,610; 2 yrs.),
 C. E. Mitchell. P.I. D. Goldman, graduate assistant.
 "Integrated Chronostratigraphy for the Upper Ordovician of Eastern and Central North America."

9.  National Science Foundation, 1992 ($62,635; 2 yrs., with similar amounts going to SUNY Albany and Syracuse University as well), C.E. Mitchell  P.D.; additional P.I.’s:  S.D. Samson (Syracuse University) and J. W. Delano (SUNY at Albany; ).  D. Goldman, Post-doctoral associate, M. Joy, graduate assistant.
"Collaborative Research: Integrated Chronostratigraphy for the Upper Ordovician of Eastern and Central North America." 

10. National Science Foundation, 1996 ($72,920, 2 yrs.)
C.E. Mitchell, P.D., additional P.I.: J.W. Delano, (SUNY at Albany, separate budget); M. Joy, graduate assistant, “Collaborative Research: A test of eustatic and local tectonic controls on lithofacies development.”

11. National Science Foundation, 1996 ($3,470, 6 months).  Planning grant.
       C.E. Mitchell, P.I.
       “Graptolite Paleogeographic history of the Precordilleran Terrain, Argentina.”

12. American Chemical Society, Petroleum Research Fund, 1997 ($47,606, 3 yrs.)
       C.E. Mitchell, Co-P.I. with R.D. Jacobi
       “Geodynamic Interpretation of Regional Unconformities within Tectonically Active, Deep Water Basins.”

13. American Chemical Society, Petroleum Research Fund, 1999 ($6,500.) Supplement.
        C.E. Mitchell, Co-P.I. with R.D. Jacobi
        “Geodynamic Interpretation of Regional Unconformities within Tectonically Active, Deep Water Basins.”
        Summer Faculty Intern for Dr. Daniel Goldman, University of Dayton.

14. National Science Foundation, 2001 ($299,881 total costs; 4 yrs.) CURRENT
        C.E. Mitchell, Co-P.I. ($182,881 total UB share) with Daniel Goldman, University of Dayton ($117,000 )
        “Graptolite macroevolution: Phylogenetic analysis and testing of hypotheses of directional change.”

15. National Science Foundation, 2004 ($571,532;  5 yrs.)  CURRENT
C.E. Mitchell, Co-P.I. ($480,018, total UB share; indirect costs: $149,343) with H. David Sheets, Canisius College, Michael J. Melchin, St. Xavier University, Stanley C. Finney, Univ. California at Long Beach, and Chris Holmden, University of Saskatchewan.
“Collaborative research: Robust estimation of biodiversity dynamics: Global versus regional patterns in the end Ordovician mass extinction of graptolites.”

16. National Science Foundation, 2005 ($338,580;  3 yrs.) CURRENT
        C.E. Mitchell, Co-P.I. ($40,778, total UB share; indirect costs: $15,050) with Scott D. Samson (Syracuse
        University, P.D.), Peter M. Sadler (Univ. of California at Riverside), and Steven Leslie (Univ. Arkansas, Little
        Rock).
        “Collaborative research: Automated sequencing of the fossil record: Improved Methods and insights from
         Mohawkian (Ordovician) geochronology, tephrochronology, and biostratigraphy.”