EDUCATION:

Ph.D., Geology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, May 9, 1998. Dissertation title: The White River Group of Northwestern Nebraska: Stratigraphic Revisions, Correlations, and Paleopedology.

M.S., Geology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, May 10, 1991. Thesis title: The Study and Implications of Comparative Pedogenesis of Sediments from the Base of the White River Group, South Dakota.

B.A., Geology, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, May 5, 1987.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
- Paleosols and their application to the rock record (paleoclimates, paleoenvironments)
- K/T and Late Eocene Impacts
- Influence of paleosols on the preservation of geochemical and mineralogical signatures within ejecta layers
- Nonmarine stratigraphy, sedimentology and depositional environments
- Paleogene stratigraphy and paleoclimatology of the Great Plains
- Influence of Laramide tectonic features on Paleogene stratigraphy and sedimentology
- Application of sedimentology and paleopedology to vertebrate taphonomy
- Nonmarine sequence stratigraphy
- Clastic sediments in karst systems

EMPLOYMENT:
Present Position:  Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122.

Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geology, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA 24450. (8-1-98 to 6-1-99):

Lecturer, Dept. of Geology, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, (9-1-97 to 8-1-98).

RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS:
Total funding to date: $312,617.

(A) Current Funding:

1999 Department of the Interior: Baseline Mapping of Fossil Bone Beds at Badlands National Park,  South Dakota; with R. Benton, Badlands National Park, E. Evanoff, Univ. of Colorado-Boulder,  and C. Herbel, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology ($235,000 over three years.  Project begins summer of 2000).

(B) Grants Submitted/Pending for the 2000 Cycle:

Terry, D. O., Jr., A Marine K/T Bolide Impact Signature in SW South Dakota: Implications for Geologic History, Paleogeography, and the Retreat of the Western Interior Seaway; Submitted to NSF Earth Science and Paleontology Program (#EAR-0000986) ($516, 797).

Terry, D. O., Jr., Late Eocene Bolide Impact Signatures in the White River Group of Nebraska and Wyoming: A Test of Biostratigraphic and Magnetostratigraphic Correlation Methods in Nonmarine Sections: Submitted to the American Chemical Society-Petroleum Research Fund ($25,000).

Grandstaff, D. E., and Terry, D., O., Jr. Use of Rare Earth Elements (REE) in Determining Taphonomy of Vertebrate Fossils, Submitted to NSF Earth Science and Paleontology Program (EAR) ($541, 660).

Terry, D. O., Jr., and Grandstaff, D. E., Purchase of a VG Elemental UV Microprobe II Laser Ablation Accessory, NSF Instruction and Laboratory Improvement Fund (ILI) ($121, 162)

(C) Previous Awards:

1997 United States Geological Survey: Geology of the Sage Creek Wilderness Area, Badlands National Park, SD: Geologic Mapping Education Program (EDMAP), with Phil Stoffer, Paula Messina, and J. A. Chamberlain, Jr., CUNY ($6,000).

1996 Geological Society of America: Geochemical analysis of superimposed paleosol profiles within  the uppermost portion of the Eocene Chadron Formation, White River Group, Badlands of  northwestern Nebraska ($1380.00).

1995  Department of the Interior: Documenting the Extent and Depositional Environments of the  Chadron Formation in the South Unit of Badlands National Park: ($60,000: BADL 1300-5101- RPZ).

1995 Department of the Interior: Stratigraphic and Paleopedologic Analysis of Depositional Sequences  within the Pig Wallow Site, Badlands National Park: ($5000: BADL 1300-5711-NNZ).

1994  Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research: Stable Isotope Analysis of Pedogenic Carbonates within the  Eocene Chadron Formation, White River Group, Badlands of Northwestern Nebraska ($400.00).

1994  Center for Great Plains Studies; University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Stable Isotope Analysis of  Pedogenic Carbonates within the Eocene Chadron Formation, White River Group, Badlands of  Northwestern Nebraska ($150.00).

1993  Univ. of Nebraska Research Council Visiting Scholar Grant. ($900.00).

1993 Shell Summer Research Fellowship; Univ. of Nebraska: ($2000.00)

1992 Center for Great Plains Studies; University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Pedogenic vs. Diagenetic Origin  of Silcretes, Nodular Carbonates, and Zeolites within Early Tertiary Paleosols: Nebraska, South  Dakota, and North Dakota ($400.00).

1992  Yatkola-Edwards Research Grant; Nebraska Geological Society: Pedostratigraphic Analysis and  Interpretation of Early Tertiary Great Plains Depositional systems; Nebraska, South Dakota, and  North Dakota ($250.00).

1990  American Association of Petroleum Geologists: The Study and Implications of Comparative  Pedogenesis of Sediments from the White River Group, South Dakota ($1012.00).

1990  Dept. of Geology Research Grant; Bowling Green State University: The Study and Implications  of Comparative Pedogenesis of Sediments from the White River Group, South Dakota  ($125.00).
 

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES:

(A) Active Projects:
1.  Investigation of K/T boundary sections in SW South Dakota: tsunamites, geochemistry, mineralogy, and stratigraphy.
2.  Detection of geochemical signatures of late Eocene impacts across the northern Great Plains.
3.  Paleoclimatic interpretations of Quaternary cave deposits (sedimentology, mineralogy, and geochemistry), Lexington, VA.
4.  Paleoclimatic interpretations of Quaternary-recent soils (micromorphology, mineralogy, and geochemistry) on river terrace chronosequences near Lexington, VA.
5. Paleoclimatic interpretations (mineralogy, stratigraphy), hydrology, and geochemistry of Quaternary-recent sinkhole ponds in west-central Virginia.
6.  Paleosol-based interpretations of paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental change across the Eocene/Oligocene Boundary in Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming.
7. Lithostratigraphic revision, reinterpretation, and correlation of White River Group (Eocene/Oligocene) deposits of Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming.
8. EDMAP mapping project in the Sage Creek Wilderness Area of Badlands National Park.
9. Paleosol-based interpretations of vertebrate taphonomy of Oligocene bone beds, Badlands National Park, SD.
10. Geological mapping and documentation of fossil resources within Badlands National Park, SD.
11.  Paleopedology of the Illinoian-Wisconsinan Interglacial Period; Gothenburg, Nebraska.
12.  Morphological and Paleopedological Analysis of Eocene Domichnia of Isoptera and/or Hymenoptera from the base of the White River Group, Badlands of South Dakota.
 

PUBLICATIONS:

(A) Books:

Terry, D. O., Jr., LaGarry, H. E., and Hunt, R. M., 1998, Depositional Environments, Lithostratigraphy, and Biostratigraphy of the White River and Arikaree Groups (Late Eocene to Early Miocene, North America): Geological Society of America Special Paper #325, 216 p.

(B) Refereed Journal Articles:

LaGarry, H. E., Wells, W. B., Terry, D. O., Jr., and Nixon, D. A., 1998, The Toadstool Park Trackway Site, Oglala National Grassland, Nebraska, in Martin, J. E., Hogenson, J. W., and Benton, R. C., eds., Partners Preserving our Past, Planning our Future: Proceedings for the Fifth Conference on Fossil Resources, Dakoterra, v. 5, p. 91-106.

Terry, D. O., Jr., 1998, Stratigraphy, Depositional Environments, and Fossil Resources of the Chadron Formation in the South Unit of Badlands National Park, South Dakota, in Martin, J. E., Hogenson, J. W., and Benton, R. C., eds., Partners Preserving our Past, Planning our Future: Proceedings for the Fifth Conference on Fossil Resources, Dakoterra, v. 5, p. 127-138.

Terry, D. O., Jr., 1998, Lithostratigraphic Revision and Correlation of the Lower Part of the White River Group: South Dakota to Nebraska, in Terry, D. O., Jr., LaGarry, H. E., and Hunt, R. M., eds., Depositional Environments, Lithostratigraphy, and Biostratigraphy of the White River and Arikaree Groups (Late Eocene to Early Miocene, North America): Geological Society of America Special Paper #325, p. 15-37.

Terry, D. O., Jr., and LaGarry, H. E., 1998, The Big Cottonwood Creek Member: A New Member of the Chadron Formation in Northwestern Nebraska; in Terry, D. O., Jr., LaGarry, H. E., and Hunt, R. M., eds., Depositional Environments, Lithostratigraphy, and Biostratigraphy of the White River and Arikaree Groups (Late Eocene to Early Miocene, North America): Geological Society of America Special Paper #325, p. 117-141.

Evans, J. E. and Terry, D. O., Jr., 1994, The Significance of Incision and Fluvial Sedimentation in the  Basal White River Group (Eocene-Oligocene), Badlands of South Dakota, U.S.A: Sedimentary  Geology, p. 137-152.

Terry, D. O., Jr., and Evans, J. E., 1994, Pedogenesis and Paleoclimatic Implications of the   Chamberlain Pass Formation, Basal White River Group, Badlands of South Dakota:  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, vol. 110, p. 197-215.

(C) Manuscripts in Review/Revision:

Benton, R. C., Evanoff, E., LaGarry, H. E., and Terry, D. O., Jr., (in revision) Hayden's Lakes Revisited:  The origin and new stratigraphic interpretations of the White River Sequence, South Dakota,  Nebraska, and Wyoming; Field Trip Guidebook, 1996 Geological Society of America National  Meeting: Conservation and Survey Division, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources,  University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Terry, D. O., Jr., (in review) Paleopedology of the Chadron Formation of Northwestern Nebraska: Implications for Paleoclimatic Change in the North American Midcontinent across the Eocene-Oligocene Boundary: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.

(D) Manuscripts in Preparation:

Terry, D. O., Jr., Paleopedology and Taphonomy: Analysis of an Oligocene vertebrate assemblage in the Scenic Member of the Brule Formation, White River Group, South Dakota; to be submitted to Palaios.

Terry, D. O., Jr., Paleopedology of the Illinoian-Wisconsinan Interglacial Period; Gothenburg,  Nebraska: to be submitted to Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Science.

Terry, D. O., Jr., Morphological and Paleopedological Analysis of Possible Eocene Domichnia of Isoptera and/or Hymenoptera from the Base of the White River Group, Badlands of South Dakota; to be submitted to Palaios.

Diffendal, R. F., LaGarry, H. E., Pabian, R. K., and Terry, D. O., Jr., The Geology of the Toadstool Park-Pine Ridge area, northwestern Nebraska: Conservation and Survey Division Educational  Circular #10.

(E) Field Trip Guides/Other

LaGarry, H. E., and Terry, D. O., Jr., 1997, Regional distribution of lithotopes within the Chadron  Formation of northwestern Nebraska, in Hunter, A., ed., The Geology and paleontology of the  White River Formation, Tate Geological Museum Guidebook No. 2: Tate Geological Museum,  Casper College, p. 9-22.

Ashworth, A. C., Benton, R. C., Biek, R. F., Murphy, E. C., Shurr, G. W., Stevens, K. K., and Terry, D.  O., Jr., 1996, A field guide to Tertiary tectonism in the Northern Great Plains: Road Log, Field  Trip 1; in Paterson, C. J., and Kirchner, J. G., eds., Guidebook to the Geology of the Black Hills,  South Dakota: South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Bulletin #19, p. 9-18.

Terry, D. O., Jr., LaGarry, H. E., and Wells, W. B., 1995, The White River Group Revisited: Vertebrate  Trackways, Ecosystems, and Lithostratigraphic Revision, Redefinition, and Redescription, in  Flowerday, C. A., ed., Geologic Field Trips in Nebraska and Adjacent parts of Kansas and South  Dakota, Parts of the 29th Annual Meetings, North-central and South-central Sections, Geological  Society of America: Conservation and Survey Division Guidebook No. 10, Institute of Agriculture  and Natural Resources, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, p. 43-57.

(F) Contract Reports:

Terry, D. O., Jr., 1997, Preliminary report on the fossil resources within the South Unit of Badlands  National Park: National Park Service/University of Nebraska-Lincoln Cooperative Agreement  #CA-1300-5-9001: Badlands National Park Archives, 40 p.

Terry, D. O., Jr., and Spence, J. I., 1997, Documenting the extent and depositional environment of  the Chadron Formation in the South Unit of Badlands National Park: National Park  Service/University of Nebraska-Lincoln Cooperative Agreement #CA-1300-5-9001: Badlands  National Park Archives, 94 p.

Terry, D. O., Jr., 1996, Stratigraphic and paleopedologic analysis of depositional sequences within the  Pig Wallow Site, Badlands National Park: National Park Service/University of Nebraska-Lincoln  Cooperative Agreement #CA-1300-5-9001: Badlands National Park Archives, 164 p.

(G) Invited Symposia Abstracts:

LaGarry, H. E., Wells, W. B., Terry, D. O., Jr., and Nixon, D., A., 1998, 1992-1995 Documentation of the Toadstool Park Trackway Site, Oglala National Grassland, Nebraska, in Abstracts and Programs of the 5th Conference on Fossil Resources, 24p.

Terry, D. O., Jr., 1998, Paleopedology of the Chadron Formation of Northwestern Nebraska: Implications for Paleoclimatic Change in the Midcontinent Across the Eocene/Oligocene Boundary, in Abstracts and Programs of the 5th Conference on Fossil Resources, 24p.

LaGarry, H. E., and Terry, D. O., Jr., 1997, Regional Distribution of Lithotopes within the Chadron Formation of Northwestern Nebraska, in The Geology and Paleontology of the White River Formation: 1997 Tate Geological Museum Symposium, Tate Geological Times, v. 5, p. 7.

Terry, D. O., Jr., 1997, The Peanut Peak Member of the Chadron Formation: A Key Lithologic Unit  for Correlation of the White River Group Across the Northern Great Plains, in The Geology and  Paleontology of the White River Formation: 1997 Tate Geological Museum Symposium, Tate  Geological Times, v. 5, p. 10-11.

LaGarry, H. E., Wells, W. B., and Terry, D. O., Jr., 1996, A Giant Notostracan (?) from the Brule Formation (Oligocene) at Toadstool Park, Sioux County, Nebraska, in Northern Great Plains and Rocky Mountain Cenozoic Depositional Systems, Stratigraphy, and Paleontology: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, V. 28, no. 4, p. A-14.

Terry, D. O., Jr., 1996, Stratigraphy, Paleopedology, and Depositional Environment of the Conata Picnic  Ground Bone Bed (Orellan), Brule Formation, Badlands National Park, South Dakota, in Northern  Great Plains and Rocky Mountain Cenozoic Depositional Systems, Stratigraphy, and Paleontology:  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, V. 28, no. 4, p. A-40.

Terry, D. O., Jr., 1995, Provisional Lithostratigraphic Revision and Correlation of the Lower Portion of the White River Group: Nebraska to South Dakota, in Depositional Environments, Lithostratigraphy, and Biostratigraphy of the White River and Arikaree Groups: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 27, no. 3, p. A-89.

Terry, D. O., Jr., and LaGarry, H. E., 1995, Provisional Revision and Redescription of the Upper Part of  the Chadron Formation in Northwestern Nebraska, in Depositional Environments, Lithostratigraphy,  and Biostratigraphy of the White River and Arikaree Groups: Geological Society of America  Abstracts with Programs, v. 27, no. 3, p. A-89.

Wells, W. B., Terry, D. O., Jr., and LaGarry, H. E., 1995, Stratigraphic Implications of a Fluvial Origin  for the "Nodular Zones", Brule Formation (Orella Member), Northwestern Nebraska, in  Depositional Environments, Lithostratigraphy, and Biostratigraphy of the White River and  Arikaree Groups: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 27, no. 3, p. A-95.

(H) Other Published Abstracts:

Harbor, D. J., Panuska, B. C., Terry, D. O., Jr., and Knapp, E. P., 1999, River Incision and Climate History Revealed in Cave Stratigraphy, Maury River Basin, Virginia: Abstracts with Programs, American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting, v. 80, no. 17, p. S126.

Knapp, E., Terry, D., Harbor, D., and Thren, B., 1999, Iron and Manganese Geochemistry of Clastic Cave Sediments: Paleoclimatic Signatures in West-Central Virginia: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 31, no. 7, p. A-155.

Stoffer, P.W., Messina, P., Chamberlain, J. A., Jr., and Terry, D. O., Jr., 1999, Tsunamis in South Dakota: Two Asteroid Impacts Inferred from the Cretaceous/Tertiary (K/T) Boundary Interval in Badlands National Park: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 31, no. 7, p. A-473.

Terry, D. O. Jr., Knapp, E. P., Harbor, D. J., and Thren, R. C., 1999, Clastic Sediments of Bathers Cave: A Potential Record of Quaternary Climate Change in West-Central Virginia: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 31, no. 7, p. A-233.

Terry, D. O., Jr., and Spence, J. I., 1997, Geological and Paleontological Resource Assessment of the  Eocene Chadron Formation in the South Unit of Badlands National Park, South Dakota:  Proceedings, 107th Annual Nebraska Academy of Sciences, Earth Science Section, p. 50.

LaGarry, H. E., Terry, D. O., Jr., and LaGarry, L. A., 1996, Paleovalley Sequences of the Chadron FM.  in Northwestern Nebraska: A previously unrecognized Lithostratigraphic interval of the White  River Group: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 28, no. 7, p. A-309.

LaGarry, H. E., LaGarry, L. A., and Terry, D. O., Jr., 1996, New vertebrate fauna from the base of the  Chamberlain Pass Fm. (Eocene), Sioux County, Nebraska: Proceedings, 106th Annual  Nebraska Academy of Sciences, Earth Science Section, p. 45.

Terry, D. O., Jr., 1995a, Paleopedology of the Big Cottonwood Creek Member of the Eocene  Chadron Formation, White River Group, Badlands of Northwestern Nebraska: Proceedings,  105th Annual Nebraska Academy of Sciences, Earth Science Section, p. 57.

Terry, D. O., Jr., 1995b, Paleopedology of the Gilman Canyon Formation, Buzzard's Roost Locality,  Gothenburg, Nebraska: Proceedings, 105th Annual Nebraska Academy of Sciences, Earth  Science Section, p. 57.

Terry, D. O., Jr., and LaGarry, H. E., 1994, Lithostratigraphic Correlation and Provisional Redefinition  of the Eocene-Oligocene White River Group, Nebraska and South Dakota: Geological Society  of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 26, no. 7, p. A-249.

Wells, W. B., Terry, D. O., Jr., and Nixon, D. A., 1994, Multiple Cut and Fill Paleovalley Sequences  within Oligocene Sediments (White River Group) of Northwestern Nebraska: Geological Society  of America Abstracts with Programs, vol. 26, no. 7, p. A-492.

Terry, D. O., Jr., 1993, Lithostratigraphic Refinement and Correlation of Basal White River Group  Sediments: Nebraska and South Dakota: Proceedings, 103rd Annual Nebraska Academy of  Sciences, Earth Science Section, p. 67.

Evans, J. E., and Terry, D. O., Jr., 1992, Fluvial Baselevel Changes in the Lower Part of the White River  Group, Eocene-Oligocene, Badlands of South Dakota: Geological Society of America Abstracts  with Programs, v. 24, no. 7, p. A-52.

Terry, D. O., Jr., and Evans, J. E., 1992, Pedogenesis and Paleoclimatic Implications of the  Chamberlain Pass Formation, Basal White River Group, Badlands of South Dakota: Geological  Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 24, no. 7, p. A-269.

Terry, D. O., Jr., and Evans, J. E., 1991, Informal Designation of a New Basal Stratigraphic Unit in the  White River Group of South Dakota: Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v.  23, no 3, p. A-64.

(I) Invited Lectures:

1997 LaGarry, H. E., and Terry, D. O., Jr., Regional Distribution of Lithotopes within the Chadron  Formation of Northwestern Nebraska: Wyoming Geological Association.

1997 Terry, D. O., Jr., The White River Group of northwestern Nebraska: Stratigraphic revisions,  correlations, and paleopedology: Nebraska Geological Society.

1996 Terry, D. O., Jr., Stratigraphy, Paleopedology, and Depositional Environment of the Conata  Picnic Ground Bone Bed (Orellan), Brule Formation, Badlands National Park: Badlands Natural  History Association.

1992 Terry, D. O., Jr., Fluvial Baselevel Changes in the Lower Part of the White River Group, Eocene  Oligocene, Badlands of South Dakota: Department of Geology Alumni Advisory Board,  University of Nebraska.

(J) Popular Press Interviews/Appearances:

1999 American Association for the Advancement of Science: Science Now: Killer Impact’s Wet Wallop, Academic Press, http://www.academicpress.com/inscight/09141999/graphb.htm.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

1998 Field trip co-leader: Geology and Paleontology of Badlands National Park, 5th Conference on Fossil resources, Rapid City, SD.

1995-1998 Co-editor, Geological Society of America Special Paper #325: Terry, D. O., Jr., LaGarry, H. E., and Hunt, R. M., eds., Depositional Environments, Lithostratigraphy, and Biostratigraphy of the White River and Arikaree Groups (Late Eocene to Early Miocene, North America).

1996 Chair, Petroleum Geology session, Geological Society of America National Meeting.

1996  Field trip co-leader: Hayden's Lakes revisited: The origins and new stratigraphic interpretations of  the White River Sequence, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Wyoming, Geological Society of  America National Meeting.

1996  Co-Chair, Earth Science Section, Nebraska Academy of Science.

1996  Field trip co-leader: Paleogene Stratigraphy and Sedimentation, Geological Society of America  Meeting, Rocky Mountain Section, Rapid City, SD.

1995  Co-Chair for North-Central/South-Central Geological Society of America Symposium:  Depositional Environments, Lithostratigraphy, and Biostratigraphy of the White River and  Arikaree Groups.

1995  Field trip co-leader: The White River Group Revisited: Vertebrate Trackways, Ecosystems, and  Lithostratigraphic Revision, Redefinition, and Redescription, Geological Society of America  North-Central/South-Central Meeting, Lincoln, NE.

1994  Chair, Earth Science Section, Nebraska Academy of Science.

1989 Geological Society of America Penrose Conference participant: Late Eocene-Oligocene Climatic  and Biotic Evolution, Rapid City, SD.

1989  President of Bowling Green State University Chapter, Sigma Gamma Epsilon.

1986  Vice-President of Ball State University Chapter, American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

CONSULTING:

1994-1997 U.S. Forest Service, Chadron, Nebraska: Consultation on the development, design, and  implementation of interpretive displays for paleontological and geological resources.  Consultation on the policies and procedures of paleontological resource protection, interdiction  of illegal fossil poaching, and development of future research projects.

1994-1997 National Park Service, Badlands National Park, SD: Consultation on the development of a  geological and paleontological resource protection program, resource management, and  development of a geological and paleontological research program.

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH SUPERVISION:

1994-1998 W. B. Wells, University of Nebraska: Stratigraphy and sedimentology of Paleogene deposits in northwestern Nebraska.

1996-1997 J. I. Spence, University of Nebraska: Geologic mapping and fossil resource inventories of Paleogene strata in South Dakota.

Present: A. S. Thompson, Washington and Lee University: Quaternary paleoclimate investigations of cave and lacustrine sediments near Lexington, VA.
 

GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH SUPERVISION (Temple University):

(A) Advisor:

(B) Committee Member:

1999 Ethan Prout: Transport of Colloids and Sediment in a Karst Aquifer at Easton, Northhampton County, Pennsylvania.
1999 Richard Staron: Rare Earth Element Taphonomy of Mosasaurs and the New Jersey Coastal Plain K-T Boundary.
 

HONORS AND AWARDS:

(A) Best Paper Awards:

1997 Geological and Paleontological Resource Assessment of the Eocene Chadron Formation in the  South Unit of Badlands National Park, South Dakota: Earth Science Section, Nebraska Academy of Science.

1996 Stratigraphy, Paleopedology, and Depositional Environment of the Conata Picnic Ground Bone  Bed (Orellan), Brule Formation, Badlands National Park, South Dakota: Geology Graduate  Student Seminar, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.

1995  Provisional Lithostratigraphic Revision and Correlation of the Lower Portion of the White River  Group: Nebraska to South Dakota, in Depositional Environments, Lithostratigraphy, and  Biostratigraphy of the White River and Arikaree Groups: Geological Society of America North- Central/South-Central Section Meeting, Lincoln, NE.

1995  Paleopedology of the Gilman Canyon Formation, Buzzard's Roost Locality, Gothenburg,  Nebraska: Earth Science Section, Nebraska Academy of Science.

1993  Lithostratigraphic Refinement and Correlation of Basal White River Group Sediments: Nebraska  and South Dakota: Earth Science Section, Nebraska Academy of Science.

(B) Teaching Awards:

1997 Teaching Award: "Certificate of Recognition for Contributions to Students", University of  Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.

(C) Other Selected Academic Awards:

1996  Bukey Memorial Fellowship: University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE ($1000.00).
1996  Regents Tuition Fellowship: University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.
1992  Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society Membership: University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
1992  Shell Graduate Fellowship: University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.
1990  Outstanding Graduate Student Award: Bowling Green State University.
1989  F.V. Hayden Geology/Paleontology Internship: Badlands National Park.
1989  Amoco Graduate Fellowship: Bowling Green State University.
1989  Sigma Gamma Epsilon Earth Science Honorary: Bowling Green State University.
1986  Undergraduate Research Fellowship: Ball State University.
1986  Sigma Zeta Science and Mathematics Honorary: Ball State University.
1984  Alpha Lambda Delta Academic Honorary: Ball State University.

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