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Department of Biology
University of Washington
24 Kincaid Hall, Box 351800
Seattle, Washington 98195-1800
428 Kincaid Hall
206.543.4812

Assistant Professor

Greg Wilson [CV]

I received my PhD in Integrative Biology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004. I spent 7 months of an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Helsinki, Finland before taking a curatorship at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. I stayed at the DMNS until December of 2007 when I moved to Seattle to start in the Biology Department. I also serve as Adjunct Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Burke Museum. Please see the Paleobiology website for more information on the UW paleobiology community.

Graduate Students

Meng Chen

Meng, shown here boating on the Hell Creek, has a Master's Degree in Paleontology from Nanjing University in China. He was awarded a Hall International Fellowship from the Biology Department for graduate studies. He advanced to PhD candidacy in June of 2010. His research focuses on Mesozoic mammals and interpretations of their postcranial functional morphology and paleoecology. In addition to examination of fossils, this work relies on quantification of (i) osteological correlates of locomotor function in diverse extant mammals and (ii) ecological structure in extant mammal communities from diverse habitats.

Lauren DeBey

Lauren has a Bachelor's of Arts in Integrative Biology from the University of California, Berkeley. She was awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the NSF. She advanced to PhD candidacy in May of 2010. Her dissertation research focuses on the use of postcranial fossils of K-T mammals to interpret changes in locomotor diversity in relation to the K-T mass extinction and the ensuing biotic recovery and radiation. See this blog post that highlights some of her work. With Greg, she developed an innovative geology and paleontology program for K-12 educators called the Discoveries in Geosciences (DIG) Field School.

Dave DeMar, Jr.

Dave has a Bachelor's of Science in Zoology and Physiology from the University of Wyoming. His research interests include Cretaceous microvertebrates, biogeochemistry, and paleoecology. He advanced to PhD candidacy in September 2011. For his PhD research, he is investigating the fate of vertebrate faunas, particularly lissamphibians and lizards, leading up to and across the K-T boundary. He was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship in 2011. See a recent presentation on his work.

Jonathan Calede

Jonathan completed his Master's of Science in Geology at the University of Oregon in 2010. His interests include Cenozoic mammals, dental microwear, and vertebrate paleontology. He advanced to PhD candidacy in March 2012. His PhD research focuses on the paleoecology of mammalian faunas of the Oligo-Miocene Renova Formation in southwest Montana in comparison with patterns from the John Day Fossil Beds of Oregon and the Arikaree Group of the Central Great Plains. His work has been funded by the GSA, the American Philosophical Society, The Paleontological Society, Sigma Xi, and others.

Stephanie Smith

Stephanie has a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Johns Hopkins University. Her interests include Mesozoic and early Cenozoic mammals, tooth and cranial morphology, morphometrics and faunal turnover. She advanced to PhD candidacy in May of 2014. Her research, which has been funded by the American Philosophical Society, is on faunal recovery following the K-T extinction event.

Alexandria Brannick

Alex received her Bachelor's of Science in Geology & Environmental Geosciences from Lafayette College (2012) and her Master's of Science in Biological Sciences from Marshall University (2014). Her research interests are in Mesozoic and Cenozoic mammals, morphometrics, paleoecology, and vertebrate paleontology. She plans to research elements of mammalian paleoecology leading up to and following the K-T mass extinction event.

Undergraduate Students

Abby Vander Linden

Abby is a Biology major who is currently working on a project on convergent evolution of blade-like teeth in living and extinct mammals using CT data and complexity measures. She was awarded a College of Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Award and a Mary Gates Scholarship to support this research.

Jenny Glusman

Jenny is a Biology major who is working with Jonathan Calede on fossil mammals from the Cabbage Patch beds of Montana, using geometric morphometrics to quantify species differences.

Steven Lautzenheiser

Steven is an Anthropology major and Paleobiology minor who is working in Dr. Patricia Kramer's lab on hominid evolution and in our lab on our locality and specimen database.

Amanda Solitario

Amanda is an Earth & Space Sciences major and a Paleobiology minor who is working with David DeMar and Greg Wilson on theropod diversity in the uppermost Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation of northeastern Montana.

Edite Forman

Edite is a Psychology major who is working on a number of different projects including the Discoveries in Geosciences (DIG) Field School and copy editing for an edited volume on the Hell Creek Formation.

David Armo

David is an Anthropology major and Paleobiology minor who is working in Dr. Patricia Kramer's lab on hominid locomotion and in our lab on diet reconstruction in K-T mammals using light microscopy microwear.

Derry McDonald

Derry is a Biology major who is describing the vertebrate microfossil fauna from the lowermost Paleocene Tullock Formation of northeastern Montana.

Judy Carlson

Judy is a Biology major who is working with David Armo, Jonathan Calede, and Greg Wilson on diet reconstruction in K-T mammals using light microscopy microwear.

Skye Park

Skye is a Biochemistry major who helps with imaging projects in the lab.

Garrett Mercier

Garrett is a Biology major and Geology minor from North Seattle Community College who is working on sorting vertebrate microfossils and screenwashing of sediment samples.

Freedom Berhe

Freedom is a Bioengineering major who is working on sorting vertebrate microfossils and screenwashing of sediment samples.

Chet Khadka

Chet is an Earth & Space Sciences major who is working on sorting vertebrate microfossils and screenwashing of sediment samples.

Lab Alumni