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Dr. Julia Sankey I
am a vertebrate paleontologist, with a background
in both biology and geology. My current research is on Late
Cretaceous theropod dinosaurs and the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction 65
million years ago. Every January my students I and do field work in Big Bend National Park,
Texas (students, email me if you are interested in participating) I worked as a paleontological consultant for environmental companies from 1991-1994. Before that, I received my M.S. in Quaternary Studies from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff in 1991, with a thesis on Pliocene- Pleistocene vertebrate fossils and magnetostratigraphy of southwestern Idaho. During this time I worked for the U.S. Geological Survey’s Paleomagnetics Lab in Flagstaff. From 1987-1988, I took geology courses and field camp at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and in 1987 I graduated with a B.S. in Biology from Albertson College of Idaho in Caldwell. I am from Santa Barbara, California.
Left 2007 expedition to Big Bend National Park, Texas (Sankey on far right). Right: Richard Peltier excavating hadrosaur femur. HONORARY POSITIONS
Research Associate – 2005 to present. Univ. California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley
Research Associate – 2000 to present. Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, Alberta Research Associate – 1998 to present. Louisiana State Univ. Museum of Natural Science RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Books (In Press): Sankey, J.T. and S. Baszio, Editors. In Press. Vertebrate Microfossil Assemblages: Their Role in Paleoecology and Paleobiogeography. Indiana University Press (Bloomington). (Due out in November, 2007). Table of contents. Schiebout, J.A., S. Ting, and J.T. Sankey. 1997.
Microvertebrate concentrations in pedogenic nodule conglomerates:
recognizing the rocks and recovering and interpreting the
fossils. Palaeontologia Electronica. 1(2):54 pp. http://palaeo-electronica.org/1998_2/toc.htm Book Chapters: Welsh, E. and
J.T. Sankey. In Press. First dinosaur eggshells from
Texas: Aguja Formation (late Campanian), Big Bend National Park.
In: The Unique Role of Vertebrate Microfossil Assemblages in
Paleoecology and Paleobiology, J.T. Sankey and S. Baszio (eds.).
Indiana University Press (Bloomington). Recent Abstracts (* indicates student) Sankey, J.T., S. Atchley, L. Nordt, S. Dworkin, S. Driese. In Review. Dinosaurs and dirt: dinosaur paleoecology, paleosol stratigraphy, and isotope geochemistry from the upper Aguja Formation (Late Cretaceous: late Campanian-early Maastrichtian), Big Bend National Park, Texas. 67th Annual Meeting, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Austin, Texas Gasaway*, S., V. Meredith*, N. Ortiz*, and J. Sankey. In Review. Paleoecology of a Chasmosaurus mariscalensis bonebed, Late Cretaceous (late Campanian), Big Bend National Park, Texas. 67th Annual Meeting, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Austin, Texas MacInnes*, S., D. Tovar*, R. Peltier*, and J. Sankey. In Review. A new hadrosaur site in the uppermost Aguja Formation (early Maastrichtian), Big Bend National Park, Texas. 67th Annual Meeting, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Austin, Texas Sankey, J.T. 2007. What were the effects of climate change on Late Cretaceous through Paleocene vertebrates in southern North America? Cal Paleo conference. April 28, 2007, California Academy of Science. Bantly*, M., 23 other students, and J. Sankey. 2007. Vertebrate paleoecology of Late Cretaceous (late Campanian to early Maastrichtian) deposits, Big Bend National Park, Texas. Cal Paleo conference. April 28, 2007, California Academy of Science. Sankey, J.T. 2006. Separating terrestrial from extraterrestrial effects on K/T extinctions: changes in vertebrates and climate during the last 10 million years of the Cretaceous in southern North America. 66th Annual Meeting, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Abstracts of Papers 26(3)119A. Sankey, J.T. 2006. Late Cretaceous vertebrates and climate change in the southern Western Interior: Big Bend National Park, Texas, p. 31. In: Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior. Bulletin 35, S. Lucas and R. Sullivan (eds.). New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science (Albuquerque). RECENT INVITED PRESENTATIONS
“Big Bend Dinosaurs and other Cretaceous Wildlife” Big Bend National Park, Texas, January 17, 2006
EXTERNAL GRANTS
Earthwatch Institute, Center for Field Research (2002),
"North Dakota Dinosaurs" ($10,400).
National Geographic Society Research Grant (2001).
"Late Cretaceous diversity of theropod dinosaurs and mammals, Hell
Creek Formation, North Dakota ($11,000).
COURSES TAUGHT
California State University, Stanislaus, Department of Physics and Geology, 2003 to present
Vassar College, Department of Geology and Geography, 2002 to 2003 (Visiting Assistant Professor)
South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, Museum of Geology & Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, 1999 to 2002 (Haslem Fellow/Assistant Professor, non-tenure track). Graduate Seminar in Paleontology: Cretaceous/Tertiary Extinctions Louisiana State University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, 1997 to 1998 (Instructor). Historical Geology
OTHER INTERESTS
Glindie and Lizzie (below left) and Mali (below right). |
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This page last modified June 4, 2007 by J Sankey