Available Student Projects





            All of the above projects and many others are available for student involvement; some at a Master's level and others for a Ph.D. Interdisciplinary studies are especially promoted. Undergraduate and graduate students in a variety of geological disciplines have participated in my field projects since the mid 1980s. Interests have included invertebrate and vertebrate paleontology, marine micropaleontology and palynology, sedimentology, and stratigraphy. Collaborative studies with Dave Krause (SUNY-SB), Allen Kihm (Minot State University), Jack Horner (Museum of the Rockies), John Hunter (New York Institute of Technology), Mary Maas (Duke University), and others have allowed students to interact with professionals across a number of disciplines and interests. Beside discovery and individual specimen preparation, field sample processing has frequently included screen washing for not just small vertebrates and snails, but also to bulk process for larger fossils. Students are shown here in the Little Missouri River screen washing and picking of fossils in Slope County, North Dakota.