Lab members and collaborators


Students


Heidi Wong '10 (summer 2008)
Heidi (left) worked on two projects: (1) confidence intervals for estimating the duration of a mass extinction, and (2) visualizing complex datasets using Chernoff faces. For the first topic, she presented a poster at the Geological Society of America annual meeting (Portland, 2009) and is the co-author of two abstracts and a paper currently in preparation. For the second topic, I presented preliminary results from our work at the Harvard Quintessential Contributions celebration, and further work is ongoing.



Dasol Park '10 (summer 2008)
Dasol worked on confidence intervals for stratigraphic ranges when recovery potential is non-uniform. He presented posters at the Geological Society of America annual meeting (Houston, 2008) and the Sigma Xi poster session (Swarthmore, 2008). He is the co-author of two abstracts and a paper currently in preparation.





Libin (Geoffrey) Sun '10 (summer 2008)
Geoffrey worked on Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms for estimating extinction levels in the end-Permian extinction. He presented posters at the Geological Society of America annual meeting (Houston, 2008) and the Sigma Xi poster session (Swarthmore, 2008). He is the co-author of an abstract and a paper currently in preparation.




Michael Karcher '07 (summer 2006, summer 2007)
Mike worked on Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms for estimating extinction levels in the end-Permian extinction. He presented posters at the Geological Society of America (Philadelphia, 2006), the Joint Statistical Meetings (Salt Lake City, 2007), the Smithsonian-UPenn Geobiology Symposium (Washington, DC, 2007), and the Sigma Xi poster session (Swarthmore, 2007). He is the co-author of two abstracts and a paper currently in preparation. He currently works for ISO.


David Chudzicki '07 (summer 2007)
David worked on confidence intervals for stratigraphic ranges when recovery potential is non-uniform. He is a co-author of a paper in Paleobiology and another paper currently in preparation. He is currently a PhD student in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Chicago.


New opportunities: I will have two openings for summer student researchers in summer 2010 for an NSF-funded project on mass extinctions. Please email me if you are interested. Due to grant restrictions, eligibility is limited to Swarthmore students. The preferred prerequisites are Stat 61 and CS 21 (or equivalent), but some combination of Stat 11, Stat 31, Bio 2, or other experience may suffice as well.



Current and previous collaborators (paleontology)

Ken Angielczyk, Field Museum (right)
Richard Bambach, Smithsonian
Steve Brusatte, Columbia/American Museum of Natural History
John Bunge, Cornell
Andy Bush, Connecticut
Peter Dodson, UPenn
Phil Everson, Swarthmore
Seth Finnegan, CalTech
Andrew Knoll, Harvard
Graeme Lloyd, Natural History Museum (London)
Charles Marshall, Harvard
Jon Payne, Stanford
Peter Roopnarine, California Academy of Sciences (right)
Andrew Solow, Woods Hole
Peter Wagner, Smithsonian
Working group on body size macroevolution and macroecology, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center



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