Publications

Guiry, E.J., Kennedy, J.R., Malcom, C., et al. 2024. Early evidence for long-term human impacts on sea-turtle foraging behavior. Royal Society Open Science 11:240120.

Guiry, E.J., Kennedy, J.R., Orton, D.C., et al. 2024. The ratting of North America: A 350-year retrospective on Rattus species compositions and competition. Science Advances 10(14).

Kennedy, J.R., Royle, T.C.A., Jackman, L.S., et al. 2024. Zooarchaeological and ancient DNA identification of a non-local gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Journal of Archaeological Science 172.

Kodikara, G.R.L., McHenry, L.J., Stanistreet, I.G., Stollhofen, H., Njau, J.K., Toth, N., Schick, K. (2024) Wide & Deep Learning for predicting relative mineral compositions of sediment cores solely based on XRF scans, a case study from Pleistocene Paleolake Olduvai, Tanzania. Artificial Intelligence in Geosciences 5, DOI.

LaBarge, T. W., Gardner, J.D. & Organ, C. L. (2024). The evolution and ecology of gigantism in terror birds (Aves, Phorusrhacidae). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291(2021). DOI

LaBarge, T.W. and Njau, J.K. (2024). Taxonomic Reappraisal of Nihilichnus from Taphonomic Perspectives of Crocodile Predatory Ecology. Ichnos, 31(1), 40–55. DOI

Lau-Ozawa, K. and J.R. Kennedy. 2025. Diaspora on The Block: Neighborhood Archaeology as Theory and Method. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 77.

Royle, T.C.A., Kennedy, J.R., Guiry, E.J. 2024. Sharkaeology: Expanding understandings of historical Chinese diaspora shark fisheries in Monterey Bay, California, through the genetic species identification of archaeological Chondrichthyes remains. Human Ecology 52:479-495.

Smedley, R., Fenn, K., Stanistreet, I.G., Stollhofen, H., Njau, J.K., Schick, K., Toth, N. (2024) Age-depth model for uppermost Ndutu Beds constrains Middle Stone Age technology and climate-induced paleoenvironmental changes at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania). Journal of Human Evolution186, DOI.

Taylor, C.E., Masao, F., Njau, J.K., Songita, A.V., Hlusko, L.J. 2024. OH 89: A newly described ~1.8-million-year-old hominid clavicle from Olduvai Gorge. Peer Community Journal, 4, DOI.

Torre, I.D.L., Doyon, L., Benito-Calvo, A., Mora, R., Mwakyoma, I., Njau, J.K., Peters, R.F., Theodoropoulou, A., d´Errico, F. 2025. Earliest evidence for systematic bone tool production at 1.5 million years ago. Nature,DOI

Brassell, S.C., Colcord, D.E., Shilling, A.M., Stanistreet, I.G., Stollhofen, H., Toth, N., Schick, K.D., Njau, J.K., Freeman, K.H. Alkenones in Pleistocene Upper Bed I (1.803-1.900 Ma) sediments from Paleolake Olduvai, Tanzania. 2022. Organic Geochemistry 170. DOI

Camargo, I., Àlvarez-Castañeda, S.T., Polly, P.D., Stuhler, J.D., and Maldonado, J.E. 2022. Molecular phylogenetic and taxonomic status of the large-eared desert shrew Notiosorex evotis (Eulipothyphla: Soricidae). Journal of Mammalogy. DOI

Drumheller, S., D’Amore, D., Njau, J.K. Taphonomic Approaches to Bite Mark Analyses in the Fossil Record and Applications to Crocodyliform and Broader Archosaurian Paleobiology. In: Ruling Reptiles:Crocodylian Biology and Archosaur Paleobiology. (Eds. Holly N. Woodward & James O. Farlow), Indiana University Press. Bloomington, IN. Pg. 161-185.

Gündüz, I., S. Demirtaş, M. Silsüpür, M. Özmen, P. D. Polly, D. T. Bilton. 2023. Notes from the Anatolian underground: two new mole taxa from eastern Turkey, together with a revised phylogeny of the genus Talpa (Mammalia: Talpidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 199: 567-593 (doi: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad049).

Kort, A.E. and P. D. Polly. 2023. Allometry then locomotor diversification shaped lumbar morphology in early placental mammals. Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society, 2: kzad004, 1-11 (doi: 10.1093/evolinnean/kzad004).

McHenry, L.J., Stanistreet, I.G., Njau, J.K., Mwankunda, J. The Geoheritage of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania: providing geological answers to human origins questions. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 543. DOI.

Pearson, A. and P. D. Polly. 2023. Temporal lobe evolution in extant and fossil Cercopithecoidea. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 30: 683-694. (doi: 10.1007/s10914-023-09664-6)

Pearson, A., P. D. Polly, E. Brunner. 2023. Updated imaging and phylogenetic comparative methods reassess relative temporal lobe size in anthropoids and modern humans. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 180: 768-776 (doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24712)

Polly, P. D. 2023. Extinction and morphospace occupation: a critical review. Cambridge Prisms: Extinctions, 1 e17: 1-19. (doi: 10.1017/ext.2023.16)

Salcido, C.J, Tweet, J.S., and Santucci, V.L. (2024). Research Put Into Action: How a Fossil Inventory Informed Paleontological Resource Monitoring Efforts Preceding Road Construction at Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Park Stewardship Forum.

Short, R. A., J. L. McGuire, P. D. Polly, and A. M. Lawing. 2023. Trophically integrated ecometric models as tools for demonstrating spatial and temporal functional changes in mammalian communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 120(7): e2201947120 (doi: 10.1073/pnas.2201947120).

Zimmerman, A. N., Johnson, C. C., Phillips, G. E., and Ehret, D. J. ,2023. Taxonomy and paleobiogeography of rudist bivalves from upper Cretaceous strata, Gulf Coastal Plain and Puerto Rico, USA. Journal of Paleontology 97(2):318-340. org/10.1017/jpa.2022.104

Farrugia, P. and Njau, J.K. 2022. Paleoecology and Vertebrate Taphonomy of the DK Site, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, In S. Reynolds and R. Bobe (eds.). African Paleoecology and Human Evolution. Cambridge University Press. Pg. 394-412. DOI

Fujioka, F., Benito-Calvo, A., Mora, R., McHenry, L.J., Njau, J.K., and Torre, I. 2022. Direct cosmogenic nuclide isochron burial dating of early Acheulian stone tools at the T69 Complex (FLK West, Olduvai Bed II, Tanzania). Journal of Human Evolution 165. DOI

Hebdon, N., Polly, P.D., Peterman, D.J., and Ritterbush, K.A. 2022. Detecting mismatch in functional narratives of animal morphology: a test case with fossils. Integrative and Comparative Biology 62:817-828. DOI

Kennedy, J.R. and Guiry, E.J. 2022. Exploring Railroad Impacts on Meat Trade: An Isotopic Investigation of Meat Sourcing and Animal Husbandry at Chinese Diaspora Sites in the American West. International Journal of Historical Archaeology.DOI

Kort, A.E., Ahrens, H., Polly, P.D., and Morlo, M. 2022. Postcrania and paleobiology of Patriofelis ulta (Mammalia, Oxyaenodonta) of the Bridgerian (Early-Middle Eocene) of North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 41: e2045491, 1-16. DOI

Mo, J. and Polly, P.D. 2022. The role of dispersal, selection intensity, and extirpation risk in resilience to climate change: a trait-based modeling approach. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31:1184- 1193. DOI

O’Keefe, R., Meachen, J., and Polly, P.D. 2022. On information rank deficiency in phenotypic covariance matrices. Systematic Biology, 71: 810-822. DOI

Pearson, A., Polly, P.D., and Brunner, E. 2023. Updated imaging and phylogenetic comparative methods reassess relative temporal lobe size in anthropoids and modern humans. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. DOI

Polly, P.D. 2022. The politics of public land management: the creation, reduction and restoration of Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments. Geological Curator, 11(7): 436- 453. DOI

Short, R.A., McGuire, J.L., Polly, P.D., and Lawing, A.M. 2023. Trophically integrated ecometric models as tools for demonstrating spatial and temporal functional changes in mammalian communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 120(7): e2201947120. DOI

Weaver, L.N., Fulghum, H.Z., Grossnickle, D.M., Brightly, W.H., Kulik, Z.T., WIlson Mantilla, G.P., and Whitney, M.R. Multituberculate Mammals Show Evidence of a Life History Strategy Similar to That of Placentals, Not Marsupials. The American Naturalist. 2022.

Zimmerman, A.N., Johnson, C.C., Phillips, G.E., and Ehret, D.J. 2023. Taxonomy and paleobiogeography of rudist bivalves from Upper Cretaceous strata, Gulf Coastal Plain and Puerto Rico, USA. Journal of Paleontology. DOI

Kennedy, J.R., Royle, T.C.A., Guiry, E.J., Buckley, M., Kemp, B.M. David Starr Jordan, Chinese fishers, and the building of the Smithsonian Institution’s Fish Collection: Zooarchaeological perspectives on the Chinese fishing village at Point Alones, California.

Salcido, C.J., Gill, P.G, Martinelli, A.G., Rawson, J.R.G., Corfe, I.J., Soares, M.B., Francischini, H., Schultz, C.L, and Rayfield, E.J. (2024). Functional morphology and biomechanics of an ontogenetic series of the Triassic cynodont Brasilodon quadrangularis and bite performance at the cynodont-mammalian boundary. In review.

Salcido, C.J. and Polly, P.D. (2024). The relationship between form and function of the carnivore mandible. In review.

Salcido, C.J. and Polly, P.D. (2024). Does form follow function in the evolution of carnivory amongst therians? In review.

Ehrie, A., A. Iruri-Tucker, Y. Lord, H. Williamson, K. Hunt, P. D. Polly, C. Fitzpatrick, and M. Wasserman. Measuring Mantled Howler Monkey (Alouatta palliata) testes via parallel laser photogrammetry: expanding the use of non-invasive methods.  American Journal of Primatology.

Guiry, E.J., R. Kennedy, D.C. Orton, et al., in press, The ratting of North America: A 350-year retrospective on Rattus species compositions and competition. Science Advances.

Brannick, A.L., Fulghum, H.Z., Grossnickle, D.M., and Wilson Mantilla, GP. Taxonomic diversification decoupled from patterns of dietary diversification in Cretaceous North American metatherians. Paleontologia Electronica. 2022.

Pearson, A. and Polly, P.D. Temporal lobe evolution in extant and fossil Cercopithecoidea. Journal of Mammalian Evolution.

Chandroth, A., and Johnson, C.C. Role of Redundancy and Ecophenotypic Variations of Corals on Reef Stability. North American Paleontological Convention, 2024 (Oral presentation).

Chandroth, A. and Johnson, C., Impact of morpho-functoonal group redundancy on the origination and extinction of Caribbean corals. Abstract, 2024 Joint North-Central/South-Central Section Meeting Program, Springfield, MO, April 21-23. 

Foti, P., Kennedy, J.R. 2024. “Comparative analysis of food production, waste, and socioeconomic dynamics in red light districts and brothel sites across three port cities during the American Industrial Revolution.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, LA, April 17-21.

Guiry, E.J., Kennedy, J.R., deFrance, S.D., Grant, C., Dawdy, S., Buckley, M., and Szpak, P. 2025. “An isotopic-zooarchaeology of 3000 animal lives in historical New Orleans.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, LA, January 7-11.

Hawley, K.M.et al. (2024). Elemental and Mineralogical Analysis of Ceramics from Late Ceramic Age Sites in La Altagracia, Dominican Republic. Paper presented at the International Association of Caribbean Archaeology Bi-annual Meeting in Nevis, St. Kitts and Nevis.

Hawley, K.M.et al. (2024). ICP-MS and petrographic investigation of archaeological ceramics from terrestrial and submerged environments, La Altagracia Province, Dominican Republic. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA. 

Kennedy, J.R., Royle, T.C.A., Guiry, E.J., Buckley, M., Kemp, B.M. 2024. “David Starr Jordan, Chinese fishers, and the building of the Smithsonian’s Fish Collection.” Paper presented at the International Council for Archaeozoology Fish Remains Working Group Meeting, Toronto, Canada, August 12-15.

Kennedy, J.R., deFrance, S.D., Bingham, B., Guiry, E.J., Kemp, B.M. 2024. “The impact of fishing and transportation technologies on nineteenth-century fisheries and fish supply in New Orleans, Louisiana.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, LA, April 17-21.

Kennedy, J.R. 2024. “Incorporating ancient DNA analysis into the zooarchaeology of the Chinese diaspora.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Oakland, CA, January 5.

Kennedy, J.R. 2024. “Food, trade, and connection in two 19th-century Chinese diaspora sites in the American West.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Oakland, CA, January 5.

LaBarge, T.W. and Njau, J.K. (2024). The Neoichnology of Nihilichnus in the Serengeti. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Minneapolis, MN, October 30 – November 2

LaBarge, T.W. and Njau, J.K. (2024). The Isotopic Ecology of a Serengeti Insectivore and Applications to Hominin Paleoecology. American Association of Biological Anthropologists. Los Angeles, CA, USA March 20-23

Njau, J.K., Schick. K., Toth. N., Stollhofen, H., Stanistreet, I. (2024) New deep coring at Paleolake Olduvai depocenter. Eastern African Association for Palaeoanthropology and Palaeontology (EAAPP), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Richter, K., Kennedy, J.R., Miller-Camp, J. 2024. “Tails from the animal storerooms: Case studies of the uses and limitations of natural history collections using multiproxy approaches.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, LA, April 17-21.

Royle, T.C.A., Falahati Anbaran, M., Boethius, A., Dütting, M.K., Enehaug, M.N., Enghoff, I.B., Ervynck, A., Gates St-Pierre, C., Hamilton-Dyer, S., Harland, J.F., Heinrich, D., Hufthammer, A.K., van der Jagt, I., Kennedy, J.R., Kristmanson, H., Krooks, B., Küchelmann, H.C., Locker, A., Lõugas, L., Magnell, O., Makowiecki, D., Maltin, E., Meijer, H.J.M., Nicholson, R., Quinlan, L., Quintana Morales, E., Ritchie, K., Russ, H., Van Neer, W., Welker, H., Barrett, J.H. 2024. “Casting a wide net: Documenting spatiotemporal variation in the species composition of northeastern North American and northern European fisheries through the meta-analysis of zooarchaeological datasets.” Paper presented at the International Council for Archaeozoology Fish Remains Working Group Meeting, Toronto, Canada, August 12-15.

Salcido, C.J. Evolutionary lag between changes in diet and changes in jaw function in Cenozoic carnivores. Oral presentation at 84th Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Carnivora & Co. Technical Session; 2024 Nov 2; Minneapolis, MN.

Chandroth, A., Johnson. C.C. Morpho-functional group diversity of Caribbean corals and their impact on macroevolutionary patterns. Geological Society of America (2023), Pittsburgh, USA (Oral presentation).

Ely, R., Machado, Fabio. 2023. Model Adequacy Tests for an Early High Disparity Phylogenetic Comparative Model. Two Conferences: Evolution, Albuquerque, New Mexico (Oral Presentation); Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Oral Presentation).

Grossnickle, D. (Presenter), Brightly, W., Weaver, L., Stanchack, K., Roston, R., Pevsner, S., Stayton, T., Polly, P. David, Law, C. "A novel method for measuring phenotypic convergence", Conference, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Seattle, WA, United States. (January 5, 2024).

Hawley, Kirsten, C. Beeker, C. Johnson, S. Rader. “Methods to identify Post-depositional Geochemical Alterations to Ceramics in Submerged Archaeological Sites: A Case Study Using Prehistoric Ceramics from Eastern Dominican Republic.” Presented at Society of Historical Archaeology Annual Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal.

R. Kennedy. 2024. “Incorporating ancient DNA analysis into the zooarchaeology of the Chinese diaspora.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Oakland, CA, January 5.

R. Kennedy. 2024. “Food, trade, and connection in two 19th-century Chinese diaspora sites in the American West.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, Oakland, CA, January 5.

Royle, T.C.A., J.R. Kennedy, L.S. Jackman, Y. Shichiza, D.Y. Yang. 2023. “Investigating the Historical Trade of Cuttlefishes (Sepiidae) through the Ancient DNA Analysis of Archaeological Cuttlebones.” Paper presented at the International Council for Archaeozoology Meetings, Cairns, Australia, August 9.

R. Kennedy, E.J. Guiry, T.C.A. Royle, and B.M. Kemp. 2023. “Archaeological Evidence Provides Expanded Insights into Nineteenth-Century Chinese Diaspora Fisheries in the American West and Beyond.” Paper presented at the International Council for Archaeozoology Meetings, Cairns, Australia, August 10.

R. Kennedy and K. Lau-Ozawa. 2023. “Culinary Innovation and Political Action in a Japanese Incarceration Camp.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Portland, OR, April 1.

Lau-Ozawa and J.R. Kennedy. 2023. “Diaspora on the Block: Neighborhood Archaeology as Theory and Method.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Portland, OR, April 1.

Conference Poster Presentations

Bernard, H., Kennedy, J.R., Guiry, E.J., Sauer, P. 2024. Building an archaeological record of over three centuries of turtle use across the Chesapeake Bay region. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, LA, April 17-21.

Bernard, H., Kennedy, J.R. 2024. A spatial analysis of the archaeological turtles of the Chesapeake Bay Area. Poster presented at the Hutton Honors College Research Symposium and Poster Fair, April 13.

Hartzell, S., Johnson, C. 2024. Clarifying the origin of Order Scleractinia (class Anthozoa, subclass Hexacorallia. Poster presented at the Geological Society of America 2024 Joint North-Central and Southeastern Section Meeting, April 22.

Hartzell, S., Johnson, C. 2024. Evolutionary Paleoecology of the Discoidal body form within subclass Rugosa, order Scleractinia, and Scleractiniamorphs (Class Anthozoa). Poster presented at the Geological Society of America Connects 2024, September 25.

Hawley, K.M.et al. ICP-MS and petrographic identification of geochemical differences between archaeological ceramics from terrestrial and submerged environments, La Altagracia Province, Dominican Republic. Poster presented at the 2024 North-Central South-Central Regional Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Springfield, MO.

Ho, J.W.I., Kennedy, J.R., Warinner, C., Richter, K. 2024. Identifying parrots, songbirds, and toucans with new zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry (ZooMS) markers. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, LA, April 17-21.

Ho, P.H.C., Richter, K., Kennedy, J.R., Warinner, C. 2024. Distinguishing cervids and bovids in the Americas using Zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry (ZooMS): Authentication and development of new peptide markers. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, LA, April 17-21.

Johnson. C. C., Polly, P. D., Njau J, K., Chandroth, A., Peltier, D. , The Indiana University Paleontology Collection (IUPC) - Current Status of Paleontological Resources, North American Paleontological Convention (2024), Ann Arbor, MI, USA (Poster presentation).

Kennedy, J.R., Guiry, E.J., Buckley, M., Royle, T.C.A., Kahouadji, N., Bernard, H., Fahl, A., Szpak, P. 2025. From turtle soup to turtle ecology: Zooarchaeological, isotopic, and ZooMS perspectives on human-turtle interactions in historical New Orleans. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, LA, January 7-11.

Lee, P., Kennedy, J.R. 2024. Zooarchaeological insights into foodways, tradition, and adaptation at a nineteenth-century Chinese diaspora site. Poster presented at the Hutton Honors College Research Symposium and Poster Fair, April 13.

Mazitov, A., Muckerheide, S.M., Beeker, C.D., Kennedy, J.R. 2025. Organics from the 16th century Punta Espada shipwreck in the Dominican Republic. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, LA, January 7-11.

Peltier, D.M., Njau, J.K., Polly, P.D. 2024. Modeling the influence of volcanic processes on speciation and its implication for hominin evolution. Annual Meeting of the Paleoanthropological Society, Los Angeles, CA, USA (poster)

Schwartz, S., Bernard, H., Kennedy, J.R., 2024. Comparing multiple methods of fish size estimation using sheepshead remains from New Orleans, Louisiana. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, LA, April 17-21.

Peduto*, Kennedy, J.R., and S. Couch. 2023. Zooarchaeological Analysis of Fish Remains From the Thompson Turtle Kraal, a ca. 1970s Sea Turtle Corral in Key West, Florida, USA. Poster presented at the meetings of the International Council for Archaeozoology, Cairns, Australia, August 10.

J. Guiry, J.R. Kennedy, P. Szpak. 2023. Sulfur Isotopes, Seagrass, and Sea Turtle Serial Sampling: Exploring the Isotopic Ecology of the Key West Turtle Kraals. Poster presented at the meetings of the International Council for Archaeozoology, Cairns, Australia, August 9.

LaBarge, T.W. 2023. Troubles in Tiny Terror Bird Taxonomy: Morphometric and Phylogenetic Assessment of AMNH 9157. Great Lakes Student Paleontology Conference. Ann Arbor, MI, USA [Oral Presentation]

Lopezalles, S. (2023) The Shape of Speed: The Relationship Between 3D Humerus Shape and Maximum Running Speed. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio (Poster Presentation).

Njau, J.K. Challenges to scientific cooperation based on equality and reciprocity between the European Union, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa. Panelist, a high-level workshop organized by Science Europe and Spanish National Research Council.

Peltier, D.M., Njau, J.K. 2023. Quantifying Geographic and Temporal Distribution of Vertebrate Fauna During Bed II Times at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH. (Colbert Prize Competition Poster)

Polly, P. D. Escalante River Watershed Partnership, “Paleontology of the Grand Staircase-Escalante Region”, Grand Staircase-Escalante Symposium 2023, 16 March 2023.

Salcido, C.J. and Polly, P.D. Can you eat well in Flatland? A case study on when two-dimensional geometric morphometric analysis is sufficient for functional morphological analysis and evolution of “flat” biological shapes. Poster presented at: 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology; 2023 Oct 18-21; Cincinnati, OH

Salcido, C. J. A paleontological resource inventory of Theodore Roosevelt National Park reveals potential for future vertebrate paleontological research and management. Poster presented at: 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Special Session; 2023 Oct 18-21; Cincinnati, OH.

Slattery, J., Linzmeier, B., Mccraw, J., Minor, K., Harries, P.J., Landman, N., and Johnson, C. Evolution of the Western Interior Basin: New advances and fresh perspectives. Geological Society of America (2023) Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, USA. Symposium.

Zimmerman, A. N. and Johnson, C. C. (2023) Game-based learning for marine science: an online example with lessons learned. Geological Society of America (2023), Pittsburgh, USA (Oral presentation).

Brand, N., Miller-Camp, J., and Uhen, M. 2022. Where in the world does that whale hail from? Paleobiogeography and dispersal history of stem mysticetes. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2022, pg. 86-87. [Poster]

Fulghum, H.Z. and Polly, P.D. 2022. Evaluating dietary diversity in the tribosphenic dentition: machine learning analysis of simple linear measurements distinguish primary and secondary diet types in extant taxa. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 82nd Annual Meeting (Toronto, ON).

Fulghum, H.Z., and Polly, P.D. 2022 Evaluating dietary diversity in modern tribosphenic taxa. Great Lakes Paleontological Conference (Chicago, IL).

Fulghum, H.Z., and Polly, P.D. 2022. Assessing the diversity of modern tribosphenic dentitions using simple indices of functional morphology. Crossroads Conference (Bloomington, IN).

Fulghum, H.Z. and Polly, P.D. 2022. Evaluating dietary diversity in the tribosphenic dentition: simple linear measurements distinguish primary and secondary diet types in extant taxa. Conference, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, International.

Guiry, E.J., Noël, S., Fowler, J., Kennedy, J.R., deFrance, S.D., Orchard, T., and Needs-Howard, S. 2022. “Sulfur isotopes as an indicator of wetland use.” Paper presented at the International Council for Archaeozoology Fish Remains Working Group Meeting, Vienna, Austria, August 22-27.

Hawley, K., Beeker, C., Johnson, C.C., and Rader, S. 2023. “Methods to identify post-depositional geochemical alterations to ceramics in Submerged Archaeological Sites: A Case Study using prehistoric eramics from Eastern Dominican Republic.” Presented at the Society for Historic Arcaheology Annual Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal, January 3-8.

Kennedy, J.R., Guiry, E.J., and deFrance, S.D. 2022. “The dynamics of fish supply in late-nineteenth-century New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, and some implications for the role of transportation technology in fish trade.” Paper presented at the International Council for Archaeozoology Fish Remains Working Group Meeting, Vienna, Austria, August 22-27.

Kort, A.E. 2022. Bizarre Backbones: A Synapomorphy in the Lumbar Vertebrae for Ferungulata. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting, 2022.

Kort, A.E. 2023. Testing the function of interlocking zygapophyses in lumbar vertebrae of early placental mammals. Society of Integrative Biology Annual Meeting. 2023

LaBarge, T.W. and Njau, J.K. 2022. Taphonomy and Ichnology of Nile Crocodile Feeding Behavior. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 82nd Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, Canada [Poster]

LaBarge, T.W. and Njau, J.K. 2022. Taxonomic Reappraisal of the Ichnogenus Nihilichnus. The Geological Society of America Connects, Denver, CO, USA [Poster]

LaBarge, T.W. and Njau, J.K. 2022. Identifying Diagnostic Crocodile Feeding Traces in Archaeological Sites. Eastern African Association of Palaeoanthropology and Palaeontology, Arusha, Tanzania [Poster]

Miller-Camp, J. 2022, Dual Osteology Guide/Inventory Workflows as an Answer to Several Museum Collection Problems, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2022, pg. 243. [Poster]

Njau, J.K. 2022. Human Origins Research at Olduvai Gorge: Advances in Modern Paleoanthropology. Presented at the joint working meeting between Olduvai and D’manisi hominid projects. Conference organized by the Stone Age Institute and National Museum of Georgia. State University of Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia.

Njau, J.K., Toth, N., Schick, Stanistreet, I., and Stollhofen, H. 2022. New stratigraphy extends Quaternary record at the Olduvai basin, Tanzania. Eastern African Association of Palaeoanthropology and Palaeontology (EAAPP), Arusha, Tanzania.

Pante, M., de la Torre, I., d’Errico, F., Njau, J.K., and Blumenschine, R.J. 2022. Bone tools from Beds II-IV, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, and implications for the origins and evolution of bone technology. Paleoanthropology Society, Denver, CO.

Peltier, D.M., Njau, J.K., 2022. Tectonic influence on Pleistocene vertebrate diversity at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Eastern Africa Association for Palaeoanthropology and Palaeontology Biennial Conference, Arusha, Tanzania.

Peltier, D.M., Johnson, C.C., and Njau, J. 2022. Biostratigraphic Framework of Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Geological Society of America 2022 Annual Meeting, Denver, CO

Pineda Munoz, S., Chandroth, A., Fulghum, H., Hawley, K., LaBarge, T., Lopezalles, S., Nelson, A., Salcido, C.J., and Polly, P.D. "The Conservation Archives: Bridging conservation research and practice", Conference, International Biogeography Society Biennial Conference, Vancouver, Canada, Academic, International. (June 2, 2022).

Polly, P.D. "Functional tradeoffs carry phenotypes across the valley of the shadow of death: why performance trade-offs may not equate to multiple adaptive peaks", Conference, Phylogenetics Symposium 2022, Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, Academic, International. (November 19, 2022).

Polly, P.D. "Spatial processes, statistical models, and vertebrate evolution in a changing environment", Conference, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting, Toronto, CO, Canada, International. (November 4, 2022).

Polly, P.D. "Conservation Science of Park Paleontology", Panel, National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), Zoom, Academic. (November 1, 2022).

Royle, T.C.A, Kennedy, J.R., Guiry, E.J., Jackman, L.S., Shichiza, Y., and Yang, D.Y. 2022. “Understanding the dynamics of 19th-century Chinese shark fisheries in Northern California through ancient DNA analysis.” Paper presented at the International Council for Archaeozoology Fish Remains Working Group Meeting, Vienna, Austria, August 22-27.

Salcido, C.J., and Polly, P.D. "Functional drivers of evolutionary rates in mandible shape of carnivorous therian mammals: a study using biomechanical modeling and geometric morphometrics", Conference, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting, B, Canada, International. (November 5, 2022).

Short, R., Polly, P.D., McGuire, J.,  and Lawing, A.M. "Human impacts disrupt the functional relationship between traits and environment in large mammal communities," Conference, American Society of Mammalogists Annual Meeting, Tucson, AZ, United States, Academic. (June 18, 2022).

Zimmerman, A.N. and Johnson, C.C., 2022. Predicting suitable habitats and refugia for the deep-sea coral Lophelia pertusa, US West Atlantic and Northern Gulf of Mexico. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 54, No. 5, Denver, CO. Abstract #379847, Invited presentation. DOI

Johnson, C. C., Exploring Caribbean reefs: past, present and future.  Colby College Department Colloquium, February 23, 2024.

R. Kennedy. The Zooarchaeology of Red Snappers. IU Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Coffee and Curators Speaker Series, Indiana University, November 10, 2023.

R. Kennedy. Developing Novel Archaeological Approaches to Documenting Long-term Human Impacts to Turtles. Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory Brown Bag Series, Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory, August 3, 2023.

R. Kennedy. Back where I started: zooarchaeological perspectives on 19th-century Chinese fisheries in western north America. Keynote speaker for the Anthropology Graduate Student Association Skomp Research Symposium, Indiana University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, March 10, 2023.

Peltier, D., Johnson, C., Njau, J. 2023. Biostratigraphic Framework of Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Indiana University Crossroads Conference, Bloomington, IN

Polly, P. David. "Spatial processes and evolutionary models", Seminar, Seminar Series, School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, United States. (April 6, 2023).

Polly, P. David. "The assembly of New World cat communities: ecometrics and Neogene faunal turnover", Seminar, Seminar Series, School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, United States. (April 6, 2023).

Salcido, C.J. and Polly, P.D. 2023. Functional drivers of evolutionary rates in mandible shape of carnivorous therian mammals. Indiana University Crossroads Conference, Bloomington, IN

Johnson, C.C., American Institute of Professional Geologists, Kentucky Section, Darwin Lecture Series, title: Exploring the evolution of coral reefs: past, present and future

Johnson, C.C., Educating for Environmental Change, Title: Coral Reefs & Climate Change

Johnson, C.C., Departmental Colloquium, Colby College, Waterville, Maine 

LaBarge, T.W. Crocodile Predation on Early Pleistocene Potamochoerini: Taphonomic Evidence from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Ideas in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Indiana University Bloomington. September 2024

Fulghum, H.Z. “Evolution of Devonian Reef Systems”, Seminar, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Indiana University.

Fulghum, H.Z. “Pattern and Timing of Cenozoic Mammal Radiation”, Seminar, Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago.

Kennedy, J.R. 2022. “An intro to zooarchaeology and a case study from the Gulf of Mexico.” Paper presented for the Indiana State University Department of Earth and Environmental Systems Speaker Series, February 6.

Polly, P.D. "Paleontology and US National Monuments: Implications for Science and Public Lands", Seminar, Royal Tyrrell Museum Speaker Series, online, Drumheller, Canada, International. (February 2022).

Polly, P.D. "Spatial processes and evolutionary models", Seminar, Seminar Series, School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, United States, Academic. (April 6, 2023).

Polly, P.D. "The assembly of New World cat communities: ecometrics and Neogene faunal turnover", Seminar, Seminar Series, School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, United States, Academic. (April 6, 2023).

Salcido, C.J. (2024). Evolutionary Lag and the Evolution of Carnivory in Cenozoic Mammals. (Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University)

Nelson, A., Indiana University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Masters, 2020-2023. Thesis title: An exploration of the Canis lupus and Canis rufus species boundary via morphometrics.

Anderson, S., M.S. thesis completion, Summer 2023. Geoarchaeological mapping with UAV, SfM Photogrammetry and GIS at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.

Kort, A.E. Indiana University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, PhD, 2019-2023. Dissertation title: “Lumbar vertebrae and diversification of locomotion in Paleogene mammals.”

Fulghum, H. Indiana University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Masters, 2021-2023. Thesis title: “Dietary indicators in the tribosphenic dentition and their implications for the early diversification of therian mammals.”

LaBarge, T.W. (Spring 2024). Uncovering the Evolution of the Serengeti Ecosystem through Stable Isotope Analysis: Insights into African Plio-Pleistocene Paleoecology and Human Origins (Qualifying Examination Proposal)

Hawley, K. (PhD Qualifying Exam, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Anthropology)

Lopezalles, S. (PhD Qualifying Exam, Biological Sciences)

Anupama Chandroth Evolution of hermatypic coral morpho- functional groups and their role in developing and maintaining ecosystem stability 

Kat Sestrick How developmental constraints and functional demands interact to shape evolutionary trajectories

Sierra Lopezalles New Function from Old Form: Leveraging new technology, data, and methods to better predict function from form in extinct mammals

WRAZL- Reported all avian acquisitions for 2022 to United States Fish and Wildlife as per their Migratory Bird Permit

WRAZL- Reported all acquisitions salvaged in Indiana for 2022 to Indiana Department of Natural Resources.

Salcido C.J., Wilson P., Tweet J.S., McCann B.E., Boyd C.A., and Santucci V.L. 2022. Theodore Roosevelt National Park: Paleontological resource inventory (public version). Natural Resource Report. NPS/THRO/NRR—2022/2385. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado. DOI

Salcido, C.J., Wilson, P.J., Tweet, J.S., McCann, B.E., Boyd, C.A., and Santucci, V.L. (2022). Theodore Roosevelt National Park: Paleontological resource inventory (sensitive version). Natural Resource Report NPS/THRO/NRR – 2022/2347. National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado.