Alumni
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Graduate students
2017
Ryan Paterson, M.Sc. degree
Earth Sciences, Carleton U.
Co-supervisor, H. Maddin
Title: Evidence for independent acquisition of aquatic specializations in pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, and walruses): insights from study of the phylogenetic position, locomotor behaviour and description of the stem pinniped, Puijila darwini
2015
Danielle Fraser, Ph.D. degree
Biology, Carleton U.
Co-supervisor, R. Gorelick
Title: Responses of ungulate communities to Miocene climate change
2013
Thomas Cullen, M.Sc. degree
Earth Sciences, Carleton U.
Co-supervisor, C. Schröder-Adams
Title: Comparative description of a female Enaliarctos emlongi (Carnivora, Pinnipedimorpha) from the Miocene of western Oregon and the evolution of sexual dimorphism within Pinnipedia.
2012
Travis Mitchell, M.Sc. degree
Earth Sciences, Carleton U.
Co-supervisor, C. Schröder-Adams
Title: Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Pliocene-aged Beaver Pond Site (Ellesmere Island, NU).
2011
Joanna Northover, M.Sc. degree
Earth Sciences, Carleton U.
Co-supervisor, C. Schröder-Adams
Title: Skeletal morphology and evidence for swimming in a fossil stem pinniped, Puijila darwini, from the Canadian High Arctic.
2008
Dmitri Ponomarenko, M.Sc. degree
Earth Sciences, Carleton U.
Co-supervisor, C. Schröder-Adams
Title: Burrow morphology, burrow preservation, and evidence of digging behaviour in ground-dwelling squirrels (Sciuridae)
Undergraduate Honours-thesis students
2010
Simon Mattioli
Biology, Carleton U.
Title: Investigation of forelimb musculature and skeletal morphology in the river otter.
Merissa Thompson
Biology, Carleton U.
Title: Functional morphology and evolution of the tail in North American Porcupine.
2009
Travis Mitchell
Earth Sciences, Carleton U.
Title: A new approach for the taxonomic classification of fossil rabbits (Genus: Hypolagus) using Eigenshape analysis.
Felicia St-Louis
Biology, Carleton U.
Title: Comparative biomechanics of the beaver tail (Castor canadensis).
2007
Elizabeth Ross
Earth Sciences, Carleton U.
Title: A geometric morphometric reevaluation of the validity of the genus Sinocastor (Rodentia: Castoridae)
2006
Kristin I. Hynes
Earth Sciences, Carleton U.
Title: The evolution of the grooming claw in Castoridae
