Current

Ryan Paterson
M.Sc. program, Earth Sciences, Carleton U.
Co-supervisor, H. Maddin
Topic: Phylogenetic position and locomotor inference of Puijila darwin

Alumni -Graduate students

2015
Danielle Fraser, Ph.D.
Biology, Carleton U.
Co-supervisor, R. Gorelick
Title: Responses of ungulate communities to Miocene climate change
 
2013
Thomas Cullen, M.Sc.
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.
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.
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.
Earth Sciences, Carleton U.
Co-supervisor, C. Schröder-Adams
Title: Burrow morphology, burrow preservation, and evidence of digging behaviour in ground-dwelling squirrels (Sciuridae)
Currently: Ph.D. program, Russia

Alumni -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

Fossil fragment, Haughton Crater. Photo Marisa Gilbert

Natalia Rybczynski sampling the Remus Creek site. Photo Marisa Gilbert

Natalia Rybczynski (right). Photo Marisa Gilbert

Remus Creek site Ellesmere Island. Photo Marisa Gilbert

Fyles' Leaf Bed site. Photo Martin Lipman

Fossil fragment from Haughton Crater. Photo Marisa Gilbert