Postdocs
Dr. M. Soledad Domingo
Postdoctoral Fellow 2010-2013, UM Museum of Paleontology
Graduate students
Dr. Bian Wang
Ph.D. 2021, Earth & Environmental Sciences
Dissertation title: Dietary ecology of extant artiodactyls: Biogeography, ecomorphology, and isotope ecology, with implications for paleoecology
Aurelia Allen
M.S. 2021, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Thesis title: Variation in body size of bushy-tailed woodrats (Neotoma cinerea) along environmental gradients in Colorado
Dr. Jeff Shi
Ph.D. 2018, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Dissertation title: Diversity and diversification across the global radiation of extant bats
Dr. Tara Smiley
Ph.D. 2016, Earth & Environmental Sciences
Dissertation title: Diversity dynamics and ecology of small mammals in relation to the Neogene tectonic and climate history of western North America
Rachel Cable
M.S., Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Undergraduate students
Ethan VanValkenburg
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology major
UROP project: Jaw disparity in relation to diet in the order Artiodactyla, with implications for paleo ecology (with B. Wang)
Research project: Distribution of the diets of modern mammals in the order Artiodactyla in relation to climatic and physiographic variables (with Dr. Badgley and B. Wang)
Caleb Grimes
Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences graduate 2020
Anna Harkness
Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences graduate 2018
UROP project: Paleosol development in the Miocene Barstow Formation and implications for paleoenvironments through the middle Miocene Climatic Optimum (with K. Loughney)
Honors thesis title: Fire Frequency and C4 Vegetation Expansion in the Barstow Formation, Middle Miocene, California (with Dr. Badgley and K. Loughney)
Molly Moroz
Departments of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Earth & Environmental Sciences graduate 2017
Greg Hanafin
Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2014
Kimberly Wiley (Bryn Mawr College, PA)
Dacotah Wolf Necklace (Sitting Bull College, ND)
Kimberly’s project: Dietary habits of fossil antelope from Pakistan (with Dr. Badgley)
Dacotah’s project: Dietary habits of living and fossil desert rodents (with Dr. Badgley and T. Smiley)
Sanam Anwar (Wellesley College, MA)
2012 ED-QUE²ST REU Student
