INVERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOBOTANY LAB NEWS

David Kohls
- Erin Leckey received the Zena Hunter Andrews Memorial Fellowship.
- David Kohls, Museum Associate, was awarded the prestigious Harrell L. Strimple Award from the Paleontological Society.
- Several lab members presented research at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon:
- D.M. Smith and J. Thoene. 2009. Taphonomy of fossil Coleoptera in the Florissant Formation (Late Eocene), Colorado.
- Leckey, E. and D.M. Smith. 2009. Museum collections are better than expected: Minimal effects of collection bias in detecting insect herbivory on fossilized leaves.
- Barton, M.A. and D.M. Smith. 2009. Floral diversity and climate change in central Colorado during the Eocene and Oligocene.
- Webster, K.D. and D.M. Smith. 2009. Preservation of fossil arthropods in the middle Miocene Barstow Formation, Southern California.
- Jenell Thoene wasaccepted for the graduate course titled "Tropical Biology: An Ecological Approach". This course is run by the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) and will take place in Costa Rica in Spring 2010.
