Who We Are
 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Donald A. McFarlane,  Associate Professor, The Claremont Colleges.

        Research interests include the timing and causes of mammalian extinctions on tropical islands, general vertebrate  paleontology of caves, and cave-related records of climate change.

 

Dr. Elizabeth Rega,  Assistant Professor, Western University of Health Sciences.

         Research interests include the systematics and osteology of West Indian fossil ground sloths.

 

Ken Noriega, California State University, San Bernadino.

        Research interests include the fossil rodents of the Cayman Islands.

 

Dr. Joyce Lundberg, Carleton University.

       Research interests focus on the radiometric dating and paleoclimatic interpretation of speleothems and fossil corals.

 

 

UNDERGRADUATES

Kenneth "Locky" Chambers

            Locky is currently conducting senior thesis work on the amino acid racemization dating of fossil bones.

Stephanie Hoffman

              Shannon is currently conducting senior thesis work on the chronology of Moa extinctions.

 

ALUMNI

Bernadette Vargas

          Bernadette is currently developing K-12 education materials on the fossil mammals of Puerto Rico.