{"id":59,"date":"2012-09-23T18:17:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T22:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vertpaleo\/?page_id=59"},"modified":"2025-07-22T16:40:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T20:40:26","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vertpaleo\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My research focuses on evolutionary and ontogenetic studies of normal and pathologic bone growth in modern and fossil vertebrates, principally archosaurs (including crocodylians, dinosaurs, and birds). \u00a0I deal with skeletal change both at the gross level and through histological studies of bone microstructure. \u00a0I am also interested in vertebrate taphonomy.<\/p>\n<p>Current and ongoing projects\u00a0(including supervised undergraduate research)\u00a0include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Comparison of thin-section and MicroCT analyses as sources of bone microstructure data<\/li>\n<li>Implications of changes in bone surface textures for assessing relative ontogenetic age<\/li>\n<li>Paleopathology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Research projects by former M.S. students include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Histology and geochemistry of polar dinosaur bone tissue<\/li>\n<li>Histology, mineralogy, and geochemistry of normal vs. pathological bone tissue in dinosaurs and modern birds<\/li>\n<li>Cladistic analysis of craniofacial ontogeny in ceratopsian dinosaurs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My research focuses on evolutionary and ontogenetic studies of normal and pathologic bone growth in modern and fossil vertebrates, principally archosaurs (including crocodylians, dinosaurs, and birds). \u00a0I deal with skeletal change both at the gross level and through histological studies &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vertpaleo\/research\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1345,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-59","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vertpaleo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vertpaleo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vertpaleo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vertpaleo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vertpaleo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vertpaleo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vertpaleo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vertpaleo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}