{"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":"2026-09-11T15:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T19:05:18","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 and paleoclimate studies.<\/p>\n<p>Current and ongoing projects\u00a0(including supervised undergraduate research)\u00a0include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paleopathology of archosaurs and mammals<\/li>\n<li>Implications of changes in vertebrate bone surface textures for assessing relative ontogenetic age<\/li>\n<li>Taphonomic indicators of climate change during the Eocene-Oligocene Transition in the White River Group<\/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":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vertpaleo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/vertpaleo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions\/313"}],"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}]}}