Graduate Students at East Tennessee State University:
3. Diana Paola Ochoa Lozano, Colombian MSc student from Smithsonian Tropical Institute in Panama (2009-2011)
Project: Neogene palynology of the Gray Fossil Site: biostratigraphic and paleoecological implications
2. Fade GONG, MSc student from Shandong University, China (2007-2009)
Project: Vitis seed remains from the Gray Fossil Site.
1. Lu HAN, visiting scholar (currently a Ph.D. student) from Jilin University (2008)
Project: Oak acorns from the Gray Fossil Site.
Graduate Students co-advised in China:
1. Yaowu Xing, Ph.D. candidate at the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2006-2009)
Project: A Study of late Miocene Xianfeng flora from southwest China and quantitative paleoclimate reconstructions.
2. Tao Su, Ph.D. candidate at the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2007-2010)
Project: Leaf margin analysis: data from humid forests in China and its implications to the Neogene climates in southwest China