Research Interests:

•      Cretaceous and Cenozoic Plants from the Northern Hemisphere;

•      Paleo-ecological, -geographical, and -climatological reconstructions based on fossil plants;

•      Foliar and fruit/seed anatomy of fossil and living seed plants;

•      Micromorphology of fossil and modern pollen and spores;

•      Historical biogeography of selected seed plants (e.g., East Asian endemics, East Asian-Southeast North American disjuncts).

Lab (update May 2, 2008)

Research projects (currently I am working on the following fossil fruits/seeds from the Gray Fossil Site. This involves with both graduates and undergraduates):

1. Carya nuts

2. Quercus acorns

3. Vitis endocarps (Vitaceae)

4. Sinomenium endocarps (Menispermaceae)

With Dr. Steve Wallace at the Gray Fossil Site (May 2006)

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