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J U L I a T. S a N K C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E November, 2016 J U L I A T. S A N K E Y Geology Program phone: (209) 667-3090 Department of Physics and Geology fax: (209) 667-3099 California State University, Stanislaus email: [email protected] One University Circle website: https://www.csustan.edu/geology/sankey Turlock, CA 95382 __________________________________________ E D U C A T I O N Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1994-1998, Ph.D., Geology/Paleontology. Thesis, Vertebrate Paleontology and Magnetostratigraphy of the Upper Aguja Formation (Late Campanian), Talley Mountain Area, Big Bend National Park, Texas. Thesis committee: Drs. Judith Schiebout (chair), Arnold Bouma, John Wrenn, Juan Lorenzo Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, 1988-1992, M.S., Quaternary Studies. Thesis, A Late Blancan-Early Irvingtonian Vertebrate Fauna and Magnetostratigraphy from the Upper Glenns Ferry and Lower Bruneau Formations, Near Murphy, Southwestern Idaho. Thesis committee: Drs. Jim Mead (chair), Larry Agenbroad, Gary Calderone, Peter Price University of Arizona, Tucson, 1987-1988, Geology courses and field camp. College of Idaho, Caldwell, 1983-1987, B.S., Biology. Thesis, Fossil mammals from the Sinker Creek Butte and Guffey Butte area, Glenns Ferry Formation, Owyhee County, southwestern Idaho. Thesis committee: Drs. Patricia Packard and Eric Yensen __________________________________________ P R O F E S S I O N A L E X P E R I E N C E California State University, Stanislaus, Turlock, California, Geology Program Professor, 2014-present Associate Professor, 2007 to 2014. Coordinator of Geology Program (spring - summer, 2008). Assistant Professor, 2003 to 2007. Baylor University, Waco, Texas, Department of Geology Visiting Professor (sabbatical), 2008 to 2009. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, Dept. of Earth Science and Geography Visiting Assistant Professor, 2002 to 2003. 2 South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering and Museum of Geology Haslem Post-Doctoral Fellow/Assistant Professor (non-tenure track), 1999 to 2002. University of Alberta Department of Biological Sciences and Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, Alberta, Canada. Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1999. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics Instructor, 1997 (summer), 1998 (fall). Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Museum of Natural Science Graduate Assistantship, 1994-1998. Paleontological Consultant/Field Paleontologist, 1991 to 1994. U.S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, Arizona, Paleomagnetics Lab Physical Science Technician, 1988 to 1991. __________________________________________ HO N O R A R Y P O S I T I O N S College of Idaho, O.J. Smith Museum of Natural History, Caldwell, Idaho Research Associate, 2015- present; Member, Board of Directors, 2016-present Member, Exhibits Committee, 2016- present University of California, Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology Research Associate, 2005 to present. Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, Alberta Research Associate, 2000 to present. Louisiana State University, Museum of Natural Science Research Associate, 1998 to present. __________________________________________ B O A R D M E M B E R S H I P Board of Directors, O.J. Smith Museum of Natural History, College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho. February, 2016 – present. __________________________________________ H O N O R S A N D A W A R D S California State University, Stanislaus, University Outstanding Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Professor, Nominated, 2008 and 2014. California State University, Stanislaus, Sabbatical Awarded (2008-2009; Fall, 2016). 3 Association for Women Geoscientists Distinguished Lecturer Program, 2008 – 2013 Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Alberta Department of Biological Sciences and Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, Alberta, Canada, 1999. Louisiana State University, Museum of Natural Science, Outstanding Graduate Student Award, 1998. __________________________________________ C O N S U L T A N T High Speed Rail Authority, 2010-2013. Professional paleontologist. Reviewed environmental impact reports concerning paleontological resources along proposed railway line. PaleoResource Consultants, 2008 to 2013. Senior Paleontologist. Identified and interpreted vertebrate fossils collected during construction activities and wrote reports summarizing results. Oakland Museum of California, 2008. Member of advisory team of scientists that met to help plan the $12 million renovation of the natural sciences gallery. __________________________________ P U B L I C A T I O N S A N D A B S T R A C T S Books: Sankey, J.T. and J. Biewer. In Preparation. Giant Tortoises and Spike-Toothed Salmon: The Extinct Wildlife of Central California. Sankey, J.T. and S. Baszio, eds. 2008. Vertebrate Microfossil Assemblages: Their Role in Paleo- ecology and Paleobiogeography. Indiana University Press. 252 pp. Articles (16; *student co-author): Sankey, J.T.; J. *Biewer, *J. Basuga; *F. Palacios; H. Wagner; D. Garber. 2016. The giant, spike- toothed salmon, Oncorhynchus rastrosus and the “Proto-Tuolumne River” (early Pliocene) of Central California. PaleoBios 33:1-16. University of California Museum of Paleontology. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/84g0595b Balisi, M.; Wang, X.; Sankey, J.; Biewer, J.; Garber, D. (In Review). Fossil canids from the Mehrten Formation, Late Cenozoic of Northern California. 30 pp, 18 figs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. *Biewer, J., Sankey, J.T., Hutchison, H., Garber, D. 2016. A fossil giant tortoise from Northern California. PaleoBios 33:1-13. University of California Museum of Paleontology. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/2vf0k82q Gardner, J.D., Roček, Z., Přikryl, T., Eaton, J., Blob, R., and Sankey, J. 2010. Comparative morphology of the ilium of anurans and urodeles (Lissamphibia) and a re-assessment of the anuran affinities of Nezpercius dodsoni Blob et al., 2001. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 30(6):1684- 1696. Longrich, N., Sankey, J.T., and Tanke, D. 2010. Texacephale langstoni, a new genus of pachycephalosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the upper Campanian Aguja Formation, southern Texas, USA. Cretaceous Research. 31(2010):274-284. Sankey, J.T., S. Atchley, L. Nordt, S. Dworkin, S. Driese. 2007. Vertebrates and paleoclimate from a Chasmosaurus mariscalensis bonebed, Late Cretaceous (late Campanian), Big Bend National Park, Texas; pp. 134-139, In: Ceratopsian Symposium Short Papers, Abstracts, and Programs. Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, Drumheller, Alberta, September 22-23, 2007. 4 Nydam, R.L., J.G. Eaton, and J.T. Sankey. 2007. New taxa of transversely-toothed lizards (Squamata: Scincomorpha) and new information on the evolutionary history of “Teiids”. Journal of Paleont- ology 81(3):538-549. Sankey, J.T. 2006. Turtles of the upper Aguja Formation (late Campanian), Big Bend National Park, Texas; pp. 235-243. In: Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior. Bulletin 35, S. Lucas and R. Sullivan (eds). New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science (Albuquerque). Sankey, J.T. 2005. Late Cretaceous vertebrate paleoecology, Big Bend National Park, Texas; pp. 98- 106 In: Dinosaur Park Symposium, Short Papers, Abstracts, and Program. D.R. Braman, F. Therrien, E.B. Koppelhus, and W. Taylor (eds). Special Publication of the Royal Tyrrell Museum, September 24-25, 2005. Drumheller, Alberta, Canada. Sankey, J.T., D.B. Brinkman, M. Guenther, and P.J. Currie. 2002. Small theropod and bird teeth from the Judith River Group (late Campanian), Alberta. Journal of Paleontology 76(4):751-763. Sankey, J.T. and W.A. Gose. 2001. Late Cretaceous mammals and magnetostratigraphy, Big Bend, Texas. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University No. 77:1- 16. Sankey, J.T. 2001. Late Campanian southern dinosaurs, Aguja Formation, Big Bend, Texas. Journal of Paleontology 75(1):208-215. Sankey, J.T., T.R. Van Devender, and W.H. Clark. 2001. Late Holocene plants, Cataviña, Baja California, Mexico. Southwestern Naturalist 46(1):1-7. Clark, W.H. and J.T. Sankey. 1999. Late Holocene Sonoran Desert arthropod remains from a packrat midden, Cataviña, Baja California Norté, México. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 75(4):183-199. Schiebout, J.A., S. Ting, and J.T. Sankey. 1998. Microvertebrate concentrations in pedogenic nodule conglomerates: recognizing the rocks and recovering and interpreting the fossils. Palaeontologia Electronica. 1(2):1-54 pp. http://www-odp.tamu.edu/paleo/1998_2/schiebt/issue2.html. Sankey, J.T. 1996. Vertebrate paleontology and magnetostratigraphy of the Upper Glenns Ferry (latest Pliocene) and Lower Bruneau (Pliocene-Pleistocene) Formations, near Murphy, south- western Idaho. Journal of the Idaho Academy of Science, 32(1/2):71-88. Book Chapters (8): Sankey, J.T. 2010. Faunal composition and significance of high diversity, mixed bonebeds containing Agujaceratops mariscalensis and other dinosaurs, Aguja Formation (upper Cretaceous), Big Bend, Texas; pp. 520 – 537. In: New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium, M. Ryan, B. Chinnery-Allgeier, and D. Eberth (eds). Indiana University Press (Bloomington). Sankey, J.T. 2008. Vertebrate paleoecology from microsites, Talley Mountain, upper Aguja Formation (Late Cretaceous), Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA; pp.61-77. In: The Unique Role of Vertebrate Microfossil Assemblages in Paleoecology and Paleobiogeography, J.T. Sankey, and S. Baszio (eds).
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