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Drew Muscente, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Geological Sciences Jackson School of Geosciences The University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station C1100 Austin, Texas 78712 Office: JGB 3.314B [email protected] https://admuscente.com/

Education Degree University Department Year(s) Ph.D. Virginia Tech Department of Geosciences 2012 – 2016 Dissertation: “Contributions to Exceptional Fossil Preservation” B.S. (distinction in research) Cornell University Department of Biological Sciences 2008 – 2012 Thesis: “Anomalous preservation potential of the soft-bodied hydroid Plumalina”

Employment Organization Position Year(s) University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX) Postdoctoral Fellow (Researcher) 2018 – present Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) Postdoctoral Fellow (Researcher) 2016 – 2018 Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA) Graduate Assistant 2012 – 2016 The Cornell Lab of Ornithology (Ithaca, NY) Project Leader/Student Intern 2011 – 2012 Paleontological Research Institution (Ithaca, NY) Research/Collections Intern 2011 Cornell Garden-based Learning (Ithaca, NY) Student Marketing Intern 2011 The Cornell Daily Sun (Ithaca, NY) Science Editor 2010 – 2011

Research Experience Organization Position Year(s) UT Austin, Invertebrate Paleontology Lab Postdoctoral Fellow (Researcher) 2018 – present Harvard University (Cambridge, MA), Postdoctoral Fellow (Researcher) 2016 – 2018 Museum of Natural History, Knoll Lab Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA), Geobiology Lab Graduate Research Assistant 2013 – 2016 Paleontological Research Institution (Ithaca, NY) Research/Collections Intern 2011 The Cornell Tree Ring Laboratory (Ithaca, NY) Lab Assistant 2010

Teaching Experience University Position Course Title & Number Years(s) Virginia Tech Graduate Assistant Earth’s Natural Hazards (GEOS 1034) 2015 Virginia Tech Graduate Assistant Paleontology (GEOS 3064) 2013 – 2015 Virginia Tech Graduate Assistant Earth and Life Through Time (GEOS 1014) 2012

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Research & Travel Grants Funded Organization Grant Amount Year International Union of International Union of Crystallography travel award $375 2018 Crystallography Paleontological Society Norman Newell Early Career Grant for research proposal: $5000 2017 “Imaging calcified fossils with synchrotron radiation for insights into the taphonomy, morphology, and systematics of early biomineralizing and reef-dwelling animals” Australian Synchrotron Beamtime granted for research proposal: * 2017 “Phase-contrast x-ray imaging and tomography of early biomineralizing and reef-building animals preserved as calcified fossils in limestones” Explorer’s Club Exploration Fund grant $1000 2016 Evolving Earth Student Grant (PI Shuhai Xiao) $3000 2016 Foundation Geological Society of Travel grant for conference & field trip travel $3500 2016 America National Geographic Young Explorer’s Grant $5000 2016 Society STEPPE Student/Early Career Travel Award $3000 2015 Paleontological Society Student Grant & Richard K. Bambach Award $800 2015 Virginia Tech Research Development Program Grant $700 2015 SEPM Student Research Grant $1200 2015 Virginia Tech Petroleum Industry Summer Scholarship $1286 2015 NASA Exobiology Grant for research proposal: $228,498 2015 Program “Investigating the origin of Proterozoic intracellular structures” (PI Shuhai Xiao) American Philosophical Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration $3000 2014 Society Virginia Tech Research Development Program Grant $500 2014 Virginia Tech Summer Stipend Award $1300 2014 Virginia Tech Research Award $1000 2014 Geological Society of Graduate Student Research Grant $2500 2014 America Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research Award $1000 2014 Clay Mineral Society Research Grant $2300 2013 National Science Student/Early Career Travel Award $3000 2013 Foundation (USA) and National Natural Science Foundation of China Virginia Tech Summer Stipend Award $1750 2013 Virginia Tech Research Award $1000 2013 Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research Award $1000 2013 Geological Society of Graduate Student Research Grant $2047 2013 America

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Cornell University Ann S. and Robert R. Morley Research Fund $850 2011 Cornell University Jane E. Brody Undergraduate Research Award $150 2011 *Monetary equivalent of 24 hours of beamtime on the imaging and medical beamline

Publications (published and in press)

Hazen R.M., Bromberg, Y., Downs, R.T., Eleish, A., Falkowski, P.G., Fox, P., Giovannelli, D., Hummer, D.R., Hystad, G., Golden, J.J., Knoll, A.H., Li, C., Liu, C., Moore, E.K., Morrison, S.M., Muscente, A.D., Prabhu, A., Ralph, J., Rucker, M. Y., Runyon, S.E., Warden, L.A., and Zhong, H. in press. Deep carbon through deep time: Data-driven insights (Chapter 20). In Orcutt, B., Daniel, I., and Dasgupta, R. (Eds.), Whole Earth Carbon from Past to Present. Cambridge University Press. Muscente, A.D., Prabhu*, A., Zhong*, H., Eleish*, A., Meyer, M.B., Fox, P., Hazen, R.M., and Knoll, A.H. 2018. Quantifying ecological impacts of mass extinctions with network analysis of fossil communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 10.1073/pnas.1719976115 (available online via open access). Fang, Y., Muscente, A.D., Heads, S.W., Wang, B., and Xiao, S. 2018. The earliest Elcanidae (Insecta, Orthoptera) from the Upper Triassic of North America. Journal of Paleontology, available online via Cambridge Core First View, 10.1017/jpa.2018.20 Okubo*, J., Muscente, A.D., Luvizotto, G.L., Uhlein, G.J., and Warren, L.V. 2018. Phosphogenesis, aragonite fan formation, and seafloor environments following the Marinoan glaciation. Precambrian Research, 311:24–36, doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2018.04.002 Muscente, A.D., Czaja, A.D., Tuggle, J., Winkler, C., and Xiao, S. 2018. Manganese oxides resembling microbial fabrics and their implications for inorganically preserved microfossils. Astrobiology, 18:249–258, doi:10.1089/ast.2017.1699 Hawkins*, A.D., Liu, H.P., Briggs, D.E.G., Muscente, A.D., McKay, R.M., Witzke, B.J., and Xiao, S. 2018. Taphonomy and biological affinity of three dimensionally phosphatized bromalites from the Middle Ordovician Winneshiek Lagerstätte, northeastern Iowa, USA. Palaios, 33: 1–15, doi:10.2110/palo.2017.053 Muscente, A.D., Boag*, T.H., Bykova*, N., and Schiffbauer, J.D. 2018. Environmental disturbance, resource availability, and biologic turnover at the dawn of animal life. Earth-Science Reviews, 177: 248–264, doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.11.019 Muscente, A.D., Czaja, A.D., Riedman, L.A., and Colleary*, C. 2017. Organic matter in fossils. In White, W. M. (Section Ed.), Encyclopedia of Geochemistry. Earth Sciences Series. Springer. Muscente, A.D., Schiffbauer, J.D., Broce*, J.S., Laflamme, M., O’Donnell, K.H., Boag*, T.H., Meyer, M., Hawkins*, A.D., Huntley, J.W., McNamara, M., MacKenzie, L.A., Hinman, N.W., Stanley Jr., G.D., Hofmann, M.H., and Xiao, S. 2017. Exceptionally preserved fossil assemblages through geologic time and space. Gondwana Research, 48:164–188, doi:10.1016/j.gr.2017.04.020 Schiffbauer, J.D., Bykova*, N., and Muscente, A.D. 2017. Fossils, proxies, and models: Geobiology in the Proterozoic-Paleozoic. Geobiology, 15:467–468, doi:10.1111/gbi.12246 Guan, C., Wang, W., Zhou, C., Muscente, A. D., Wan, B., Chen, X., Yuan, X., Chen, Z., and Quyang Q. 2016. Controls on fossil pyritization: Redox conditions, sedimentary organic matter content, and Chuaria preservation in the Ediacaran Lantian biota. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 474:26–35, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.05.013

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Muscente, A.D., Allmon, W.D., and Xiao S. 2016. The hydroid fossil record and analytical techniques for assessing the affinities of putative hydrozoans and possible hemichordates. Palaeontology, 59:71–87, doi:10.1111/pala.12209 Abbott, S. S., King, D. J., Leckey, E. H., Muscente, A. D., Ortega-Ariza, D., Poole, C. R., Riedman, L. A., Tang, Q., and Wernette, S. W. 2015. Reflections on major themes in current stratigraphy by early career scientists and students. The Sedimentary Record, 13(4):12–14, doi:10.2110/sedred.2015.4 Zhang, H., Xiao, S., Liu, Y., Yuan, X., Wan, B., Muscente, A.D., Shao, T., Gong, H., and Cao, G. 2015. Armored kinorhynch-like scalidophoran animals from the early Cambrian. Scientific Reports, 5(article number:16521):1–10, doi:10.1038/srep16521 Muscente, A.D. and Xiao S. 2015. New occurrences of Sphenothallus in the lower Cambrian of South China: Implications for its affinities and taphonomic demineralization of shelly fossils. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 437:141–164, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.07.041 Muscente, A.D. and Xiao S. 2015. Resolving three-dimensional and subsurficial features of carbonaceous compressions and shelly fossils using backscattered electron scanning electron microscopy (BSE-SEM). Palaios, 30:462–481, doi:10.2110/palo.2014.094 Muscente, A.D., Michel, F.M., Dale, J., and Xiao, S. 2015. Assessing the veracity of Precambrian ‘sponge’ fossils using in situ nanoscale analytical techniques. Precambrian Research, 263:142– 156, doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2015.03.010 Muscente, A.D., Hawkins, A.D., and Xiao, S., 2014. Fossil preservation through phosphatization and silicification in the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation (South China): a comparative synthesis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 434:46–62, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.10.013. Xiao, S., Muscente, A.D., Chen, L., Zhou, C., Schiffbauer, J.D., Wood, A.D., Polys, N.F., and Yuan, X., 2014. The Weng'an biota and the Ediacaran radiation of multicellular eukaryotes. National Science Review, 1:498–520, doi:10.1093/nsr/nwu061 Muscente, A.D. and Allmon W.D. 2013. Revision of the hydroid Plumalina Hall, 1858, in the Silurian and Devonian of New York. Journal of Paleontology, 87(4):710–725, doi:10.1666/12-125 * student

Additional Publications & Manuscripts (submitted, in review, in revision & in prep†)

Muscente, A.D., Bykova*, N., Boag*, T.H., Buatois, L., Mángano, G., Eleish*, A., Prabhu*, A., Pan*, F., Meyer, M.B., Schiffbauer, J. D., Fox, P., Hazen, R.M., and Knoll, A.H. submitted. Ediacaran biozones identified with network analysis provide evidence for pulsed extinctions of early complex life. Nature Communications. Tang, Q., Wan, B., Yuan, X., Muscente, A.D., and Xiao, S. submitted. Spiculogenesis and biomineralization in early sponge animals. Nature Communications. Muscente, A.D., Prabhu*, A., Meyer, M.B., Fox, P., Hazen, R.M., and Knoll, A.H. in prep. Network analysis of the origination and extinction of paleocommunities over time. Geology. Muscente, A.D., Morrison, S.M., Eleish*, A., Prabhu*, A., Zhong*, H., Liu, C., Golden, J.J., Hummer, D.R., Meyer, M.B., Fox, P., Downs, R.T., Knoll, A.H., and Hazen R.M. in prep. Studying Earth system history and critical transitions with network analysis. Geobiology. * student † manuscript at rough draft stage or better (available upon request)

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Honors and Awards Award Year National Science Review 2016 Best Paper award for the paper entitled “The Weng’an biota and 2017 the Ediacaran radiation of multicellular eukaryotes” by Xiao et al. Virginia Tech Department of Geosciences Outstanding Doctoral Student award 2016 Virginia Tech Alumni Roundtable “Make-A-Difference” Scholarship finalist 2015 Sigma Xi Inductee 2014

Fieldwork & Excursions Geography & stratigraphy Purpose of work Year / Duration Study and collect samples from outcrops of the Field work in Canada 2018 Lower Jurassic Fernie Formation (the Ya Ha (Alberta) (1 week) Tinda Lagerstätte localities) Field work in South Sample small shelly fossils and putative Cryogenian Australia and Tasmania and Ediacaran sponges for research; explore for 2017 (Mesoproterozoic- new occurrences of macro- and microfossils of (1 month) Cambrian) various ages in geologic context Conference excursion in Visit Cryogenian diamictites; study the stratigraphic Newfoundland, Canada 2017 and geographic distributions of Ediacara-type (Cryogenian and (1 week) fossils in Newfoundland Ediacaran) Visit formations containing Ediacara-type fossils; Conference excursion in sample early (tubular) skeletal fossils for research; 2016 Namibia (Ediacaran) research the stratigraphic and geographic (1 week) distributions of the fossils Field work in South Visit formations containing Ediacara-type fossils; 2016 Australia (Ediacaran and sample small shelly fossils and putative (1 month) Cambrian) Cryogenian and Ediacaran sponges for research Field work in South China Sample Ediacaran phosphorites from the Doushantuo (Hubei, Hunan, and Formation for geochemical and paleontological 2015 Guizhou; Cryogenian- analysis; study the taphonomy and sedimentology (1 month) Cambrian) of the Dengying Formation Excavation of Solite Quarry Sample exceptionally preserved insect and plant 2014 in Cascade, Virginia fossils for research (various dates) (Triassic) Sample Ediacaran macrofossils and microfossils and Field work in South China Cambrian small shelly fossils for research; 2013 (Hubei and Guizhou; research the stratigraphy and sedimentology of the (1 month) Cryogenian-Cambrian) Doushantuo Formation; visit localities containing fossils of the Chengjiang Biota

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Professional Affiliations

The American Association of Petroleum Geologists Golden Key International Honour Society SEPM, Society for Sedimentary Geology The Palaeontological Association Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society The Paleontological Society The Micropaleontological Society Geological Society of America

Professional Services Conference/Journal/Organization Role Year Geobiology (Special Issue) Guest Editor 2016 SEPM Moore Medal Selection Committee Member 2016 Geological Society of America Meeting (Denver, CO), Judge 2016 Geobiology and Geomicrobiology Division, best talk and best poster student awards Topical session at GSA Annual Meeting in Baltimore Co-chair 2015 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting (Denver, CO) Student volunteer 2013 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting (Charlotte, NC) Student volunteer 2012 Journals (listed below) Manuscript Reviewer Since 2012 Geology Geobiology Palaeoecology, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeogeography Palaeontology Palaios PeerJ Precambrian Research Scientific Reports

Invited Lectures Organization & Event Role Date Earth Science Information Partners (ISEP) Summer Meeting (Natural Invited Speaker 7/19/2018 History Museum Informatics: New Methods, Old Data) break-out session 4-D Deep-Time Data Driven Discovery Workshop in Washington, DC Invited Speaker 6/4/2018 (backed by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, NASA, the Keck Foundation, the Earth Life Science Institute (Japan), the Carnegie Institution for Science, the Templeton Foundation, and others) Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement (Earth history course) Invited Speaker 4/18/2018 Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech (seminar/colloquium) Invited Speaker 2/20/2018 Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College (seminar/colloquium) Invited Speaker 1/18/2018 Escuela Centroamericana de Geología, Universidad de Costa Rica Invited Speaker 9/30/2016 (seminar/colloquium) Department of Geography and Geology, West Virginia University Invited Speaker 3/1/2016 (seminar/colloquium)

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Research Experience at Museums and Collections

Harvard University Museum of Natural History The Paleontological Research Institution The American Museum of Natural History The New York State Museum Smithsonian Museum Support Center (Suitland, Maryland) Geological Survey of Namibia Fossil Collections Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology (Drumheller, Alberta, Canada) The Museum of Geosciences, Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech

Analytical Experience (Instruments and Techniques Employed in Research)

Stable isotope geochemistry (step-wise extractions and mass spectroscopy) Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) Focused ion beam electron microscopy (FIB-EM) X-ray Fluorescence (XRF)* XANES* Energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS) Electron diffraction X-ray computed tomography (including CT, microCT, and nanoCT) Confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) Raman spectroscopy X-ray diffraction X-ray microcomputed tomography (microCT) *conducted using synchrotron radiation from the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL) at Stanford University

Conference Abstracts

Muscente, A.D., Bykova*, N., Boag*, T.H., Buatois, L., Eleish, A., Prabhu, A., Meyer, M., Schiffbauer, J.D., Fox, P., Hazen, R., and Knoll, A. 2017. Network analysis of fossil co- occurrence in the Ediacaran and Paleozoic. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Seattle meeting) Muscente, A. D., Bykova*, N., Boag*, T. H., Buatois, L., Eleish, A., Prabhu, A., Meyer, M., Schiffbauer, J. D., Fox, P., Hazen, R., and Knoll, A. 2017. Ediacaran macrofossil biozones in light of network theory. International Symposium on the Ediacaran-Cambrian Transition. Muscente, A.D., Laflamme, M., Schiffbauer, J.D., Broce*, J.S., O’Donnell, K.H., Boag*, T.H., Meyer, M., Hawkins*, A.D., Huntley, J.W., and Xiao, S. 2016. Exceptionally preserved fossil assemblages through geologic time and space. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 48:7, doi:10.1130/abs/2016AM-282405. Muscente, A.D., Broce*, J, Gill, B., and S. Xiao. 2016. Investigating the possible common ancestry and cnidarian affinities of sphenothallids, bryoniids and hyolithelminthids. Palaeo Down Under 2 Meeting held 10–15 July in Adelaide in South Australia. Muscente, A.D., Broce*, J, Gill, B., and S. Xiao. 2016. Authigenic and early diagenetic minerals as indicators of geomicrobiological processes in shelly fossil preservation and their significance for 7

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late Neoproterozoic-early Palaeozoic near-surface environments. Northeastern Geobiology Symposium hosted by the Harvard University Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Muscente, A.D. 2016. Authigenic and early diagenetic minerals as indicators of geomicrobiological processes in shelly fossils and their significance for late Neoproterozoic-early Paleozoic near- surface environments. The 21st Annual Geosciences Student Research Symposium hosted by the Virginia Tech Department of Geosciences. Muscente, A.D. and S. Xiao. 2015. A model for the preservation of shells as carbonaceous fossils based on taphonomic observations and experiments. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 47:637. Xiao, S., Liu, Y., Zhang, H., Shao, T., and A.D. Muscente. 2015. Scalidophoran animals at the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 47:454. Muscente, A.D., Michel, F. M., Xiao, S. and Dale, J. 2015. Invalidating reports of sponge spicules below the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary. International Congress of Stratigraphy Program, 2:12. Muscente, A.D. 2015. Innovative methods for characterizing subsurficial microstructures within geologic samples: Case studies of phosphatic and carbonaceous fossils. The 20th Annual Geosciences Student Research Symposium hosted by the Virginia Tech Department of Geosciences. Muscente, A.D. and S. Xiao. 2014. Scanning electron imaging of shell construction in the early problematic tubular fossil Sphenothallus from the early Cambrian (Series 2) of South China. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 46:1. Muscente, A.D., Michel, F. M., Xiao, S. and Dale, J. 2014. ‘Sponge spicules’ inside embryos from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation (South China) re-interpreted as bacterial filaments. The 19th Annual Geosciences Student Research Symposium hosted by the Virginia Tech Department of Geosciences. Muscente, A.D. and S. Xiao. 2014. Taphonomy and allometry of the problematic tubular fossil Sphenothallus from the early Cambrian (Series 2) of South China. 10th North American Paleontological Convention Abstract Book, 13:142–143. Muscente, A.D. and S. Xiao. 2013. The temporal-spatial distribution of soft-bodied Lagerstätten and its implications for late Neoproterozoic-early Paleozoic taphonomic windows. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 45:307. Muscente, Drew. 2013. Taphonomic windows in the exceptional fossil record: Implications for locating and studying new Lagerstätten. History of Life Evolution in Critical Geological Periods, Sino-US Critical Transitions Workshop, August 3-7, Kunming, China. Muscente, A.D. 2013. Plants in the Mazon Creek Lagerstätte preserved through multiple taphonomic pathways. The 18th Annual Geosciences Student Research Symposium hosted by the Virginia Tech Department of Geosciences. Muscente, A.D., and W.D. Allmon. 2012. The fossil record of hydrozoan polyps. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 44:603. Muscente, A.D., and W.D. Allmon. 2011. Paleoecology and other features of Plumalina Incertae sedis. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program, 43:545. *student

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University Services and Outreach Activities Committee/Organization/Event & Role Year Geobiology/EHAP (“Paleobiology”) seminar series organizing committee co-chair 2016 “The Dan River Coal Ash Spill of February 2014: Science during a Rapid Response” 2015 outreach event volunteer, Museum of Geosciences, Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA) Geofair Coordinator, Museum of the Geosciences, Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA) 2015 Student Instructor, Museum of the Geosciences, Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA) 2015 Volunteer, Virginia Science Festival “Fieldwork & Fossils” exhibit (Blacksburg, VA) 2015 Cabinet Member, Virginia Tech Graduate Student Assembly (Blacksburg, VA), Voting 2014 – 2015 representative on the University Commission on Faculty Affairs and Committee on Parking and Transportation, and representative to Faculty Senate Abstract Book Committee Chair, Geosciences Student Research Symposium, 2015 Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA) Graduate Student Delegate for Department of Geosciences to the Virginia Tech 2012 – 2014 Graduate Student Assembly (Blacksburg, VA) Abstract Book Committee Member, Geosciences Student Research Symposium, 2013 Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA) Project Leader for the Virginia Tech Museum of Geosciences and the Institute for 2013 Creativity, Arts, and Technology-sponsored event, Dino-Dig and Dinosaur Petting Zoo (Blacksburg, VA) Geofair Activity Leader, Museum of the Geosciences, Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA) 2013 Student Instructor, Museum of the Geosciences, Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA) 2012

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