Curriculum Vitae

PATRICK R. GETTY Department of Geology [email protected] 2800 E. Spring Creek Parkway (413) 348-6288 Plano, TX 75074

EDUCATION

Ph.D. 2014. University of Connecticut, Center for Integrative Geosciences. Dissertation title: Ichnology of Carboniferous and Jurassic Tetrapods and Insects.

M.S. 2007. University of Massachusetts, Department of Geosciences. Thesis title: Paleobiology of the Climactichnites trackmaker: An Enigmatic Cambrian Animal Known Only from Trace Fossils.

B.S. (with Honors) 2004. University of Massachusetts, Department of Biology. Honors Thesis title: Excavated and In Situ Dinosaur Footprints from the Murray Quarry (Early Jurassic East Berlin Formation), Holyoke, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

A.A. (with Honors) 2000. Springfield Technical Community College, Department of Liberal Arts Transfer.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD

Professor of Geology, Collin College, 2017–Present Courses taught: • Physical Geology • Earth Science for non-majors • Historical Geology

Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut, 2014–2017 Courses taught: • Graduate seminar • Earth History and Global Change • Earth’s Dynamic Environment • Natural Disasters and Environmental Change • Dinosaurs, Extinctions, and Environmental Catastrophes Other responsibilities: • Lab coordinator; supervise seven teaching assistants and 13 sections of introductory geology labs • Seminar series coordinator; contact and arrange the visits of guest speakers • Undergraduate research coordinator

Adjunct Professor, University of Connecticut, 2007–2013 Courses taught: • Dinosaurs, Extinctions, and Environmental Catastrophes • Earth’s Dynamic Environment

Adjunct Professor, Southern Connecticut State University, 2011 Courses taught: • General Geology

Adjunct Professor, Holyoke Community College, 2007–2008 Courses taught: • Introductory Geology (lecture and laboratory) • Introductory Environmental Science 1 (lecture) • Environmental Science 2 (laboratory)

Teaching Assistant, University of Connecticut, 2008–2014 Labs taught: • Earth and Life Through Time • Paleobiology

Teaching Assistant, University of Massachusetts, 2004–2007 Labs taught: • Experiencing Geology • History of Earth • Vertebrate Fossils and Evolution

Adjunct Curator of Paleontology, Springfield Science Museum, 2010–Present Responsibilities: • Train museum docents to use geology and paleontology exhibits • Write and revise text for museum exhibits • Identify and evaluate specimens sent to the museum by members of public • Evaluate research proposals from academic researchers seeking to use collections

STUDENT RESEARCH ADVISING

Graduate:

James Kerr. Devonian sea anemone burrows. Andrew Beard. Trace fossils in Late Devonian black shales. Paper published. Shin Nan Hsieh. Morphological variability in Treptichnus. Meredith Fichman. Tectonic deformation of trace fossils.

Undergraduate:

Madison Diaz, 2019 redescription of the fossil trail Trisulcus. Matthew Ward & Jack Simon, 2019, sediment saturation vs. trackway morphology. John Burnett, 2018-2019, ichnotaxonomy of Conopsoides. Paper published. Lillian Snowder, 2017-2018, fossil insect trackway identification. Emilee Wooldridge, 2015, diminutive dinosaur tracks.

Getty 2 Kyle Farrell, 2015, diminutive dinosaur tracks. Samuel Loeb, 2015, fossil and modern aquatic insect trackways. Timothy Sime, 2012, thesis: The Sedimentology and Paleontology of the Nash Dinoland Quarry (Early Jurassic Portland Fm), Granby, MA, USA Thomas McCarthy, 2012, thesis: Early Jurassic occurrence of the trace fossil Treptichnus bifurcus from the East Berlin formation of Holyoke, Massachusetts Matthew Riley, 2011, assembling, stabilizing, and framing dinosaur track slabs. Nathan Fox, 2011, thesis: Analysis and Interpretation of In-Situ Dinosaur Footprint Outcrop, Holyoke MA Laurel Raducha, 2009, thesis: Comprehensive Mapping of the Vertebrate Trace Fossils at Powder Hill, Middlefield, CT Taormina Lepore, 2006, thesis: New Theropod and ornithischian footprints at the Dinosaur Footprint State Reservation (Early Jurassic, Portland Formation), Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA

PUBLICATIONS (citations: 262, h-index: 7, i10-index: 7)

Peer-reviewed journal articles (published, in press, and accepted)

25. Getty, P.R. 2020. Evidence that the fossil insect trackway Bifurculapes laqueatus was made underwater. Acta Geologica Polonica, 70:X–Y.

24. Getty, P.R and Burnett, J. 2019. Conopsoides Hitchcock 1858: an ichnological chimera of Acanthichnus and Bifurculapes. Atlantic Geology, 55:389–398.

23. Falkingham, P.L., Bates, K.T., Avanzini, M., Bennett, M., Bordy, E., Breithaupt, B.H., Castanera, D., Citton, P., Díaz-Martínez, I., Farlow, J.O., Fiorillo, A.R., Gatesy, S.M., Getty, P., Hatala, K.G., Horung, J.J., Hyatt, J.A., Klein, H., Lallensack, J.N., Martin, A.J., Marty, D., Matthews, N.A., Meyer, Ch. A., Milàn, J., Minter, N.J., Razzolini, N.L., Romilio, A., Salisbury, S.W., Sciscio, L., Tanaka, I., Wiseman, A.L.A., Xing, L., and Belvedere, M. 2018. A standard protocol for documenting modern and fossil ichnological data. Palaeontology, 61:469–480.

22. Getty, P.R. 2018. The fish trail Undichna from playa lake deposits of the Early Jurassic East Berlin Formation, Holyoke, Massachusetts. In Lucas, S.G., and Sullivan, R.M. (eds.), Fossil Record 6, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 80:5–10.

21. Getty, P.R. 2018. Revision of the Early Jurassic arthropod trackways Camurichnus and Hamipes. Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana, 70:281–292.

20. Getty, P.R., and Loeb, S.B. 2018. Aquatic insect trackways from Jurassic playa lakes: Reinterpretation of Lunulipes obscurus (Hitchcock,1865) based on neoichnological experiments. Palaeodiversity, 11:1–10.

Getty 3 19. Getty, P.R., and Bush, A.M., 2017. On the ichnotaxonomic status of Haplotichnus indianensis Miller, 1889. Ichnos, 24:234–238.

18. Goldstein, D.H., Getty, P.R., and Bush, A.M. 2017. Hitchcock’s treptichnid trace fossils (Jurassic, Massachusetts, USA): conflicting interpretations in the “Age of Fucoids.” Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana, 56:109–116.

17. Beard, J.A., Bush, A.M., Fernandes, A.M., Getty, P.R., and Hren, M.T. 2017. Stratigraphy and paleoenvironmental analysis of the Frasnian-Famennian (Upper Devonian) boundary interval in Tioga, north-central Pennsylvania. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 478:67–79.

16. Getty, P.R. 2017. Lunulipes, a replacement name for the trace fossil Lunula Hitchcock, 1865, preoccupied. Journal of Paleontology, 91:577.

15. Getty, P.R., Sproule, R., Stimson, M., and Lyons, P.C. 2017. Invertebrate trace fossils from the Pennsylvanian-aged Rhode Island Formation of Massachusetts. Atlantic Geology, 53:185–206.

14. Getty, P.R., Aucoin, C., Fox, N., Judge, A., Hardy, L., and Bush, A.M. 2017. Perennial lakes as environmental controls on theropod movement in the Jurassic of the Hartford Basin. Geosciences, 7:13.

13. Getty, P.R., 2016. Bifurculapes Hitchcock 1858: a revision of the ichnogenus. Atlantic Geology, 52:247–255.

12. Getty, P.R., McCarthy, T.D., Hsieh, S., and Bush, A.M., 2016. A new reconstruction of continental Treptichnus based on exceptionally preserved material from the Jurassic of Massachusetts. Journal of Paleontology, 90:269–278.

11. Getty, P.R., 2016. Megapezia longipes Willard and Cleaves, 1930 from the Pennsylvanian Rhode Island Formation of Massachusetts: ichnotaxonomic status. Atlantic Geology, 52:119–124.

10. Getty, P.R., and Fox, N., 2015. An isolated Eubrontes giganteus trackway from the Gary Gaulin dinosaur track site (Early Jurassic, East Berlin Formation), Holyoke, Massachusetts. Northeastern Geoscience, 33:16–21.

9. Fichman, J.H., Crespi, J., Getty, P.R., and Bush, A.M., 2015. Retrodeformation of Carboniferous trace fossils from the Narragansett Basin, U.S.A., using raindrop imprints and bedding-cleavage intersection lineation as strain markers. Palaios, 30:574–588.

8. Getty, P.R., Hardy, L., and Bush, A.M., 2015. Was the Eubrontes track maker gregarious? Testing the herding hypothesis at Powder Hill Dinosaur Park, Middlefield, Connecticut. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 56:95–106.

Getty 4 7. Getty, P.R., Sproule, R, Wagner, D., and Bush, A.M., 2013. Variation in wingless insect trace fossils: Insights from neoichnology and the Pennsylvanian of Massachusetts. Palaios, 28:243–258.

6. Getty, P.R., and Bush, A.M., 2011. Sand pseudomorphs of dinosaur bones: implications for (non-) preservation of tetrapod skeletal material in the Hartford Basin, USA. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 302:407–414.

5. Collette, J.H., Getty, P.R., and Hagadorn, J.W., 2011. Insights into an Early Jurassic dinosaur habitat: ichnofacies and enigmatic structures from the Portland Formation, Hoover Quarry, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Atlantic Geology, 47:81–98.

4. Getty, P.R., and Hagadorn, J.W. 2009. Paleobiology of the Climactichnites tracemaker. Palaeontology, 52:753–778.

3. Getty, P.R., and Hagadorn, J.W., 2008. Reinterpretation of Climactichnites Logan 1860 to include subsurface burrows, and erection of Musculopodus for resting traces of the tracemaker. Journal of Paleontology, 82:1161–1172.

2. Getty, P.R., 2006. A description of the dinosaur footprints on display at the Springfield Science Museum, Springfield, Massachusetts. Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences, 28:334–341.

1. Getty, P.R., 2005. Excavated and in situ dinosaur footprints from the Murray Quarry (Early Jurassic East Berlin Formation), Holyoke, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Ichnos, 12:163–178.

Peer-reviewed journal articles (In review):

Peer-reviewed journal articles (In preparation):

4. Getty, P.R. Ward, M., and Simon, J. The ichnogenus Grammepus Hitchcock 1858, a morphological variant of the well-known fossil insect trackway Lithographus. Eastern Paleontologist.

3. Getty, P.R. A fossil fish trail from the Early Jurassic Portland Formation of Wethersfield, Connecticut. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin.

2. Getty, P.R. Taxonomic reassessment of the fossil burrow Fustiglyphus roselandensis Boyer, 1979, from the Jurassic of New Jersey. Bulletin of the New Jersey Academy of Science.

1. Getty, P.R. Are continental Treptichnus feeding burrows? Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.

Book chapters, etc.:

Getty 5 1. Getty, P.R. 2017. Untitled contribution, in Gutteridge, L., Invertebrates of Southern Africa and their Tracks & Sign: Auckland Park, Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd, p. 10–12.

Field trip guides:

4. Getty, P.R., Olsen, P.E., LeTourneau, P., Gatesy, S., Hyatt, D. Farlow, J., Galton, P., Falkingham, P., and Winitch, M. 2017. Exploring a Real Jurassic Park from the Dawn of the Age of Dinosaurs in the Connecticut Valley, in Getty, P.R., and Thomas, M.A., eds., The Geological Society of Connecticut Field Trip Guidebook No. 9: Hadlyme, Geological Society of Connecticut, 82 pp.

3. Getty, P.R., Bush, A.M., and Vellone, D. 2015. Early Jurassic trace fossil localities from fluvial and lacustrine facies of the Hartford Basin in Massachusetts, in Gilmore, M.A., and Resor, P.G., eds., Guidebook for Fieldtrips in Connecticut and Massachusetts: Middletown, PIP Printing, 107th Meeting of the New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference, Wesleyan University, p. 49–66.

2. LeTourneau, P.M., McDonald, N.G., Olsen, P.E., Ku, T.C., and Getty, P.R. 2015. Fossils and facies of the Connecticut Velley Lowland: Ecosystem structure and sedimentary dynamics along the footwall margin of an active rift, in Gilmore, M.A., and Resor, P.G., eds., Guidebook for Fieldtrips in Connecticut and Massachusetts: Middletown, PIP Printing, 107th Meeting of the New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference, Wesleyan University, p. 107–152.

1. Getty, P.R., Judge, A., Csonka, A., and Bush, A.M., 2012. Were Early Jurassic dinosaurs gregarious? Reexamining the evidence from Dinosaur Footprint Reservation in Holyoke, Massachusetts, in Thomas, M.A., ed., Guidebook for Fieldtrips in Connecticut and Massachusetts: Hartford, State Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut, 47th Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Section of the Geological Society of America, p. A1–A18.

RESEARCH FUNDING

2017 Sedimentary Geology Program, NSF ($277,381) Drivers of Selective Mass Extinction: Insight from Integrated Paleontological and Geochemical records. Awarded to: Andrew Bush, Michael Hren, Anjali Fernandes, and Patrick Getty. 2010 UConn Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering ($6397) Late Triassic Faunal Change and the Rise of the Dinosaurs. 2009 Geological Society of America ($850) Carboniferous tetrapod trackways from southeastern Massachusetts. 2009 Geological Society of America ($66) Student Travel Grant for the 2009 GSA Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon. 2006 Western Society of Malacologists ($500) Using modern gastropod trackways to elucidate the nature of the Late Cambrian fossil Climactichnites.” Getty 6 2006 Geological Society of America ($1000) A reexamination and revision of the Late Cambrian ichnogenus Climactichnites Logan 1860. 2006 Institute for Cambrian Studies ($700) Are Mollusks among the first animals to make the marine-terrestrial transition? Comparing modern gastropod trackways with the Cambrian trace fossil Climactichnites. 2005 Geological Society of America ($95) Student Travel Grant for the 2005 GSA Annual Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. 2005 UMass Dept. of Geosciences, Leo M. Hall Memorial Award ($400) Reevaluation of the morphology and locomotor behavior of the Late Cambrian Climactichnites trackmaker. 2005 The Paleontological Society, Stephen J. Gould Student Grant ($500) Cruising with Climactichnites: A Late Cambrian Beach Pioneer. 2005 Sigma Xi ($220) New studies on an old fossil: A reexamination of Climactichnites. 2003 Commonwealth College, University of Massachusetts ($1000) In situ Dinosaur Footprints from the William Murray Quarry, Holyoke, MA.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

2018 Figure from “Perennial lakes as environmental controls on theropod movement in the Jurassic of the Hartford Basin” chosen for cover of volume 7, issue 1 of Geosciences. 2017 Letter of Teaching Excellence. UConn provost. 2016 Director’s Service Award. Center for Integrative Geoscience. 2015 Letter of Teaching Excellence. UConn provost. 2013 Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award. Center for Integrative Geoscience. 2010 Paleontological Society poster award competition, 2nd place. Geological Society of America National Meeting. 2004 Leaders of the Twenty-first Century award. UMass Amherst.

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Handling/Style Editor, Palaeontologia Electronica, 2017–Present Responsibilities: • Seeking reviewers for submitted manuscripts • Assuring accepted manuscripts are in correct journal format

PUBLIC OUTREACH

Getty 7 2016 The Children’s Museum: consultant for “Dinosaurs in your backyard” exhibit. 2016 University of Connecticut, Earth Science Fair: presented on CT paleontology. 2016 Quinebaug Valley Community College, Learning in Retirement program: presented on CT geology. 2016 Friends of Dinosaur State Park: invited guest expert for online event on Facebook entitled “Track Talks Online: Dinosaurs and Rocks.” 2015 Quinebaug Valley Community College, Learning in Retirement program: presented on CT geology and paleontology. 2015 Connecticut DEEP: presented on local fossils for “No Child Left Inside.” 2015 Rhode Island Mineral Hunters Club: gave tour of Beneski Museum of Natural History. 2015 Cub Scout troop 65, Coventry: gave talk entitled “Dinosaurs in your backyard.” 2009 University of Connecticut: refinished ichthyosaur display and wrote interpretive plaque text. 2009 Dinosaur State Park, Rocky Hill: evaluated displays at request of park director. 2009 Dinosaur Footprint Reservation: evaluated preservation strategies for fossils at request of regional superintendent. 2009 Springfield Science Museum: revised “Mystery of the Disappearing Dinosaurs” planetarium show script. 2007 University of Massachusetts: revised ichnology lab exercise for Dr. Margery Coombs. 2004 Springfield Science Museum: served as a docent for the Dinosaurs! exhibit. 2004 Amherst College: revised ichnology lab exercise for Prof. James Hagadorn.

MEDIA APPEARANCES

2019 Allen Image. Interviewed and appeared in article entitled “Rock-solid impression: Ancient footprints forge new future.” 2017 Earth Touch News Network. Interviewed and appeared in online article entitled “For some of the best prehistoric tracks, all roads lead to this Massachusetts backyard.” 2017 Yankee Magazine. Interviewed and appeared in an article entitled “Twilight in Dinosaur Land,” which appeared in the July issue. 2015 Rock & Gem. Appeared in article entitled “Dinosaurs of Massachusetts.” 2015 ScienceNews.org. Interviewed for and appeared in article entitled “Ancient larvae built predator-thwarting mazes.” 2015 Boston.com. Interviewed for and appeared in article entitled “Millions of years ago, Western Massachusetts was a Jurassic world.” 2015 Masslive.com. Appeared in article entitled “Holyoke Community College student finds possible dinosaur track during geology trek.” 2010 UConn Today. Interviewed for and appeared in article entitled “In the footsteps of dinosaurs.” 2004 Boston Globe. Interviewed for and appeared in article entitled “Poachers prey on dinosaur trail: Collectors’ demands spur theft of fossilized tracks.”

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INVITED LECTURES

“Exceptional trace fossils from playa lake deposits of the East Berlin Formation at the Gary Gaulin Dinosaur Tracksite.” Last Days of Pangea Triassic-Jurassic Research Symposium, Bruce Museum, 16 May 2017. “Paleontological insights from southern New England based on experiments with modern insects.” Museums à la Carte Lecture Series, 8 October 2015. “Paleontology of Pennsylvanian and Triassic/Jurassic Rift Basins of New England.” Connecticut Valley Mineral Club, 2 May 2012. “Trace Fossils of the Connecticut River Valley.” National Association of Geoscience Teachers, New England Section annual meeting, 10 December 2011. “Fossil trackways of modern basal insects (Jumping bristletails and silverfish).” Connecticut Entomological Society, 20 November 2009. “Prehistoric inhabitants of the Connecticut Valley.” Springfield Naturalist’s Club, 16 April 2008.

REVIEWED ARTICLES FOR

Atlantic Geology Central European Journal of Geology Geology Ichnos Journal of South American Earth Sciences Northeastern Geoscience Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology Palaeontologia Electronica Paleobiology

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Geological Society of America International Ichnological Association Texas Academy of Science

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