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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