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Drew Muscente, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Geology Department of Geology Cornell College 600 First Street SW Mount Vernon, IA 52314 Office: 102 Norton Geology Center (Anderson Geology Museum) Phone: (319) 895-4309 Primary email: [email protected] Personal website: https://admuscente.com/

Affiliated Researcher Department of Geological Sciences Jackson School of Geosciences The University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station C1100 Austin, Texas 78712 Secondary Email: [email protected]

Education Degree School 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) Cornell College (Mount Vernon, IA) Assistant Professor of Geology 2019 – present University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX) Postdoctoral Fellow (Researcher) 2018 – 2019 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) Cornell College Assistant Professor of Geology 2019 – present UT Austin, Invertebrate Paleontology Lab Affiliated Researcher 2019 – present UT Austin, Invertebrate Paleontology Lab Postdoctoral Fellow (Researcher) 2018 – 2019 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 1

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Teaching Experience* School Position/Sec/Block Course Title & Number Years(s) CC Ass. Prof. (Block 8) Quantitative Paleobiology (GEO 317) 2021 CC Ass. Prof. (Block 6) Paleontology (GEO 326) 2021 CC Ass. Prof. (Block 5) GIS (Geographic Information Systems) (GEO 260) 2021 CC Ass. Prof. (Block 4) Marine Science (GEO 105) 2020 CC Ass. Prof. (Block 2) Earth and Life through Time (GEO 130) 2020 CC Ass. Prof. (Block 1) Sedimentology & Stratigraphy (GEO 224) 2020 CC Ass. Prof. (Block 10) Earth and Life through Time (GEO 130) 2020 CC Ass. Prof. (Block 8) Historical Geology (GEO 130) 2020 CC Ass. Prof. (Block 6) Marine Science (GEO 105) 2020 CC Ass. Prof. (Block 5) GIS (Geographic Information Systems) (GEO 260) 2020 CC Ass. Prof. (Block 4) Geological Research (GEO 485) Quantitative Paleobio 2019 CC Ass. Prof. (Block 3) Marine Science (GEO 105) 2019 CC Ass. Prof. (Block 1) Invertebrate Paleontology (GEO 217) 2019 UT Lecturer Reef Ecosystems (GEO 369E/389E) 2019 VT Graduate Assistant Earth’s Natural Hazards (GEOS 1034) 2015 VT Graduate Assistant Paleontology (GEOS 3064) 2013–15 VT Graduate Assistant Earth & Life Through Time (GEOS 1014) 2012 *Course evaluations available upon request

Publications (published, accepted, and in press)

Wang, W., Hu, Y., Muscente, A.D., Cui, H., Guan, C., Hao, J., and Zhou, C. 2021. Revisiting Ediacaran sulfur isotope chemostratigraphy with in situ NanoSIMS analysis of sedimentary pyrite. Geology. De Baets, K., Huntley, J. W., Klompmaker, A. A., Schiffbauer, J. D., and Muscente, A.D. 2021. The fossil record of parasitism: Its extent and taphonomic constraints. In De Baets, K., and Huntley, J. W. (Eds.) The Evolution and Fossil Record of Parasitism. Topics in Geobiology series. Springer. Foster, W.J., Garvie, C.L., Weiss*, A.M., Muscente, A.D., Aberhan, M., Counts, J.W., and Martindale, R.C. 2020. Resilience of marine invertebrate communities during the early Cenozoic hyperthermals. Scientific Reports, 10(2176):1–11, doi:10.1038/s41598-020-58986-5 Wang, W., Guan, C., Hu, Y., Cui, H., Muscente, A.D., Chen, L., and Zhou, C. 2020. Spatial and temporal evolution of Ediacaran carbon and sulfur cycles in the Lower Yangtze Block, South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 537(109417):1–15, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109417 Muscente, A.D., Martindale, R.C., Schiffbauer, J.D., Creighton†, A.L., and Bogan†, B.A. 2019. Taphonomy of the Lower Jurassic Konservat-Lagerstätte at Ya Ha Tinda (Alberta, Canada) and its significance for exceptional fossil preservation during oceanic anoxic events. Palaios, 34(11): 515–541, doi:10.2110/palo.2019.050 Tang, Q., Wan, B., Yuan, X., Muscente, A.D., and Xiao, S. 2019. Spiculogenesis and biomineralization in early sponge animals. Nature Communications, 10(1):1–10, doi:10.1038/s41467-019-11297-4 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. 2019. Ediacaran 2

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biozones identified with network analysis provide evidence for pulsed extinctions of early complex life. Nature Communications, 10(911):1–15, doi:10.1038/s41467-019-08837-3 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. 2019. Deep carbon through deep time: Data-driven insights (Chapter 20). In Orcutt, B., Daniel, I., and Dasgupta, R. (Eds.), Deep Carbon: Past to Present. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, p. 652, doi: 10.1017/9781108677950. 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, 115:5217–5222, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1719976115 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, 92:1028–1034, doi: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 Lagerstatte, 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 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 3

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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 * graduate student † undergraduate student

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

Bogan†, B., Martindale, R., Feldmann, R., Schweitzer, C., and Muscente, A.D. submitted. Morphological insights into the lobster Uncina based on new material from the Ya Ha Tinda Lagerstätte, Canada (Early Jurassic). Palaeontologica Electronica. Sinha*, S., Muscente, A.D., Schiffbauer, J.D., and Martindale, R.C. in prep. Widespread phosphatization of exceptionally preserved fossils during the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event. Geology. Jiang, H., Tomaschek, F., Muscente, A. D., Niu, C., Fang, Y., Chen, J., Mahler, B., Wappler, T., Jarzembowski, E. A., Swedo, J., Zhang, H., Rust, J., and Wang, B. in prep. Widespread mineralization of soft-bodied insects in Cretaceous amber. Nature Communications. Muscente, A.D., Martindale, R.C., Prabhu*, A., Ma., X., Fox, P., Hazen, R.M., and Knoll, A.H. in prep. Diversity and community dynamics in Phanerozoic oceans. Geology. Ma, C., Morrison, S. M., Muscente, A. D., Kale, A. S., Clemens, T. Crump, R., and Ma, X. in prep. Incorporate temporal topology in a deep-time knowledge base to facilitate data-driven discovery in geoscience. Nature Computational Science. Zonarich†, L.M., DeBrower†, J.F.Z., Harwood†, A.S., Baird, G.C., Shabica, C.W., and Muscente, A.D. in prep. Multivariate analysis reveals the fossil associations in the Pennsylvanian Mazon Creek Lagerstätte of the Francis Creek Shale (Illinois, USA). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.

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Weiss, A.M., Martindale, R.C., Kosir, A., and Muscente, A.D. in prep. Benthic marine community turnover on the Adriatic Carbonate Platform around the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. Muscente, A.D., Wicker†, G., and Kane-Preissing†, Z. in prep. Using network analysis to study changes in paleocommunities across stratigraphy, geography, and facies. Palaios. 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. ‡ manuscript at rough draft stage or better (available upon request) * graduate student † undergraduate student

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

Research & Travel Grants Funded Organization Grant Amount Year Cornell Summer Grant for the student-faculty collaborative research $6084 2021 Research Institute project: “Studying the origin of exceptionally preserved fish, crustacean, and squid fossils with scanning electron microscopy and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy” Cornell College Gaarde-Morton Junior Faculty Award for “Leveraging $1000 2020 Iowa’s Geologic Record for Experiential Learning Experiences in Sedimentary Geology” Cornell Summer Grant for the student-faculty collaborative research $2000 2020 Research Institute project: “Multivariate analysis of the paleocommunities and biofacies of the Carboniferous Mazon Creek Konservat-Lagerstätte (Illinois, USA)” 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

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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 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

Fieldwork & Excursions Geography & stratigraphy Purpose of work Year / Duration Study and collect samples from outcrops of Lower Field work in Bavaria and Jurassic black shales (Posidonia Shale Konservat- 2019 Baden-Württemberg, Lagerstätte) and Upper Jurassic limestones (1 month) Germany (Jurassic) (various plattenkalk Konservat-Lagerstätten) Study and collect samples from outcrops of the Field work in Alberta, 2018 Lower Jurassic Fernie Formation (the Ya Ha Canada (Jurassic) (1 week) Tinda Lagerstätte localities)

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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

Invited Lectures Organization & Event Role Date Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Iowa Invited speaker 4/2/2021 (seminar) Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Invited speaker 2/28/2019 UT Austin (Deford Speaker Series seminar) Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston Invited speaker 2/7/2019 (seminar/colloquium) Department of Geology & Geophysics, Yale University (seminar) Invited speaker 1/30/2019 Department of Geology, Cornell College (seminar/colloquium) Invited speaker 1/18/2019 Earth Science Information Partners (ISEP) Summer Meeting (Natural Invited Speaker 7/19/2018 History Museum Informatics: New Methods, Old Data) 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

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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)

Outreach Activities Committee/Organization/Event & Role Year “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 Volunteer, Virginia Science Festival “Fieldwork & Fossils” exhibit (Blacksburg, VA) 2015 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

Professional Services Conference/Journal/Organization Role Year GSA Annual Meeting Mentorship Program (Indianapolis) Mentor of students 2018 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

School Services Committee/Organization/Event & Role Year Athletics Advisory Committee (Cornell College) 2020-present Geology Club Mentor (Cornell College) 2020-present Geobiology/EHAP (“Paleobiology”) seminar series organizing committee co-chair 2016 Student Instructor, Museum of the Geosciences, Virginia Tech (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 8

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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) Geofair Activity Leader, Museum of the Geosciences, Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA) 2013 Student Instructor, Museum of the Geosciences, Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA) 2012

Mentoring & Advising Role Year Faculty Adviser 2020-present Geology Club Mentor (Cornell College) 2020-present GSA Annual Meeting Mentorship Program (Indianapolis) 2018

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

Research Experience at Museums and Collections

Harvard University Museum of Natural History (Cambridge, MA) The Anderson Geology Museum in the Norton Geology Center at Cornell College (Mount Vernon, IA) Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution (Bath, UK) State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart (Stuttgart, Germany) The Paleontological Research Institution (Ithaca, NY) The American Museum of Natural History (New York, NY) The New York State Museum (Albany, NY) Smithsonian Museum Support Center (Suitland, Maryland) Geological Survey of Namibia Fossil Collections (Windhoek, Namibia) Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology (Drumheller, Alberta, Canada) The Museum of Geosciences, Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA)

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) 9

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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 (First Author) Abstracts

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. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs (Indianapolis 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. 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 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. 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.

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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. * graduate student † undergraduate student

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