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IAN M. MILLER Director of the Earth and Space Sciences Chair of the Earth Sciences Department Curator of Museum of Nature & Science

Contact Information: Department of Earth Sciences office: (303) 370-8351 Denver Museum of Nature & Science email: [email protected]

Education: Postdoctoral Fellow 2006-2008, Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Advisor: Kirk R. Johnson. PhD, May 2007. Yale University, New Haven, CT. Geology and Geophysics. Advisors: Leo J. Hickey and Mark T. Brandon. Dissertation Title: The , Paleoecology and Paleolatitude of the Early () Winthrop Formation Flora, State, USA. 1156 p. Masters of Philosophy, 2003, Yale University, New Haven CT. Geology and Geophysics. B.A. with honors in Geology, 1999, The College, Colorado Springs, CO.

Principle Research Interests: (1) Evolutionary history and ecology of ; (2) recovery of North American forests following the Cretaceous- ;(3) paleobotanical proxies for and statistical analysis of paleoclimate, paleolatitude, and paleoelevation; (4) the tectonic evolution of the Western Cordillera of North America. Complementary methodological research seeks to (a) improve reliability and accuracy of paleoclimate proxies based on physiognomy through analysis of living floras; (b) refine existing paleobotanical techniques for estimating paleolatitude and paleoelevation; and (c) standardize and advance digitization of floras.

Professional Experience: 2012–present Director, Earth and Space Sciences, Denver Museum of Nature & Science 2009–present Chair, Department of Earth Sciences, Denver Museum of Nature & Science 2008–present Curator of Paleobotany, Denver Museum of Nature & Science 2017–present Geology Lecturer, /Far East Exp. Team, Abercrombie & Kent 2008–2010 Acting Curator of Geology, Denver Museum of Nature & Science 2006–2008 Postdoctoral Fellow, Denver Museum of Nature & Science 2018–present Curricula reviewer for Howard Hughes Medical Institute BioInteractive 2014–present University of Colorado Boulder, CU Museum of Natural History, Adjoint Curator 2014–2018 Geological of Society of America Education Committee Member 2012–present External PhD and MS committee member for multiple students at Univ. of Colorado, Univ, of , Univ. of , and Wesleyan Univ. 2012–2019 Board Member, Snowmass Discovery 501c3 2006–2019 Associate Editor Palaeontologia Electronica 2016–2018 Project , “Community Collaboration” strategic plan initiative, DMNS 2015–2018 Project Lead, “Natural World of Colorado” strategic plan initiative, DMNS 2004–present Frequent peer reviewer for multiple high-profile academic journals, NSF, and ACS-PRF 2019 Gordon Research Conference, , New Hampshire 2007 NSF-funded Critical Transitions in Earth History, DMNS 2006 EARTHTIME III, Santa Fe Institute, NM 2005 NSF-funded Paleoelevation Workshop, Lehigh Univ. 2004 NSF-funded Northeast Tectonics Workshop, Stanford Univ. Ian M. Miller CV 2

2005 Teaching assistant for Global Environmental Change, Prof. K. Turekian 2003 Teaching assistant for Paleobotany, Prof. L. Hickey 2002 Teaching assistant for Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, Prof. L. Hickey 2002 Teaching assistant for Global Environmental Change, Prof. K. Turekian 1999–2001 Field Geologist, Vineyard & Assoc. Inc., Albuquerque, NM

Training/Professional Coursework: 2020 Claremont Graduate University, Museum Leadership Institute 2020–present POLARIS, The Museum Mentor Network 2016–present Appreciative Inquiry (AI) trainings (multi-day workshops) through the Rocky Mountain Center for Positive Change, and application of AI for organizational change 2014–present Design Thinking/Stanford d.school Human Centered Design trainings (multiple years) 2013–present Diversity, equity, and inclusiveness trainings (multiple years with major current focus) 2013 Science Communication 3-day workshop with the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, Stony Brook University 2012–present Mountain States/Employers Council trainings in time, people, and budget management 2010–present Frequent media training for major projects (e.g., Colorado Springs Project, Snowmastodon Project, etc.) and exhibit openings 2008–2012 Led the planning and space design and supported fundraising for the Earth Sciences portion of the new, state-of-the-art 70,000 ft2 Avenir Collections Facility

Field Experience: 2010–2014 Project lead, The Snowmastodon Project 2014–present Project lead, Denver Basin Project, CO 2014–present Field Geologist/Paleontologist, San Juan Basin Project 2012–present Field Geologist/Paleontologist, Madagascar 2012–present Field Geologist/Paleontologist, Williston Basin Project 2006–present Field Geologist/Paleontologist, Kaiparowits Basin Project 2006–present Field Geologist/Paleontologist, Denver Basin Project, CO 2001–2006 Project lead, Methow Basin Project (PhD Thesis)

Honors and Awards: 2020 Colorado Scientific Society Best Presentation (paper) Award 2017 Colorado College Spirit of Adventure Award, Alumni Association 2015 American Association of Petroleum Geologists Geosciences in the Media Award 2012 Journalism Award from the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists 2012 Stephen H. Hard Award for Historic Preservation in the State of Colorado 2006 Philip C. Orville Prize for outstanding scholarship in Earth Sciences, Yale University 2006 G. Simpson Prize for outstanding paper on the fossil record, Yale Peabody Museum 2001–2005 Charlton Dows Cooksey Jr. Memorial Fellowship, Yale University 2002–2005 Yale University Teaching Fellowship 2004 Estwing Hammer Prize for outstanding performance in geology, Yale University 2004 Sigma Xi Research Grant 2004 John F. Enders Fellowship Grant, Yale University 2004 GSA Graduate Student Research Grant – Alexander Sisson Award 2004 Evolving Earth Foundation Student Grant 2004 GSA Travel Grant – Northeastern Section 2004 Yale University Graduate Student Assembly Travel Grant 2003 GSA Graduate Student Research Grant 2003 Yale Institute of Biospheric Studies Field Ecology Grant 2002 GSA Outstanding Mention for exceptional student research grant proposal Ian M. Miller CV 3

2002 GSA Graduate Student Research Grant 2002 GSA Travel Grant – Cordilleran Section 2002 Sigma Xi Research Grant 2002 Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship 1999 Estwing Outstanding Senior Geologist, Colorado College, CO 1999 Colorado College Venture Grant 1998 Howard Hughes Undergraduate Research Grant 1995–1996 Dean’s List

Scientific Publications:  Lyson, T. R., Petermann, H., Toth, N., Bastien, S., & Miller, I. M. In Press. A new baenid , Palatobaena knellerorum, sp. nov. from the earliest () of south-central Colorado, USA. Journal of Paleontology.  Lyson, T. R., Petermann, H., & Miller, I. M. In Press. A new plastomenid trionychid turtle, Plastomenus joycei, sp. nov. from the earliest Paleocene (Danian) Denver Formation of south- central Colorado, USA. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.  Maccracken, S.A., Sohn, J-C, Miller, I.M., and Labandeira, C.C. 2021. A new Late Cretaceous leaf mine Leucopteropsa spiralae gen. et sp. nov. (: Lyonetiidae) represents the first confirmed fossil evidence of the Cemiostominae. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. http://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2021.1881177  Maccracken, S.A., Miller, I.M., and Labandeira, C.C. 2019. Late Cretaceous domatia reveal the antiquity of -mite mutualisms in flowering plants: Biology Letters, 15: 20190657 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0657.  Lyson, T.R., Miller, I.M., Bercovici, A.D., Weissenburger, K., Fuentes, A.J., Clyde, W.C., Hagadorn, J.W., Butrim, M.J., Johnson, K.R., Fleming, R.F., Barclay, R.S., Maccracken, S.A., Lloyd, B., Wilson, G.P., Krause, D.W., and Chester, S.G.B. 2019. Exceptional continental record of biotic recovery after the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction: Science, 366, p.977-983.  Fuentes, A.J., Clyde, W.C., Weissenburger, K., Bercovici, A., Lyson, T.R., Miller, I.M., Ramezani, J., Isakson, V., Schmitz, M.D., and Johnson, K.R. 2019. Constructing a time scale of biotic recovery across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, Corral Bluffs, Denver Basin, Colorado, U.S.A: Rocky Mountain Geology, v. 54, no. 2, p. 133-153, doi:10.24872/rmgjournal.54.2.133.  Erdei, B., Coiro, M., Miller, I.M., Johnson, K.R., Griffith, M.P., and Murphy, V. 2019. First seeding foliage from the fossil record and inferences for the evolution of : Biology Letters, 15: 20190114, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0114.  Currano, E.D., Pinheiro, Esther, R.S., Buchwaldt, R., Clyde, W.C., and Miller, I.M. 2019. Endemism in Wyoming plant and insect communities during the early hothouse: Paleobiology, 45(3), p. 421-439, DOI: 10.1017/pab.2019.18.  Crystal, V.F., Evans, E.S.J., Fricke, H., Miller, I.M., and Sertich, J.J.W. 2019. Late Cretaceous fluvial hydrology and dinosaur behavior in southern , USA: Insights from stable isotopes of biogenic carbonate: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 516, p. 152-165, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.11.022  Kowalczyk, J.B., Royer, D.L., Miller, I.M., Anderson, C.W., Beerling, D.J., Franks, P.J., Grein, M., Konrad, W., Roth-Nebelsick, A., Bowring, S.A., Johnson, K.R., and Ramezani, J., 2018. Multiple proxy estimates of atmospheric CO2 from an early Paleocene rainforest: Paleoceanography and , vol. 33(12), doi: 10.1029/2018PA003356.  Dahlberg, E.L., Eberle, J.J., Sertich, J.J.W., and Miller, I.M., 2016. A new earliest Paleocene (Puercan) mammalian fauna from Colorado’s Denver Basin, U.S.A.: Rocky Mountain Geology, v. 51, no. 1, p. 1-22, doi:10.2113/gsrocky.51.1.1. Ian M. Miller CV 4

 Barclay, R. S., Rioux, M., Meyer, L. B., Bowring, S. A., Johnson, K. R., and Miller, I. M., 2015. High precision U-Pb zircon geochronology for the floras in Utah: Cretaceous Research, 52(part A), p. 213-237.  Blonder, B., Royer, D.L., Johnson, K.R., Miller, I.M., Enquist, B.J., 2014. Plant ecological strategies shift across the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary: PLoS Biology, 12(9), e1001949, doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1001949.  Johnson, K. R., Miller, I. M., Pigati, J. S., and the Snowmastodon Project Science Team, 2014. The Snowmastodon Project. Research 82 (3), p. 473-476. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2013.12.010.  Pigati, J. S., Miller, I. M., Johnson, K. R., Honke, J. S., Carrara, P. E., Muhs, D. R., Skipp, G., and Bryant, B., 2014. Geologic setting and stratigraphy of the Ziegler Reservoir fossil site, Snowmass Village, Colorado. Quaternary Research 82 (3), p. 477-489. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2013.12.011.  Miller, D. M., Miller, I. M., and Jackson, S. T., 2014. Biogeography of from the Ziegler Reservoir fossil site, Snowmass Village, Colorado. Quaternary Research 82 (3), p. 567-574. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2014.06.003.  Miller, I. M., Pigati, J. S., Anderson, R. S., Johnson, K. R., Mahan, S. A., Ager, T. A., Baker, R. G., Blaauw, M., Bright, J., Brown, P. M., Bryant, B., Calamari, Z. T., Carrara, P. E., Cherney, M. D., Demboski, J. R., Elias, S. A., Fisher, D. C., Gray, H. J., Haskett, D. R., Honke, J. S., Jackson, S. T., Jiménez-Moreno, G., Kline, D., Leonard, E. M., Lifton, N. A., Lucking, C., McDonald, H. G., Miller, D. M., Muhs, D. R., Nash, S. E., Newton, C., Paces, J. B., Petrie, L., Plummer, M. A., Porinchu, D. F., Rountrey, A. N., Scott, E., Sertich, J .J. W., Sharpe, S. E., Skipp, G. L., Strickland, L. E., Stucky, R. K., Thompson, R. S., and Wilson, J., 2014. A high-elevation, multi-proxy biotic and environmental record of MIS 6-4 from the Ziegler Reservoir fossil site, Snowmass Village, Colorado, USA. Quaternary Research 82 (3), p. 618-634. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2014.07.004.  Miller, I. M., Johnson, K. R., Kline, D. E., Nichols, D. J., Barclay, R. S., 2013. A Late Flora from the Kaiparowits Formation, Southern Utah, and a Brief Overview of the Widely Sampled but Little-Known Campanian Vegetation of the Western Interior of North America in At the Top of the : The Late Cretaceous of Southern Utah: edited by Titus, A. L, and Loewen, M. A. University Press, 2013, 656 p.  Lucking, C., Johnson, K. R., Pigati, J. S., and Miller, I. M., 2012. Primary Mapping, Stratigraphic Data, and Field Methods for the Snowmastodon Project: Denver Museum of Nature & Science Technical Report 2012-4, 102 pp.  Cole, J. C., Trexler, Jr., J. H., Cashman, P. H., Miller, I. M., Shroba, R. R., Cosca, M. A., and Workman, J. B., 2010. Beyond Colorado’s —A new look at Laramide basin subsidence, sedimentation, and deformation in north-central Colorado, in Morgan, L.A., and Quane, S., eds.: Geological Society of America Field Guide 18, doi:10.1130/2010.0018.  Miller, I. M. and Hickey, L. J. 2010. The Fossil Flora of the Winthrop Formation (Albian-) of Washington State, USA. Part II: Pinophytina. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 51(1), p. 3-96.  Royer, D.L., Miller, I. M., Peppe, D.J., Hickey, L.J., 2010. Leaf economic traits from support a weedy habit for early angiosperms: American Journal of Botany 97(3), p. 438-445.  Miller, I. M. and Hickey, L.J. 2008. The Fossil Flora of the Winthrop Formation (Albian-Early Cretaceous) of Washington State, USA. Part I: Bryophyta and Pteridophytina. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 49(2), p. 135-180.  Peppe, D.J., Hickey, L.J., Miller, I. M., and Green, W.A., 2008. A Morphotype Catalogue, Floristic Analysis and Stratigraphic Description of the Aspen Shale Flora (Cretaceous-Albian) of Southwestern Wyoming. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 49 (2), p. 181-208. Ian M. Miller CV 5

 Gorman, M.A., Miller, I. M., Pardo, J., Small, B., 2008. Fish, , Plants, and Insects within the : A Walk through a Late Ecosystem in Roaming the and Environs, Raynolds, R.G. ed. GSA Field Guide Series 10.  Pott, C., Miller, I. M., Kerp, H., van Konijnenburg-van Cittert, J. H. A., & Zijlstra, G., 2007. (1791) Proposal to conserve the name (fossil ) with a conserved type: , vol. 56(3), p. 966-967.  Raynolds, R., Johnson, K. J., Ellis, B., Bowring, S., Dechesne, M., Miller, I. M., 2007. Earth history along Colorado’s Front Range: Salvaging geologic data in the suburbs and Sharing it with the citizens: GSA Today, vol. 17, no. 12, doi: 10.1130/GSATO1712A.1  Miller, I. M. and Prevec, R. 2006. Palaeobotany in the digital age: Unearthing the future of taxonomy: Palaeontologia Electronica, vol. 9 (2).  Miller, I. M., Brandon, M., and Hickey, L., 2006. Using leaf margin analysis to estimate the mid- Cretaceous (Albian) paleolatitude of the Baja BC block: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol. 245, p. 95-114. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.02.022.  Miller, I. M., Ellis, B., Miller, D. M., Hutton, C. and Johnson, K. J., 2006. The Kauffman Creek Fossil Plant Excavation Project: Denver Museum of Nature & Science Technical Report 2006-1, 47p.

Books/Volumes edited:

 Pigati, J. S., Miller, I. M., (eds.), 2014. The Snowmastodon Project: Quaternary Research, vol. 82, issue 3, p. 473-634.  Johnson, K. R. and Miller, I. M., 2012. Digging Snowmastodon: Discovering an Ice Age World in the Colorado Rockies: Aspen, CO, Denver Museum of Nature and Science and People’s Press, pp. 144.

Published Abstracts:  Krause, D.W., Chester, S.G., Hoffmann, S., Lyson, T.R., Dougan, L.G., Petermann, H., Tecza, A., and Miller, I.M. 2020. New skull material of Taeniolabis Taoensis (, Taeniolabididae): Implications for taeniolabidid anatomy, paleobiology, and phylogenetic relationships. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting, virtual (Oct. 12-16).  Crystal, V.F. and Miller, I.M. 2020. A new earliest Paleocene, mountain proximal, mature forest floor fossil leaf site in the Denver Basin, Colorado, USA. The 36th Midcontinent Paleobotanical Colloquium, New Burke Museum in Seattle (May 1-3).  Maccracken, S.A., Miller, I.M., and Labandeira, C. 2019. Late Cretaceous Acarodomatia Reveal the Antiquity of Plant-Mite Mutualisms, Entomological Society of America Annual Conference St. Louis, Missouri (Nov.).  Maccracken, S.A., Miller, I.M., and Labandeira, C. 2019. Late Cretaceous Acarodomatia Reveal the Antiquity of Plant-Mite Mutualisms, Geological Society of America Annual Conference Phoenix, Arizona (Sept.).  Maccracken, S.A., Miller, I.M., and Labandeira, C. 2019. Acarodomatia Reveal the Antiquity of Plant-Mite Mutualisms, North American Paleontological Convention Riverside, California (June).  Lyson, T.R., Bercovici, A.D., and Miller, I.M. 2019. Changes in dinosaur ecosystems leading up to the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary in North America. European Geophysical Union meeting on Mass Extinction, Utrecht, (Aug.).  Lyson, T.R., Bercovici, A.D., and Miller, I.M. 2019. Changes in dinosaur ecosystems from the leading up to the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary in North America. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting, Brisbane, (Oct. 9-12). Ian M. Miller CV 6

 Miller, I.M., Lyson, T.R., and Bercovici, A.D. 2019. Correlated plant diversity and climate in North America during Earth system succession following the K–Pg mass extinction. European Geophysical Union meeting on Mass Extinction, Utrecht, Netherlands (Aug.).  Miller, I.M., Lyson, T.R., and Bercovici, A.D. 2019. Plant evolution and diversification shaped vertebrate ecosystems during the late Cretaceous and early Paleogene in western North America. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting, Brisbane, Australia (Oct. 9-12).  Miller, I. M. 2019. Correlated plant diversity and climate in North America during Earth system succession following the K–Pg mass extinction. Gordon Research Conference “Timing, Tempo and Drivers of Biotic Evolution” Aug. 4-9, Waterville Valley, New Hampshire.  Maccracken, S.A., Miller, I.M., Mitter, C., and Labandeira, C. 2018. Novel insect herbivory from the Late Cretaceous of Western North America: Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, Indianapolis, IN.  Fuentes, A.J., Clyde, W.C., Lyson, T.R., Weissenburger, K., Miller, I.M., and Bercovici, A.D., 2018. High-resolution magnetostratigraphy of the K-Pg Boundary interval, Corral Bluffs, Denver Basin, Colorado (USA): Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, Indianapolis, IN.  Crystal, V., and Miller, I.M., 2017. A new earliest Paleocene, mountain proximal, mature forest floor fossil leaf site in the Denver Basin: Implications for the origins of rainforests: Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, Seattle, WA.  Brandon, M.T., Mitchell, R.N., Hyland, E.G., Ward, P.D., and Miller, I.M., 2017. Using paleoclimate to estimate paleolatitude of cordilleran terranes: Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, Seattle, WA.  Butterworth, L.E., Laughton, K.L., , K., Fontes, J., Gutierrez, L., Way-Smith, A., Wooten, B., Flora, G., Hups, K., Lyson, T., Miller, I.M., and Skaer, A., 2017. Teen Science Scholars: Expanding diversity and accessibility in the sciences through an inclusive museum program Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, Seattle, WA.  Maccracken, S.A., Miller, I.M., Mitter, C., and Labandeira, C. 2017. Plant-insect associations of the Kaiparowits Formation, Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of Utah. Entomology Conference Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.  Maccracken, S.A., Miller, I.M., Mitter, C., and Labandeira, C. 2017. Insect herbivory of the Kaiparowits Formation, Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of Utah. Botany Conference Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Ft. Worth, TX.  Evans, E.S.J., Fricke, H., Crystal, V., Sertich, J.J.W., and Miller, I.M., 2016. Fluvial Landscapes of the Cretaceous: Insights from stable isotope geochemistry, sedimentology and taphonomy. Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.  Fricke, H., Crystal, V., Miller, I.M., and Sertich, J.J.W., 2016. Using carbon isotope ratios to study forest soils and canopies of the Late Cretaceous in Southern Utah. Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.  McCracken, S. A., Miller, I.M., Mitter, C.W., and Labandeira, C.C., 2016. Preliminary assessment of plant-insect associations in the Kaiparowits flora, Late Cretaceous of Utah. Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.  Marshall, M.S., Sertich, J.J.W., Miller, I.M., Andrainavivo, M. 2015. Stratigraphy and paleontology of a new nearshore dinosaur-bearing succession from the Late Cretaceous of the Morondava Basin, Western Madagascar. Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, Nov. 1-4.  Kowalczyk, J. B., Royer, D. L., and Miller, I. M., 2014. A comparison of multiple proxy estimate of atmospheric CO2 from an Earth Paleocene rainforest. Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Oct. 19-22.  Crystal, V. F., Fricke, H. F., Sertich, J. W., and Miller, I. M., 2014. Focusing on the floodplain: Cycling of carbon and structure of forests in western North America during the Late Cretaceous. Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Oct. 19-22. Ian M. Miller CV 7

 Miller, I. M., Pigati, J., Johnson, K.R., and Anderson, S.R. 2013. An unprecedented, multi-proxy, high-elevation record of the Sangamon Interglacial in the Colorado Rockies. Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.  Pigati, J., Miller, I. M., Johnson, K.R., Honke, J., Carrara, P., Muhs, D.R., Skipp, G., and Bryant, B. 2013. Geologic setting and stratigraphy of the Ziegler Reservoir Fossil Site, Snowmass Village, Colorado. Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.  Miller, D.M., Jackson, S., and Miller, I. M. 2013. Biogeographic history of Late Pleistocene in Snowmass Village, Colorado. Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.  Veatch, S.W., Brown, T.R., Sepulveda, Z.J., and Miller, I. M. 2013. A preliminary investigation into the occurrence of carbonized in the Cripple Creek Volcanic Complex. Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.  Miller, I. M. 2013. Overview of Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary megafloras in Western North America and the vegetation they represent. Burpee Museum of Natural History, PaleoFest, Rockford, IL.  Miller, I. M. 2013. Overview of Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary megafloras in Western North America and the vegetation they represent. Casper College Tate Museum, Cretaceous Conference, Casper, WY.  Miller, I. M. 2013. Digging Snowmastadon: Discovering an Ice Age World in the Colorado Rockies. AIPG, 50th Annual Conference, Denver, CO.  Johnson, K.R., Miller, I. M., Pigati, J., Bryant, B., and Lucking, C. 2012. Regional Geological Overview and Stratigraphy of the Basin-Margin Debris Flows at Ziegler Reservoir, Pitkin County, Colorado. DMNS Technical Report Series 2012-5, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO, June 26-28, 2012.  Kline, D., and Miller, I. M., 2012. Taxonomic analysis of from the Late Pleistocene deposits at Ziegler Reservoir. DMNS Technical Report Series 2012-5, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO, June 26-28, 2012.  Lucking, C., Johnson, K.R., Pigati, J., and Miller, I. M. 2012. Primary Mapping and Stratigraphic Data and Field Methods for the Snowmastodon Project. DMNS Technical Report Series 2012-5, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO, June 26-28, 2012.  Miller, D.M., Jackson, S.T., and Miller, I. M. 2012. Morphometric analysis of fossil conifer cones collected from a high-elevation, Late Pleistocene, deposit near Snowmass Village, Colorado. DMNS Technical Report Series 2012-5, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO, June 26-28, 2012.  Miller, D.M., Jackson, S.T., and Miller, I. M. 2012. Tying fossil conifer cone taxa to the stratigraphic sequences of Ziegler reservoir in order to understand forest transitions in a high-elevation Late Pleistocene deposit near Snowmass Village, Colorado. American Quaternary Association, Programs with Abstracts vol. 22nd Biennial Meeting 2012, pg. 93.  Fricke, H. C., Kochevar, B., Clyde, W. C., Snell, K., Martin, K., and Miller, I. M. 2011. Landscape change and megafan deposition in the Denver Basin during the PETM. American Geophysical Union, Abstracts with Programs, San Francisco, CA.  Miller, I. M., and Johnson, K. R., 2011, The Campanian Flora of , Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, , November 2-5, 2011.  Johnson, K. R., Miller, I. M., Sertich, J., Stucky, R., Fisher, D. C., and Pigati, J. S. 2011, Ziegler Reservoir and the Snowmastodon Project: Overview and Geologic Setting of a Recently Discovered Series of High-Elevation Pleistocene (Sangamonian) Ecosystems Near Snowmass Village, Colorado. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2-5, 2011.  Stucky, R., Sertich, J., Johnson, K. R., Miller, I. M., Fisher, D. C., Graham, R. W., McDonald, H. G., and Pigati, J. S., 2011, A New High Altitude Late Pleistocene Interglacial/Glacial Site (Mis 5?) Preserving Large and Small Vertebrate Fossils from Western Colorado: The Snowmastodon Site at Ian M. Miller CV 8

Ziegler Reservoir, Pitkin County. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 2-5, 2011.  Gorman, M. II., and Miller, I. M., 2011. Temporal and latitudinal flora gradients in the Morrison Formation: Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, 2011 Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN.  Stucky, R., Sertich, J., Johnson, K. R., Miller, I. M., Fisher, D. C., Graham, R. W., McDonald, H. G., and Pigati, J. S. Ziegler Reservoir and the Snowmastodon Project: New high-elevation fossil vertebrate faunas from Snowmass Village CO: Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, 2011 Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN.  Richards, S., Johnson, K. R., Miller, I. M., Hays, K. and Schoemer, J. A community digs the Ice Age: Real-time science outreach on a world-class Pleistocene fossil site in Snowmass Village, CO: Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, 2011 Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN.  Johnson, K. R., Miller, I. M., Sertich, J., Stucky, R., Fisher, D. C., and Pigati, J. S. Ziegler Reservoir and the Snowmastodon Project: Overview and geologic setting of a recently discovered series of high-elevation Pleistocene ecosystems near Snowmass Village, CO: Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, 2011 Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN.  Meyer, H. W., D. Smith, K. R. Johnson, I. M. Miller, E. B. Leopold, and E. Nesbitt, 2011. Full disclosure of paleontological locality data: An integral component of credible science. In: Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Fossil Resources, Brigham Young University Geology Studies, vol. 49(A), p. 26.  Stucky, R. K., Miller, I. M., Chinnery-Allgeier, B. Dodge, B. 2010. Teen Science Scholars at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science: Nurturing the next generation of scientific leaders, Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.  Martin, K., Snell, K. E., Miller, I. M., and Johnson, K. R. 2010. Searching for the PETM in carbon isotope values of bulk organic matter from the interval of the D2 synorogenic strata of the Denver Basin, Colorado. Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.  Miller, I.M., Johnson, K.R., Kline, D., Nichols, D., 2009. Merging the ancient past with cutting-edge technology: A Late Campanian flora from the Kaiparowits Formation, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah, and a successful model for high-resolution outreach: Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Portland, OR.  Royer, D.L., Peppe, D.J., Miller, I.M., Hickey, L.J. Leaf economic traits from fossils support a weedy habit for early angiosperms: Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Portland, OR.  Miller, I. M., 2009. Paleotemperature Estimates of Paleoelevation: Factors That Affect Resolution (invited presentation) in Session Theme XIII: Grand Challenges that Limit Our Ability to Understand Paleoclimate and Paleoceanography in Deep Time: American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) 2009 Annual Convention, June 7-10.  Miller, I. M. and Johnson, K. R., 2009. A Late Campanian flora from the Kaiparowits Formation, Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, Utah: Advances in Western Interior Late Cretaceous Paleontology and Geology, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Cretaceous Conference, St. George, UT, May 22-23.  Miller, I. M., Brandon, M. T., Johnson, K. R., Peppe, D., Dunn, R., and Ellis, B., 2008. Paleobotanical Estimates fo Laramide Relief in the Western Interior of North America: Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Houston, TX.  Hickey, L.J. and Miller, I. M., 2008. The Winthrop Flora: A Far-Traveled, Albian Age, “Viking Funeral Ship” from Washington State, USA. International Organization of Paleobotany Meeting, Bonn, .  Bowring, S. A., Johnson, K. R., Clyde, W., Ramezani, J., Miller, I. M., Peppe, D., 2008. A Paleocene Timescale for the Rocky Mountains: Status and Potential: Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Houston, TX. Ian M. Miller CV 9

 Johnson, K., Ellis, B., Miller, I. M., 2008. The Paleocene Megaflora of the Western Interior of North America: Tapping the Potential of One of the Most Extensive Terrestrial Fossil Records: Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Houston, TX.  Miller, I. M., Johnson, K. J., Ellis, B., Fricke, H., and Raynolds, R. 2007. Evolution of relief on the Colorado Front Range: Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.  Gorman, M. A. II, Miller, I. M., Small, B., Pardo, J. 2007. A lacustrine Late Jurassic flora in the Morrison Formation: Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.  Ellis, B., Johnson, K. J., Miller, I. M., Hutton, C., Dunn, R., Barclay, R., Miller, D. M., 2007. Snapshots in Time: Floral change in the Denver Basin from 68-64 Ma: Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.  Johnson, K., Raynolds, R., Ellis, B., Miller, I. M., 2007. Outreach opportunities related to museum- sponsored research on the urban geology and surprising paleontology of the Laramide strata of the Denver Basin: Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.  Miller, I. M., Johnson, K. J., and Ellis, B., 2007. A Complete Cycad Plant from the Castle Rock Rainforest: Implications for the Evolution and Paleo-distribution of American . Mid- Continent Paleobotanical Colloquium, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX.  Miller, I. M., Johnson, K. R., Ellis, B., and Miller, D. M., 2006. An exceptionally preserved Paleocene flora from the Middle Park Formation, Colorado: Implications for the Laramide paleotopography of the Central Rocky Mountain Region. Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.  Ellis, B., Johnson, K. R., Miller, I. M., and Barclay, R., 2006. The Paleocene enigma: High diversity floras along the Rocky Mountain Front Range. Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.  Prevec, R., Miller, I. M., and Rumford, J. P., 2006. Palaeontology in the digital age: Taxonomy and the Future of Electronic Publication. Congress of the Palaeontological Society of Southern (PSSA), Grahamston, .  Miller, I. M., Green, W., 2006. Using LMA and CLAMP data to build new models for estimating elevation. Mid-Continent Paleobotanical Colloquium (MPC), Gainesville, FL.  Miller, I. M., Green, W., Zaitchik, B., Brandon, M., and Hickey, L., 2005. Evaluating LMA and CLAMP: Choosing a model for estimating elevation. American Geophysical Union, Abstracts with Programs, San Francisco, CA.  Green, W. A., Miller, I. M., and Hickey, L., 2005. Taking the climate out of CLAMP: Dealing with spatial autocorrelation under irregular geographical sampling of dicot leaf floras analyzed under the Climate Leaf Analysis Mulitvariate Program: Paleontological Association Annual Meeting, Oxford, UK.  Miller, I. M., Brandon, M. T. 2004. Cordilleran magmatic patterns consistent with Baja BC. Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.  Miller, I. M., Brandon, M. T., and Hickey, L.J. 2003. Paleobotanical method for restoring far- traveled terranes. Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA.  Miller, I. M., Brandon, M. T., and Hickey, L.J. 2002. Paleofloral tests for a far-traveled Baja BC. Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, 98th Cordilleran Section, Corvallis, OR.  Miller, I. M. and Johnson, K. R. 2000. Quantitative analysis of the Winthrop Formation flora of north-central Washington argues for vegetational dominance of angiosperms by the end of the Early Cretaceous: Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Reno, NV.

Select Invited Colloquia and Keynotes: Evolution and early diversification of angiosperms. The Colorado College, CO, Colloquium Series, Nov., 2000. Reading the : Paleofloral Tests for Far-Traveled Terranes. WIPS monthly speaker, Sept., 2006. Ian M. Miller CV 10

The Fossil Record of Land Plants. Evolution and the Fossil Record, WIPS Symposium, Golden, CO, Mar., 2007. Reading the Leaves: Paleofloral Tests for Far-Traveled Terranes. DMNS, Lunchtime Lecture, 2007. From Paleobotany to Geophysics: Fossil Plants as a Tool in Tectonics. Washington and Lee University, VA, Colloquium, Nov. 2007. Evolution of the Colorado Front Range: A view from the Denver Basin. University of Colorado Denver, Colloquium, Feb., 2008. Evolution of the Colorado Front Range: A view from the Denver Basin. , Oct., 2008. Evolution of the Colorado Rockies: A view from the Denver Basin. Bureau of Land Management, Nov. 2008. Deep Time Climate Change and its Relevance to Our Understanding of Global Warming. Colorado Renewable Energy Society Meeting, Nov., 2008. Plankton, and Plants, and Tectonics! Oh, my! The role of the long-term carbon cycle in Earth’s climate. WIPS monthly speaker, March, 2009. It’s a Jungle Out There: Late Cretaceous Flora of the Kaiparowits Formation, Grand Staircase-Escalante NM. Bureau of Land Management, Oct. 2009. Evolution of the Colorado Rockies: A view from the Denver Basin. Bear Creek Nature Center, Colorado Springs, CO; Oct. 2009. Plant Evolution on an Island Continent. Native Plant Society, Escalante, UT, May, 2010. Reading the Leaves: Deciphering the Geology of Western North America using fossil plants. University of Colorado in Boulder, Feb. 2013. Reading the Leaves: Deciphering the Geology of Western North America using fossil plants. University of Wyoming in Laramie, Jan. 2013. From to Mountain Climates: Final Results of The Snowmastodon Project. University of Colorado in Boulder, Dec. 2014. Evolution of the Colorado Front Range: A view from the Denver Basin, Palmer Land Trust, 2015. Reading the Leaves: Paleofloral Tests for Far-Traveled Terranes. DMNS, Digging Deeper Series, 2015. and mountain climates: Final results of from the Snowmastodon Project, talk in IMAX at DMNS, 2015. A Natural History Museum of the Community, by the Community, and for the Community. International Council of Museums, Milan, , June, 2016. Correlated biotic and abiotic changes during earth system succession following the K-Pg mass extinction, Gordon Research Conference, NH, 2019. After the Asteroid: Earth's Comeback Story, press conference, DMNS, 2019. Colorado Discovery Rocks the World, Google Inc., simulcast from Boulder, CO, 2020. The Deep Time History of Fisher’s Peak, The Nature Conservancy (virtual), 2020. Correlated plant diversity and climate in North America across the K/Pg mass extinction, Utah Dinofest, 2020. After the Asteroid: Earth's Comeback Story, BioLogic (virtual), , 2020. The 21st Century Museum: A Cornerstone of our Society, Univ. of Arkansas colloquium (virtual), 2021. Colorado’s Original Native Plants: The Paleobotany of Corral Bluffs, Colorado Native Plant Society (virtual), 2021.

Select Synergistic/Outreach Activities:  Seeker.com short film, Fossil Hunting is Entering a New Technological Age, lead participant, 2020. https://www.seeker.com/videos/earth-conservation/fossil-hunting-is-entering-a-new-technological- age  Curator for The Art of the Brick temporary Lego exhibit displayed at DMNS, 2020.  NOVA-PBS special, Rise of the , lead participant, 2019. Ian M. Miller CV 11

 After the Asteroid: Earth’s Comeback Story, curator for exhibit, 2019.  NOVA-National Geographic special, How the Earth Was Made, participant, 2015.  Co-convener for the GSA Topical Session (T33): The Snowmastodon Project: A Multi-Proxy Approach to Understanding the Response of Alpine Ecosystems to Climate Change in the Colorado Rockies: Geol. Soc. Am. Ann. Meeting, Denver, 2013.  Curator for Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age; displayed at DMNS between Feb. and May 2013.  America's Geologic Heritage Workshop, USGS, Denver. http://www.nature.nps.gov/geology/americas_geologic_heritage/overview.cfm  Digging Snowmastodon: Discovering an Ice Age Ecosystem in the Colorado Rockies book tour, Spring 2012.  NOVA-National Geographic special, Ice Age Death Trap, lead participant, 2012.  Curator for A Day in Pompeii; displayed at DMNS from Sept., 2012 to Jan. 2013.  Lead convener for the GSA Topical Session (T80): System Science in Museums: Tapping the Potential to Engage the General Public in the Complexity of the Earth. Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, 2010.  Co-convener for the GSA Topical Session (T155). Cryptic Uplift of the Interior of the U.S. Cordilleran Orogen. Geol. Soc. Am. Abstracts with Programs, Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, 2010.  Lead convener for the GSA Topical Session (T1): Denver Then and Now: From Paleontology to Public Policy in the Front Range Urban Corridor. Geol. Soc. Am. Ann. Meeting, Denver, 2007.  Curator for Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils New Discoveries from the American Museum of Natural History; displayed at DMNS from Sept. 27, 2008 to Jan. 4, 2009.  History Channel, How the Earth Was Made, lead participant, 2009.  Scientific consultant for the design of the Washakie Museum and Cultural Center in Worland, WY, 2009.  Co-convener for the GSA Topical Session: After the last ammonite and before the first horse: patterns of ecological and climatic change during the Paleocene: Geol. Soc. Am. Ann. Meeting, Houston, 2008.  Variable Laboratories (VAL) Research Project (NSF), Arizona State University, Feb., 2008.  Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure National Geographic production; scientific advisor, 2007.  Project http://www.bio.uu.nl/~palaeo/Azolla/Azolla.html  EARTHTIME III (NSF), Santa Fe Institute, NM, http://www.earth-time.org  Paleoelevation Workshop (NSF), Lehigh University, http://www.ei.lehigh.edu:16080/paleoelevation/index.html  Northeast Russia Tectonic Workshop (NSF), Stanford University, http://pangea.stanford.edu/research/structure/nerussia/index.html

Student Mentoring 2006–present Mentored approximately 75 high school, undergraduate, and graduate students

Select Major Media:  The Colorado Springs Project at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, which I led with Dr. Tyler Lyson, fellow curator at DMNS, has generated ~1,000 newspaper, television, or radio stories since October, 2019 (794 unique news stories and reached 1.7 billion people worldwide in the first three weeks after debut) including coverage in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, among other major venues. The project was the subject of a ~1200 ft2 exhibit at the DMNS (total museum annual visitors is 2.3 million) titled After the Asteroid: Earth’s Comeback Story, a one-hour PBS NOVA Special Rise of the Mammals (~2 million views opening Ian M. Miller CV 12

night, currently streams on PBS NOVA), and a recent high-profile scientific paper in Science Magazine on post-K/Pg mass extinction recovery that was named one of the top discoveries by Science Magazine in 2019 with two other K/Pg studies. Our work is also featured in classroom products produced by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) including a live bilingual blog Valley of the Last Dinosaurs, and curricula based on our research with the HHMI BioInteractive team. These materials go to, on average, 30,000 classrooms. In addition, we have partnered with Seeker (ranked #1 most-engaging Science Publisher on social media, including the #1 science and tech brand for Gen Z) on a short film to share our K/Pg research – Fossil Hunting is Entering a New Technological Age. Given the local interest in a major fossil discovery in their backyard, PI’s Lyson and Miller gave over 60 in-person and virtual talks in 2020 to over 45,000 people on the post-K/Pg mass extinction. DMNS maintains an established website, which is dedicated to paleontological discoveries from the Corral Bluffs study area https://coloradosprings.dmns.org/.  The Snowmastodon Project at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, which I led with Dr. Kirk Johnson, Sant Director of the National Museum of Natural History, has generated more than 1000 newspaper, television, or radio stories since October, 2010. These included front page coverage in the science section of the New York Times, multiple front page stories in the Denver Post, radio stories for CBC, BBC, NPR and Living on Earth, a television segment for PBS News Hour, and many mentions of the story in the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Associated Press, ABCNews.com, FoxNews.com, the Chicago Tribune, and Salon.com. A NOVA-National Geographic special was produced on the dig and was aired on PBS to 6.3 million people in February of 2012. The program currently streams on Netflix and PBS.  Featured in May, 2014 issue of the National Geographic Magazine, which highlighted my research on the fossil plants that occur on the lost dinosaur continent of Laramidia.  Featured in July, 2015 issue of New York Times, which highlighted my research on the fossil plants that occur on the lost dinosaur continent of Laramidia.

Co-authors and collaborators on funded grants in the last two years: Rothfels, Carl University of California - Berkeley 11/1/20 Erwin, Diane University of California - Berkeley 11/1/20 Looy, Cynthia University of California - Berkeley 11/1/20 Burnham, Robyn J. University of Michigan 11/1/20 Rabeler, Richard University of Michigan 11/1/20 Sessa, Emily University of Florida 11/1/20 Zhang, Libing Missouri Botanical Garden 11/1/20 Sundue, Michael University of and State Archeologic 11/1/20 Hu, Shusheng Yale University 11/1/20 Sweeney, Patrick Yale University 11/1/20 Watson, Kimberly New York Botanical Garden 11/1/20 Moran, Robbin New York Botanical Garden 11/1/20 von Konrat, Matt Field Museum of Natural History 11/1/20 Weakley, Alan S. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 11/1/20 Gensel, Patricia University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 11/1/20 Clyde, William C. University of New Hampshire 9/1/19 Weissenburger, Ken Denver Museum of Nature & Science 9/1/19 Bercovici, Antoine Smithsonian Institution 9/1/19 Fuentes, Anthony J. University of New Hampshire 9/1/19 Lyson, Tyler R. Denver Museum of Nature & Science 9/1/19 Ramezani, Jahandar Massachusetts Institute of Technology 9/1/19 Isakson, Vincent Boise State University 9/1/19 Ian M. Miller CV 13

Schmitz, Mark D. Boise State University 9/1/19 Johnson, Kirk R. Smithsonian Institution 9/1/19 Labandeira, Conrad C. Smithsonian Institution 3/1/21 Coiro, Mario University of Zurich 4/1/19 Griffith, M. P. Montgomery Botanical Gardens 4/1/19 Murphy, Vickie Montgomery Botanical Gardens 4/1/19 Erdei, Boglarka Hungarian Natural History Museum 4/1/19 Crystal, Victoria F. University of 10/1/20 Evans, Erica J. Yale University 4/1/19 Sertich, Joseph J.W. Denver Museum of Nature & Science 4/1/19 Currano, Ellen D. University of Wyoming 4/1/19 Pinheiro, Esther R.S. University of Wyoming 4/1/19 Buchwaldt, R. Boston University 4/1/19 Hagadorn, James W. Denver Museum of Nature & Science 9/1/19 Butrim, Mathew J. Wesleyan University 9/1/19 Fleming, Robert F. Denver Museum of Nature & Science 9/1/19 Barclay, Richard S. Smithsonian Institution 9/1/19 Maccracken, Sarah A. Smithsonian Institution 9/1/19 Lloyd, Ben The Colorado College 9/1/19 Wilson, Gregory P. University of Washington 9/1/19 Krause, David W. Denver Museum of Nature & Science 9/1/19 Chester, Stephen Brooklyn College 9/1/19 Petermann, Holger Denver Museum of Nature & Science 3/1/21 Bastien, Salvador Denver Museum of Nature & Science 3/1/21 Toth, Natalie Denver Museum of Nature & Science 3/1/21 Sohn, J-C Gongju National University of Education 3/1/21

Society Memberships (past and present): American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists (AASP) American Geophysical Union (AGU) Geological Society of America (GSA) International Council of Museums (ICOM) Paleontological Society (PS) Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) Western Interior Paleontological Society (WIPS)