CONSTANCE M. SOJA

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY • COLGATE UNIVERSITY 13 OAK DRIVE • HAMILTON, NY 13346

PHONE 315.228.7200 • FAX 315.228.7187 • E-MAIL csoja@colgate.edu EDUCATION Ph.D. 1985 University of Oregon, Eugene (Geology) B.A. 1977 Denison University, Granville, Ohio (Earth Science w/Honors) Indiana University Geology Field Camp (1976) Semester of study at University of Calgary (1975) EMPLOYMENT 2002- Professor Department of Geology, Colgate University Instructor for: The Sixth Extinction (FSem/Scientific Perspectives Core);

Geology Outdoors (FSem); History of Life (Geol/SP Core); Evolution: Dinosaurs to Darwin; Invertebrate Paleontology & Paleoecology; Paleontology of Marine Life; Scientific Research Methods; Seminar on Reefs; The Fragile Edge: Australia’s Reefs and Rainforests; Tectonics and Earth History; Darwin and the Victorian Age of Discovery (Core Distinction)

2006-2009 Chair Department of Geology, Colgate University 1995-2002 Associate Professor Department of Geology, Colgate University 1999-2000 Acting Chair Department of Geology, Colgate University 1992-1995 Assistant Professor Department of Geology, Colgate University 1990-1992 Science Scholar Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College Research fellowship at Radcliffe and laboratory affiliations with Andrew Knoll

(1990-91) and Raymond Siever (1991-92), Harvard University 1985-1990 Assistant Professor (Replacement position) Geology Department, Smith College 1983 Instructor Department of Geology, University of Oregon Instructor/supervisor of teaching assistants for a course on Earth History 1979-1983 Graduate Teaching Fellow Department of Geology, University of Oregon Lab instructor for: Introductory Geology; Invertebrate Paleontology;

Oceanography; Sedimentary Petrology and Petrography; Stratigraphy and Sedimentation

1980-1981 Graduate Research Assistant Department of Geology, University of Oregon 1980 Geology Instructor Talented and Gifted Students Program, University of Oregon 1979 Hydrology Field Assistant U.S. Geological Survey, Portland, Oregon 1979 Historical Researcher Oregon Historical Society, Portland, Oregon 1978 Hydrology Technician U.S. Forest Service, Kooskia, Idaho 1977 Geology Field Assistant University of Wisconsin (Madison), assisted M.S. degree

student advised by C.W. Byers 1975-1977 Laboratory Assistant and Proctor Department of Geology, Denison University

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SPECIAL AWARDS, APPOINTMENTS, AND HONORS 2015 Class of 2014 Citation Career Services, Colgate University Cited by Class of 2014 as “one of the most influential people at Colgate” 2014 Class of 2013 Citation Career Services, Colgate University Cited by Class of 2013 as “one of the most influential people at Colgate” 2013 Denison University Alumni Citation Denison University, Granville, OH

The college’s highest award honoring alumni “who have achieved recognized leadership among their peers through outstanding contributions and services to the professional, civic, business, or religious life of the nation or to the advancement of the University”

2006-2008 Presidential Scholar Department of Geology, Colgate University Two-year appointment to “honor faculty who have records of outstanding

scholarly achievement and who have also made substantial contributions to the university as a whole”

2005-2008 University Professor Division of University Studies, Colgate University Special appointment to provide oversight, staffing, and evaluation of First-Year Seminar, Core Distinction, and High Distinction programs

2007 Phi Eta Sigma Professor of the Year, the highest student-awarded teaching honor at Colgate

RESEARCH GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2014-2015 Boyce funds for field research on a comparative study of Devonian platy

limestone in Alaska and Scotland ($8,616); Boyce funds for field research on linking Alaska’s Alexander terrane to N. Atlantic–Caledonide tectonics ($7,268)

2012-2013 Boyce funds for field research on the Karheen Formation in Alaska’s Alexander terrane ($6,265)

2009-2010 Keck Geology Consortium grant for research on the Gobi-Altai terrane in Mongolia ($62,800); Research Council discretionary award ($1,000) and Boyce discretionary awards ($2,000) for research in Mongolia; and Council for Faculty Development award for visits to Great Barrier Reef and Wet Tropics to improve Geology 415: Reefs Seminar ($2,465)

2008-2010 Core Revision Committee research fund ($4,000) 2006-2010 Colgate Presidential Scholar research fund ($5,000); Middle States Steering

Committee research fund ($2,000) 2008-2009 Council for Faculty Development award for participation in Darwin

Conference at Hofstra University ($500) 2005-2006 Research Council discretionary award for presentation at specialized conference, France ($1,000); Council for Faculty Development discretionary grant to enhance teaching (Darwin course) ($500) 2004-2005 Boyce discretionary award and Council for Faculty Development grant for

research in the Gobi Desert, Mongolia ($4,000); Research Council discretionary award for attendance at specialized conference, Japan ($1,000); GSA grant for Pardee Keynote Symposium at annual meeting in Denver, CO ($2,000)

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2003-2004 NSF/AAAS Grant: Travel grant to plan collaborative research in Siberia and Mongolia ($5,000)

2002-2003 Boyce discretionary award for research on the Old Red Sandstone in UK ($1000); Research Council major grant for research on dinosaur eggs in France ($1,825)

2000-2001 Picker Fellowship ($9,235) and Colgate Research Council discretionary award ($800) for paleontologic research in Australia; Colgate Faculty Development award to enhance teaching (reefs seminar) ($700)

1999-2000 Colgate Research Council major grant to complete geologic research in Glacier Bay National Park, AK ($3,270)

1996-2000 NSF Grant EAR-9417407 (Supplement): Collaborative study of Silurian stromatolites in Alaska and the northern Urals, Russia ($25,935) 1995-2000 NSF Grant EAR-9417407: Terrane analysis of Silurian reefal carbonates,

Alaska ($100,000) 1995-1996 Picker Fellowship and Colgate Research Council discretionary award for

research on stromatolites in Australia and Tahiti ($7,945); National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council planning grant for research in Russia ($2,200); Major Grant from Colgate's Council for Faculty Development to enhance teaching based on Australia experience ($1,015)

1994-1995 Picker Fellowship for paleontologic research in southwestern Alaska ($10,444)

1993-1995 NSF Grant EAR-9300259: Undergraduate research projects on the geology of a deformed continental margin ($100,000; co-written with Kim Waldron)

1990-1993 NSF Grant EAR-9004745: Carbonate platform and reef development in the Alexander terrane of southeastern Alaska ($75,000)

1991 Office of Naval Research-Bunting Institute discretionary awards for research in Wales on Silurian reefs and for attendance at the International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria (Münster, Germany), including participation in a field trip to Gotland, Sweden ($3,000)

1988-1990 NSF Grant EAR-8707556: Paleoecologic and paleobiogeographic analysis of the Heceta limestone, Alexander terrane, southeastern Alaska ($60,000)

1990 SEPM Honorable Mention for oral presentation at AAPG-SEPM annual meeting

1988 Smith College Faculty Award to attend Penrose Conference on Paleozoic-Early Mesozoic Cordilleran Paleogeography (Redding, CA)

1987 Smith College Faculty Award for research on taphonomy and paleoecology of Oriskany Formation (eastern NY state); Smith College Faculty Award to attend 2nd International Symposium on the Devonian System (Calgary, Alberta)

1986 Smith College Faculty Award and Pew Grant for geologic research in Alaska; Pew Grant to attend short course on Holocene-Pleistocene carbonates, Bahamas

1984 G.S.A. travel subsidy to attend G.S.A. Cordilleran meeting (Anchorage, AK) 1983 Student Research Award from Department of Geology, Univ. Oregon 1982 G.S.A. Penrose Grant; Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research 1981 Harold T. Stearns Fellowship for Circum-Pacific Research; Sigma Xi grant

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INVITED LECTURES 2015 The great Alaskan terrane wreck (Geology Department seminar); Darwin’s

living legacy (invited lecture for Darwin Day event at Colgate) 2013 Tropical reefs: Coral kingdoms of the Mexican Riviera; A whale of a tale:

Evolution in the key of sea; The joy of birds: Cruisin’ the seas and skies; The Isthmus of Panama: Central America’s “fossil freeway;” Planet Earth challenge (Smithsonian Journeys)

2012 Islands in the sun: Bermuda and other Atlantic “hotspots;” Tropical reefs: Coral kingdoms under the sea; Evolution in isolation: Bermuda’s fauna and flora; Mysteries of the deep: Denizens of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge; Global change and the Atlantic (Smithsonian Journeys); Darwin’s living legacy (invited lecture for Darwin Day dinner at Colgate); The dinosaur that laid Colgate’s “golden egg:” Unscrambling the global importance of dinosaurs (invited lecture for Benton Scholars at Colgate)

2010 Unscrambling the taphonomy of Gobi dinosaur eggs (University of Wollongong, Australia); Paleozoic paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Gobi-Altai terrane, Mongolia (Keck Symposium, Houston, TX) 2009 How to unscramble Colgate’s dinosaur egg (Colgate’s Reunion College and

Family Week-end); Student-faculty research in Mongolia, summer 2009 (Geology Department seminar)

2008 Unscrambling Colgate’s dinosaur egg: Progress report (Colgate’s Science Colloquium and Family Week-end)

2007 Dinosaur egg taphonomy (Indiana University); How to unscramble a dinosaur egg (Syracuse Geological Society, NY; Alfred University, NY; and Colgate’s Reunion College)

2006 How to unscramble a dinosaur egg (Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, NY)

2005 Dinosaur egg taphonomy (University of Manchester, England); In search of Colgate history: Across the Mongolian steppes in the footsteps of Roy Chapman Andrews (Geology Department seminar); How to unscramble Colgate’s Oviraptor egg (Colgate Science Colloquium)

2004 Earth’s biodiversity through time (Colgate Science Colloquium/Panel Discussion); Paleogeography of Alaska’s Alexander terrane (University of Georgia); How to unscramble Colgate’s Oviraptor egg (Colgate University)

2003 How to unscramble Colgate’s Oviraptor egg (Colgate University); Silurian islands in the Uralian Seaway (Meeting of central NY paleontology group, Colgate University)

2002 Silurian islands in the Uralian Seaway (University of Manchester, UK) 2000 Reefs and Silurian seascapes (Denison University); The fossil record speaks.

Is Kansas listening? (Provost's Alumni Scholar Series at Denison University); A 21st century perspective on the evolution-creationism debate (Boyce-Wolk Symposium at Colgate)

1999 The fossil record speaks. Is Kansas listening? (Colgate University) 1997 Stromatolites and reef evolution through geologic time (SUNY/Buffalo);

Stromatolites and microbial contributions to reef development through geologic time (University of Montana)

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1996 Stromatolites from Australia to Alaska: Tracking the world's oldest ecosystems in space and time (Colgate University Science Colloquium)

1995 The paleontological record of mass mortalities in the sea (University of Massachusetts); Assembling Alaska (dedication of new science building, Denison University)

1994 Evolution in isolation: Silurian reefs of the proto-Pacific (University of Chicago)

1993 Terrane analysis of island-arc carbonates, Alaska (Syracuse University) 1992 Identifying oceanic islands in Cordilleran terranes (SUNY, Binghamton);

Terrane analysis of accreted oceanic islands (Wellesley College); Paleobiology of ancient oceanic islands (Colgate University); Accreted oceanic islands and Silurian reefs: a case study from southeastern Alaska (McGill University)

1991 Evolutionary significance of marine fossils from ancient oceanic islands (Radcliffe College); Evolution of Silurian marine communities in the Alexander terrane, Alaska (Colgate University); Tectonic analysis of Silurian island-arc carbonates (Vassar College); Dynamics of carbonate sedimentation in the Alexander arc of southeastern Alaska (University of Connecticut); Terrane analysis of Silurian carbonates, Alaska (SUNY, Geneseo); Carbonate depositional systems in a Paleozoic island arc (University of South Florida, University of Pittsburgh); Origin of Silurian reefs in the Alexander terrane, Alaska (University of Wales)

1990 Reef development and decline in a Silurian island arc (Harvard University); Carbonate platform and reef evolution in active tectonic settings (University of Wisconsin)

1988 Paleozoic island-arc carbonates, Alexander terrane (University of Pennsylvania)

1987 Analysis of terrane faunas, Alaska (Colorado College) 1986 Analysis of terrane faunas, Alaska (Oberlin College) 1985 Paleoenvironmental analysis of Devonian limestones, Alaska (Hamilton College and Smith College) PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 2015 Co-convener, paleontology theme session to honor paleo-artist Ray Troll at

G.S.A. Cordilleran section meeting (Anchorage, AK); Co-leader, Building Strong Departments Workshop at Central Connecticut State University

2014 Building Strong Departments Leader-Training Workshop (program funded by NAGT and NSF’s InTeGrate STEP Center in the Geosciences)

2009- Associate Editor, Palaios 2008-2013 Schuchert Award Committee, Paleontological Society 2004 Co-convener, Pardee Keynote Symposium at G.S.A. Annual Meeting (Denver, CO) 2003 Interim Secretary, The Paleontological Society 1998-01 Past-President, Board of Trustees, Paleontological Research Institution 1996-98 President, Board of Trustees, Paleontological Research Institution 1995-96 Vice-president, Board of Trustees, Paleontological Research Institution 1995 Convener of paleontological symposium at G.S.A. northeastern section meeting (Hartford, CT)

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1994-95 President, Paleontological Society (northeastern section of G.S.A.) 1994 Co-chair of paleontology session at G.S.A. annual meeting (Seattle, WA); Co-

chair of technical session at International Stromatolite Conference (Laughlin, NV); Co-chair of paleontology session at G.S.A. northeastern section meeting (Binghamton, NY)

1993-94 Vice-president, Paleontological Society (northeastern section of G.S.A.) 1993 Participant in Keck consortium workshop on the teaching of paleontology at

undergraduate institutions (Smith College); Science Colloquium (Colgate University)

1992 Attendance at NY State Geological Association meeting (Hamilton, NY); Co-chair of session on Sediment Genesis and Provenance at G.S.A. Cordilleran section meeting (Eugene, OR); Participation in the Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas, San Salvador Island, Bahamas

1991 Co-chair of Paleoecology session (San Diego, CA); Participation in field trip to Gotland, Sweden

1989 Presentation at Five-College Geology Faculty Symposium (Smith College) 1988 Attendance at Penrose Conference on Paleozoic-Early Mesozoic Cordilleran

Paleogeography (Redding, CA); Sigma Xi lecture (Smith College) 1987 Attendance at A.A.P.G. annual meeting (Los Angeles, CA); Presentation at

Five-College Geology Faculty Symposium (Amherst College) 1986 Attendance at New York Geological Association annual meeting (Ithaca,

NY) and A.A.P.G. meeting (Atlanta, GA) 1985 Presentation at Five-College Geology Faculty Symposium (Amherst College);

Sigma Xi lecture (Smith College) OTHER ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Director: Wollongong Study Group, Australia (Spring 2010); Wales Study Group, Cardiff (Spring 2008); Manchester Study Group, England (Fall 2002, 2005) Co-director: Marine and Freshwater Science program (Colgate University) Trustee: Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) (1994-2006; Emeritus 2006 – ) Committees: Liberal Arts Core Curriculum Revision Committee; Reaccreditation Steering

Committee (Chair: Working Group on Academic Programs; Member: Working Group on Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes); First-Year Seminar, Core Distinction, and High Distinction programs (Chair); G. Arthur Cooper Lecture Series (Chair); Natural Sciences and Mathematics Chairs Committee; Keck Geology Consortium Committee; Presidential Search Committee; Academic Affairs Board (AAB); AAB Subcommittees on Fractional Course Credit and on Academic Honor Code; Search Committee for V-P for Administrative Services (Chair); Student Rights and Responsibilities; Manchester Study Group Steering Committee (Chair); Mellon Foundation Grant Working Group; Chair, Executive Committee (PRI); Chair, Education Committee (PRI); Co-Chair, Exhibits Committee (PRI); Nomination Committee of Paleontological Society; Paleontological Society Awards; New England Consortium for Undergraduate Science Education (NECUSE); Science Planning (Smith); Jeanne McFarland Prize Selection (Smith)

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Meetings: Secretary to the AAB (2013, 2004-2005); Secretary to the Faculty (2000-2003) Co-ordinator: Baba Brinkman’s “Rap Guide to Evolution” and rap-writing workshop

(2010); dedication of new Linsley Geology Museum (2009); Darwin Week events (2009); Colgate Time Capsule (2007); First & Second Annual Summer Research Student Symposia (2007, 2008); Linsley Geology Museum exhibits planning (2005-2007); MentorNet (1999-2002); Boyce-Wolk Symposium on "Evolution and the Age of the Earth" (2000); Science Colloquium series (1993-1995)

Co-instructor: Off-campus summer geology field program, Geology Department (1993-2007)

Adjunct Undergraduate Research Project on Ordovician carbonates in New York faculty: state, sponsored by the Keck Consortium (1991) External Three-person review team for the Earth Science program at Vassar College, reviewer: Poughkeepsie, NY (2012) Reviewer: Bunting Institute (Radcliffe College) geology applications for Science Scholar

fellowships; NSF Stratigraphy/Paleontology and International Programs (Japan); National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences; G.S.A. Special Paper 255 on eastern Klamath-northern Sierra Nevada terranes; Second International Symposium on Devonian System; Paleontological Society Special Publication on Paleocommunity Temporal Dynamics; G.S.A. Bulletin; Palaios; Journal of Geology; Journal of Sedimentary Research

Citationist: 2000 Neil Miner Award from NAGT to Dr. Kennard B. Bork Events: SEED and SA workshops on dinosaurs; Biomimicry Workshop for NYS

educators; Host for geology lecturers at Colgate: Ian Macfarlane (EA, Ltd.); Jesse Czekanski-Moir ’04 (University of Oklahoma); Kevin Padian ‘72 (UC/Berkeley); Thomas Rothwell (AMNH); Warren Allmon (Paleontological Research Institution); Don Prothero (Occidental College); Martha McConnell ’97 (National Academy of Sciences); Mark Leckie (University of Massachusetts); Sandra Wyld and Jim Wright (University of Georgia); Benjamin Greenstein (Cornell College); Thomas Rothwell (AMNH); Char Mehrtens (University of Vermont); Karl Flessa (University of Arizona); George Stanley, Jr. (University of Montana); David Quammen (writer and science journalist, Bozeman, MT); Sally Walker (University of Georgia); Don Duggan-Haas (Colgate); Christy Visaggi ‘02 (Syracuse University); Emily Hirshorn ‘01 (Teach for America); David Sunderlin ‘99 (University of Chicago); David Fastovsky (University of Rhode Island); Bradford Linsley (SUNY/Albany); H. Allen Curran (Smith College); Linda Ivany (Syracuse University); Warren Allmon (Paleontological Research Institution); Ross MacPhee (American Museum of Natural History); Christopher McRoberts (SUNY-Cortland); Benjamin Greenstein (Cornell College); Brian White (Smith College); Julia Cole (University of Colorado); Damhnait McHugh (Colgate); Emily CoBabe (University of Massachusetts); Ray Troll (artist, Ketchikan, AK); Julie Brigham-Grette (University of Massachusetts); Lauret Savoy (Mt. Holyoke College); Paul Morris (Paleontological Research Institution); Tekla Harms (Amherst College); BOCES-Fredonia workshop on dinosaurs; Moderator of panel on environmental careers (Radcliffe College); Coordinator for Five College/University Geology Lecturers at Smith: Cathryn Newton (Syracuse University); Jane Gray (Univ. of Oregon)

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Educational Junior Paleontologist summer program; SEED, SA, BOCES- outreach: Fredonia, and NYS Science Supervisors Association (NYSSSA); workshops on dinosaurs; NPR program on Alaskan geology aired on KRBD in Ketchikan, AK Consultant: Art exhibit by Ray Troll on fossils of Alaska, Juneau State Museum, AK Advising: Geology majors adviser; Pre-major first-year and sophomore adviser Nominee: Phi Eta Sigma Professor of the Year (2001; 2002) Awards: Professor of the Week (February 2001, October 2004) SUPERVISED STUDENT RESEARCH

Colgate Student (Project Year)

Alaska-Russia Research Projects (Director) (1992 – ongoing)

Current Status

Joshua P. Riefler (’14)

“XRD and SEM analysis of Silurian megalodont bivalve deposits in Alaska’s Alexander terrane”

Job in finance, Boston

Craig J. Capodiferro (’13)

“Paleoecology and paleobiogeographic implications of Silurian megalodont bivalves in Alaska’s

Alexander terrane”

Family business

Christy Visaggi (’00-’02)

“The encrusting aphrosalpingid–Fistulella relationship: An investigation of hydroid-sponge associations”

PhD in paleo at Univ. North Carolina; Lecturer,

Georgia State Univ. Megan Mitchell

(’01) “Mutualistic paleoecologic relationship between Silurian

aphrosalpingid sponges and the problematic hydroid, Fistulella”

Environmental consultant

Alicia Newton (’01-’02)

“Paleoenvironmental implications of Silurian microbial-sponge associations, Northern and Southern Ural

Mountains, Russia” (Honors thesis)

PhD in paleo at Univ. South Carolina; Editor,

Nature Geoscience

Jann Vendetti (’00)

“Unraveling a paleo-problematicum: An investigation into the taxonomy of the problematic hydroid, Fistulella”

PhD in paleo at UC/ Berkeley; Asst. Prof. at Cal. State Polytechnic,

Pomona Stacey Joyce

(’99) “Origin and composition of Silurian stromatolites,

Glacier Bay National Park, AK” MA degree at Univ.

Washington Lisa Mayhew

(’99)

“Environmental setting and tectonic implications of Silurian breccias, Glacier Bay National Park, AK”

MS degree at Univ. Idaho; PhD student at

Univ. Colorado Brian Flynn

(’97-’98) “The paleoecology of Pycinodesma bivalves in the Silurian

Willoughby Fm., Glacier Bay, AK” Fulbright teacher in

Korea Allison Gleason

(’97-’98) “Gastropod assemblages as evidence of Silurian

paleoenvironments, Glacier Bay National Park, se AK” M.EM. in coastal

management at Duke; Curator, North Carolina

Maritime Museum Colleen Brogenski

(’96-’97) “Origin of Devonian reef-related deposits, Alexander

terrane, se Alaska” (Honors thesis) MS degree in paleo at

UC/Davis; MAT degree at Rice; teacher

Lena Krutikov (’96)

“Origin and provenance of polymictic conglomerates in the Heceta Formation, Alexander terrane, se AK”

MS degree in geophysics at Univ. Alaska

Jennifer Thibeau (’95-’96)

“Origin of Middle Devonian nautiloid deposits in southeastern Alaska”

MS degree at Univ. South Carolina

Erika Zavala (’95-’96)

“Origin of Middle Devonian nautiloid deposits in southeastern Alaska”

Environmental geologist, CA

Katrina Gobetz (’93-’94)

“Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of a Devonian reef-like complex in the Alexander terrane, southeastern

Alaska” (Honors thesis)

PhD in paleo at Univ. Kansas; Asst. Prof. at James Madison Univ.

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Nikki Bazie (’93)

“Paleoecology of Silurian Atrypoidea communities from the Heceta Formation, southeastern Alaska”

MS degree at Clarkson University; teacher

Leah Kittredge (’92-’93)

“Depositional tectonics of Silurian marine limestones in the Heceta Formation, southeastern Alaska”

(Honors thesis)

MS in hydro/environ- mental geology at Univ.

Maine Loren Hotaling

(’92) “Environmental setting of aphrosalpingid sponges in the

Silurian Heceta Formation, southeastern Alaska” Teacher

Student (Project Year)

Keck-Belize Research Project Current Status

Shannon Dillon (’15)

“Taphonomic and morphometric analysis of Acropora prolifera at Coral Cays, Belize”

Independent research project (co-advised with L. Greer)

Senior

Student (Project Year)

Home Institution

Keck-Mongolia Research Projects (Co-Director) (2009-2010)

Current Status

Uyanga Bold (’09)

Mongolian Univ. of Science & Technology

“Chemostratigraphy of the Lower Silurian Scharchuluut Formation, Yamaan-Us, Shine Jinst region, Gobi-Altai

terrane, Mongolia” Independent research project (co-advised with C. Minjin)

MS student in paleo at Harvard

Bilguun Dalaibaatar (’09-’10)

Mongolian Univ. of Science & Technology

“Geologic map and paleoecology of the Lower Silurian Scharchuluut Formation at ‘Wenlock Hill,’ Shine Jinst

region, Gobi-Altai terrane, Mongolia” Independent research project (co-advised with C. Minjin)

Student in Mongolia

Timothy Gibson (’09-’10)

Colorado College

“Chemostratigraphy and depositional environments of the Lower Devonian Tsakhir Formation in the Gobi-Altai

terrane, Shine Jinst, Mongolia” Honors project at Colorado College (co-advised with P. Myrow)

Ph.D student at McGill University

Badral Khurelbaatar (’09-’10)

Mongolian Univ. of Science & Technology

“Brachiopods from the Lower Silurian Scharchuluut Formation, Yamaan-Us, Shine Jinst region, Gobi-Altai

terrane, Mongolia” Independent research project (co-advised with C. Minjin)

Student in Mongolia

Madelyn Mette (’09-’10)

Macalester College

“Chemostratigraphy and magnetic stratigraphy of the Upper Ordovician Daravgai and Gashuun Ovoo

Formations, Gobi-Altai terrane, Shine Jinst, Mongolia” Honors project (co-advised with R. Rogers)

MS student in paleo at University of Iowa

Sara Oser (’09-’10)

Univ. of Cincinnati

“Paleontology and sequence stratigraphy of the Upper Ordovician Daravgai and Gashuun Ovoo Formations,

Gobi-Altai terrane, Shine Jinst, Mongolia” Independent research project (co-advised with C. Brett)

MS student in paleo at Montana State University

Adam Pellegrini (’09)

Colgate University

“Origin of Emsian reefoid deposits, Gobi-Altai terrane, Shine Jinst, Mongolia”

Geol 491 project

PhD student in ecology and evolutionary biology

at Princeton Jennifer Peteya

(’09-’10) Mt. Union College

“Paleoecology of Eifelian trilobites in the Tsagaankhaalga Formation, Gobi-Altai terrane, Shine Jinst, Mongolia”

Independent research project (co-advised with L. Gray)

MS student in paleo at The Ohio State

University Munkh-Od Purevtseren

(’09-’10) Mongolian Univ. of

Science & Technology

“Geologic map showing east-to-west facies transitions in the Lower Silurian Scharchuluut Formation, Scharchuluut,

Shine Jinst region, Gobi-Altai terrane, Mongolia” Independent research project (co-advised with C. Minjin)

Student in Mongolia

Nadine Reitman (’09-’10)

Vassar College

“Chemostratigraphy, paleoecology, and depositional environments of Upper Silurian (?)-Lower Devonian

limestones in the Ammansair Formation at Ulaanshand and Tsakhir, Gobi-Altai terrane, Shine Jinst, Mongolia”

Honors project (co-advised with D. Gillikin)

MS student in hydrogeology at

University of Colorado; GeoCorps position in

paleo in Alaska Nicholas Sullivan “Eifelian/Givetian boundary in the Govialtai Formation, MS degree in paleo at

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(’09-’10) SUNY/Geneseo

Gobi-Altai terrane, Shine Jinst, Mongolia” Honors project (co-advised with J. Over)

University of Cincinnati; environmental consultant

Zoe Vulgaropulos (’09-’10)

Oberlin College

“Chemostratigraphy, paleoecology, and depositional environments of Upper Silurian (?)-Lower Devonian

limestones in the Ammansair Formation at Ulaanshand and Tsakhir, Gobi-Altai terrane, Shine Jinst, Mongolia”

Honors project (co-advised with D. Hubbard)

GeoCorps position in Maryland

Beverly Walker (’08-’09)

Colgate University

“Gastropod assemblages from the Tertiary Chickaloon Formation in southern Alaska”

MS degree in paleo at Vanderbilt University; Laboratory Operations Supervisor, U.S. Antarctic Program

Dana Fisco (’07-’08)

Colgate University

“Post-hurricane dynamics and status of coral reefs, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands”

MS student in reef ecology; marine naturalist

in CA Colgate Student (Project Year)

Book Project (Director) Current Status

Emily Kennedy (’08-’10); Alyssa Hausman

(’07)

Assisted preparation of The Last Good Buy: Evolution in the New Age of Extinction

PhD program in biomimicry, Univ. Akron;

Policy rep at American Sportfishing Association

Student (Project Year)

Course Revision Project (Director) Current Status

Gemma Wallace (’10) Functional morphology of bivalves and gastropods in the R.M. Linsley collections

Senior at Whitman College

Colgate Student (Project Year)

Digital Database Project (Director) Current Status

Andy Sia (’14-‘15) Photographic database of invertebrate specimens in the R.M. Linsley collections

Junior at Colgate

Victor Steffen (’15) Photographic database of invertebrate specimens in the R.M. Linsley collections

Senior at Colgate

Colgate Student (Project Year)

Australia Research Project (Director) Current Status

Luke Dwyer (’01)

“Paleoenvironmental analysis of Silurian rocks from the Jack Hills Formation, Broken River region of North

Queensland, Australia”

Environmental consultant

Colgate Student (Project Year)

Dinosaur Egg Research and Film Projects (Director) Current Status

Michael Britton (’11) Introduction to “Darwin and Natural Selection” program shown in the Ho Science Center’s Visualization Lab; script

for new program on dinosaurs for the Viz Lab

PhD student at Florida International University

Amy Griffin (’04-’05) Art student’s film about Colgate’s Oviraptor egg Christopher Maslanka

(’01) “Comparative analysis of two types of Mongolian dinosaur

eggs” MA degree in English at

Univ. Toronto David Sunderlin

(’98-’99) “A taphonomic analysis of Colgate’s Oviraptor egg:

implications for the Cretaceous Mongolian paleoenvironment”

PhD in paleo at Univ. Chicago; Assoc. Prof. at

Lafayette Coll., PA David Goldsmith

(’93) “Analysis of an egg of Protoceratops andrewsi “ Geology Prof. and Chair,

Westminster Coll., UT Smith College

Student (Project Year)

Alaska Mapping Projects (Director) Current Status

Chuma Mbalu (’89) & Jenni Granducci (’89)

“Stratigraphy of the Heceta Formation, Prince of Wales Island, southeastern Alaska”

MS in geoengineering at Penn State

Beth Lacey (’88) & “Field mapping and stratigraphy of the Heceta Formation, PhD in geology, Univ.

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Lisa Oxboel (’88) Prince of Wales Island, southeastern Alaska” Rhode Island; MS in geology, Univ. Mass.

Molly Stark (’87) & Linden Rhoads (’87)

“Field mapping in Freshwater Bay, Chichagof Island, southeastern Alaska”

Environmental geologist; Director of IT firm (WA)

PUBLISHED ARTICLES (* = student co-author)

Soja, C.M. 2014. A field-based biomimicry exercise helps students discover connections

between biodiversity, form-and-function, and species conservation during Earth’s Sixth Extinction. Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 62:679-690.

Soja, C.M. 2014. The last good buy: Evolution in the new age of extinction. The Colgate

Scene, v. 43 (3):26-31. http://news.colgate.edu/scene/2014/04/the-last-good-buy.html Soja, C.M., and Antoshkina, A.I. 2013. The Alexander terrane of the North American

Cordillera: A critical analysis of Silurian-Devonian paleogeography. Lithosphere, no. 4:3-21. [in Russian]

Soja, C.M., and Domack, C. 2012. A census of Devonian life in central New York State:

Fossil collecting for teachers and students. NYSGA annual meeting (Clinton, NY). Soja, C.M. 2012. Reefs as the centralizing theme in an undergraduate paleontology course.

In Yacobucci, M.M., and Lockwood, R. (eds.). Teaching Paleontology in the 21st Century. The Paleontological Society Special Papers, v. 12:21-42.

Soja, C.M. 2012. The last good buy: Birds in the new age of extinction. American

Paleontologist, v. 19 (4):10-16. [cover story and feature article] Pellegrini, A.F.A.,* Soja, C.M., and Minjin, C. 2012. Post-tectonic limitations on Early

Devonian (Emsian) reef development in the Gobi-Altai region, Mongolia. Lethaia, v. 45:46-61.

Soja, C.M., Minjin, C., Myrow, P., and Over, D.J. 2010. Paleozoic paleoenvironmental

reconstruction of the Gobi-Altai terrane, Mongolia. In de Wet, A.P., and Heister, L. Keck Geology Consortium. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Keck Research Symposium in Geology:182-199. http://keckgeology.org/files/pdf/symvol/23rd/Mongolia/

Soja_et_al.pdf Soja, C.M. 2008. Silurian-bearing terranes of Alaska. In Blodgett, R.B., and Stanley, G.D.

(eds.), The terrane puzzle: New perspectives on paleontology and stratigraphy from the North American Cordillera. Geological Society of America Special Paper 442:39-50.

Soja, C.M., and Krutikov, L.* 2008. Provenance, depositional setting, and tectonic

implications of Silurian polymictic conglomerates in Alaska’s Alexander terrane. In Blodgett, R.B., and Stanley, G.D. (eds.), The terrane puzzle: New perspectives on paleontology and stratigraphy from the North American Cordillera. Geological Society of America Special Paper 442:63-75.

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Soja, C.M. 2008. Unscrambling dinosaur eggs. American Paleontologist:16 (2):19-23. [invited paper — cover story and feature article]

Soja, C.M. 2007. Silurian metazoan bioherms and biostromes, southeastern Alaska

(Alexander terrane). In Vennin, E., Artez, M., Boulvain, F., and Munnecke, A. (eds.), Facies from Palaeozoic reefs and bioaccumulations. Mémoires du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, v. 195:157-159.

Soja, C.M., Newton, A.,* Antoshkina, A.I., and White, B. 2007. Silurian skeletal

stromatolite reefs, southeastern Alaska (Alexander terrane) and Ural Mountains, Russia. In Vennin, E., Artez, M., Boulvain, F., and Munnecke, A (eds.), Facies from Palaeozoic reefs and bioaccumulations. Mémoires du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, v. 195:161-163.

Antoshkina, A.I., and Soja, C.M. 2006. Late Silurian reconstruction indicated by migration

of reef biota between Alaska, the Urals, and Siberia (Salair). GFF (Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar), 128:75-78.

Soja, C.M. 2005. Fossil microbial reefs. McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology

2005:117-119. Soja, C.M. 2005. The Silurian of Siberia’s Salair region. Vestnik, No. 2 (122):26-27. Soja, C.M., Mitchell, M.,* Newton, A.J.,* Vendetti, J.,* Visaggi, C.,* Antoshkina, A.I., and

White, B. 2003. Paleoecology of sponge-?hydroid associations in Silurian microbial reefs. Palaios, 18:225-235.

Soja, C.M., and Huerta, D. 2001. Debating whether dinosaurs should be "cloned" from

ancient DNA to promote cooperative learning in an introductory evolution course. Journal of Geoscience Education, 49:43-49.

Soja, C.M., White, B., Antoshkina, A., Joyce, S.,* Mayhew, L.,* Flynn, B.,* and Gleason, A.*

2000. Development and decline of a Silurian stromatolite reef complex, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska. Palaios, 15:273-292.

Soja, C.M. 1999. Using an experiment in burial taphonomy to delve into the fossil record.

Journal of Geoscience Education, 47:31-38. Soja, C.M., and Antoshkina, A.I. 1998. Reply to a Comment on 'Coeval development of

Silurian stromatolite reefs in Alaska and the Ural Mountains: implications for paleogeography of the Alexander terrane'. Geology, 26:383-384.

Savage, N.M., and Soja, C.M. 1998. Lower to Middle Devonian (latest Emsian to earliest

Eifelian) conodonts from the Alexander terrane, southeastern Alaska. Short Notes on Alaskan Geology (1997), Alaska Division of Geology and Geophysics, Professional Report 118:125-129.

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Soja, C.M., and Antoshkina, A.I. 1997. Coeval development of Silurian stromatolite reefs in Alaska and the Ural Mountains: implications for paleogeography of the Alexander terrane. Geology, 25:539-542.

Soja, C.M. 1996. Island-arc carbonates: characterization and recognition in the ancient

geologic record. Earth-Science Reviews, 41:31-65. Soja, C.M., Gobetz, K.E.*, Thibeau, J.E.*, Zavala, E.*, and White, B. 1996. Taphonomy

and paleobiological implications of Middle Devonian (Eifelian) nautiloid concentrates, Alaska. Palaios, 11:422-436.

Bazard, D.R., Butler, R.F., Gehrels, G., and Soja, C.M. 1995. Early Devonian

paleomagnetic data from the Lower Devonian Karheen Formation suggest Laurentia-Baltica connection for the Alexander terrane. Geology, 23:707-710.

Rigby, J.K., Nitecki, M.H., Soja, C.M., and Blodgett, R.B. 1994. Silurian aphrosalpingid

sphinctozoans from Alaska and Russia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 39:341-391. Soja, C.M. 1994a. Reply to a Comment on "Significance of Silurian stromatolite-

sphinctozoan reefs." Geology, 22:1051-1052. Soja, C.M. 1994b. Significance of Silurian stromatolite-sphinctozoan reefs. Geology,

22:355-358. Soja, C.M. 1993. Carbonate platform evolution in a Silurian oceanic island: a case study

from Alaska's Alexander terrane. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, 63:1078-1088. Soja, C.M. and Riding, R. 1993. Silurian microbial associations from the Alexander terrane,

Alaska. Journal of Paleontology, 67:728-738. Riding, R. and Soja, C.M. 1993. Silurian calcareous algae, cyanobacteria, and

microproblematica from the Alexander terrane, Alaska. Journal of Paleontology, 67:710-728.

Soja, C.M. 1992. Potential contributions of ancient oceanic islands to evolutionary theory.

Journal of Geology, 100:125-134. Soja, C.M. 1991a. Origin of Silurian reefs in the Alexander terrane of southeastern Alaska.

Palaios, 6:111-126. Soja, C.M. 1991b. Silurian trace fossils in carbonate turbidites from the Alexander arc of

southeastern Alaska. Ichnos, 1:173-181. Soja, C.M. 1990. Island arc carbonates from the Silurian Heceta Formation of southeastern

Alaska (Alexander terrane). Journal of Sedimentary Petrology, 60:235-249. Soja, C.M. 1988a. Lower Devonian (Emsian) benthic communities from Kasaan Island,

southeastern Alaska:265-279. In McMillan, N.J., Embry, A.T. and Glass, D.J. (eds.)

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Devonian of the World. Vol. III: Paleontology, Paleoecology and Biostratigraphy. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Memoir 14.

Soja, C.M. 1988b. Lower Devonian (Emsian) brachiopods from southeastern Alaska,

U.S.A. Palaeontographica, Series A, 201:129-193. Soja, C.M. 1988c. Early Devonian benthic communities of the Alexander terrane,

southeastern Alaska. Lethaia, 21:319-338. Soja, C.M. 1988d. Lower Devonian platform carbonates from Kasaan Island, southeastern

Alaska, Alexander terrane. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 25:639-656. Townley, P.J., Soja, C. M., and Sidle, W.C. 1980. Ground-water data for Riley and Andrews

Resource Areas, southeastern Oregon. U.S.G.S. Open-File Report 80-419, 32 p. E-PUBLICATIONS (peer-reviewed) Soja, C.M. 2014. Fossil identification. http://serc.carleton.edu Soja, C.M., and Huerta, D. 2012. Jurassic Park debate.

http://serc.carleton.edu/introgeo/roleplaying/examples/jurassic.html Soja, C.M., and Huerta, D. 2000. Should dinosaurs be "cloned" from ancient DNA?

http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/dinodna.html (University of Buffalo Case Studies in Science Collection).

Soja, C.M., and Huerta, D. 2000. Case teaching notes for "Should dinosaurs be 'cloned'

from ancient DNA?" http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/dinodna_notes. html (University of Buffalo Case Studies in Science Collection).

FIELD GUIDEBOOKS Soja, C.M. 2009. Keck-Mongolia: Field Guidebook 2009. 119 p. Minjin, C., and Soja, C.M. 2009. Geology of Shine Jinst area of south Mongolia. Mongolian

University of Science and Technology, Research Center for Stratigraphy and Paleontology:43-83.

PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS (* = student co-author) Soja, C.M., and White, B. 2015. Late Silurian-Early Devonian lacustrine limestone in

Alaska’s Alexander terrane fortifies paleogeographic links to the Old Red Sandstone continent. ILIC6: International Limnogeology Congress 2015 (Reno-Tahoe), Abstracts with Programs:in press.

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Soja, C.M., and White, B. 2015. Lacustrine origin of Karheen Fm. platy limestone links Alaska’s Alexander terrane to the Old Red Sandstone continent in the Late Silurian-Early Devonian. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, v. 47 (7):in press.

Soja, C.M., McWilliams, G., White, B., Capodiferro, C.J. *, Riefler, J.P. *, and Howell, K.

2015. Trolling for Silurian fossil “fingerprints”: New rays of evidence for Caledonide influence on evolution in the Alexander terrane. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, v. 47 (7):in press.

Soja, C.M., Capodiferro, C.J.,* White, B., McWilliams, G., Baichtal, J., and Karl, S.M. 2013.

Silurian megalodont bivalves and Silurian(?)-Devonian platy limestone: New mid-Paleozoic links between Alaska’s Alexander terrane, the Old Red Sandstone Continent, and N. Atlantic–Caledonide tectonics. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, v. 45 (7):234.

Danielsen, E.,* Over, D.J., Sullivan, N.,* Smith, D.,* Minjin, C., Myrow, P.M., and Soja,

C.M. 2013. Lower Silurian conodonts and trilobites from the Gobi Altai-Mandalovoo terrane, southern Mongolia. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, v. 45 (7):836.

Soja, C.M., and White, B. 2012. The Karheen Formation in se Alaska: Dismembered “Old

Red Sandstone” facies links the Alexander terrane to nw Baltica–Laurentia Caledonides in the mid-Paleozoic. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, v. 44 (7):384.

White, B., and Soja, C.M. 2012. Ichnology of Holocene avian tracks, Caicos and San

Salvador Island, Bahamas Archipelago. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, v. 44 (7):68. Over, D.J., Sullivan, N.,* Peteya, J.,* Minjin, C., Myrow, P., and Soja, C.M. 2011.

Conodonts from the Tsagaanhaalga Formation (Emsian?-Eifelian) and the Tentaculite Member of the Govialtai Formation (Eifelian-Givetian), Tsakhir Well section, Govi Altai terrane, southern Mongolia. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, v. 43 (1):75.

Soja, C.M. 2010. Reefs as the centralizing theme in an undergraduate paleontology course.

G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, v. 42 (5):67. Reitman, N.,* Gillikin, D.P., Chuluun, M., Myrow, P., Over, J. and Soja, C.M. 2010.

Paleoecology and chemostratigraphy of the Amansair and Tsagaanbulag formations, Gobi-Altai terrane, Shine Jinst, Mongolia. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, v. 42, (1):136.

Arno, Z.,* Over, J., Minjin, C., Myrow, P. and Soja, C.M. 2010. Givetian (Middle

Devonian) Opsiconidion (Phylum Brachiopoda, Class Inarticulata, Order Acrotretida) from the Govialtai Formation, Shine Jinst region, southern Mongolia. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, v. 42, (1):65.

Soja, C.M. 2009. Darwin in Colgate University’s Geology, Core, and UK study abroad

curricula. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, v. 41 (7):368. Soja, C.M. 2009. Applying terrane analysis in Alaska to unraveling the Paleozoic

paleobiogeography of Mongolia. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, v. 41 (5):11.

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Antoshkina, A. and Soja, C.M. 2007. Late Silurian microbial-sponge-hydroid reefs in the Uralian Seaway. Abstracts of Porifera Meeting, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Soja, C.M., Minjin, C., and White, B. 2006. A tale of two terranes in Mongolia. G.S.A.

Abstracts with Programs, v. 38 (7):90. Soja, C.M., Antoshkina, A.I., White, B., Gutak, Y.M., and Bagmet, G. 2005. Environmental

and evolutionary controls on Silurian stromatolite reef development and decline along the Uralian Seaway. Abstracts of meeting on Climatic and Evolutionary Controls on Paleozoic Reefs and Bioaccumulations. Muséum National D’Histoire Naturelle (Paris, France):51.

Antoshkina, A.I., and Soja, C.M. 2005. Reef biota migration between Alaska, the Urals, and

Salair allows Late Silurian reconstruction. Abstracts and proceedings of the Field Meeting of the Subcommission on Silurian Stratigraphy (Gotland, Sweden):57.

Antoshkina, A.I., Soja, C.M., and White, B. 2005. Reef biota as an instrument of

paleogeography (an example from Silurian of the Urals, southeastern Alaska and Western Salair). Geology of Reefs, International Symposium, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geology of the Komi Science Center of the Uralian Branch of RAS, National Committee on Reef Study:10-12.

Soja, C.M., Sunderlin, D.,* Close, S.J.,* and White, B. 2005. “Éclosion fenetre” and

dinosaur egg taphonomy. NAPC Programme and Abstracts. PaleoBios, 25 (supplement to no. 2):110.

Soja, C.M. Antoshkina, A.I., White, B., Gutak, Y.M., and Bagmet, G. 2005. Silurian

stromatolite reefs as indicators of environmental change along the Uralian Seaway. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, 37 (4):76.

Soja, C.M., White, B., and Antoshkina, A.I. 2004. Proliferation of Silurian stromatolite reefs

along the Uralian Seaway. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, 36 (5):181-182. Soja, C.M., Sunderlin, D.F.,* and Close, S.J.* 2004. Using burial experiments to

unscramble dinosaur egg taphonomy. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, 36 (5):382. Antoshkina, A.I., Soja, C.M., and Gutak, Y.M. 2004. Paleobiogeographic implications of

Silurian reef biotas in the Urals, southeastern Alaska, and Salair. Abstracts and Proceedings of the 32nd International Geological Congress, Florence, Italy (20-28 August 2004). Abstracts (Part 2):1082.

Soja, C.M., White, B., and Antoshkina, A.I. 2004. Microbial contributions to Phanerozoic

reef development. Abstracts and Proceedings of the 10th International Reef Congress, Okinawa, Japan (28 June-2 July 2004):142.

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Soja, C.M., Mitchell, M.,* Newton, A.,* Vandetti, J.,* Visaggi, C.,* Antoshkina, A.I., and White, B. 2003. Sponge-?hydroid paleoecologic relationships in Silurian microbial reefs. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, 34 (7):420.

Soja, C.M., Dwyer, L.,* Newton, A.J.,* and White, B. 2003. Going “down under” to test

the Uralian Seaway hypothesis for Silurian paleogeography of Alaska’s Alexander terrane. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, 35:25.

Newton, A.J.,* Soja, C.M., Antoshkina, A.I., and White, B. 2002. Paleoenvironmental

implications of Silurian sponge-microbe associations from the Northern Ural Mountains, Russia. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, 34:72.

Soja, C.M., White, B., and Antoshkina, A.I. 2001. Microbial contributions to Phanerozoic

reef development. Programmes with abstracts of a global meeting presented by The Geological Society of America and The Geological Society of London on Earth System Processes (Edinburgh, Scotland):41.

Visaggi, C.C.,* Vendetti, J.,* Soja, C.M., Antoshkina, A.I., and White, B. 2001.

Paleobiogeographic implications of Fistulella, a Silurian problematic hydroid. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, 33:25.

Antoshkina, A.I., Soja, C.M., and White, B. 2000. New data on the composition of a

Ludlow reef in the Northern Urals, Russia. Abstracts and Proceedings of IGCP Project 406 Meeting on Pan-Arctic Palaeozoic Tectonics, Evolution of Basins and Faunas (in Syktyvkar, Russia). Ichthyolith Issues Special Publication 6:22.

Soja, C.M., White, B., and Antoshkina, A.I. 2000. Silurian islands in the Uralian Seaway. In

Cockle, P., Wilson, G.A., Brock, G.A., Engelbretsen, M.J., Simpson, A., and Winchester-Seeto, T. (eds.) Palaeontology Down-Under 2000. Geological Society of Australia, Abstracts No. 61:102-103.

Antoshkina, A.I., and Soja, C.M. 2000. Ecologic peculiarities of Upper Silurian reef biotas

of the Urals. Abstracts of All-Russian Symposium on Environment and Life in the Geological Record (in Novosibirsk, Russia):49-50 [in Russian].

Soja, C.M. 1999. Evolutionary significance of marine fossils from accreted island terranes.

G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, 31 (6):97. Karl, S.M., Haeussler, P.J., Mortenson, J., Layer, P., Soja, C., and Himmelberg, G.R. 1999.

Incremental Paleozoic amalgamation of the composite Wrangellia/Alexander/Taku terrane, southeastern Alaska. Abstracts with proceedings, Circum-Pacific Terrane Conference September 27 - October 1, 1999 (Terrane Paths 99 Conference).

Antoshkina, A.I., Soja, C.M., and White, B. 1999. Silurian reefs of Euroamerica. In Special Publication 5. Lower-Middle Palaeozoic Events Across the Circum-Arctic. A Joint Baltic Stratigraphical Association/IGCP 406 Project Meeting (in Jurmala, Latvia):5-7.

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Sunderlin, D.F.,* Close, S.J.,* and Soja, C.M. 1999. Digging for answers: A taphonomic analysis of a Mongolian Oviraptor philoceratops egg. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, 31 (2):71

Soja, C.M., Antoshkina, A.I., and White, B. 1998. Silurian paleogeography of the Alexander

terrane, Alaska. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, 30 (7):151. Flynn, B.C.*, Gleason, A.*, Soja, C.M., and White, B. 1998. The paleoecology of molluscan

assemblages in the Silurian Willoughby Formation, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, 30 (1):19.

Soja, C.M., White, B., and Antoshkina, A.I. 1997. Newly discovered stromatolite reef in

Glacier Bay National Park, se Alaska, corroborates evidence of Alexander terrane's link to Laurentia-Baltica in the Late Silurian. Late-breaking abstract distributed at annual G.S.A. meeting (Salt Lake City).

Soja, C.M., and Antoshkina, A.I. 1997. Paleobiogeography of Silurian stromatolites

confirms northern hemisphere option for Alaska's Alexander terrane in the early-mid Paleozoic. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, 29 (5):66.

Brogenski, C.B.*, and Soja, C.M. 1997. Origin of Devonian reef-related deposits on

"Harlequin Duck Rock," Alexander terrane, southeastern Alaska. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, 29 (1):33.

Sheehan, P.M., Soja, C.M., Norford, B.S., and Harris, M.T. 1996. Silurian of western North

America. Second International Symposium on the Silurian System, Program and Abstracts:85.

Soja, C.M., and Antoshkina, A.I. 1996. Comparative study of Silurian subtidal stromatolites

in southeastern Alaska and the northern Urals: paleobiogeograhic implications. Second International Symposium on the Silurian System, Program and Abstracts:86.

White, B., and Soja, C.M. 1996. Dolomite diagenesis in the Silurian Heceta Formation,

Alexander terrane, southeastern Alaska. Second International Symposium on the Silurian System, Program and Abstracts:104.

Soja, C.M., Gobetz, K.E.*, Thibeau, J.*, Zavala, E.*, and White, B. 1996. Stormy relations:

group spawning and mass mortality of nautiloids recorded in Middle Devonian tempestites, Alaska. North American Paleontological Convention VI, Proceedings and Abstracts:366.

Soja, C.M., and Antoshkina, A.I. 1996. Paleobiogeographic implications of Silurian subtidal

stromatolites in southeastern Alaska (Alexander terrane) and the Urals. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, 28:113.

Savage, N.M., and Soja, C.M. 1996. Latest Emsian to earliest Eifelian conodonts from the

Alexander terrane, southeastern Alaska. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, 28:108.

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Soja, C.M. and White, B. 1995. Paleobiogeographic reconstruction of Alaskan terranes based on Silurian subtidal stromatolites. Abstracts & Programme, First Australian Conodont Symposium (AUSCOS-1) and the Boucot Symposium:78-79.

Zavala, E.*, Thibeau, J.*, Gobetz, K.E.*, and Soja, C.M. 1995. Origin of Middle Devonian

nautiloid deposits, southeastern Alaska. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, 27:94. Soja, C.M. 1994. Paleobiogeographic implications of Silurian subtidal stromatolites, Alaska.

Death Valley International Stromatolite Symposium, Abstracts:74. Soja, C.M. and Gobetz, K.E.* 1994. Pre-, syn-, and post-orogenic development of Silurian

and Devonian reefs in an island arc setting, Alaska. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, 26:426.

Bazard, D.R., Butler, R., Gehrels, G., and Soja, C.M. 1994. New constraints for Late

Silurian-Devonian paleogeography of the Alexander terrane, southeastern Alaska. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, 26:384.

Gobetz, K.E.* and Soja, C.M. 1994. Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of a Devonian

reef-like deposit in the Alexander terrane, southeastern Alaska. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, 26:19.

Soja, C.M. 1993. Silurian subtidal stromatolites: evolutionary and paleobiogeographic

implications. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, 25:358. White, B. and Soja, C.M. 1993. Diagenesis of Silurian organic buildups from the Alexander

terrane, southeastern Alaska. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, 25:226. Goldstein, A.G., Waldron, K., Soja, C., and April, R. 1993. Attracting and retaining

undergraduate geology students with NSF, UCCD, REU, and ILI funded programs. Eos, Transactions (AGU meeting abstracts):60.

Kittredge, L.E.* and Soja, C.M. 1993. Cyclicity in Silurian island-arc carbonates, Alaska.

G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, 25:29. Soja, C.M. 1992a. Comparative effects of tectonism on Silurian carbonate platform

evolution. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, 24:154. Soja, C.M. 1992b. Island-arc carbonates: characterization and recognition in the ancient

geologic record. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, 24 (5):82. Soja, C.M. 1992c. Using fossils to identify allochthonous oceanic islands in the ancient

geologic record. In Lidgard, S. and Crane, P.R. Fifth North American Paleontological Convention, Abstracts and Programs. The Paleontological Society, Special Publication 6:275.

Soja, C.M. 1991. Development of Silurian reefs in an island arc setting. Program with

Abstracts of the VI International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria (Münster, Germany):80.

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Soja, C.M. and Riding, R. 1991. Contributions of Silurian microbial communities to

carbonate platform development, southeastern Alaska. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, 23:279.

Soja, C.M. 1990a. Silurian trace fossils in carbonate turbidites from the Alexander arc of

southeastern Alaska. A.A.P.G. Bulletin, 74:768. Soja, C.M. 1990b. Bathymetric gradients within a Paleozoic island arc, southeastern Alaska

(Alexander terrane). A.A.P.G. Bulletin, 74:767-768. Soja, C.M. 1989a. Silurian reefs in the Alexander terrane of southeastern Alaska. G.S.A.

Abstracts with Programs, 21 (6):292. Soja, C.M. 1989b. Carbonate platform development within a Paleozoic island arc,

southeastern Alaska. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, 21 (5):147. Soja, C.M. 1988. Paleobiogeography of Lower Devonian faunas from the Alexander

terrane, southeastern Alaska. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, 20:308. Soja, C.M. 1987a. Lower Devonian (Emsian) benthic communities from Kasaan Island,

southeastern Alaska, U.S.A. 2nd International Symposium on the Devonian System, Programs and Abstracts:210.

Soja, C.M. 1987b. Depositional setting of Lower Devonian limestones from the Alexander

terrane, southeastern Alaska. Second International Symposium on the Devonian System, Programs and Abstracts:209.

Soja, C.M. 1985a. A new look at an old fauna: Kindle's Kasaan Island locality (southeastern

Alaska, U.S.A.) reexamined. First International Congress on Brachiopods (Brest, France). Abstracts with Proceedings:85.

Soja, C.M. 1985b. Community structure of Devonian brachiopods associated with corals

and stromatoporoids in an island arc sequence from southeastern Alaska. Proceedings of the Fifth International Coral Reef Congress, Tahiti, 2:358.

Soja, C.M. 1984a. Benthic community development in an island arc setting--an example

from the Lower Devonian of southeastern Alaska. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, 16 (6):663.

Soja, C.M. 1984b. Regional significance of Lower Devonian limestones from Kasaan and

Wadleigh Islands, southeastern Alaska. A.G.U., Pacific Northwest Meeting (Corvallis, OR).

Soja, C.M. 1984c. Paleoecology and depositional setting of Devonian faunas from Kasaan

and Wadleigh Islands, southeastern Alaska. G.S.A. Abstracts with Programs, 16 (5):334.

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Soja, C.M. 1984d. Oregon geology in the field: sedimentology and the rocks at Cape Arago. Proceedings Oregon Academy of Science, 20.

Soja, C.M. 1983. Paleoecology of the Kasaan Island faunas: lithic and faunal evidence.

Proceedings Oregon Academy of Science, 19. ARTICLES ABOUT MY RESEARCH, TEACHING, AND PROFESSIONAL CAREER Colgate University Website. 2013. Geology professor Connie Soja recognized for extensive

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