Gwen M. Daley

Department of Geology and Geophysics
University of Wisconsin
1215 West Dayton Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53706

E-mail: gdaley@geology.wisc.edu
Homepage: http://www.geology.wisc.edu/~gdaley

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia

Ph.D., Department of Geological Sciences, 1999
Thesis title: " Paleocommunities of the Yorktown Formation (Pliocene) of Virginia".
Advisor: Dr. Richard K. Bambach.

M.S., Geology, June, 1993
Thesis: Morphological variability in Onniella, Rafinesquina (Brachiopoda: Articulata), and Ambonychia (Mollusca: Pelecypoda) through changing environments in the Cincinnatian Series (Upper Ordovician).
Advisor: Dr. Arnold I. Miller.

B.A., Geophysical Sciences, June, 1990.

Summer 1991: Marine Taphonomy

Intensive field and lab course at the University of Washington's Friday Harbor Laboratories.

Field course at the San Salvador Marine Laboratory sponsored by Miami University of Ohio.

Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah.

Virginia Tech.

A seminar about how to improve teaching in the Virginia education system.

University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH. Sponsored by Division of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Cincinnati.

Experience

September, 2000 - Present: Research Fellow
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconson.

Conducting research into the paleoecological and evolutionary patterns preserved in a Pleistocene deposit from Florida.

1999 - 2000: Lecturer
Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.

Taught paleontology and a seminar in quantitative methods in paleobiology, managed paleontology collections, developed online resources, .

1993 - 1999: Graduate Teaching Assistant
Department of Geological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia.

Taught undergraduate laboratory classes in paleontology and historical geology, as well as coordinating both laboratories, and developing online resources.

1993: Summer Geology Intern
West Africa Regional Project , Amoco Production Company, Houston, Texas.

Performed chronostratigraphic analyses of wells in western Africa in support of a regional basin analysis project

1991-1993: Graduate Teaching Assistant
The University of Cincinnati Geology Department, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Taught laboratories for introductory geology and paleontology courses

1990: Graduate Research Assistant, to Dr. Arnold I. Miller
University of Cincinnati Geology Department, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Summer 1990: Interpretive Ranger
Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, National Park Service, Florissant, Colorado.

1989-1990: Research Assistant to Dr. J.J. Sepkoski, Jr.
University of Chicago Department of Geophysical Science, Chicago, Illinois

1989: Research Technician
Casadaban Molecular Biology Laboratory, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

Other:

1995-1999: Webmaster
Roanoke Express Professional Hockey, East Coast Hockey League.

1999-present: Senior Editor
Netscape Open Directory Project, editor (1999-present), edit-all editor (2001-present), meta-editor (2001-present) with special focus on the Science category.

2001-present: Columnist
Just Hockey magazine.

Awards and Honors

1992: Caster Teaching Award , granted by the faculty of the University of Cincinnati Geology Department for excellence in teaching introductory geology laboratories.

1993: Induction into Sigma Xi, the Scientific Honorary Society.

Professional Memberships

• Paleontological Society
  
• Geological Society of America (GSA)
  
• Society of Sedimentary Geology (SEPM)
  
• Sigma Xi
  
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  
• National Association of Geology Teachers (NAGT)
• Association for Women in Science (AWIS)
  
• American Association of University Women (AAUW)
  
• Association of Women Geoscientists (AWG)

Publications

Published Abstracts

Daley, G.M., 1992. Experimental taphonomy: a study of the modern species Terebratalia transversa. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program 24(4): 11.

Daley, G.M., 1993. Environmentally controlled body size changes in the Upper Ordovician bivalve Ambonychia. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program 25(3): 15.

Daley, G.M., B.J. Datillo, S.C. Diekmeyer, A.I. Miller 1993. The type Cincinnatian as a natural laboratory for the study of biotic trends in space and time. Geological Society of America Abstract with Program 25(5): 27.

Alexander, R.R. and G.M. Daley 1994. Onshore-offshore patterns of variability in geniculation in the Late Ordovician (Cincinnatian) brachiopod Rafinesquina alternata. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Program 26(3):1.

Daley, G.M., 1996. Quantifying faunal diversity of the Yorktown Formation. First Annual Virginia Tech Geological Society Student Research Symposium: 31.

Daley, G.M., 1996. Sampling of completeness: an example from the Yorktown Formation (Pliocene) of Virginia. North American Paleontological Conference, 1996.

Bennington, J.B. and G.M. Daley 1996. Testing for community unity in the fossil record. North American Paleontological Conference, 1996.

Daley, G.M., 1997. Recognition of gradients between paleocommunity types as revealed in the Yorktown Formation (Pliocene) of Virginia. Presented at the annual GSA meeting, Salt Lake City.

Daley, G.M. and A.M. Bush 1998. Preserved bivalve ligament in Pliocene and Pleistocene deposits of the Atlantic Coastal Plain. Presented at the annual Southeastern GSA Sectional meeting, Charleston, West Virginia.

Daley, G.M. 1998. Guild structure of paleocommunity types from the Yorktown Formation (Pliocene). Presented at the Annual Geological Society of America Meeting in Toronto..

Daley, G.M. 1999. Local paleocommunities and paleocommunity types, but no paleocommunities: An example from the Yorktown Formation (Pliocene) of eastern Virginia.. Presented at the Annual Geological Society of America Meeting in Denver.

Daley, G.M. and M. Kowalewski 2000. Species accumulation curves and sampling efficiency of paleontological data sets.. Presented at the Annual Geological Society of America Meeting in Reno.

Daley, G.M., A.M. Bush, and D.H. Geary 2001. Using paleocommunities to frame evolutionary and paleoecological studies: An example from the Fort Thompson Formation (Pleistocene) of Florida. Presented at the Annual Geological Society of America Meeting in Boston.

Stimpson, J. and G.M. Daley 2001. Testing for ecophenotypic variation across a paleoenvironmental gradient in a small mactrid bivalve (Yorktown Formation, Pliocene, Virginia). Presented at the Annual Geological Society of America Meeting in Boston.

Ostrowski, S., G.M. Daley, and D.H. Geary 2001. Environmentally and ecologically controlled variation in predatory and epibiont patterns in Chione cancellata from the Fort Thompson Formation (Pleistocene) of Florida. Presented at the Annual Geological Society of America Meeting in Boston.

Thesis, Dissertation and Published Papers

Daley, G.M. 1993. Passive deterioration of shelly material: A study of the Recent Eastern Pacific articulate brachiopod Terebratalia transversa Sowerby. Palaios 8: 226-232.

Daley, G.M. 1993. Morphological variability in Onniella, Rafinesquina (Brachiopoda: Articualta), and Ambonychia (Mollusca: Pelecypoda) through changing environments in the Cincinnatian Series (Upper Ordovician). Unpublished M.S. thesis, University of Cincinnati, 180 pp.

Daley, G.M. 1999 Environmentally controlled variation in body size of Ambonychia (Mollusca: Bivalvia) in the Cincinnatian Series (Upper Ordovician).. Palaios 14: 520-529.

Daley, G.M. 1999. Paleocommunities of the Yorktown Formation (Pliocene) of Virginia. Unpublished Dissertation, Virginia Tech, 300 pp.

Bush, A.M., M.G. Powell, W.S. Arnold, T.M. Bert, and G.M. Daley, 2002. Time-averaging, evolution, and morphological variation. Paleobiology 28: 9-24.

Daley, G.M. in review Creating a paleoecological framework for evolutionary and paleoecological studies: An example from the Fort Thompson Formation (Pleistocene) of Florida. Palaios.