Sally Walker
Classes
Earth Science Rocks
Education
1988 Ph.D., Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, California
Regent's Fellow
1981/82 University of Washington, Friday Harbor Marine
Laboratories, San Juan Island Washington; Friday Harbor Fellowships
1980 B.A. with Highest Honors in Biology (special emphasis in Marine
Biology) University of California, Santa Cruz, California, Regent's
Fellow
1975 A.A., Liberal Arts (Pre-med, Art), Ventura College, Ventura,
California
Academic/Professional Positions
2008-Present Professor, Department of Geology, UGA
2008-Present Professor, co-staffed in Marine Sciences, UGA
1998-Present Associate Professor, Department of Geology, UGA
1998-Present Associate Professor, co-staffed in Marine Sciences, UGA
1999-Present Adjunct Professor, Museum of Natural History, UGA
1997-Present Curator, Paleontology Collections, Museum of Natural
History, UGA
Spring 2001 Research Associate, Geology, Oberlin College, Oberlin,
OH
1993-1998 Assistant Professor, Department of Geology, UGA
1991-1993 Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Geosciences,
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
1990-1992 Adult Education Classes, Elderhostel (Oregon, Arizona)
1990 Instructor, Ecology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
1989-1991 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Zoology,
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
1988 Environmental Consultant, Tetra Tech, Inc., Lafayette, CA
1976-1981 Marine Biologist & Laboratory Manager, Kinnetic
Laboratories Inc., Santa Cruz, CA
Current Awards/Honors
2006-2008 Paleontological Society Distinguished Lecturer
Editorial Board/Consulting Editor
2006 External Reviewer/Editor, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Earth
Science textbook selections, Middle School level.
2005-2007 Associate Editor, international journal, PALAIOS
2003-present Consulting Editor, McGraw-Hill Professional
Corporation, McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology - As
consulting editor for the encyclopedia, reviews paleontological
entries, makes recommendations for rewriting text, updating figures and
references, and reviews/edits the revised entries. All nineteen volumes
were reviewed by summer 2005, now in editing process for volume
entries.
2001-present Consulting Editor, McGraw-Hill Professional
Corporation, Invertebrate Paleontology, McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science
and Technology - Picks the top six invertebrate paleobiological papers
of the year, writes up a brief synopsis of the papers, reviews/edits
the entries. Thus far, four yearbooks are published where I've edited
the invertebrate entries (2002; 2003; 2004; 2005; 2006; 2007; 2008 in
prep.
2004 Consulting Editor, McGraw-Hill Professional Corporation,
Concise Encyclopedia of Science and Technology _ Reviewed
paleontological entries for this smaller version of their encyclopedia.
1996-2000 Editorial Board, International journal: Journal of Sea
Research (formerly Netherlands Journal of Sea Research)
International Scientific Advisory Board
2000-present Scientific Advisory Board, Bahamian Field Station, San
Salvador, Bahamas. Reviews research proposals to conduct research on
San Salvador Island.
Recent Publications (*funded by NSF; **funded by
NOAA)
2007 Walker, S.E., Traces of Gastropod Predation on Molluscan Prey in
Tropical Reef Environments. In: W. Miller, III, (Ed.), Trace Fossils:
Concepts, Problems, & Prospects. Elsevier Press, Chap. 18, pp.
324-344*
2007 Baldini, L., S. E. Walker, L.B. Railsback, J. Baldini, and D.
Crowe. Isotopic ecology of the modern land snail Cerion, San Salvador,
Bahamas: Preliminary advances toward establishing a low-latitude island
paleoenvironmental proxy. PALAIOS 22: 174-187.
2006 Cai, W.-J., F. Chen, S.E. Walker, K.M. Parsons-Hubbard, G.
Staff, E.N. Powell, K. A. Ashton-Alcox, W.R. Callender, and C.E. Brett,
Preferential dissolution of carbonate shells
Driven by petroleum seep activity in the Gulf of Mexico. Earth and
Planetary Science Letters
248: 212-228. *, **
2006 Apedoe, X., S.E.Walker, T.C. Reeves, Integrating inquiry-based
learning into undergraduate geology laboratories. Journal of Geoscience
Education, 54: 414-421.
2004 Walker, S.E. In Memoriam Glenn Goodfriend (1951-2002), in: R.D.
Lewis and B.C. Panuska, Proceedings of the 11th Symposium on the
Geology of the Bahamas and Other Carbonate Regions. Gerace Research
Center, San Salvador, Bahamas, pp. x-xi.
2003 Walker, S.E. Fables of the Deconstruction: Historical Geology
Reduced to an Exponential Equation. Review of Michael Boulter's
Extinction and the End of Man. Palaeo-electronica, an International
internet journal.
2003 Walker, S.E. Review of Paleobiology II. by D. Briggs et al..
PALAIOS 18: 582-586.
2003 Walker, S. E., S. M. Holland, and L. Gardiner. Coenobichnus new
ichnogenus, a walking trace from a land hermit crab, early Holocene,
San Salvador Island, Bahamas. Journal of Paleontology: 77: 576-582.*
2002 Walker, S.E. and C.E. Brett. Post-Paleozoic patterns in marine
predation: was there a Mesozoic and Cenozoic marine predatory
revolution? In: M. Kowalewski and P. H. Kelley (eds.), The Fossil
Record of Predation. The Paleontological Society Papers, 8: 119-193.*
2002 Brett, C.E. and S.E. Walker. Predators and predation in
Paleozoic marine environments. In: M. Kowalewski and P. H. Kelley
(eds.), The Fossil Record of Predation. The Paleontological Society
Papers, 8: 93-118.
2002 Walker, S. E., K. Parsons-Hubbard, E. Powell, C. Brett.
Predation on experimentally-deployed molluscan shells from
shelf-to-slope depths in a tropical carbonate environment. PALAIOS 17:
151-169.* **
2002 W.R. Callender, G.M. Staff, K. Parsons-Hubbard, E.N. Powell,
G.T. Rowe, S.E. Walker, C.E. Brett, A. Raymond, D.D. Carlson, S. White,
E.A. Heise. Taphonomic trends along a forereef slope: Lee Stocking
Island, Bahamas. I. Location and Water Depth. PALAIOS 17: 50-65. * **
2002 Staff, G., W.R. Callender, E.N. Powell, K. Parsons-Hubbard,
C.E. Brett, S. E. Walker, D. D. Carlson, S. White, A. Raymond, and E.A.
Heise. Taphonomic trends along a forereef slope: Lee Stocking Island,
Bahamas. II. Time. PALAIOS 17: 66-83. * **
2002 Powell, E.N., K.M. Parsons-Hubbard, W.R. Callender, G.M. Staff,
G.T. Rowe, C.E. Brett, S.E. Walker, A. Raymond, D.D. Carlson, S. White,
and E.A. Heise. Taphonomy in the continental shelf and slope: two year
trends, Gulf of Mexico and Bahamas. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology,
Palaeoecology 184: 1-35. * **
2002 Parsons-Hubbard, K., E.N. Powell, G.M. Staff, W. R. Callender,
C.E. Brett, and S.E. Walker, The effect of burial on shell preservation
and epibiont cover in Gulf of Mexico and Bahamas shelf and slope
environments after two years: An experimental approach, in: Aller,
J.Y., Woodin, S.A., and Aller, R.C.(eds), Organism-Sediment
Interactions, The Belle W. Baruch Library in Marine Science Number 21:
297-314.
2001 Miller, III, M. and S. E. Walker (Editors). Cenozoic
paleobiology: the last 65 million years of biotic change.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology Special Volume. *
2001 Walker, S. E. Paleoecology of gastropods preserved in
turbiditic slope deposits from the upper Pliocene of Ecuador.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 166:141-163. **
2001 Walker, S.E. Below the sediment-water interface, a new frontier
in taphonomy. PALAIOS: 16: 113-114. *
2001 Walker, S. E. Marvelously matched malacologists.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 166: 3-7.
2001 Walker, S. E., S. Holland, and L. Gardiner, Summary of
Hurricane Floyd's effect on the Cockburn Town fossil reef. 10th
Symposium on the Geology of the Bahamas and Other Carbonate Regions, B.
Greenstein (ed.), pp. 13-19.*
