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Faculty

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Sally Walker

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GEO ART ADVENTURE

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

2011, Antarctic Service Medal, National Science Foundation

2011, Judge, first AAAS Science Inquiry-Based Instruction Prize

2006-2008 Paleontological Society Distinguished Lecturer

Editorial Board/Consulting Editor

2009-2011 Editorial Board, Geology

2006 External Reviewer/Editor, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Earth Science textbook selections, Middle School level.

2004-2009 Associate Editor, international journal, PALAIOS

2003-2011 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.

2001-2011 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;2009; 2010.

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

2000-2009 Scientific Advisory Board, Bahamian Field Station, San Salvador, Bahamas. Reviews research proposals to conduct research on San Salvador Island.

Recent Publications

2011 Lipps, J., K. Finger, & S.E. Walker. What should we call foraminifera? Journal of Foraminiferal Research. In Press.

2011 Walker, S.E., K. Parsons-Hubbard, S. Richardson-White, C. Brett, & E. Powell. Alpha and beta diversity of encrusting foraminifera that recruit to long-term experiments along a carbonate platform to shelf gradient: Paleoecological and paleoenvironmental implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.04.028.

2011 Richardson-White, S. & S.E. Walker. Diversity, taphonomy and behavior of encrusting foraminifera on experimental shells deployed along a shelf-to-slope bathymetric gradient, Lee Stocking Island, Bahamas. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.02.021.

2011 Brett, C.E., K. Parsons-Hubbard, S.E. Walker, C. Ferguson, E.A. Powell, G. Staff, K. Ashton-Alcox, & A. Raymond. Gradients and patterns of sclerobionts on experimentally deployed bivalve shells: synopsis of bathymetric and temporal trends on a decadal time scale. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. DOI: 10.1016/J.palaeo. 2011.05.019.

2011 Powell, E.N., G.M. Staff, W.R. Callender, K.A. Ashton-Alcox, C.E. Brett, K. Parsons- Hubbard, S.E. Walker, & A. Raymond. The influence of molluscan taxon on taphofacies development over a broad range of environments of preservation: The SSETI experience. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. DOI: 10.11016/j.Palaeo.2011.01.008

2011 Krause, R.A., K. Parsons-Hubbard, & S.E. Walker. Experimental Taphonomy of a decapod crustacean: Long-term data and their implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. DOI:10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.03.020.

2011 Heise, E.A., A. Raymond, K. Parsons-Hubbard, S.E. Walker, G. Staff, E. Powell, C. Brett, & K.A. Ashton-Alcox. Wood taphonomy in marine carbonate environments: Experimental Results. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. DOI: 0.10161/j.palaeo.2011.04.031.

2011 Powell, E.N., W. Callender, G. Staff, K. Parsons-Hubbard, C. Brett, S.E. Walker, A. Raymond, & K. Ashton-Alcox. The relationship of bionts and taphonomic processes in molluscan taphofacies formation on the continental shelf and slope: eight-year trends--Gulf of Mexico. Facies 57: 15-37.

2011 K. Parsons-Hubbard, S. E. Walker, & C. Brett (Editors), Carbonate preservation in shelf-and-slope environments. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology Special Volume.

2011 Gardner, E. & S.E. Walker, Preservational bias in the avian fossil record: a review and a modern taphonomic field study. In revision for Earth-Science Reviews.

2010 Powell, E.N., G.M. Staff, W.R. Callender, K.A. Ashton-Alcox, C.E. Brett, K. Parsons- Hubbard, S.E. Walker, and A. Raymond. Taphonomic degradation of molluscan remains during thirteen years on the continental shelf and slope of the northwestern Gulf of Mexico. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.12.006.

2008 Parsons-Hubbard, K., E.N. Powell, A. Raymond, S.E. Walker, C. Brett, K. Ashton-Alcox, R. Shepard, R. Krause, and B. Deline. The taphonomic signature of a brine seep and the potential for Burgess Shale style preservation. Journal of Shellfish Research 27:227-239.

2008 Powell, E.N., W. Callender, G. Staff, K. Parsons-Hubbard, C. Brett, S.E. Walker, A. Raymond, K. Ashton-Alcox. Molluscan shell condition after eight years on the sea floor--Taphonomy in the Gulf of Mexico and Bahamas. Journal of Shellfish Research 27: 191-225.

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.