I am Dr.  Marilyn D. Wegweiser; Assistant Professor of Geology and Curator of Paleozoic and Mesozoic Collections;  Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences at Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, Georgia, 31061, USA

Contact Information:

Note: The longer your title, the less importance you have. For example: "KING" is a monosyllabic word....   ;^)

Additional note: No outcrop too high, no field locality too remote. Have rock hammer & hand lens - will travel.

Education

Ph. D. 2000; The Ohio State University

MS 1994; The Ohio State University

BS 1992; Cum Laude, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania

Research Specialties

Sedimentary Geology and Paleontology; Geologic Mapping; Forensic Paleontology

Current Research:

Upper Cretaceous Sequence Stratigraphy; Biodiversity in the Late Cretaceous of Northwestern Wyoming (yes, dinosaurs found in northwestern Wyoming are included in this and are a primary focus) or you could say, The Doc Does Find Dinosaurs, and she LIKES it!; Taphonomy and Forensic Paleontology; Upper Cretaceous Lagerstätten (aw heck, I could get in to Lagerstätten from anytime, and I do!); Paleowildfires and Paleoclimatology of the Late Cretaceous.

Director: This Side Of Hell, WY Research Project; it's north of Pitchfork Wyoming, north of Hell's Half Acre, Wyoming, west of Hell, North Dakota, and south of Hellroaring Plateau, Montana. Could it get any better than this?

Recent Publications:

(A more extensive list is available upon request)

Wegweiser, M. D., 2003 (in press) Peculiar Diagenetic Processes And Preservation: Nearshore Marginal Marine Taphonomy in the Upper Lance Formation, Elk Basin, Wyoming. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, Vol. 87, No. XX, p. XX-XX.

Wegweiser, M. D., 2002. Tectono-taphonomic expression of Campanian-Maastrichtian basin adjustments in the Bighorn Basin, northwestern Wyoming: Dead dinosaurs have transportation tales to tell. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Vol. 22, No. 3, p. 118A.

McElroy, T. A., Shaulis, J. R., and Wegweiser, M. D., 2001. Bedrock Map and Groundwater Resources of Somerset County. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey, Open File Report 2000-02.

Papers In Progress or In Review:

Wegweiser, M. D., Babcock. L. E., Breithaupt, B. H., Peculiar Diagenetic Processes and Unusual Preservation: Dinosaur Skin from the Lance Formation of Northwestern Wyoming

Wegweiser, M. D., Breithaupt, B. H., , and Babcock, L. E. Dinosaur Lagerstätten Occurrences in the Upper Cretaceous of Wyoming; Paleoenvironmental  Implications

Wegweiser, M.D., Mitchell, J., and Schmidt, C.;  Burned Dinosaur Bone Mineralogy and Implications of Paleowildfire Characteristics

Students:

Recent Graduates

Ms. Sarah Huson, MS 2002. Now in the Ph.D. program at Washington State University in Structural Geology. Thesis title: Structural Study of the Southwest Part of Elk Basin Anticline, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming.

Current Students:

MS Theses:

Daniel Williams: Phenetic Analysis of Late Cretaceous Lambeosaur Ribs from Elk Basin, Wyoming.

Undergraduate Research Projects:

Dani Gillespie: Round Things From the Sediments Around Dinosaur Bones in Elk Basin, Wyoming

Rebecca Hilton: Description of a Titanosaur Sternal Plate from "This Side of Hell Two", Upper Cretaceous, Wyoming

Joe Sheffield: Description of Dinosaur Skin Fossils from Elk Basin, Wyoming