Curriculum Vitae

 

DANIEL I. HEMBREE

Ohio University

Department of Geological Sciences

316 Clippinger Laboratories, Athens, OH 45701

740-597-1495

hembree@ohio.edu

 

Education

                                                                                               

Ph.D. Geology 2005

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, LAWRENCE, KS

Dissertation: Biogenic Structures of Modern and Fossil Continental Organisms: Using Trace Fossil Morphology to Interpret Paleoenvironment,

Paleoecology, and Paleoclimate

Advisors: Stephen T. Hasiotis, Robert H. Goldstein, Roger L. Kaesler, Larry D. Martin, Linda Trueb

 

M.S. Geology 2002

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, LAWRENCE, KS

Thesis: Paleontology and Ichnology of an Ephemeral Lacustrine Deposit within the Middle Speiser Shale, Eskridge, KS

Advisors: Larry D. Martin, Robert H. Goldstein, Roger L. Kaesler

 

B.S. Geology 1999

UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS, NEW ORLEANS, LA

Undergraduate thesis: A reexamination of Confuciusornis sanctus

Advisor: Kraig Derstler

 

Professional Experience

                                     

2007-present   Assistant Professor

                        DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES

                        Ohio University, Athens, OH

 

2006-2007       Instructor

                        DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES

                        Ohio University, Athens, OH

 

2005-2006       Postdoctoral Research Associate

                        DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES

                        Ohio University, Athens, OH

 

Grants and Fellowships

·     Ohio University Baker Fund, ““Taphonomy of Nautilus in shallow marine and cave environments: modern analogs for interpreting ancient environments and ecosystems.” 7/1/11-6/30/12, $12,000.

·     National Science Foundation, EAR Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology, “Using modern burrowing organisms to interpret the

paleoenvironmental, paleoecological, and paleoclimatic significance of continental ichnofossils,” 6/1/09-5/31/13, $156,000 (direct and indirect costs).

·     American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund Type UNI Proposal.  “Using actualistic studies to interpret the paleoenvironmental,

paleoclimatic, paleoecological, and sequence stratigraphic significance of continental ichnofossils,” 9/1/09-8/30/11, $50,000.

·     National Geographic Society (Full Proposal), “Taphonomy of a subtidal Nautilus population, Lifou Island, near New Caledonia,” 12/08-12/09,

$19,574.  Co-PI with Royal Mapes. 

·     Ohio University Research Committee, “Using modern burrowing organisms to interpret the paleoenvironmental, paleoecological, and paleoclimatic significance of continental ichnofossils,” 7/08-7/09, $7927. 

·     Ohio University, Office of the Vice President for Research, Research Challenge Award, 2006, $5000

·     Post-doctoral Research Fellowship, Ohio University, 2005

·     Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Bryan Patterson Award, 2004

·     American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Merrill W. Haas Memorial Grant, 2004

·     Colorado Scientific Society, Ogden Tweto Memorial Research Grant, 2004

·     Panorama Society Small Grant, University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center, 2004

·     Geological Society of America, Grant-in-Aid, 2004

·     Panorama Society Small Grant, University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center, 2003

·     Paleontological Society, Stephen J. Gould Grant-in-Aid, 2003

 

Honors and Awards                                                                                        

·        Outstanding Research Award 2009-10, Department of Geological Sciences, Ohio University

·        Outstanding Teaching Award 2009-10, Department of Geological Sciences, Ohio University

·        Honorable Mention Best Paper 2007, PALAIOS

·        Erasmus S. Haworth Distinguished Graduate Award, Ph.D., University of Kansas Department of Geology, 2005

·        Henbest Scholarship, KU Department of Geology, 2004-2005

·        Joseph Patterson Scholarship, KU Department of Geology, 2002-2004

·        Joseph Patterson Scholarship, KU Department of Geology, 2002

·        Henbest Scholarship, KU Department of Geology, 2001

·        Joseph Patterson Scholarship, KU Department of Geology, 2001

·        Henbest Scholarship, KU Department of Geology, 2000-2001

·        Henbest Scholarship, KU Department of Geology, 1999-2000

·        University of New Orleans Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, 1999

·        Mobil Foundation Undergraduate Scholarship, 1997

·        Jules and Olga Braunstein Undergraduate Scholarship, 1996-1999

 

Affiliations                                                                      

·        Geological Society of America

·        Paleontological Society

·        Society for Sedimentary Geology

 

Editorships

·        Editorial Board, The Open Paleontology Journal, Bentham Press

 

Courses Taught

·      Introduction to Geology, GEOL 101, Ohio University, Department of Geological Sciences

·      Geology of National Parks, GEOL 130, Ohio University, Department of Geological Sciences

·      Introduction to Oceanography, GEOL 211, Ohio University, Department of Geological Sciences

·      Earth and Life History, GEOL 221, Ohio University, Department of Geological Sciences

·      Historical Geology, GEOL 255, Ohio University, Department of Geological Sciences

·      Ichnology, GEOL 444/544, Ohio University, Department of Geological Sciences

·      Paleopedology, GEOL 456/556,  Ohio University, Department of Geological Sciences

Theses Directed

·      Krista Smilek, 2009.  “Using Ichnology and Sedimentology to Determine the Paleoenvironmental and Paleoecological Conditions of a Nearshore Depositional Environment: Case Studies from the Pennsylvanian Ames Limestone and Modern Holothurians.”  M.S., Geological Sciences, Ohio University.

·      Bart Rasor, 2010. “Taphonomy and Sedimentology of a Modern Nautilus Deposit in a Nearshore Paleoenvironment.” B.S. Geological Sciences, Ohio University.

 

Publications                                                                            

 

Journal Articles

 

Hembree, D.I., Nadon, G., in review.  A paleopedologic and ichnologic perspective of the terrestrial Pennsylvanian landscape in the distal Appalachian basin, USA. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.  Submitted April 2011.

 

*Smilek, K.R., Hembree, D.I., in review.  Ichnology and sedimentology of a delta-influenced coast: Late Pennsylvanian Ames Member (Glenshaw Formation), Southeast Ohio.  Paleontological Contributions. Submitted April, 2011.

 

*Smilek, K.R., Hembree, D.I., in review. Neoichnology of the holothurian Thyonella gemmata: a case study for understanding holothurian ichnofossils. Open Paleontology Journal. Submitted December, 2010.

 

Hembree, D.I., Nadon, G., King, R., 2011.  Large, complex burrow systems from freshwater deposits of the Monongahela Group (Virgilian), southeast Ohio, USA.  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology v. 300, p. 128-137.

 

Mapes, R.H., Hembree, D.I., *Rasor, B., Stigall, A.L., Goirand, C., de Forge, R., 2010. Nautilus (Cephalopoda) taphonomy and sedimentology of a subtidal, carbonate dominated nearshore environment.  PALAIOS v. 25, p. 656-670

 

Hembree, D.I., 2009.  Neoichnology of burrowing millipedes: understanding the relationships between ichnofossil morphology, behavior, and sediment properties.  PALAIOS v. 24, p. 425-439.

 

Hembree, D.I., Hasiotis, S.T., 2008.  Miocene vertebrate and invertebrate burrows defining compound   paleosols in the Pawnee Creek Formation, Colorado, USA.  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 270, p. 349-365.

 

Hembree, D.I., Hasiotis, S.T., 2007.  Sand-swimming biogenic structures produced by the Kenyan sand boa Eryx colubrinus: modern analogs for

interpreting continental ichnofossils.  Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 77, p. 389-397.

 

Hembree, D.I., Hasiotis, S.T., 2007.  Paleosols and ichnofossils of the White River Formation of Colorado: insight into soil ecosystems of the

North American Midcontinent during the Eocene-Oligocene transition.  Palaios, v. 22, p. 123-142.

 

Hembree, D.I., 2006.  Amphisbaenian paleobiogeography: evidence of vicariance and geodispersal patterns.  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology,

Palaeoecology, v. 235, p. 334-348.

 

Hembree, D.I., Hasiotis, S.T., 2006.  The identification and interpretation of reptile ichnofossils in paleosols through modern studies.  Journal of

Sedimentary Research, v. 76, p. 575-588.

 

Hembree, D.I., Hasiotis, S.T., Martin, L.D., 2005.  Torridorefugium eskridgensis (new ichnogenus and ichnospecies): amphibian aestivation

burrows from the Lower Permian Speiser Shale of Kansas.  Journal of Paleontology, v. 79, p. 596-606.    

 

Hembree, D.I., Martin, L.D., Hasiotis, S.T., 2004. Amphibian burrows and ephemeral ponds of the Lower Permian Speiser Shale, Kansas: evidence

for seasonality in the mid-continent.  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 203, p. 127-152.

 

 

Book Chapters

 

Hembree, D.I., 2009.  Aestivation in the fossil record, in Navas, C.A., Carvalho, J.E. (eds.), Aestivation, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 245-262.

 

Hasiotis, S.T., Platt, B.F., Hembree, D.I., Everhart, M., 2007.  The trace fossil record of vertebrates.  In: Miller, W. (ed.), Trace Fossils:

Concepts, Problems, and Prospects, Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 196-218.

 

 

Guidebooks

 

Nadon, G.C., Hembree, D.I., 2007.  Variations in Sequence, Fluvial, and Pedogenic Architecture in the Distal Appalachian Foreland Basin, SE Ohio.

SEPM Great Lakes Section Field Conference, Athens, Ohio.

 

 

Published Abstracts

 

Hembree, D.I., *Johnson, L.M., *Tenwalde, R.W., 2010.  Neoichnology of the desert scorpion Hadrurus arizonensis: burrows to biogenic cross lamination. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 42, p. 642.

 

Hembree, D.I., 2009.  Neoichnology of the whip scorpion Phrynus marginemaculata: interpreting the role of predatory arthropods in early soil ecosystems.  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 41, p. 161.

 

Hembree, D.I., Mapes, R., *Rasor, B., Stigall, A.L., Goiran, C., de Forges, B.R., 2009.  Taphonomy and sedimentology of a modern Nautilus deposit in a nearshore environment.  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 41, p. 630.

 

*Smilek, K.R., Hembree, D.I., 2009.  The ichnology of the Late Pennsylvanian Ames Limestone in southeastern Ohio.  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 41, p. 261.

 

Hembree, D.I., 2009.  Neoichnology of scorpions and whipscorpions: interpreting the role of predatory    arthropods in early soil ecosystems.  Cincinnati Museum Center Scientific Contributions, No. 3, p.       442. 

 

Hembree, D.I., 2008.  Neoichnology of Extant Terrestrial Arthropods and Amphibians: The Key to Interpreting Pennsylvanian Continental Ichnofossils of the Appalachian Basin. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting Abstracts with Programs, v. 40, p. 101.

 

Hembree, D.I., 2008.  Vertical and Lateral Variability in Paleosols and Ichnofossils of the Late Pennsylvanian Monongahela Group, Southeast Ohio: Local Complexity and Regional Patterns.  Geological Society of America Annual Meeting Abstracts with Programs, v. 40, p. 280.

 

*Smilek, K.R., Hembree, D.I., 2008.   Relating Modern Holothurian Burrows to Environmental     Conditions and the Study of Nearshore Paleoenvironments.  Geological Society of America Annual Meeting Abstracts with Programs, v. 40, p. 101.

 

Hasiotis, S.T., Fairchild, J., Wallace, T., Counts, J.W., Devlin, J.F., Hembree, D.I., Smith, J.J., 2008.  Field and Laboratory Studies on the Effects of Bioturbation on Porosity and Permeability In the    Vadose Zone In Continental Settings: How Ichnopedologic Fabric Shapes and Modifies Aquitards, Aquicludes, Aquifers, and Tomorrow's Reservoirs and Seals.  Geological Society of America Annual Meeting Abstracts with Programs, v. 40, p. 440.

 

Hembree, D.I., 2007.  The identification and interpretation of millipede-produced ichnofossils using actualistic studies.  Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs 39, no. 6, p. 532.

 

Hembree, D.I., 2007.  Using modern burrowing organisms to interpret the paleoenvironmental, paleoecologic, and paleoclimatic significance of

continental trace fossils of the Appalachian Basin.  Ichnological Applications to Sedimentological and Sequence Stratigraphic Problems, SEPM Research

Conference, Abstract Volume, p. 74. 

 

Hembree, D.I., 2007.  Using modern terrestrial organisms to improve the interpretation of Pennsylvanian paleosols and continental ichnofossils of the

Appalachian Basin.  Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs 39, no. 3, p. 54.

 

Stigall, A.L., Hembree, D.I., 2007.  Beyond the phylogeny: using phylogenetically constrained data to infer biogeographic, evolutionary, and

paleoecological patterns.  Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs 39, no. 3, p. 6.

 

Hembree, D.I., 2007.  Amphisbaenian paleobiogeography: evidence of vicariance and geodispersal patterns in fossorial reptiles.  Third Biennial

Conference of the International Biogeography Society, Program and Abstracts, p. 149.

 

Hembree, D.I., Nadon, G., 2006.  Using variations in ichnofauna and pedogenic properties of Middle to Late Pennsylvanian floodplain paleosols to

determine the impact of climate change on early soil ecosystems. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs 38, no. 7, p. 533.

 

Hembree, D.I., 2006.  Experimental investigation of terrestrial bioturbation.  Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs 38, no. 7, p. 499.

 

Hembree, D.I., Nadon, G., Stigall, A.L., 2006.  Linking Middle to Late Pennsylvanian climate change to variations in ichnofauna and pedogenic

development in floodplain and lacustrine paleoenvironments of the Appalachian Basin.  Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs 38, no. 4, p. 5.

 

Hembree, D.I., 2005.  The identification and interpretation of fossorial reptile ichnofossils through actualistic studies.  Geological Society of America,

Abstracts with Program 37, p. 339.

 

Hembree, D.I., Hasiotis, S.T., 2005.  Biogenic structures of extant burrowing amphisbaenians: the paleoenvironmental and paleoecological significance

of the interaction of fossorial reptiles with the substrate.  North American Paleontology Convention, Program and Abstracts, Paleobios 25, p. 59.

 

Hembree, D.I., Hasiotis, S.T., 2004.  Using paleosols and ichnofossils to interpret the changing paleoecology, paleoenvironments, and paleoclimate

of the Eocene-Oligocene White River Formation, northeastern Colorado.  Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Program 36, p. 63.

 

Hasiotis, S.T., Hembree, D.I., Smith, J.J., Platt, B.F., 2004.  Modern crayfish burrows as indicators of a spring and perched water table, Kansas

Ecological Research Station, Lawrence, Kansas.  Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Program 36, p. 130.   

 

Hembree, D.I., Hasiotis, S.T., 2004.  Casts of modern continental burrows as trace fossil analogs in the reconstruction of paleoenvironment and

paleoclimate.  American Association of Petroleum Geologists 2004 Annual Convention Abstracts Volume, 13, p. 61.

 

Hasiotis, S.T., Hembree, D.I., Myshrall, K.L., Laut, E.A., Mathis, R., Rogers, J.A., 2004.  Linking biota, soils, hydrology, and the soil-water budget in

northeastern Kansas: developing ichnologic signatures as proxies for ancient climates through actualistic studies.  American Association of Petroleum

Geologists 2004 Annual Convention Abstracts, 13, p. 60.     

 

Hembree, D.I., 2004.  The use of modern continental burrows as trace fossil analogs for reconstructing paleoenvironment and paleoclimate.  First Annual

Midwest Symposium of Student Paleontologic Research, Book of Abstracts, p. 16.

 

Hembree, D.I., Hasiotis, S.T., 2003.  The fossil record and paleoecological significance of North American amphisbaenians and their burrows: the

interaction of fossorial reptiles with the substrate.  Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Program 31, p. 499.

 

Hembree, D.I., 2003.  Continental amphibian burrows from the Lower Permian Speiser Shale of Kansas: evidence for drought-induced aestivation in

Permian tetrapods.  Sixty-third annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, abstracts of papers.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23, p. 60.

 

Hembree, D.I., 2002.  Ichnology of an ephemeral coastal pond deposit within the Lower Permian Speiser Shale, Kansas.  Geological Society of America,

Abstracts with Program 34, p. 63.

 

Hembree, D.I., 1999.  Reevaluation of the posture and claws of Confuciusornis sanctus.  Fifty-ninth annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate

Paleontology, abstracts of papers.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19, p. 50.

 

Derstler, K., Hembree, D.I., 1999.  Observations of Confuciusornis sanctus and other fossil Aves.  Fifty-ninth annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate

Paleontology, abstracts of papers.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19, 42.

 

* Student

 

 

Teaching Publications

 

McClellan, B., Hembree, D., Wood, H. (eds.), 2001, Laboratory Manual for G-Hawks, Department of Geology, University of Kansas, Lawrence.

 

Hembree, D.I., 2001, Introduction to Rocks and Felsic Igneous Rocks.  In: McClellan, B., Hembree, D., Wood, H., Laboratory Manual for G-Hawks,

Department of Geology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.

 

Hembree, D.I., 2001, Glaciers.  In: McClellan, B., Hembree, D., Wood, H., Laboratory Manual for G-Hawks, Department of Geology, University of Kansas,

Lawrence, Kansas.

 

 

Book Reviews

 

C. Mattison, The New Encyclopedia of Snakes (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007), online in PALAIOS 2008 (DOI: 10.2110/palo.2008.BR44).

 

D. Spearing, Roadside Geology of Louisiana (Missoula, MT: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2007), online in PALAIOS 2007 (DOI: 10.2110/palo.2007.BR015).

 

 

Invited Talks

 

Hembree, D.I., 2011, The Secrets of Burrowing Biota. Science Cafe Series, Ohio University.

 

Hembree, D.I., 2010, Neoichnology of Terrestrial Burrowing Organisms: The Key to Interpreting Continental Ichnofauna. Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology Colloquium, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China.

 

Hembree, D.I., 2010, Neoichnology of Terrestrial Arthropods: the Key to Interpreting Pennsylvanian Continental Ichnofossils of the Appalachian Basin. Department of Geology and Environmental Science Colloquium, University of Akron, Akron, OH.

 

Hembree, D.I., 2006, The identification and interpretation of reptile trace fossils through modern studies. Ohio University, Department of Biological Sciences, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Colloquium.

 

Hembree, D.I., 2005, The identification and interpretation of burrowing reptile ichnofossils through actualistic studies. Ohio University, Department of Geological Sciences, Fall Colloquium Series.

 

Hembree, D.I., Hasiotis, S.T., 2005, Variations in vertebrate trace fossil morphology.  University of Kansas, Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, Panorama Society Lecture Series.

 

Hembree, D.I., Hasiotis, S.T., 2004, Traces of burrowing animals: methods for improving our understanding of biogenic structures and sediment mixing of terrestrial organisms.  University of    Kansas, Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, Panorama Society Lecture Series.

 

 

Other Presentations

 

Hembree, D.I., Mapes, R., *Rasor, B., Stigall, A.L., Goiran, C., de Forges, B.R., 2010, The taphonomy of modern Nautilus (Cephalopoda) in a nearshore, shallow water environment, Lifou (Loyalty Islands).  Third International Palaeontological Congress, London.

 

Hembree, D.I., 2008, The identification and interpretation of terrestrial arthropod ichnofossils using actualistic studies.  Paleontological Research Institution Summer Symposium, Ithaca, New York.

 

Hasiotis, S.T., Counts, J.W., Fairchild, J., Hembree, D.I., Smith, J.J., 2008, Neoichnologic studies of      continental organisms, their behaviors, and resultant burrow morphologies: how subtle differences in burrow morphology equate to major differences in burrowing behavior and its interpretation.  Second International Congress on Ichnology.