Dickinson Geology - Prof. Marcus Key

		Dr. Marcus M. Key, Jr., P.G. Professor of Geology (Paleontology / Paleobiology / Sedimentology) Department of Geology Kaufman Building, Room 143 Dickinson College Carlisle, PA 17013-2896 USA Phone: 717.245.1448 E-Mail:

CURRICULUM VITAE revised 3/7/08 TEACHING EXPERIENCE: 1989-1994 Dickinson College; Carlisle, PA; Department of Geology; Assistant Professor; courses taught: Economic Geology Field Study of Marine Carbonate Environments (in Bahamas), Historical Geology Society and Science (First Year Seminar) History of Life Paleogeography (Senior Seminar) Paleontology Sedimentology Rocks and Revolutions (First Year Seminar) Oceanography 1994-2005 Dickinson College; Carlisle, PA; Department of Geology; Associate Professor; courses taught: Energy Resources Dinosaurs (First Year Seminar) Historical Geology Evolution of the Blues (First Year Seminar) History of Life Field Study of Marine Carbonate Environments (in Bahamas) Paleontology Geology of the Pacific Northwest (Senior Seminar) Sedimentology and Stratigraphy Geology Underfoot (First Year Seminar) National Parks (First Year Seminar) 2005-present Dickinson College; Carlisle, PA; Department of Geology; Professor; courses taught: Energy Resources History of Life Paleontology Sedimentology and Stratigraphy NON-TEACHING EXPERIENCE: 1982 Florida Exploration Co.; Houston, TX; Exploration Department; Assistant Geologist; responsibilities: subsurface reservoir mapping. 1984 Exxon Co., U.S.A.; Houston, TX; Production Department; Associate Geologist; responsibilities: subsurface reservoir computer modeling. 1985 Yale University's Peabody Museum of Natural History; New Haven, CT; Division of Invertebrate Paleontology; Curatorial Assistant; responsibilities: collections research. 1985 Yale University; New Haven, CT; Department of Geology and Geophysics; Field Assistant; responsibilities: biostratigraphy field work. 1989-1991 Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History; Washington, DC; Department of Paleobiology; Research Collaborator; responsibilities: paleontology research. 1999-2000 Trinity College; Dublin, Ireland; Department of Geology; Visiting Academic; responsibilities: paleoecology and sedimentology research. 1995-2005 Field Museum of Natural History; Chicago, IL; Department of Zoology; Research Associate; responsibilities: marine ecology research. 2007 University of Otago; Dunedin, New Zealand; Department of Marine Science; J. A. Valentine Visiting Professor; responsibilities: marine paleoecology research. AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, AND SCHOLARSHIPS: 1982 University of Texas' Hogg-Sharp Undergraduate Scholarship. 1983 University of Texas' Enserch Exploration Undergraduate Scholarship. 1983 University of Texas' Champlin Petroleum Undergraduate Scholarship. 1983 University of Texas' McCammon Undergraduate Scholarship. 1983 Elected to Phi Beta Kappa Academic Honor Society. 1984-1985 Yale University's Atlantic Ritchfield Foundation Graduate Fellowship. 1985-1986 Yale University's Twenhofel Graduate Fellowship.1986-1988 Yale University's Schuchert Graduate Fellowship. 1991 Excellence in Teaching Award from Omicron Delta Kappa Honor Society at Dickinson College. 1991-1993 Dickinson College Volunteer Recognition Award. 1995 Elected to Alpha Lamda Delta National Academic Honor Society. 2001 Elected to Phi Beta Delta National Honor Society for International Scholars. 2005 Constance and Rose Ganoe Memorial Award for Inspirational Teaching. 1993-present Registered Professional Geologist in the Commonwealth of PA (License # PG-00056-G). *EXTERNAL RESEARCH GRANTS ( indicates co-principle investigator):** 1985 Woman's Seaman's Friend Society of Connecticut; "Environmental Stability and Morphologic Variation in the Bryozoan Homotrypa obliqua" ($400). 1986 Woman's Seaman's Friend Society of Connecticut; "Partitioning of Morphologic Variation Across Stability Gradients in Upper Ordovician Trepostomes" ($400). 1986 Sigma Xi; "Evolutionary trends of the Trepostome Bryozoans from the Middle Ordovician Simpson Group in the Arbuckle Mountains, Oklahoma" ($500). 1987 Woman's Seaman's Friend Society of Connecticut; "The Evolution of the Halloporid Clade (Bryozoa: Trepostomata) in the Ordovician Simpson Group of Oklahoma" ($400). 1987 Sigma Xi; "Evolutionary Trends of the Halloporid Trepostome Bryozoans from the Ordovician Simpson Group in the Arbuckle Mountains, Oklahoma" ($800). 1987 Geological Society of America; "The Evolution of the Halloporid Clade (Bryozoa: Trepostomata) in the Ordovician Simpson Group of Oklahoma" ($1,000). 1988 Woman's Seaman's Friend Society of Connecticut; "The Evolution of the Halloporid Clade (Bryozoa: Trepostomata) in the Ordovician Simpson Group of Oklahoma" ($400). 1990-1992 National Science Foundation; "Constructional Analysis of the Halloporid Clade (Bryozoa: Trepostomata)" ($64,774). 1995-1997* National Science Foundation; with Jeff Niemitz; “Development of Hydrogeologic Component of the Geology Curriculum” ($67,471). 1998* University of Otago (New Zealand) Research Committee; with Abigail Smith; “Age of a Temperate Reef: Growth Rates of Large Structure-Forming Bryozoan Colonies” (NZ$13,960). 2003-2007 American Chemical Society's Petroleum Research Fund; “Bryozoan colony growth rates: a proxy for carbonate production in cool-water limestones” ($50,000). PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES: 1983-present Phi Beta Kappa (Alpha Chapter of Pennsylvania Scholarship Committee: 1993-1996, Chair: 1995-1996) 1985-present International Bryozoology Association (Executive Council: 1995-2001) 1987-present Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society 1988-present Paleontological Society (Treasurer’s Audit Committee: 2003-present) 1989-present Geological Society of America 1989-present Harrisburg Area Geological Society (Secretary: 1990-1991, V. Pres.: 1991-1992, Pres.: 1992-1993) 1989-present International Palaeontological Association 1989-present Society for Sedimentary Geology *PRESENTATIONS ( indicates invited):** 10/29/85 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting; Orlando, FL; “Environmental stability and morphologic variation in the bryozoan Homotrypa obliqua”. 8/8/86 7th International Bryozoology Association Conference; Bellingham, WA; “Partitioning of morphologic variation across stability gradients in Upper Ordovician trepostomes”. 3/9/88* Geological Society of Washington; Washington, DC; “Paleoenvironmental gradients and Ordovician bryozoans: No place but Cincinnati”. 4/28/88* Smithsonian Institution Department of Paleobiology, Research Activities Seminar Series; Washington, DC; “Evolution of the Halloporid Clade (Bryozoa: Trepostomata) in the Ordovician Simpson Group of Oklahoma”. 11/2/88 Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting; Denver, CO; “Progressive macroevolutionary patterns in colonial animals”. 11/17/88* Dickinson College, Department of Geology; Carlisle, PA; “A paleontological test of cyclic sedimentation in the Upper Ordovician Cincinnatian Series”. 1/2/89* University of Virginia, Department of Environmental Sciences; Charlottesville, VA; “Can macroevolution be progressive?”. 1/3/89* Virginia Museum of Natural History; Martinsville, VA; “What can the fossil record tell us?”. 4/27/89* Dickinson College, Department of Biology; Carlisle, PA; “Can macroevolution be progressive?”. 7/17/89 8th International Bryozoology Association Conference; Paris, France; “How to build a ramose trepostome”. 11/7/89 Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting; St. Louis, MO; “Phylogeny reconstruction in trepostome bryozoans”. 4/12/90* Franklin & Marshall College, Department of Geology; Lancaster, PA; “A paleontological test of cyclic sedimentation in the Upper Ordovician Cincinnatian Series”. 4/18/90* Dickinson College, Earth Issues Seminar Series; Carlisle, PA; “Dinosaurs and you (a.k.a. How does paleontology affect our world view?) ”. 9/27/90* Harrisburg Area Geological Society; Harrisburg, PA; “Dinosaurs and you (a.k.a. How does paleontology affect our world view?)”. 10/23/90* Dickinson College, Earth Issues Seminar Series; Carlisle, PA; “A case history of a Whitaker funded student/faculty research project: Outlaw bryozoans - do they grow alone or in a posse? ”. 10/29/90 Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting; Dallas, TX; “Skeletal growth rates in Paleozoic ramose trepostome bryozoans”. 3/26/91* Dickinson College, Earth Issues Seminar Series; Carlisle, PA; “Doing marine science in the Bahamas”. 4/9/91* Berks Mineralogical Society, Reading Public Museum; Reading, PA; “Dinosaurs and you (a.k.a. How does paleontology affect our world view?) ”. 4/23/91* Dickinson College, Annual Division III Science Dinner; Carlisle, PA; “The Dickinson College Marine Studies Program”. 10/22/91 Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting; San Diego, CA; “Skeletal growth rates in hemispherical trepostome bryozoans”. 3/26/92 Geological Society of America, Northeastern Section Annual Meeting; Harrisburg, PA; “Insoluble residue analysis of modern and ancient carbonate environments, San Salvador Island, Bahamas”. 3/31/92* Wilson College, Institute for Retired Persons; Chambersburg, PA; “Origin of the Earth". 4/4/92 46th Annual Eastern Colleges Science Conference; Annapolis, MD; “Control of colony morphology by zooecial growth rates in hemispherical trepostome bryozoans”. 4/7/92* Wilson College, Institute for Retired Persons; Chambersburg, PA; “The evolution of life”. 6/30/92 5th North American Paleontological Convention; Chicago, IL; “Macroevolutionary patterns in bryozoans”. 7/30/92 9th International Bryozoology Association Conference; Swansea, Wales; “Colony control over skeletal growth rates in trepostome bryozoans”. 9/16/92* Paleontological Society of Washington; Washington, DC; “Macroevolutionary patterns in bryozoans”. 10/30/92* Dickinson College, Department of Geology Seminar Series; Carlisle, PA; “Progress: Eastward and evolutionary”. 4/8/93* Harrisburg Area Geological Society; Harrisburg, PA; “Pleistocene and modern carbonate geology; San Salvador Island, Bahamas”. 7/11/93* Museum of Scientific Discovery; Harrisburg, PA; “Dinosaurs in the 1990's”. 9/8/93* Rutgers University, Department of Geological Sciences; New Brunswick, NJ; “The latest in macroevolutionary theory and the question of progressive evolution”. 9/17/93* Dickinson College, Earth Issues Seminar Series; Carlisle, PA; “East coast geology from Acadia to the Great Smokies”. 10/27/93* Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting; Boston, MA; “A paleobiologic test for diastems using the internal stratigraphy of trepostome bryozoans”. 2/8/94* Dickinson College, Department of Anthropology; Carlisle, PA; “Evolution: Random or directed?”. 2/9/94* Dickinson College, Environmental Studies Senior Seminar; Carlisle, PA; “The evolution of biodiversity”. 2/18/94* Dickinson College, Earth Issues Seminar Series; Carlisle, PA; “Curly, Larry, and Mo do the Bahamas”. 4/15/94* Franklin & Marshall College, Department of Geology; Lancaster, PA; “Faunal rebound from the K/T extinction”. 4/29/94* Pennsylvania Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development, Southern Regional Meeting; Hershey, PA; “Integrating math and science teaching: Dinosaurs - a sample problem”. 7/17/94* Museum of Scientific Discovery; Harrisburg, PA; “Vertebrate evolution: From dinosaurs to Madonna”. 11/17/94* Dickinson College, Department of Biology; Carlisle, PA; “Bryozoans: The colonial lophophorates”. 2/3/95 10th International Bryozoology Association Conference; Wellington, New Zealand; “Epizoic bryozoans and mobile ephemeral host substrates”. 3/14/95* Dickinson College, Department of Biology; Carlisle, PA; “Epibiosis: A free ride?”. 9/29/95* Dickinson College, Department of Geology Seminar Series; Carlisle, PA; “Geology and natural history of the northern Rockies”. 11/8/95 Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting; New Orleans, LA; “The geology side of IMAST (A project-based, vertically and horizontally integrated curriculum collaboration between K-12 and college teachers)”. 12/14/95* Harrisburg Area Geological Society; Carlisle, PA; “Geothermal energy: Elegance to electricity”. 2/17/96* Central Pennsylvania Consortium, Annual Teaching Workshop; Hershey, PA; “To lecture or not to lecture: To what extent does the nature of an academic discipline determine the way in which it is presented?”. 6/12/96 6th North American Paleontological Convention; Washington, DC; “Analysis of the Skolithos ichnofacies from the Cambrian Montalto Quartzite Member of the Harpers Formation in south central Pennsylvania”. 8/28/96* Dickinson College Common Hour; Carlisle, PA; “Evidence for fossil life on Mars”. 11/20/97 America Anthropological Association, 96th Annual Meeting; Washington, DC; “Geoarcheology of terra cotta clay tobacco pipes from the colonial Davis Site (44La46) in Lancaster County, Virginia”. 1/27/98 11th International Bryozoology Association Conference; Panama City, Panama; “Bryozoan fouling patterns on the horseshoe crab Tachypleus gigas”. 2/27/98* Dickinson College, Department of Geology Seminar Series; Carlisle, PA; “Bryozoan Fouling of Crustaceans: An Effective Recent Analog for Trilobites?”. 5/5/98* Blair Academy, Society of Skeptics; Blair, NJ; “Fueling the World Economy in the 21st Century: the Post-Petroleum World”. 9/25/98* Dickinson College, Earth Issues Seminar Series; Carlisle, PA; “Evolution of marine hitchhikers”. 10/26/98 Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting; Toronto, Canada; “Bryozoan colony growth rates: a proxy for cool-water marine carbonate production rates”. 3/11/99* American Association for the Advancement of Science; Millersville, PA; “The Evolution of Epibiosis”. 9/27/99 International Symposium on Paleoceanology of Reefs and Carbonate Platforms: Miocene to Modern; Centre Européen de Research et d’Enseignment de Géosciences de l’environement; Aix-en-Provence, France; “Bryozoan skeletal growth rates: a new tool for determining carbonate production rate, Otago Shelf, New Zealand”. 10/28/99* Trinity College, Department of Geology; Dublin, Ireland; “Measuring growth rates in fossil bryozoans: inferences for carbonate production”. 12/21/99 Palaeontological Association, Annual Meeting; Manchester, England; “Measuring growth rates in fossil bryozoans: inferences for carbonate production”. 3/3/00* University College Cork, Department of Zoology and Animal Ecology; Cork, Ireland; “Epibiosis: A free ride?”. 3/9/00* Irish Geological Association; Queen’s College, Department of Geology; Belfast, Northern Ireland; “Trouble in paradise: Carbonate geology of the Bahamas”. 4/5/00* Irish Geological Association; University College Dublin, Department of Geology; Dublin, Ireland; “Trouble in paradise: Carbonate geology of the Bahamas”. 9/8/00* Dickinson College, Department of Geology Seminar Series; Carlisle, PA; “The carbonate geology of Ireland”. 9/14/00* Harrisburg Area Geological Society; Harrisburg, PA; “Cool water carbonates from New Zealand to Ireland”. 11/7/00* Dickinson College, Department of Biology Seminar Series; Carlisle, PA; “Measuring growth rates in extinct organisms”. 11/15/00 Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting; Reno, Nevada; “Functional morphology of maculae in a giant ramose trepostome bryozoan from the Permian of Greenland”. 2/2/01* Dickinson College, Department of Geology Seminar Series; Carlisle, PA; “The geology of New Zealand”. 7/20/01 12th International Bryozoology Association Conference; Dublin, Ireland; “Functional morphology of maculae in a giant ramose trepostome bryozoan from the Permian of Greenland”. 11/6/01* Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting; Boston, MA; “Presentation of the Paleontological Society Medal to Alan H. Cheetham”. 11/7/01 Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting; Boston, MA; “Oxygen isotope seasonal profiling as a tool for measuring growth rates and inferring carbonate production rates in fossil bryozoans”. 12/7/01* Associated College Libraries of Central Pennsylvania’s Reference/Instruction Group, Annual Fall Meeting; Harrisburg, PA; “Integrating information literacy into the geology curriculum”. 2/27/02* Dickinson College, Clarke Center Common Hour series; Carlisle, PA; “In the footsteps of Darwin: crossing borders in the Galápagos”. 10/27/02 Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting; Denver, CO; “A stable isotope test for diagenesis comparing brachiopods, bryozoans, and cements in the Ordovician Duncannon Group, southeastern Ireland”. 11/5/02* Kiwanis Club; Carlisle, PA; “Hunting dinosaurs”. 2/27/03* Dickinson College, Department of Geology and Earth Issues Seminar Series; Carlisle, PA; “Geology and evolution in the Galápagos”. 6/24/03* University of Otago, Department of Marine Science; Dunedin, New Zealand; “Evolution of bryozoan epibiosis”. 9/11/03 Dickinson College, Department of Geology Seminar Series; Carlisle, PA; “New Zealand: A bryozoan carbonate factory”. 11/4/03 Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting; Seattle, WA; “Gigantism in Permian trepostomes from Greenland: stable isotope evidence of the algal symbiosis hypothesis”. 1/13/04 13th International Bryozoology Association Conference; Concepción, Chile; “C and O isotopic test of the algal symbiosis hypothesis for gigantism in Permian trepostomes from Greenland”. 1/15/04 13th International Bryozoology Association Conference; Concepción, Chile; “From Plate Tectonics to Bryozoan Evolution”. 3/31/04* Shippensburg University, Department of Geography & Earth Science; Shippensburg, PA; “Cool water carbonates: examples from the field (New Zealand and Ireland)”. 4/15/04 Dickinson College, Department of Geology Seminar Series; Carlisle, PA; “Bryozoan research on an active plate margin in Chile” 10/5/04* University of Saskatchewan, Department of Geological Sciences; Saskatoon, Canada; “In search of a cool-water biological paleoclimate recorder” 11/7/04* Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting; Denver, CO; “Trilobites as a hard substrate for episkeletozoans from the Upper Ordovician of the Cincinnati, Ohio area” 2/17/05* Dickinson College, Department of Geology Seminar Series; Carlisle, PA; “Chemostratigraphy of the Ordovician of Estonia: An example of student-faculty research in the Geology Department”. 6/20/05 American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Annual Convention; Calgary, Canada; “Stable isotope values in modern bryozoan carbonate: potential for paleoenvironmental interpretation” 9/8/05 Biology Center of the Upper Austria Landes Museum; Linz, Austria; “Determining growth rates in Pentapora fascialis from the Adriatic Sea, Croatia” 9/30/05* University of Saskatchewan, Department of Geological Sciences; Saskatoon, Canada; “Using oxygen isotopes to determine ages of giant bryozoan colonies from the Adriatic Sea, Croatia” 11/15/05* Dickinson College, Department of Geology Seminar Series; Carlisle, PA; “Developing a tool for determining colony age in fossil bryozoans” 2/13/06* Dickinson College, Clarke Center; Carlisle, PA; “When will we run out of petroleum?” 10/24/06 Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting; Philadelphia, PA; “The role of submarine groundwater discharge in maintaining unique submarine spring benthic ecosystems in the Adriatic Sea, Croatia” 11/8/06* Dickinson College, Department of Anthropology; Carlisle, PA; “Radiometric dating – a powerful tool for studying hominid evolution”. 2/6/07* University of Queensland, Department of Earth Sciences; Brisbane, Australia, “The role of submarine groundwater discharge in maintaining unique submarine spring benthic ecosystems in the Adriatic Sea, Croatia” 3/6/07* University of Otago, Department of Marine Science; Dunedin, New Zealand; “The role of submarine groundwater discharge in maintaining unique submarine spring benthic ecosystems in the Adriatic Sea, Croatia” 5/11/07* New York City Alumni Club of Dickinson College; New York, NY; “The End of Oil?” 7/6/07 14th International Bryozoology Association Conference; Boone, NC; “A stable isotopic test for the origin of fossil brown bodies in trepostome bryozoans from the Ordovician of Estonia” 11/8/07* Denver Alumni Club of Dickinson College; Denver, CO; “The End of Oil?” 12/1/07* Dickinson College, Department of Physics; Carlisle, PA; “The End of Oil?” 1/25/08* Dickinson College, Department of Biology; Carlisle, PA; “Plate Tectonics and Paleobiogeography” 2/19/08* University of Dallas, Department of Biology; Irving, TX; “Plate Tectonics and Bryozoan Evolution”. 2/19/08* Dallas Alumni Club of Dickinson College; Dallas, TX; “The End of Oil?” 2/21/08* Houston Alumni Club of Dickinson College; Houston, TX; “The End of Oil?” 2/26/08* San Francisco Alumni Club of Dickinson College; San Francisco, CA; “The End of Oil?” 2/28/08* San Diego Alumni Club of Dickinson College; San Diego, CA; “The End of Oil?” 3/6/08* Dickinson College, Department of Environmental Science; Carlisle, PA; “Bryozoan Ecology and Evolution”