Roy J. Shlemon Center for Quaternary Studies
1000 E. University Ave.
Laramie, WY 82071
Email: bshuman@uwyo.edu
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Jim Ahern Biological Anthropology, Human Evolution, Europe, Africa, Neandertals and Modern Human Origins, Hominin Origins and Australopithecines, Human Variation, Sexual Dimorphism, Small, Fragmentary Fossil Samples, Systematics, Species Concepts Variation: Inter- and Intra-specific |
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Robert L. Kelly Professor, Chair, and Director of Frison Institute, Archaeology | RLKELLY@uwyo.edu Paleoindian Archaeology, Ancient Human Responses to Climate Change, |
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Marcel Kornfeld Professor, Archaeology| anpro1@uwyo.edu Cultural Evolution, Forager Subsistence--specifically plant and small animal resources, technology--especially chipped stone tool remodeling strategies, regional distributions archeology, archeology of gender, peopling of North America and Paleoindian prehistory, archeology of closed sites, field methodsespecially computerized data collection |
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Mary Lou Larson Professor and Associate Director, George C. Frison Institute | mlarson@uwyo.edu Spatial distribution and variation of surface archaeology across the landscape using geographic information systems; Chipped stone technological organization, particularly debitage and minimum analytical nodules; Understanding Rocky Mountain and Plains prehistory through analysis of intensively excavated stratified archaeological sites; The investigation of early to mid-Holocene house pit structures throughout the west; Paleoindian to Archaic transition in the Rockies and the Plains |
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Charles A. Reher Associate Professor and Museum Curator | arrow@uwyo.edu Research and teaching in Northwest Plains archaeology, especially the study of Late Prehistoric/Plains Indian cultures and the archaeology of Early Historic Frontier expansion, bison ecology and faunal analysis; site dating and paleoclimatic reconstruction using dendrochronology; hunter-gatherer adaptation in semiarid environments; ethnobotany; geoarchaeology; archaeological applications of remote sensing; computer applications of statistical analysis and other quantitative techniques; computerized digital imagery analysis; museum display techniques. |
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Todd Surovell Associate Professor | surovell@uwyo.edu Human Behavioral Ecology, New World Colonization, Lithic Technology, Human Demography, Subsistence, Pleistocene Extinctions, Geoarchaeology, Archaeological Modeling |
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Nicole Waguespack Associate Professor | nmwagues@uwyo.edu Hunter-Gatherer Ecology, Paleoindian Archaeology, Zooarchaeology, Behavioral Ecology, Subsistence Strategies, Pleistocene Extinctions |
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Mark Lyford Director, General Biology Program | mahler@uwyo.edu |
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Elise Pendall Associate Professor | pendall@uwyo.edu |
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Carl Legleiter Assistant Professor | cleglei1@uwyo.edu Fluvial Geomorphology, Sediment Transport and Channel Change, Remote Sensing of Rivers, Geostatistics |
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Thomas Minckley Assistant Professor | minckley@uwyo.edu Palynology, Vegetation History, Paleoecology, and Paleoclimatology |
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Jacqueline J. Shinker Associate Professor | jshinker@uwyo.edu Synoptic and Dynamic Climatology, Environmental Change, Paleoclimatology, Visualization |
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Mark T. Clementz Associate Professor | mclemen1@uwyo.edu Stable Isotope Ecology, Megafauna, Paleodietary Reconstruction, Ancient Food Webs and Trophic Level |
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Carol D. Frost Professor & Vice President of Special Projects| frost@uwyo.edu Isotope Geology, Energy Impacts on Environment, Carbon Sequestration |
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Neil F. Humphrey Professor | neil@uwyo.edu Glaciology, Geomorphology, Cold Regions Hydrology, Landscape Modeling |
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Brandon McElroy Assistant Professor | bmcelroy@uwyo.edu Modern Sedimentary Processes, Quantifying Rates of Landscape Evolution, Fluvial and Submarine Channel Systems, Physical Habitats in Fluvial & Aquatic Environments |
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Clifford S. Riebe Assistant Professor | criebe@uwyo.edu Landscape Erosion and Weathering, Cosmogenic Isotopes, Effects of Humans and Natural Processes on Species/Habitat Linkages |
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Bryan N. Shuman Associate Professor | bshuman@uwyo.edu Director of the Roy J. Shlemon Center in Quaternary Studies Abrupt Climate Change, Impacts on Water, Impacts on Ecosystems, Lake-Level Fluctuations, Vegetation History |
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Arthur W. Snoke Professor | snoke@uwyo.edu Structural Geology, Neotectonics, Geologic Mapping, Fault-related Rocks |
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Kenneth W. W. Sims Associate Professor | bmcelroy@uwyo.edu Isotope Geology, Volcanology |
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Ye Zhang Assistant Professor | yzhang9@uwyo.edu Geological Modeling, Fluid Flow Simulation, Hydrogeology, Geostatistics, Scientific Computing |
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Scott Miller Associate Professor | snmiller@uwyo.edu
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Roy J. Shlemon Center for Quaternary Studies
1000 E. University Ave.
Laramie, WY 82071
Email: bshuman@uwyo.edu