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Innovation/Entrepreneurship: Alabama Launchpad class of 2011-12; co-inventor of www.EZSnips.com (YouTube video snipping service).
Teaching: geology, archaeology; graduate committee chair and memberships (MS and PhD, biology, biostatistics, engineering, geology, physics);
Research: geology, paleontology, software engineering;
Public Service: over 150 public service presentations to K12 schools, organizations, and media on issues of science and science education
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September 1974 - August 1979
September 1972 - May 1974
September 1968 - May 1972
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Increasing availability in the classroom of online multimedia and technology infrastructure (e.g., availability of web access, wireless infrastructure, projectors, digital smartboards, etc.) broadens options for instructional strategies to enhance student engagement and learning. A number of reviews have emphasized the importance of student attenti...
The rapid development of online storage systems, faster computer networks, and the proliferation of personal electronic devices capable of creating digital video files (among other factors) has resulted in the exponential growth of online digital video archives such as YouTube. The use of digital video media in the educational environment is also r...
Systematists may rely on morphometric differences among samples of specimens for the recognition of living and fossil species, even though morphometric differentiation may be caused by non-genetic factors, such as ecophenotypy, differential growth rates and taphonomic mixing. When genetic differences between sexes or among closely related species a...
The increasing use of multimedia in and out of the classroom is in part due to the recognition of critical roles it plays in the learning process. Video media has the potential to capture and focus student attention on information relevant to the academic subject in ways that other media do not. The phenomenon of student engagement is a beginning p...
The pace of technological change exerts powerful influences on dynamic systems in higher education, including the development of administrative policy, allocation and deployment of scarce financial resources, faculty-driven course content and delivery, and student demand and use of computer networks, among others. Nowhere else is such acute pressur...
The widespread adoption of cell phones and other mobile platforms represents an opportunity to extend the benefits of personalized, point-of-care, healthcare applications to providers and patients in the developing world. However, the challenges facing the effective deployment of mobile health care applications are complex, and thus require a scala...
Paleontological and lithological studies of a carbonate mound provide the necessary data from which characterizations for that mound or locality can be constructed. These data-based characterizations are a convenient mechanism for making qualitative comparisons with other mounds, as has been done in some previous studies that discussed Middle Ordov...
Travels with Fossil Hunters, Peter Whybrow (editor), 2000, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 176 p. (Hardcover $39.95) ISBN: 0-521-66301-6.
Travels with the Fossil Hunters is a collection of essays by ten British paleontologists about their adventures to various corners of the world in the search for the quarry of their various specialties. A...
In archaeological studies, measurements are commonly used to objectively describe various types of artifact. These studies very often involve large sample sizes, thus suggesting that methods for the compact summary of specimen form and variation may be helpful in comparisons of inter- and intra-assemblage similarity or difference. We have studied a...
Systematists may rely on morphometric differences among samples of specimens for the recognition of living and fossil species, even though morphometric differentiation may be caused by non-genetic factors, such as ecophenotypy, differential growth rates and taphonomic mixing. When genetic differences between sexes or among closely related species a...
The numerical abundance of artifacts in the archaeological record is in some ways analogous to the occurrence of individuals in many species populations. Methods devised by biometricians for the geometric description of organism form may be applied to artifacts, provided that coordinates of landmarks on individual specimens are available. We have c...
The Red Mountain Formation (Lower Silurian, Llandoverian Series) exposed at Birmingham, Alabama, was deposited in a shallow environment. It displays an array of facies from the littoral beach to the offshore mud shelf. The method of proximality analysis was used successfully to obtain detailed relative depth data throughout the formation.
In the past few years, several workers have attempted to gain information on highland and mare compositional units by the use of various statistical methods, e.g., [1] , [2] , [3], [4] . Until now, classification of rock types rested on the major elements only; the difficulty in obtaining trace data from glass fragments did not allow workers to inv...