Dry Dredgers Paul Sanders Award

In Support of Amateur and Professional
Paleontology Research and Publication

Paul Sanders Award Winners

Recipient

Award Max

Year

Position

Affiliation

Project

James Thomka

$1,000

2011

Graduate Student

University of Cincinnati

The Dynamics of Mud Deposition Within a Middle Silurian Epicontinental Sea: High-Resolution Comparative Taphonomy and Stratigraphy of Late Llandovery – Wentlock Mudrocks of the Cincinnati Arch Region

David Wright

$1,000

2011

Graduate Student

Ohio University

The Origin and Impact of Upper Ordovician Invasive Brachiopods: A Phylogenetic Biogeographic Approach

Thomas Schramm

$750

2010

Graduate Student

University of Cincinnati

"Stratigraphic Refinement of the Cincinnatian, Maysvillian stage: Establishing Regional Correlations Based on a Fine Scale Sequence Stratigraphic Framework"

Rene A. Shroat -Lewis

$750

2010

Graduate Student

University of Tennessee

"Paleoecology of an edrioasteroid-bearing hardground from the Bellevue Member of the Grant Lake Formation (Cincinnatian, Upper Ordovician) near Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky"

Aaron M House

$500

2009

Graduate Student

University of Cincinnati

A Taphonomic Comparison of the Middel and Late Ordovician Molluscan Shell Beds

Rene A. Shroat -Lewis

$500

2009

Graduate Student

University of Tennessee

"Paleoecology of an edrioasteroid-bearing hardground from the Bellevue Member of the Grant Lake Formation (Cincinnatian, Upper Ordovician) near Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky"

Trisha Smrecak

$500

2007

Graduate Student

University of Cincinnati

A Study of Epibiont Encrustation on Fossil Shells as Indicators of Paleobathymetry: A Comparison of Modern and Ordovician Gradients

Carrie Tyler

$500

2007

Graduate Student

San Diego State University

A Morphometric Approach to the Study of Competition in Ordovician Brachiopods to be Conducted in the Richmondian Invasion (Ordovician) in the Illinois Basin

Bradley Deline

$500

2006

Graduate Student

"University of Cincinnati, Dept of Geology"

A Study of the Morphologic Diversity and Biogeography of Pelmatozoans at the Turnover Event at the End of the Mohawkian Stage of the Late Ordovician in Eastern North America

Autumn Thompson

$450

2005

Graduate Student

"Department of Earth Sciences, University of California. "

Spatial Components of Morphological Change: Assessing Geographic Variation in Flexicalymene (Trilobita) from the Cincinnatian Series

Bradley Deline

$450

2005

Graduate Student

"University of Cincinnati, Dept of Geology"

Morphological Disparity of Crinoid Columnals in Relation to Water Depth

Steve Felton

$200

2005

Amateur

"Dry Dredgers, Inc."

Platyceras Gastropods Attached to Brachiopods in the Paleozoic Ordovician Through the Mississippian.

Katherine Bulinski

$500

2004

Graduate Student

"University of Cincinnati, Dept of Geology"

"Biodiversity, Sample Volume and Population Structure: The Cincinnatian as a Microcosm for Assessments of Global Marine Diversity"

Michael A. Zuykov

$500

2004

Professor

"Department of Paleontology, St. Petersburg State University, Russia"

New Platystrophia-like Brachiopods from the Upper Ordovician of North America (Cincinnati area): Morphology and Systematics

Brenda Rosina Hunda

$500

2003

Graduate Student

"Department of Earth Sciences, University of California. "

In Situ Preservation of Trilobite Assemblages: Implications for Understanding Evolutionary Pathways in Ordovician Trilobites

Michael A. Zuykov

$500

2003

Professor

"Department of Paleontology, St. Petersburg State University, Russia"

Comparative Study of Platystrophiid Brachiopods from the Late Ordovician of North America (Laurentia) and Baltoscandia: Contribution for Their Taxonomy.

Angela Horner

$500

2002

Graduate Student

"University of Cincinnati, Dept of Biology"

The Functional Morphology and Biogeography of Lower Carboniferous Lungfish

Brenda Hunda.

$500

2002

Graduate Student

"Department of Earth Sciences, University of California. "

In Situ Preservation of Trilobite Assemblages: Implications for Understanding Evolutionary Pathways in Ordovician Trilobites

Brenda Hunda.

$500

2001

Graduate Student

"Department of Earth Sciences, University of California. "

In Situ Preservation of Trilobite Assemblages: Implications for Understanding Evolutionary Pathways in Ordovician Trilobites

William Garcia

$500

2001

Graduate Student

"University of Cincinnati, Dept of Geology"

"A Description of the Tetrapod Fauna from Hancock County, Kentucky, with a Consideration of Early Tetrapod systematics"

"Andrew Webber, "

$500

2000

Graduate Student

"University of Cincinnati, Dept of Geology"

High-resolution Chronostratigraphy in the type Cincinnatian (upper Ordovician): A Quantitative Approach to Correlation of the Kope and Fairview Formations across a Broad Geographic Area.

Brenda Hunda.

$500

2000

Graduate Student

"Department of Earth Sciences, University of California. "

In Situ Preservation of Trilobite Assemblages: Implications for Understanding Evolutionary Pathways in Ordovician Trilobites

"James St. John, "

$500

1999

Graduate Student

Ohio State University

Description of a New Species of Trilobite from the Cincinnatiaan