Dan Peppe, Associate Professor
Dan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geosciences at Baylor University.
Dan’s CV [pdf]
Google Scholar, Researchgate, Academia.edu, Publons
Contact: daniel_peppe at baylor.edu
Andrew Flynn, PhD student
Andrew’s dissertation is focused on reconstructing the flora, paleoclimate, and paleocology of the Early Paleocene Ojo Alamo Sandstone and Nacimiento Formation in the San Juan Basin, New Mexico, USA.
Contact: andrew_flynn at baylor.edu
Aly Baumgartner, PhD student
Aly’s dissertation is focused on assessing the relationship between the size and shape of leaves and climate in modern African floras in order to develop a paleoclimate proxy that can be applied to African fossil leaves. Aly is also assessing how climate and development affect leaf morphology in several species of Vitis.
Contact: aly_baumgartner at baylor.edu
Joe Milligan, PhD student
Joe’s research is focused on reconstructing atmospheric CO2 in the early and middle Paleocene using fossil leaves from the Nacimiento Formation in the San Juan Basin, New Mexico, USA.
Contact: joseph_milligan at baylor.edu
Adam Davis, MS student
Adam is using alluvial stacking pattern analyses, sedimentology, and paleosol analyses in the early Paleocene Nacimiento Formation to assess extrinsic vs. intrinsic controls on changes in depositional environments across the San Juan Basin, New Mexico, USA.
Contact: adam_davis1 at baylor.edu
Jenn Wagner, MS student
Jenn’s research is focused on the Paleocene and Eocene floras of the Gulf Coastal Plain in Central Texas.
contact: jenn_wagner at baylor.edu
Lab Alumni
Caitlin Leslie (PhD graduate)
now Geologist at Pioneer Natural Resources
Emily Beverly (PhD graduate)
now NSF
Postdoctoal Fellow at University of Michigan [website]
Lauren Michel (PhD graduate)
now Assistant Professor in Earth Sciences at Tennessee Tech [website]
Kennedy Oginga (MS student)
now Wellsite Geologist at Columbine Logging, Inc. [website]
Casee Lemons (MS graduate)
now at Texas Bureau of Economic Geology [website]
Alex Van Plantinga (MS graduate)
now Postdoctoral Research Fellow at George Mason University [website]
Undergraduate BS Thesis students
Michaela Donahoo, BS 2018, now graduate student at TCU
Tyler Leggett, BS 2017, now graduate student at Baylor University
Jeannie Freeman, BS 2017, [linkedin]
Brittany Abbuhl, BS 2016, MS graduate of Colorado School of Mines, [linkedin]
Mike Loudermilk, BS 2015, now Party Chief at Maples & Associates Surveyors, [linkedin]
Nicky Arellano, BS 2015, now graduate student at Oregon State University, [website], [honors thesis]
Will Fenley, BS 2014, now Geologist at Saunders Oil and Gas [linkedin]
Mark McCollum, BS 2013, now Oil and Gas Technical Specialist at Railroad Commission of Texas, [linkedin]
Dillon DeGarmo, BS 2103, now Geologist at Apache Corporation, [linkedin]
Blake Taylor, BS 2013, now Forecasting Analyst at National Oilwel Varco, [linkedin]
Will Horner, BS 2012, now Geologist at Anadarko, [linkedin]
Lynsday DiPietro, BS 2011, now PhD candidate at Baylor University, [Researchgate]