Office Hours: Tues 10-12, and as always by appointment

Teaching Schedule or Courses Taught:
Spring 2009: Historical Geology with lab, GEO 200
Paleontology with lab, GEO 440
Fall 2009: Oceanograhy OCE 100
Sedimentology and Stratigraphy with lab GEO 420

Title: Assistant Professor

Education: B.S. University of Delaware, 1999
M.S. University of California, Riverside, 2002
Ph.D. University of California, Riverside, 2007

Area of Specialty: Paleontology

Research Interests: Paleoecological change across extinction events, low oxgyen communities and the sedimentological and biological record of environmetnal conditions, Paleozoic Paleoecology

Publications:

Boyer, D.L., and Droser, M.L., 2009, Paleoecological patterns within dysaerobic biofacies; examples from Devonian black shales of New York State. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, and Palaeoecology, v. 276, p. 206-216.

Boyer, Diana L. and Droser, Mary L., 2007, Devonian monospecific assemblages: new insights into the ecology of reduced oxygen depositional settings: Lethaia. Vol. 40, p. 321-334.

Boyer, Diana L., Bottjer, David J., and Droser, Mary L., 2004, Ecological signature of Lower Triassic shell beds of the western United States: Palaios, v. 19, no. 4, pp. 372-380.

Boyer, Diana L., and Droser, Mary L., 2003, Shell beds of the Kanosh and Lehman Formations of western Utah: paleoecological and paleoenvironmental interpretations: Brigham Young University, Geology Studies, v. 47, pp. 1-15.

Moffat, Heather A., Boyer, Diana L., Droser, Mary L., and Sheehan, Peter M., 2002, Analysis of monospecific molluscan shellbeds: separating and extracting paleoecological and taphonomic signals from Early Paleozoic bivalve accumulations, Western Society of Malacologists Annual Report 35: 31-39.