Alycia Stigall

Athens, OH

Ordovician brachiopods and their friends, Conchostracans

The Ordovician of the world! But especially the Cincinnati region.  I grew up in Cincinnati, and no other fossils have ever been able to be usurp their central position in my heart.  I have collected specimens on all seven continents for projects spanning marine paleobiology of invertebrates (mostly brachiopods) through lacustrine crustaceans of the Mesozoic through Cenozoic deposits.

I am a faculty member in the Geological Sciences department at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.  My research employs paleogeographic, paleoecology, and phylogenetic methods to examine the response of species to environmental change.  I am particularly interested in how species alter their ecological niches and geographic ranges and well as better understanding the process of speciation.  I teach courses on Earth History, Paleontology, Paleoecology, Paleobiogeography, and Carbonate Depositional Systems.

I am Professor of Geological Sciences at Ohio University. I also co-lead the International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) 653 “the onset of the Great Ordovician Biodiversificaiton Event” (www.igcp653.org).

http://www.alyciastigall.org