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Former Staff
Kerry Geddes
Senior fossil preparator (2003–2013)
Former Students
Rodney Berrell
Honours (2007)
Project title: A new freshwater fish (Teleostei: Ichthyodectiformes)
from the mid-Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian) Winton Formation
of Isisford, central-western Queensland, Australia
Email: rodneyberrell@yahoo.com
Alice Buttershaw
Honours (2010)
Project title: Anatomy and function of the uhyral valve in crocodilians
Email: alice.buttershaw@uqconnect.edu.au
Phillipa Chamberlain
Honours (2015)
Project title: A sauropod-dominated dinosaur tracksite in the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian–Barremian) Broome Sandstone of Reddell Beach, Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia
Email: philippa.chamberlain@uq.net.au
James Condon
BIOL3012 (Introduction to Research, 2007)
Project: Morphological adaptations to aquatic locomotion in varanid lizards
Email: s4079083@student.uq.edu.au
Amelia Cook
Honours (2012–2013)
Project: The affect of seasonal environmental changes on bone growth in captive Indo-Pacific crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus)
Email: amelia.cook@uqconnect.edu.au
Amanda Denton
Honours student (2009)
Project title: Osteological variability in wild and captive raised crocodilians
Email: s4120298@student.uq.edu.au
Stephen Faggotter
BIOL3013 (Special Projects, 2007)
Project: A new freshwater elopiform fish (Teleostei: Elopomorpha) from the mid-Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian) Winton Formation of Isisford, central-western Queensland
Email: s.faggotter@griffith.edu.au
Sarah Gray
Honours (2015)
Project title: Palaeoenvironmental setting of dinosaurian tracks in the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian–Barremian) Broome Sandstone of Reddell Beach, Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia
Email: sarahgray.manx@gmail.com
Tamara Fletcher
PhD (awarded 2013)
Project title: The palaeoenvironment of the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian–Turonian) portion of the Winton Formation, Queensland, Australia
Goddard Building (Bldg #8)
Telephone: +61 7 3365 1398
Email: tamara.l.fletcher@gmail.com
Jeff Hanson
Honours (2011–2012)
Project: Using stable isotopes to assess the relationship between body-size, habitat use and diet in estuarine crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus)
Email: jeffrey.hanson@uqconnect.edu.au
Matt Herne
PhD (awarded 2013)
Project: Anatomy, systematics and phylogenetic relationships of the Early Cretaceous ornithopod dinosaurs of the Australian-Antarctic rift system
Email: m.herne@uq.edu.au
Tim Holt
Honours (2005)
Project: New material of Mekosuchus inexpectatus (Crocodyloidea; Mekosuchinae)
from the Holocene of New Caledonia
Email: afsan33@gmail.com
Elspeth Johnson
Honours (2013–2014)
Project title: Locomotor kinematics and bracing mechanics in varanids
Email: elspeth.johnson@uqconnect.edu.au
Stewart Macdonald
Honours (2004-2005)
Proeject: Axial muscle activation in swimming crocodilians
Email: stewart@reptilesdownunder.com
Shonel Messer
SCIE3012, Introduction to Research (2007)
Project title: A new longirostrine crocodilian from Plio-Pleistocene of the Darling Downs, south-eastern Queensland
Email: shonelly@hotmail.com
Moritz Pfannkuch
SCIE3012, Introduction to Research (2008)
Project title: Taphonomy of a sauropod bonebed assemblage from the mid-Cretaceous Winton Formation of central-western Queensland
Email: moritzpfannkuch@gmx.de
Jeremy Ringma
Honours (2010–2011)
Project title: Swimming kenematics of two Australian semi-aquatic lizards: Physignathus lesueurii and Varanus mertensi
Email: jeremy.ringma@uqconnect.edu.au
Anthony Romilio (PhD 2013)
Project title: The ichnological record of Australian Cretaceous ornithopodan dinosaurs: diversity, behaviour, and implications for the evolution of pedal posture
Goddard Building (Bldg #8)
Telephone: +61 7 3365 1398
Email: a.romilio@uq.edu.au
Chris Schodt
Independent Study Project, World Learning Australia (2008)
Project title: Taphonomy of a dinosaur bonebed from the mid-Cretaceous
Winton Formation of central-western Queensland
Email: cschodt@macalester.edu
Ryan Tucker
Project: Stratigraphy, Sedimentation and Taphonomy of the mid- Cretaceous (late Albian- Cenomanian) Winton Formation, Central Queensland, Australia
(Co-supervised with Eric Roberts and Paul Dirks)
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
James Cook University, Townville, Qld
Bernadette Wittwer
Honours (2010)
Project title: Architecture and function of the adductor chamber in the first modern crocodilian, Isisfordia duncani
Email: bernadette.wittwer@uqconnect.edu.au
Former Laboratory Volunteers
Griffith Young (2009–2012)
Anna Beauchemin (2008)
Susan Blasi (2008)
Michael Crowley(2008)
Tanya Mellar (2006)
Catherine Ngo (2008)
Wilhelmina Roda (2005-2006)
Alex Sen (2007-2008)
Jenny Theobald (2008)
Rebecca Wicke (2008)