HIGHLIGHTS 2008

Scholarship

4 co-authored papers thus far in 2008
Author or co-author of 7 published conference abstracts.
Invited participant/speaker to 2 research conferences and 2 institutions.
Participant in multi-institutional cognitive science project (SILC: Spatial  
  Intelligence Learning Center).
2 current NSF research grants 
Recent Publications:

Gale, Andrew S., Voigt, Silke, Sageman, Bradley B., Kennedy, William J., 2008,  
   in press, Eustatic sea-level record for the Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous), 
   Geology. 

Gordon, G. W., Lyons, T. W., Arnold G. L., Roe, J., Sageman, B. B., and A. D. 
   Anbar, 2008, in press, When Do Black Shales Tell Molybdenum Isotope Tales? 
   Geology.
      
Locklair, R. E. and Sageman, B.B., 2008, Cyclostratigraphy of the Upper 
   Cretaceous Niobrara Formation, Western Interior, U.S.A.,: A Coniaician-
   Santonian orbital timescale, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 269: 
   540-553.
   
Meyers, Stephen M., Sageman, Bradle B., and Pagani, M., 2008, Resolving 
   Milankovitch: Consideration of Signal to Noise, American Journal of
   Science 308: DOI 10.2475/00.0000.00.

Barclay, R. McElwain, J., Dilcher, D., and Sageman, B., 2007, The cuticle 
   database: Developing an interactive tool for taxonomic and paleoenvironmental 
   study of the fossil cuticle record, Cour. Forsch. Inst. Senckenberg, v. 258, 
   p. 39-55.  

Meyers, S.R., and Sageman, B.B., 2007, Quantification of deep time orbital 
   forcing by average spectral misfit, American Journal of Science, v. 307, 
   p. 773-792.

Laurin, J. and Sageman, B., 2007, Cenomanian-Turonian Coastal Record in SW 
   Utah, U.S.A.: Orbital-Scale Transgressive-Regressive Events During Oceanic 
   Anoxic Event II, Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 77, p. 731-756.
   
Work in progress:
  7 first-authored or co-authored manuscripts in preparation (most present 
  thesis work of recent advisees).  

Teaching and Advising

3 Courses taught (EARTH201, EARTH 331 - team taught w/M Hurtgen)
1 new course on Darwin in development for Alumnae curriculum
5 Independent Study credits
1 Undergrad research advisee, 4 continuing graduate Ph.D. advisees/co-advisees
2 Ph.D. advisees graduated in 2007 

Participation in undergraduate activities outside teaching:
  Member Interdisciplinary Committee on Evolutionary Processes 
  Member Working Group on Science and Religion 
  Participant in One Book-One Northwestern Program (on Darwin)

Service

Department Chair (figure below shows recent increases in undergraduate recruitment 
  and departmental research funding, including several prestigious external awards
  to junior faculty members)
4 departmental committees - ex oficio
2 search committees: 1 departmental (chair), 1 external (member).
2 WCAS committee (ICEP and PBC Ph.D. program).

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