Delegates from Williams College to the 2004 Joint Annual Meeting of the Geological Association of Canada and Mineralogical Association of Canada at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. Mike Eros '04 (left) and Rebekah Levine '03 (right) joined Professor Johnson to make presentions based on honors research at a Special Session on "Rocky shorelines in the geological record - Paleobiological and sedimentological signatures." Photo May 13, 2004.
Honors students/thesis topics
- Gregg Campbell '79: Sea-level fluctuations during the Early
Silurian in northern Michigan
- Mike Hulver '81: Quantitative paleoecology of early Silurian
coral-algal communiites
- Val Colville '81: Lower Silurian sea-level curves from the
Bruce Peninsula, Lake Tlmiskaming District, and Missisicabi River area
- Steve Beadle '83: Ecological size variation in the Silurian
green alga Cyclocrinites
- Hal Lescinsky '85: Early Silurian sea-level cycles recorded
in the Interlate Group, Manitoba, Canada
- David Skinner '86: Environmental parameters of an Early Silurian
rocky shore, Chruchill, Maitoba, Canada
- Ken MacLeod '86: Ecological zonation in an incipient carbonate
formation, St. John, Virgin Islands
- Lisa Marrack '89: Patterns of carbonate sediments production
and distribution on patach reefs in San Salvador, Bahamas
- Marshall Hayes '92: Intertidal rocky-shore communities from
Baja California, Mexico: Modern and Cretaceous examples
- Jim Scott '92: Pleistocene rocky shore development and communities
in Western Australia
- Mark Mayall '93: Comparison of modern and ancient embayments:
St. John, Virgin Islands and Concepcion Peninsula, Baja California
- Hovey Clark '94: Coastal configuration and facies control
in the Late Cretaceous rocky shores of Punta Cabras, Baja California, Mexico
- Jen Zweibel '94: Late Pleistocene rocky shorelines at Punta
Cabras, Baja California, Mexico
- Laura Libbey '95: Late Pleistocene rocky shorelines and the
record of sea-level change at Punta Chivato, Baja California Sur, Mexico
- Max Simian '95: Foundering of the Pliocene Santa Ines archipelago
in the Gulf of California: Baja California Sur, Mexico
- Alison Kopelman '97: Evidence of seasonality and climactic
cycles - Upper Cretaceous El Gallo Formation of Baja California
- Jon Payne '97: Dynamic coastal facies of Lower Cretaceous
Alisitos Formation at Punta San Isidro, Baja California, Mexico
- Patrick Russell '97: Pliocene to recent carbonate dunes at
Punta Chivato, Baja California Sur, Mexico
- Cordelia R. Ransom '00: Paleoecology of Upper Pleistocene
coral reefs based on morphology and fossil assemblages, Baja California Sur,
Mexico
- Rebekah Levine '03: Paleoislands from the Late Precambrian Smalfjord Formation, Finnmark, North Norway
- Mike Eros '04: Depositional history of the Plio-Pleistocene Arroyo Blanco Basin on Carmen Island, Baja California Sur, Mexico
- Paul Scudder '05: Carbonate dunes on the Gulf Coast of Baja California, Mexico
Left: Jim Scott '92 and Markes Johnson at the Tropic of Capricorn, Western
Australia in August1991. Right: Marshall Hayes '92 and Markes Johnson at the
Tropic of Caner monument in Baja California Sur, Mexico in January 1991.