Dr. Eberle's research focuses on the study of mammalian faunas during past intervals of climate change as well as the recovery and evolution of mammals following a mass extinction event. She studies mammalian fossils to: (1) date the rocks (i.e., biostratigraphy); (2) determine the family tree or phylogeny of mammalian groups; (3) provide insight into the paleobiology,-ecology, and -biogeography of ancient mammals through combined analyses of stable isotopes and mammalian paleontology; and assess the recovery and evolutionary radiation of mammals following dinosaur extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary. Eberle's research is field intensive, and her field sites range throughout the Rocky Mountain Region, Alaska and Arctic Canada.
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Vertebrate paleontology, Late Cretaceous and Paleogene mammalian biostratigraphy, phylogeny, and evolution, Arctic mammalian paleoecology, biogeography, and paleoclimate
GEOL 1020 - Dodos, Dinos, and Deinococcus: The History of a Habitable Planet
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Spring 2020
Examines how the solid, fluid, and living Earth interact, how changes in the oceans, atmosphere and life reflect that interaction over the immensity of geologic time, and how the rock record is analyzed to reconstruct the co-evolution of Earth and life.
GEOL 4474 - Vertebrate Paleontology
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Fall 2019 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2023
Discusses the history and evolution of the vertebrates, including the phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary patterns of the major groups. Lab focuses on comparative vertebrate osteology and fossil representation of major groups. Department enforced prerequisites: GEOL 1020 and GEOL 3410 (or permission from the instructor). Same as GEOL 5474.
GEOL 5474 - Vertebrate Paleontology
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Fall 2019 / Fall 2023
Discusses the history and evolution of the vertebrates, including the phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary patterns of the major groups. Lab focuses on comparative vertebrate osteology and fossil representation of major groups. Same as GEOL 4474 and MUSM 5474.
GEOL 6950 - Master's Thesis
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Fall 2023 / Spring 2024
May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.
MUSM 5474 - Vertebrate Paleontology
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Fall 2019 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2023
Discusses the history and evolution of the vertebrates, including the phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary patterns of the major groups. Lab focuses on comparative vertebrate osteology and fossil representation of major groups. Same as GEOL 4474 and GEOL 5474.
MUSM 6950 - Master's Thesis in Museum and Field Studies
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Spring 2020 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Summer 2023 / Fall 2023
A thesis, which may be of a research, expository, critical or creative type, is required of every master's degree candidate under the thesis option. Department enforced prerequisites: MUSM 5011 and MUSM 5051 and one of the following: MUSM 5030 or MUSM 5031 or MUSM 5041.
