GREGORY A. BUCKLEY
Evelyn T. Stone College of Professional Studies, Roosevelt University
1400 North Roosevelt Boulevard, Schaumburg, Illinois 60173-4348
(847) 619-8731
EDUCATION
B. A. Hartwick College (Oneonta, NY) Geology 1985
Ph. D. Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ) Geology 1994
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor, Evelyn T. Stone University College, Roosevelt University (1999-present)
Associate Dean, Evelyn T. Stone University College, Robin Campus (2006-present)
OTHER POSITIONS
Research Associate, Field Museum of Natural History (1999-present)
Research Associate, Michigan State University Museum (2000-present)
GRANTS
Geological Society of America, 1987 - "Biostratigraphy, lithostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy of the Bear Formation, Crazy Mountains Basin, south-central Montana."
National Science Foundation, 1995 - Co-PI with D. W. Krause and C. C. Forster (SUNY Stony Brook), P. Dodson (U. Pennsylvania), and M. D. Gottfried (Calvert Marine Museum). "Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from Madagascar: Implications for the Plate Tectonic and Biogeographic History of Gondwana."
National Science Foundation, 1997 - Co-PI with D. W. Krause and C. C. Forster (SUNY Stony Brook), Scott Sampson (New York College of Osteopathic Medicine), and Raymond Rogers (Cornell College). "Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from Madagascar: Implications for Gondwanan Biogeography."
National Science Foundation, 1998 - Co-PI with S. Lidgard and P. Wagner (Field Museum). "Support for the Field Museum Fossil Invertebrate Collection."
National Science Foundation, 2001 - Co-PI with D. W. Krause and C. C. Forster (SUNY Stony Brook), Scott Sampson (New York College of Osteopathic Medicine), and Raymond Rogers (Cornell College). "Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from Madagascar: Implications for Gondwanan Biogeography."
National Science Foundation, 2004 - Co-PI with D. W. Krause and C. C. Forster (SUNY Stony Brook), Scott Sampson (University of Utah), and Raymond Rogers (Macalester College). "The Mahajanga Basin Project: Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from Madagascar and their Implications for the Biogeographic History of Gondwana."
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Webmaster, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2007
Chair, Program Committee, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2003-2006
Program Committee Member, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 1999-present
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Curriculum Committee, University College, Roosevelt University, 1999-2006
Masters of General Studies Committee, University College, Roosevelt University, 1999-2003
Roosevelt University Senate, 2000-2002
Roosevelt University Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2002-2004
Roosevelt University Faculty Issues Committee, 2006-present
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
Graduate Fellowship, Department of Geological Sciences, Rutgers University, 1985-1989
Bryan Patterson Prize, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 1987
Doctoral Fellowship, The Graduate School, Rutgers University, 1989-1990
Rowley Doctoral Fellowship, Field Museum of Natural History, 1990-1991
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Rutgers University
GEO 101 - Introduction to Geology (Lab Instructor, 1985)
GEO 106 - Dinosaurs (guest lecturer, 1986)
SUNY Stony Brook
HBA 580 - Comparative Anatomy and Evolution of Mammals (guest lecturer, 1987)
University of Illinois-Chicago
BIOS 335 - History of Life (temporary lecturer, 1993, 1997)
College of the University of Chicago
BioSci 106 - Biotic Crises (field & lab instructor, 1996)
Roosevelt University
BGS 302 - Methods of Critical Reasoning (2000-present)
BGS 391 - Seminar in the Natural Sciences (1995-present)
BGS 397 - Advanced Seminar in the Natural Sciences (1995)
BGS 399 - Senior Thesis (2005-present)
GRADUATE STUDENT COMMITTEES
Alan Turner, Masters Program, Department of Geology, University of Iowa (2003-2004)
Erin Rasmusson, Masters Program, Department of Geology, Michigan State University (2000-2003)
Belinda Stevenson, MGS, Roosevelt University, 2000
MaryLou DiCosola, MGS, Roosevelt University, 2000
Leon Silverman, MGS, Roosevelt University, 2001
FIELD EXPERIENCE
State University of New York at Stony Brook
expeditions to Montana, stratigraphic and
paleomagnetic investigations and
collection of Paleocene and Early Cretaceous mammals (1986-1989)
Carnegie Museum expeditions to Wyoming, paleomagnetic investigation and collection of middle Eocene mammals (1987, 1988)
American Museum of Natural History/Field Museum expedition to Chile, paleomagnetic investigation and collection of Miocene mammals (1988)
State University of New York at Stony Brook expeditions to Argentina, paleomagnetic investigation and collection of Miocene mammals (1988, 1989)
Field Museum of Natural History expedition to Wyoming, collection of Late Cretaceous - Eocene mammals (1992)
Field Museum of Natural History expedition to Wyoming, collection of Eocene fish (1997)
Joint expedition (SUNY Stony Brook, Field Museum, University of Antananarivo) to Madagascar, paleomagnetic investigation and examination and collection of Late Cretaceous faunas (1993, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003)
Field Museum of Natural History expedition to Madagascar, collection of Jurassic vertebrates (2000)
PUBLICATIONS
Buckley, G. A. and D. W. Krause. 1987. Simpson Quarry: the first fossil mammal locality in the lower Paleocene Bear Formation, Crazy Mountains Basin, Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Abstracts of Papers 7:12.
Buckley, G. A. 1988. A new Purgatorius-like mammal from Simpson Quarry (Puercan), Crazy Mountains Basin, Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Abstracts of Papers 8:10.
Fleagle, J. G., G. A. Buckley and M. E. Schloeder. 1988. New Primate fossils from Monte Observaçion, Santa Cruz Formation (Lower Miocene), Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Abstracts of Papers 8:14.
Buckley, G. A. 1989. A new Puercan species of Catopsalis (Taeniolabididae, Multituberculata) and the evolution of North American taeniolabidids. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Abstracts of Papers 9:14-15.
Hartman, J. H., G. A. Buckley, D. W. Krause and T. Kroeger. 1989. Paleontology, stratigraphy, and sedimentology of Simpson Quarry (early Paleocene), Crazy Mountains Basin, south-central Montana. Montana Geological Society 1989 Field Conference Guidebook: Montana Centennial Edition I:173-185.
Hartman, J. H., D. W. Krause, G. A. Buckley and T. Kroeger. 1989. Paleocene biochronology in the northern Great Plains: non-marine molluscs and mammals from the Crazy Mountains Basin. Montana Geological Society 1989 Field Conference Guidebook: Montana Centennial Edition II:xii-xiii.
Buckley, G. A. 1993. Magnetostratigraphy of the Late Cretaceous and early-middle Paleocene formations of the Crazy Mountains Basin, Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Abstracts of Papers 13:28.
Buckley, G. A. 1994. Paleontology, geology and chronostratigraphy of Simpson Quarry (Early Paleocene), Bear Formation, Crazy Mountains Basin, south-central Montana. Ph. D. Dissertation, Department of Geological Sciences, Rutgers University. 459 pp.
Hartman, J. H., N. A. Wells, D. W. Krause, and G. A. Buckley. 1994. Stratigraphy and paleontology of Late Cretaceous vertebrate and invertebrate discoveries in northwestern Madagascar. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs 26(7):501.
Krause, D. W., J. H. Hartman, N. A. Wells, G. A. Buckley, C. A. Lockwood, C. E. Wall, R. E. Wunderlich, J. A. Rabary, and L. L. Randriamiaramanana. 1994. Late Cretaceous mammals. Nature 368:298.
Lidgard, S. and G. A. Buckley. 1994. Toward a morphological species concept in cheilostomes: phenotypic variation in Adeonellopsis yarraensis (Waters). Pp. 101-105 in: Hayward, P. J., J. A. Ryland and P. D. Taylor (eds.). Biology and Paleobiology of Bryozoans, Proceedings of the Ninth International Bryozoological Association Meeting. Olsen and Olsen, Fredensborg.
Buckley, G. A. 1995. Biochronology and magnetostratigraphy of Simpson Quarry (Bear Formation, Crazy Mountains Basin, south-central Montana) and a reassessment of the Puercan NALMA. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs 27(6).
Buckley, G. A. 1995. The multituberculate Catopsalis from the early Paleocene of the Crazy Mountains Basin in Montana. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 40(4):389-398.
Fleagle, J. G., T. M. Bown, C. Swisher, and G. A. Buckley. 1995. Age of the Pinturas and Santa Cruz Formations. VI Congreso de Paleontología y Bioestratigrafía, Actas 129-135.
Buckley, G. A. and C. A. Brochu. 1996. Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) crocodyliforms from Madagascar and their biogeographic implication. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Abstracts of Papers 16(3):24.
Buckley, G. A. 1997. A new species of Purgatorius (Mammalia; Primatomorpha) from the lower Paleocene Bear Formation, Crazy Mountains Basin, south-central Montana. Journal of Paleontology 71(1):149-155.
Buckley, G. A., C. A. Brochu, and D. W. Krause. 1997. Hyperdiversity and the paleobiogeographic origins of the Late Cretaceous crocodyliforms of Madagascar. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Abstracts of Papers 17(3):35.
Krause, D. W., C. A. Forster, S. Sampson, G. A. Buckley, and P. Dodson. 1997. Vertebrate evolution on Gondwana: New evidence from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Abstracts of Papers 17(3):58.
Krause, D. W., R. J. Asher, G. A. Buckley, M. D. Gottfried, and T. C. LaDuke. 1998. Biogeographic origins of the non-dinosaurian vertebrate fauna of Madagascar: new evidence from the Late Cretaceous. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Abstracts of Papers 18(3):57.
Krause, D. W., C. A. Forster, S. D. Sampson, G. A. Buckley, and M. Gottfried. 1998. Vertebrate fossils from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar: Implications for Gondwanan plate tectonics and biogeography. Special Abstracts Issue, Gondwana 10: Event Stratigraphy of Gondwana. Journal of African Earth Sciences 27(1A):128-129.
Buckley, G. A., and Brochu, C. A. 1999. An enigmatic new crocodile from the Upper Cretaceous of Madagascar. In Unwin, D. (ed.), Cretaceous Fossil Vertebrates: Special Papers in Palaeontology No. 60, The Palaeontological Association (London), p. 149-175.
Buckley, G. A., C. A. Brochu, L. L. Randriamiaramanana, and D. W. Krause. 1999. A bizarre new crocodyliform from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Abstracts of Papers 19(3):34.
Krause, D. W., R. R. Rogers, C. A. Forster, J. H. Hartman, G. A. Buckley, and S. D. Sampson. 1999. The Late Cretaceous vertebrate fauna of Madagascar: Implications for Gondwanan paleobiogeography. GSA Today 9(8):1-7.
Buckley, G. A., C. A. Brochu, D. W. Krause, and D. Pol. 2000. A bizarre pug-nosed crocodyliform from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Nature 405:941-944.
Buckley, G. A., and C. A. Brochu. 2001. A skull of Mahajangasuchus insignis (Crocodyliformes) from the Upper Cretaceous of Madagascar. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Abstracts of Papers 21(3):36A.
Rasmusson, E. and G. A. Buckley. 2001. Reevaluation of Trematochampsa oblita, a mesosuchian crocodile from the Upper Cretaceous of Madagascar. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Abstracts of Papers 21(3):91A.
Samonds, K., M. A. Loewen, G. A. Buckley, and R. L. Whatley. 2001. Terrestrial vertebrate fossils from the Cenozoic of Madagascar. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs.
Buckley, G. A., C. A. Brochu, and J. A. Georgi. 2003. A new slender-snouted crocodyliform from the Upper Cretaceous Maevarano Formation, Madagascar. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Abstracts of Papers 23(3):37A.
Casey, M. M., R. R. Rogers, M. J. Jackson, and G. A. Buckley. 2003. Magnetic stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous Maevarano Formation (Campanian (?) - Maastrichtian), Northwestern Madagascar. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Abstracts of Papers 23(3):37A.
Casey, M. M., R. R. Rogers, M. J. Jackson, and G. A. Buckley. 2004. Continuing research on the magnetic stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian(?)-Maastrichtian) Maevarano Formation of Northwestern Madagascar. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 36(2):113.
Krause, D. W., P. M. O'Connor, K. Curry Rogers, S. D. Sampson, G. A. Buckley, and R. R. Rogers. 2006. Late Cretaceous terrestrial vertebrates from Madagascar: Implications for Latin American biogeography. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Gardens 93:178-208.
Rasmussen, E. and Buckley, G. A. In Review. New Material of Tramatochampsa oblita (Crocodyliformes, Trematochampsidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.