Dr. James W. Hagadorn seeks to understand how our planet has changed over time. With a combination of field and laboratory based geology, his research informs us about how Earth’s outer membrane has functioned in the past, and how it responds to perturbations—today, in deep time, and potentially in the future.
University of Southern California
Hagadorn, J. W., and McDowell, C. 2012. Microbial influence on erosion, grain transport, and bedform genesis in sandy unidirectional flow regimes: Sedimentology, 59:737–1132.
Hagadorn, J. W., Kirschvink, J. L., Raub, T. D., and Rose, E. C. 2011 Above the great unconformity: A fresh look at the Tapeats Sandstone, Arizona-Nevada, U.S.A.: Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin, 67:63-77.
Hagadorn, J. W., Collette, J. H., and Belt, E. S. 2011. Eolian-aquatic deposits and faunas of the middle Cambrian Potsdam Group: Palaios, 26:314-334
Hagadorn, J. W., and Seilacher, A. 2009. Hermits 500 million years ago?: Geology, 37:295-298.
Hagadorn, J. W., et al. 2006. Integrated X-ray insights into cellular and subcellular structures of Neoproterozoic animal embryos: Science, 314:291-294.
Museum paleontologists Joe Sertich and Ian Miller will lead you down the Colorado River, cutting a path through the ancient home of dinosaurs that roamed Earth 65 million years ago.
Grades 2 & 3
So you like dinosaurs and want to learn more? Dig in to paleontology and find out what scientists do all day.
In this Science Bite, Museum scientists Ian Miller and Richard Stucky show how studying the past can help us figure out how humans may be changing the future of our planet.