Chrissy

Hall

Courses Taught

• GLG 1010: Physical Geology
• GLG 2005: Introduction to Oceanography
• GLG 2010: Introduction to Meteorology
• GLG 3010: Historical Geology

Research Interests

• Animal responses to past changes in environmental conditions
• Micro- and invertebrate paleontology (especially ostracodes and the Ediacara Biota)
• Paleoclimatology
• Conservation paleobiology
• Earth and environmental science education

Selected Publications

Boan, PC, Evans, SD, Hall, CMS, and Droser, ML, 2023, Spatial distributions of Tribrachidium, Rugoconites, and Obamus from the Ediacara Member (Rawnsley Quartzite), South Australia: Paleobiology, v. 49, p. 601-620, doi: 10.1017/pab.2023.9

Park Boush, LE, Hall CMS, Antonietto, LS, and McFarland, AJ, 2021, Ecological response of ostracodes (Arthropoda, Crustacea) to lake level fluctuations in the Eocene Green River Formation, Fossil Basin, Wyoming, USA. In: Rosen, M., Finkelstein, D., Park Boush, L., and Pla-Pueyo, S. (eds.). Advances in Limnogeology- A Tribute to Elizabeth Gierlowski-Kordesch: Springer.

Droser, ML, Gehling, JG, Tarhan, LG, Evans, SD, Hall, CMS, Hughes, IV, Hughes, EB, Dzaugis, ME, Dzaugis, M, Dzaugis, P, and Rice, D, 2019, Piecing together the puzzle of the Ediacara Biota: excavation and reconstruction at the Ediacara National Heritage Site Nilpena (South Australia): Palaeogeography, Paleaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 513, p. 132-145, doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.09.007

Hall, CMS, Droser, ML, Clites, EC, and Gehling, JG, 2018, The short-lived but successful tri-radial body plan: a view from the Ediacaran of Australia: Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, doi: 10.1080/08120099.2018.1472666

Hall, CMS, Droser, ML, and Gehling, JG, 2018, Sizing up Rugoconites: a study of the ontogeny and ecology of an enigmatic Ediacaran genus: Australasian Palaeontological Memoirs, v. 51, 7-17.

Hunt, G, Martins, MJF, Puckett, TM, Lockwood, R, Swaddle, JP, Hall CMS, and Stedman, J, 2017, Sexual dimorphism and sexual selection in cytheroidean ostracodes from the Late Cretaceous of the U.S. Gulf Coastal Plain: Paleobiology, v. 43, p. 620-641, doi: 10.1017/pab.2017.19

Tarhan, LG, Haddad, E, Hall, CMS, Dahl, RM, Hancock, L, Henry, SE, Joel, LV, Thomson, TJ, and Droser, ML, 2016, Seafloor colonization in the earliest Paleozoic: evidence from the Cambrianof Death Valley: Proceedings of the Death Valley Natural History Association, p. 355-379 (Invited contribution).

Hall, CMS, Droser, ML, Gehling, JG, and Dzaugis, ME, 2015, Paleoecology of the enigmatic Tribrachidium: New data from the Ediacaran of South Australia: Precambrian Research, v. 269, p. 183-194, doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2015.08.009