Melissa Grey
PhD-GEOL
Paleobiology
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EDUCATION:
MSc, Zoology: University of Guelph (ON, Canada); BScH, Biology: Acadia University (NS,Canada)
AWARDS:
NSERC PGS-D (2006-2008); Thomas and Marguerite MacKay Memorial Scholarship (2005); NSERC PGS-A (2000-2002)
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Research Assistant for Project Seahorse (Fisheries Centre, UBC) (2002-2003); Paleontology Research Assistant for the Geological Survey of Canada (2001-2002); Naturalist at the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre (2001)
ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS:
Grey, M., Haggart, J.W. and Smith, P.L. In press. Species discrimination and evolutionary mode of Buchia (Bivalvia: Buchiidae) from Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous strata Of Grassy Island, British Columbia, Canada. Palaeontology.
Grey, M., Haggart, J.W. and Smith, P.L. In press. A new species of Buchia (Bivalvia: Buchiidae) from British Columbia, Canada, with an analysis of buchiid bipolarity. Journal of Paleontology.
Grey, M., Lelievre, P.G. and Boulding, E.G. 2007. Naticid gastropod prey selection of shell thickness on the bivalve Protothaca staminea . The Veliger: 48(4), 317-322.
Grey, M. and A.C.J. Vincent. 2006. The use of fish for research, product and environmental testing, and education in North America. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 16, 569-578.
Grey, M., Blais, A.M., Hunt, B. and Vincent, A.C.J. 2006. The United States of America’s international trade in fish leather, from a conservation perspective. Environmental Conservation 33(2), 100-108.
Grey, M., Boulding, E.G., and Brookfield, M. 2006. Estimating multivariate selection gradients in the fossil record: a naticid gastropod case study. Paleobiology 32(1), 100-108.
Grey, M., Boulding, E.G., and Brookfield, M. 2005. Shape difference among boreholes drilled by three species of naticid gastropods. Journal of Molluscan Studies 71(3), 253-256.
Grey, M., Blais, A.M., and Vincent, A.C.J. 2005. The curio trade of marine fish in the United States. Oryx: the International Journal of Conservation 39(4), 413-420.
SELECTED ABSTRACTS:
Grey, M., P.L. Smith and J.W. Haggart. (June, 2006) Morphometric analysis and evolution of Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous Buchia bivalves, British Columbia, Canada. Paper presented orally at the 2nd International Palaeontological Congress, Beijing, China.
Grey, M., P.L. Smith and J.W. Haggart. (June, 2005) Use of multivariate morphometrics to evaluate mode of evolution in Buchia bivalves from the Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous rocks of Grassy Island, British Columbia. Paper presented orally at the North American Paleontological Congress, Halifax, NS.
Grey, M., Boulding, E.G., and Brookfield, M. (July, 2001) Logistic Regression: A new tool for analysing selection in the fossil record. Poster presented at the North American Paleontological Congress, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Grey, M., Blais, A.M., and Vincent, A.C.J. (May, 2004) Marine Fish Curio trade in the United States. Poster presented at the 4th World Fisheries Congress, Vancouver, BC.
PHOTOS: Check out Pete Lelievre's webpage for some photos of our recent travels.
BROAD INTERESTS: My overall research interests involve finding answers to fundamental questions regarding the tempo and mode of evolutionary processes as they apply to morphological evolution and speciation. The fossil record is the primary source of information about rates and patterns of evolution as it allows for a deep-time perspective coupled with the potential to use rigorous statistical techniques.
PhD RESEARCH: Understanding the patterns and processes of speciation and microevolution is one of the most contemporary and intractable challenges of evolutionary biology. Buchiid bivalves are ideal targets for study because they are geographically widespread in Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous rocks of the Northern Hemisphere and they occur abundantly within short, successive stratigraphic intervals. Evolutionary patterns and rates can therefore be compared between and within a variety of geographical settings in order to establish possible environmental, ecological and biological controls on tempo and mode of evolution.
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