PhD, Graptolite Paleobiology, University at Buffalo – 2018

I am interested in using the fossil record to study patterns of extinction and determining which features of species are most strongly correlated with the risk of extinction. Doing this requires being able to place the timing of events in geologic time precisely and so some of my research involves developing automated biostratigraphic techniques. I am also interested in understanding the paleobiology of arthrodire placoderms, a diverse group of armored fishes which abruptly went extinct at the end of Devonian Period.

• ERT 101 – Natural Hazards
• ERT 137 – The Dinosaurs
• ERT 199 – Mass Extinction Seminar
• ERT 312 – Surface Processes & Hydrology
• ERT 315 – Sedimentary Geology & Paleontology
• ERT 429/529 – Analysis of Geologic Data
• ERT 438/538 – Advanced Stratigraphy
• ERT 458/558 – Macroevolution
  
• ERT 495 – Supervised Teaching
• ERT 498 – Undergraduate Research
• ERT 499 – Independent Study

Boyle, J., H.D. Sheets, S.-Y. Wu, D. Goldman, M.J. Melchin, R.A. Cooper, P.M. Sadler, and

C.E. Mitchell. 2017.  The Impact of Geographic Range, Sampling, Ecology, and

Time on Extinction Risk in the Volatile Clade Graptoloida. Paleobiology 43:85-113.

Boyle, J. and M.J. Ryan. 2017. New information on Titanichthys (Placodermi:Arthrodira)

from the Cleveland Shale (Upper Devonian) of Ohio, USA. Journal of Paleontology

91:318-336.

Boyle, J.T. 2017. Minimum spanning tree distance and other geographic range measures as

proxies for extinction risk – Abstract with Programs – Geological Society of America

49(6).