Stringer, Gary L., Ph.D.

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Professor of Geology and Head, Department of Geosciences, Curator of the Division of Geosciences for the ULM Museum of Natural History

Geosciences

phone

O: 318-342-1898

email

stringer@lm.edu

topics
  • I speak extensively to elementary schools on fossils, dinosaurs, rocks and minerals, volcanoes, and earthquakes
  • Fish otoliths (earstones)--Their use and application in vertebrate paleontology.
  • Significance of fish otoliths from the Cervesa local fauna from the Gatun Formation (Miocene) of Panama.
  • Overview of fossil billfish from Louisiana.
  • Louisiana climate during the Early and Middle Archaic based on fish otoliths.
  • Importance and techniques of fishing in the Louisiana Archaic.
  • The puzzling size of fish as indicated by otoliths (earstones) from Archaic sites.