Jennifer Hargrave

Jennifer Hargrave
  • Faculty
  • Instructor
  • Director of the οƵ of οƵ at Lafayette Science Museum
  • Transfer Advisor for Geology

Biography

I am a paleontologist who loves the adventure of fieldwork and travel.  Becoming a paleontologist was a life-long dream of mine. I have been fortunate to travel the world in pursuit of fossils and curiosity.

Education

Ph.D., 2009
οƵ of Oklahoma

M.S., 2004
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

B.S., 2002
οƵ of οƵ at Lafayette

οƵ Research/Collaboration

  • Clumped Isotopic Analysis of Freshwater Gastropods from Fossil Lake, Oregon, to Determine Pleistocene Paleoclimate
  • Significance of Mastodon, Mammut americanum, from Acadia Parish, οƵ
  • Stratigraphic Record of Fossil Avifauna from the Pleistocene Fossil Lake Formation (Oregon) with Paleoclimate Indicators
  • Description of well-preserved swan from the Paisley Fish Locality, Summer Lake Basin, Lake County, Oregon
  • First Occurrence of a large felid in οƵ
  • Vertebrate paleontology
  • Paleoecology
  • Sedimentary processes
  • Depositional systems
  • Geoscience education and outreach

Publications

  • Martin, J.E., Smith, G. R., Hargrave, J.E., and Whisnant, A., 2019. Geochronology and Paleontology of the Paisley Fish Locality, Summer Lake Basin, Northern Lake County, Oregon. Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science, 98, p. 21-40. [οƵ Project]
  • Martin, J.E., Hargrave, J.E., and Ball, K.L., 2018. Refinements of the Late Miocene Fort Rock Formation in south-central Oregon, the McKay Formation in northern Oregon, and the Timing of the Prosomys Intercontinental Dispersal Event. Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science, (97), p. 165-180. [οƵ Project]
  • Christensen, P.D. and Hargrave, J.E., 2016.  Monitoring the Destruction and Natural Recovery of a Monsoon-Dominated Stream System after a Wildfire Damages its Watershed, Stout Canyon, Utah.  The Compass: Earth Science Journal of Sigma Gamma Epsilon, 88 (1), p. 1-16.  [Undergraduate οƵ Project]
  • McLemore, D., and Hargrave, J.E., 2015. First Occurrence of Lithostrotion (Diphyphyllum) from the Mississippian Redwall Limestone in the Beaver Dam Mountains, Washington County, Utah. The Compass: Earth Science Journal of Sigma Gamma Epsilon, 87 (1), p. 1-8.  [Undergraduate οƵ Project]
  • Hargrave, J.E., 2015. “Building a Local Stratigraphic Column: A research-based assignment for an introductory course”, On the Cutting Edge - Strong Undergraduate Geoscience Teaching, National Association of Geosciences Teachers.  http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/undergraduate_research/workshop_2014/activities/87925.

Awards & Recognition

  • Outstanding undergraduate faculty advisor for the College of Science. οƵ of οƵ, 2021-2022        
  • Outstanding undergraduate faculty advisor for the College of Science. οƵ of οƵ, 2018-2019       
  • Outstanding undergraduate faculty advisor for the College of Science. οƵ of οƵ, 2017-2018       
  • Outstanding Faculty Member Award, Department of Physical Science, Southern Utah οƵ, 2014-2015.