Dr. Robert A. Gastaldo Whipple-Coddington Professor of Geology B.A. Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania 5/72 M.S. Southern Illinois University @ Carbondale, Illinois 5/75 Ph.D. Southern Illinois University @ Carbondale, Illinois 8/78

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Auburn University, College of Science & Mathematics Faculty Research Awardee - Physical Sciences, 1997

• Member, SEPM Council 1996-2002

• Distinguished Lecturer, GSA Coal Geology Division, 1996-1998

• Best Paper, Coal Geology Division, GSA National Meetings 1995

• Fellow, Geological Society of America 1994-present

• Distinguished Lecturer, Paleontological Society, 1994-1995; 1995-1996

• Adjunct Professor of Geology, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Geology 1992-present

• Senior U.S. Research Award, Forschungspreisträger, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Bonn 1991-1992.

• Chairman, Coal Division, Geological Society of America, 1991-1992; Chairman-elect, 1990-1991

• Alumni Professorship, Auburn University 1990-1991; 1992-1996

• Visiting Curator, Department of Geology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago

• Research Collaborator, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

• President, Southeastern Section Paleontological Society, 1986-87; President-elect, 1985-86

• Fulbright Fellowship, Netherlands American Commission for Educational Exchange, Laboratory of Paleobotany and Palynology, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1982

• International Lecturer 1982: United States - United Kingdom Educational Commission, London; Franco-American Commission for Educational Exchange, Paris

• Member Phi Kappa Phi, National Honor Society

• Member Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society of North America

EDITORIAL BOARDS

• PALAIOS, Society of Sedimentary Geology Co-editor 1996-present ; Associate Editor 1989-1996
• Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Elsevier 1993-present
• Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 1993-1996

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

• Palaeontological Association
• The Paleontological Society
• Geological Society of America
• Paleobotanical Section of the Botanical Society of America
• Society of Sedimentary Geology (SEPM)
• International Organization of Palaeobotany
• American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists