Jennifer Hargrave

Jennifer Hargrave
  • Faculty
  • Instructor
  • Director of the ý׿ƽ 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
University of Oklahoma

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

B.S., 2002
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Student Research/Collaboration

  • Clumped Isotopic Analysis of Freshwater Gastropods from Fossil Lake, Oregon, to Determine Pleistocene Paleoclimate
  • Significance of Mastodon, Mammut americanum, from Acadia Parish, Louisiana
  • 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 Louisiana
  • 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. [Student 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. [Student 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 Student 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 Student 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. University of Louisiana, 2021-2022        
  • Outstanding undergraduate faculty advisor for the College of Science. University of Louisiana, 2018-2019       
  • Outstanding undergraduate faculty advisor for the College of Science. University of Louisiana, 2017-2018       
  • Outstanding Faculty Member Award, Department of Physical Science, Southern Utah University, 2014-2015.