Jon Schueth, Ph.D.

Education

B.S. in Geology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
M.S. in Geosciences, Penn State University
Ph.D. in Geosciences, Penn State University

Courses Taught

Current Research Projects

Impacts of past climate change in shallow marine environments

• Mancos-Niobrara system in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming
• Mowry Shale in Wyoming
• Sundance Formation in Wyoming

Investigation of significant carbon burial events in Earth’s past

• Determine cause of the “Late Coniacian Event,” a period of extensive carbon burial in the western US in the Cretaceous and its impact to the ecology of phytoplankton

Statistical Data Analytics in Geology

• Developing predictive models of carbon burial in past environments that can be used for petroleum exploration or to build models for carbon sequestration

Diversity and Inclusion in Geosciences

• Developing new methods to make field work more equitable and accessible
• Developing new teaching methods to engage a more diverse student body in geology and paleontology

Recent Publications

Lees, J., and Schueth, J. Taxonomic note – New Upper Cretaceous nannofossil taxa from the Turonian of New Mexico, USA. Journal of Nannoplankton Research, 38:81-82.

Hull, PM, …, Schueth JD, et al. (38 co-authors). 2020. On impact and volcanism across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. Science, 367:266-272.

Schueth, JD, and Lees, JA. 2019. Pioneer nannofossil assemblages from the initial transgression of the Niobrara Seaway in the Late Turonian, San Juan Basin, New Mexico, USA. Marine Micropaleontology, 151:101771.

Schueth, JD, and Bralower, TJ. 2015. The relationship between environmental change and the extinction of the nannoplankton Discoaster in the early Pleistocene. Paleoceanography, 30:863-876.

Schueth, JD, Bralower, TJ, Jiang, S, and Patzkowsky, ME. 2015. The role of regional survivor incumbency in the evolutionary recovery of calcareous nannoplankton from the Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/Pg) mass extinction. Paleobiology, 41:661-679.

Schueth, JD, Keller, K, Bralower, TJ, and Patzkowsky, ME. 2014. The Probable Datum Method (PDM): a technique for estimating the age of origination or extinction of nannoplankton. Paleobiology, 40:541-559.

Clyde, WC, Wilf, P, Iglesias, A, Barnum, T, Bijl, PK, Bralower, TJ, Brinkhuis, H, Comer, EE, Huber, BT, Ibanez-Mejia, M., Jicha, BR, Krause, JM, Schueth JD, et al. 2014. New age constraints for the Salamanca Formation and lower Rio Chico Group in the western San Jorge Basin, Patagonia (Argentina):  Implications for the K/Pg extinction recovery and land mammal age correlations. GSA Bulletin, 126:289-306.

Hull, PM, Norris, RD, Bralower, TJ, and Schueth, JD. 2011. The role of ecology and chance in marine recovery from the end Cretaceous extinction: Nature Geosciences, 4:856-860.