Tom Kammer
Director
Geoglogy and Earth Science
Indiana State University,
Canada
Biography
Tom Kammer (MA 1978, PhD 1982) and Bill Ausich (MA 1976, PhD 1978) conducted field work on Lower Carboniferous crinoidal limestones in Ireland, Wales, England, and Belgium in summer 2003 as part of their NSF-sponsored research on generic longevity and evolutionary success in fossil marine invertebrates. Kammer is currently the Arts and Sciences Centennial Professor of Geology at West Virginia University where he has been on the faculty since 1982. He has been Co-Director of WVU’s Geology Field Camp since 1986, and was instrumental in the recent move (2003) of the camp from the Valley and Ridge of West Virginia to a western camp divided between the Black Hills and southwestern Montana (Dillon area). Recently, Kammer completed a six-year term as Treasurer of the Paleontological Society. Ausich, on the faculty at Ohio State, was the 2001 winner of the Owen Award from the IU Department of Geological Sciences
Research Interest
Geoglogy and Earth Science
