Ruth Stockey

Paleobotany

• Whole plant biology of fossil plants and their use in phylogenetic analysis.
• Evolution of ferns, gymnosperms, and aquatic angiosperms.
• Phylogenetic trends in the Coniferales.
• Fossil record of monocots.
• Reproductive biology of the Araucariaceae, including fossil conifers.
• Anatomy and morphology of vascular plants.
• Cretaceous and Tertiary plants: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms.
• Plant/fungal interactions in the fossil record/fossil mycorrhizae.
• Paleocarpology.
• Evolution of modern conifer families.

Research Group Members

Graduate Students

• Brian Atkinson (PhD completed 2017)
• Alex Bippus (PhD beginning summer 2018)