(updated 10/21/03)

Address
Department of Geoscience
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1379
319-335-1830
holmes-semken@uiowa.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Paleoecology, biogeography, evolution, taphonomy and zooarchaeology of Quaternary rodents and insectivores. Extinction of Pleistocene Vertebrates, Holocene vertebrate biogeography.

Index after page 1:
Memberships, Classes Taught and Reviewed Publications, p. 2
Papers Presented, p.7
Book Reviews, p. 12
Workshops, Film and Radio, Museum of Natural History Exhibit Gallery, p. 13
Open File and Contract Completion Reports, p. 13
Grants, p. 16
Invited Lecture and Symposia Locations, p. 17
Thesis Titles, p. 18
Student Papers Published, p. 20
College/University Committees, National Committees, p. 22,
Journal, Proposal and Tenure/Promotion Reviews, Fossil Identification p. 23
Meetings Attended, p. 24

ACADEMICS

Higher Education:

Ph.D., Geology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1965
M.A., Geology, University of Texas, Austin, 1960
B.S., Geology, University of Texas, Austin, 1958

Professional & Academic Positions:

Professor Emeritus, University of Iowa, Iowa City, May 1999-
Professor, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1973-May 1999
Chairman, Department of Geology, (U of I) Aug. 1986 - Aug. 1992
Associate Professor, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1969-1973
Visiting Professor, Univ. Western New Mexico, Silver City, Summer 1970
Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1965-1969
Corps Engineers, XO, Ft. Belvoir, Va. 1959
Field Party Supervisor & Assistant Technician, Smithsonian, 1960-1961
Physical Science Technician, U.S. Geological Survey, 1960-1961
Museum Technician, Texas Memorial Museum, Austin, 1953-1960
Lecturer, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1961-1965
Roughneck, Alcoa Mining Co., Summer 1956 & 1957

Honors & Awards:

Technical Editor, Journal of Paleontology (1999-present)
Co-Convener Quaternary Micromammal Symposium and Workshop INQUA, Durban, South Africa. (l999), w/ Christiane Denys, National Museum Natural History France,
Sesson Chair, Geological Society America (three), Society Vertebrate Paleontology (two).
Research Assoc, Soviet/American Quaternary Paleozoology, Illinois State Mus. (l992-1999)
Chairman: Quaternary Biodiversity section; Quaternary Mammal Symposium. Krakow, Poland (1994)
Discussant, Society American Archaeology Ann. Meeting, Symposium on micromamals from archaeological sites. Anaheim. April (1994)
Chairman, Department of Geology, University of Iowa 1986-1992
Who's Who, American Men & Women of Science
Representative, Society Vertebrate Paleontology to Am. Geological Inst. (1986-1996)
Secretary, Executive Committee, American Geological Institute (1992-1993)
Outside Reviewer, Department of Geology, South Dakota School of Mines
V. Chairman, 1992 N-C Section, Geological Society America, Iowa City.
Delegate, Peoples Republic China/Society Vertebrate Paleontology Scientific Exchange; *Beijing, *Xian, *Kunming, Lufeng, and Nanxiong,(1988)
Key Speaker, Penrose Conference on Archaeological Geology (1986)
Ermine Cowles Case Memorial Lecturer-Univ. of Michigan
Fellow, Geological Society America, Iowa Academy Science
Invited Lectures, Presentations and Symposia on page 17
Honor Societies: Sigma Xi, Sigma Gamma Epsilon

Memberships:

Paleontological Society, Technical Editor, Journal of Paleontology
Geological Society of America, Fellow, Session Chair: 3 ann. meetings
Society Vertebrate Paleontology, Rep. to AGI-MSC, Session Chair: 2 ann. meetings
American Society Mammalogists
International Union for Quaternary Research, Symposium Organizer
Iowa Academy Science-Fellow
American Quaternary Association, Discussant: annual meeting
Plains Anthropological Society - Co-Chairman of annual meeting
American Geological Institute - Secretary of Executive Committee (1993-94)
Society American Archaeologists, Discussant: annual meeting
International Council Archaeozoology
National Speleological Society - past chapter President

Classes Taught (1965-1999):

Physical Geology, Paleoecology of Quaternary Mammals, Historical Geology, Vertebrate Osteology, Evolution of the Vertebrates, Evolution of Human Ecology (w/Edgar Folk), Quaternary Geology and Archaeology, Earth History and Resources, Spring Field Trip (13 times), Earth Science I & II

Students Supervised: See thesis titles and student papers published under 'Teaching' below

Graduate Supervision (1997-2003)

Paula Thorson-Work (Ph. D.), w/ R.G.B.; Rachel Benton (Ph. D.), Guan Jian (Ph. D.)
Richard Slaughter (Ph.D.); Steven Wallace (Ph.D.)

M.S. & Ph.D. Committee Service (1997-2002)

Geology: Van Nest, Peterson, Krieg, Chidsey, McKiness, Josephs, Dawson, Baeder
Anthropology: Niverette, Williams, Henderson, Whittaker, Tolmie
Science Education: Campbell, Lovstuen, Waggett, Everett, Sutton

Publications (Reviewed):

Morey, Darcy A., Carl R. Falk and Holmes A. Semken, Jr.
Submitted. An evolutionary perspective on late prehistoric economic trends in the Rainy River valley of Minnesoa and Ontario. In Explanations of Change: Case Studies in Evolutionary Archaeology (Robert C. Dunnell and Robert Leonard, eds.)

Bell, Christopher J., Ernest L Lundelius, Anthony D. Barnosky, Russell Wm. Graham, Evert H. Lindsey, Dennis R. Ruez Jr., Holmes A. Semken Jr., S. David Webb and Richard J. Zakrzewski.
In Press. The Blancan, Irvingtonian and Rancholabrean Mammal Ages. In Woodburne, Michael O. (ed). Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Mammals of North America: Geochronology and Biostratigraphy. Columbia University Press.

Webb, S. David, Graham, Wm. R., Anthony D. Barnosky, Chriptopher J. Bell, Richard L Franz, Elizabeth A. Hadly, Ernest L Lundelius, Jr. H. Gregory McDonald, Robert A. Martin, Holmes A. Semken, Jr., and David W. Steadman.
In Press. Vertebrate Paleontology. In Development of Quaternary Science, (Alan Gillespie and Steve Porter, eds.) V. 1, Pp. 519-538. Elsevier. New York.

Jans-Langel, Carmen M. and Holmes A. Semken, Jr.
2003. Paleoecological Interpretation of Late Holocene and Late Pleistocene Microvertebrate Faunules from Duhme Cave, Eastern Iowa. Pp. xx-xx In Ice Age Cave Faunas of North America (Blaine W. Schubert, Jim I. Mead and Russell Wm. Graham, eds). Indiana University Press. Bloomington. 400 p.

Semken, Holmes A. Jr.
2003. Review of In Quest of Great lakes Ice Age Vertebrates by J. Alan Holman. Journal of Paleontology 77: 405-407.

Semken, Holmes A., Jr. and Steven C. Wallace
2002. Key to Arvicoline ("Microtine" rodents) and Arvicoline-like lower First Molars Recovered from Late Wisconsinan and Holocene Archaeological and paleontological Sites in Eastern North America. Journal Archaeological Science 29:23-31.

Denniston, R.F., Gonzalez, L.A., Semken, H.A., Jr., Baker, R.G., Recelli-Snyder, H., Reagan, M.K.and Bettis, E.A. III.
1999. Integrating stalagmite, vertebrate, and pollen sequences to investigate Holocene vegetation and climate change in the southern Midwest. Quaternary Research 52:381-387.

Stafford, Thomas W., Jr. Holmes A. Semken Jr., Russell Wm. Graham, Walter F. Klippel, Anastasia K. Markova, Nikolai G. Smirnov and John Southon
1999. First Accelerator Mass Spectrometry 14C Dates Documenting Contemporaneity of Non-Analog Species in Late Pleistocene Mammal Communities. Geology 27:903-906.

Falk, Carl R. and Holmes A. Semken, Jr.
1999 Taphonomy of Rodent and Insectivore Remains in Archaeological Sites: Selected Examples and Interpretations. Pp. 285-321 In Quaternary Paleozoology in the Northern Hemisphere (Saunders, Jeffrey J., Bonnie W. Styles and Gennady F. Baryshnikov, eds.). Illinois State Museum Scientific Papers 27. 374 p.

Graham, Russell W., Thomas W. Stafford Jr., Holmes A. Semken, Jr.
1999. Pleistocene Extinctions: Chronology, Non-Analog Communities and Environmental Change. In Humans and Other Catastrophes. American Museum Natural History Web Site at www.amnh.org/science/biodiversity/ extinction/Day 1 Presentations FS.html

Semken, Jr., Holmes, A. and Russell W. Graham
1996 Paleoecologic and taphonomic Patterns Derived from Correspondence Analysis of Zooarchaeological and Paleontological Faunal Samples. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 39:477-490.

FAUNMAP Working Group Russell.W. Graham & E.L. Lundelius, project directors (plus 18 co-authors including Semken,
1996 Spatial Response of Mammals to Late Quaternary Environmental Fluctuation. Science 271:1601-1606. (Russell.W. Graham & E.L. Lundelius, project directors).

Semken, Holmes A., Jr. (Regional Collaborator)
1994 FAUNMAP: A Database Documenting Late Quaternary Distributions of Mammalian Species in the Unites States (Russell W. Graham and Ernest L. Lundelius, Jr. Authors). Illinois State Museum Scientific Papers 25. Springfield. 690 p.(2 volumes).

Croft, Darin A. and Holmes A. Semken, Jr.
1994 Distribution of Mammalian Osteological Elements Recovered From Waterscreened Features, House Fill, and Overburden of the Wall Ridge Earth Lodge (13ML176), Mills County, Iowa. Current Research in the Pleistocene 11:65-67.

Folk, Edgar G. and Holmes A. Semken, Jr.
1991 The Evolution of Sweat Glands. International Journal of Biometeorology 35:180-186.

Baker, R.G., D.P. Schwert, E.A. Bettis III, T.J. Kemmis, D.G. Horton and H A. Semken,
1991 Mid-Wisconsinan stratigraphy and paleoenvironments at the St. Charles site in south-central Iowa. Geological Society America Bulletin.103:210-220.

Semken, Holmes A., Jr. and Carl R. Falk
1991 Micromammal Taphonomy of Three Late Prehistoric Plains Village Tradition Refuse Pits, South Dakota. Pp. 11-124 In Beamers, Bobwhites, and Blue-Points: Tributes to the Career of Paul W. Parmalee (James R. Purdue, Walter E. Klippel and Bonnie W. Styles, eds.). Illinois State Museum Scientific Paper 23. Springfield. 436p.

Stafford, Thomas W. and Holmes A. Semken, Jr.
1990 Accelerator 14C Dating of Two Micromammal Species Representative of The Late Pleistocene Disharmonious Fauna From Peccary Cave, Newton County, Arkansas. Current Research in the Pleistocene 7:129-132.

Falk, Carl R. and Holmes A. Semken, Jr.
1990 Vertebrate Paleoecology and Procurement at the Rainbow Site. Pp.145-164 In Woodland Cultures on the Western Prairies: The Rainbow Site Investigations. (David W. Benn, ed.). Office State Archaeologist of Iowa Report 18. Iowa City.256 p.

Semken, Holmes A., Jr.
1988 Environmental Interpretation of the "Disharmonious" Late Wisconsinan Biome of Southeastern North America. Pp. 85-194 In Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Paleoecology and Archaeology of the Eastern Great Lakes Region (R.S. Laub, N.G. Miller and D.W. Steadman, eds). Bulletin Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences 33. 316 p.

Lundelius, Ernest L. Jr., C. S. Churcher, Theodore Downs, C. R. Harrington, Everett Lindsay, Gerald E. Schultz, Holmes.A. Semken, Jr., S. David Webb and R. J. Zakrzewski.
1988 The North American Quaternary Sequence. Pp. 211-235 In Cenozoic Mammals of North America: Geochronology and Biostratigraphy (M.O. Woodburne, ed.). University of California Press. Berkeley. 336 p.

Semken, Holmes A., Jr. and C.R. Falk
1987 Late Pleistocene/Holocene Mammalian Faunas and Environmental Changes on the Northern Plains of the United States. Pp.176-313 In Late Quaternary Mammalian Biogeography and Environments of the Great Plains and Prairies (Russell.W. Graham, HolmesA. Semken, Jr. and Mary Ann Graham, eds). Illinois State Museum Scientific Papers 22, Springfield. 491 p.

Semken, Jr., Holmes A. and R.W. Graham
1987 Summary: Environmental Analysis and Plains Archaeology. In Late Quaternary Mammalian Biogeography and Environments of the Central Great Plains and Prairies (Russell.W. Graham, Holmes A. Semken Jr., and Mary Ann Graham eds) Pp. 474-480. Illinois State Museum Scientific Paper 22, Springfield. 491 p.

Wendland, Wayne M., Ann Benn, and Holmes A. Semken, Jr.
1987 Evaluation of Climatic Changes on the North American Great Plains Determined from Faunal Evidence. Pp. 460-472 In Late Quaternary Mammalian Biogeography and Environments of the Central Great Plains and Prairies (Russell.W. Graham, Holmes A. Semken, Jr. and Mary Ann Graham, eds). Illinois State Museum Scientific Paper 22, Springfield. 491p.

Graham, Russell W., and Holmes A. Semken, Jr.
1987 Philosophy and Procedures for Paleoenvironmental Studies of Quaternary Mammalian Faunas. Pp. 1-17 In Late Quaternary Mammalian Biogeography and Environments of the Central Great Plains and Prairies (Russell.W. Graham, Holmes A. Semken, Jr. and Mary Ann Graham, eds.). Illinois State Museum Scientific Papers 22, Springfield. 491 p.

Graham, Russell W., Holmes.A. Semken, Jr. and Mary Ann Graham (editors).
1987 Late Quaternary Mammalian Biogeography and Environments of the Great Plains and Prairies. Illinois State Museum Scientific Paper 22, Springfield. 491 p.

Rhodes, Richard, S. II and HolmesA. Semken, Jr.
1986 Quaternary Biostratigraphy and Paleoecology of Fossil Mammals from the Loess Hill Region of Western Iowa. Proceedings Iowa Academy Science 93:94-129.

Rhodes, Richard, S. II and Holmes.A. Semken, Jr.
1984 Fossil Mammals of the Loess Hills. Iowa Conservationist 43:9-11.

Semken, Holmes A., Jr.
1984 Paleoecology of a Late Wisconsin/Holocene Micromammal Sequence in Peccary Cave, Northwestern Arkansas. Pp. 405-431 In Contributions in Quaternary Vertebrate Paleontology: A Volume in Memorial to John E. Guilday (H.H. Genoways and M.R. Dawson, eds),. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 8. Pittsburgh, 538 p.

Semken, Holmes A., Jr.
1983 Holocene Mammalian Biogeography and Climatic Change in the Eastern and Central United States. Pp. 182-207 In Late Quaternary Environments of the United States: The Holocene (H.E. Wright, ed.), V.2. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis. 277p.

Prior, J.C., R.G. Baker, G. R. Hallberg, and H.A. Semken, Jr.
1982 Glaciation. Pp. 42-61 In Iowa's Natural Heritage (T.C. Cooper, ed.). Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation, Des Moines.

Anderson, Duane C. and Holmes A. Semken, Jr. (editors)
1980 The Cherokee Excavations: Holocene Ecology and Human Adaptations in Northwestern Iowa. Academic Press, Inc., New York, 277 p.

Semken, Holmes A., Jr.
1980 Holocene Climatic Reconstruction Derived from the Three Micromammal Bearing Cultural Horizons of the Cherokee Sewer Site, Northwestern Iowa. Pp. 67-100 In The Cherokee Excavations: Mid-Holocene Ecology and Human Adaptation in Northwestern Iowa (Duane.C. Anderson and Holmes A. Semken, eds.). Academic Press, Inc., New York. 277 p.

Shutler, Richard, Duane . C. Anderson, Lise S. Tatum and Holmes A. Semken, Jr.
1980 Excavation Techniques and Synopsis of Results Derived from the Cherokee Project. Pp.1-20 In The Cherokee Excavations: Mid-Holocene Ecology and Human Adaptation in Northwestern Iowa (Duane .C. Anderson and Holmes A. Semken, eds.). Academic Press, Inc., New York. 277 p.

Semken, Holmes A. Jr. and G.D. Schrimper
1978 Museum of Natural History, The University of Iowa. Association Systematics Collections Newsletter 6:37-41.

Graham, R.W. and Holmes A. Semken, Jr.
1976 Paleoecological Significance of the Short-tailed Shrew (Blarina), with a Systematic Discussion of Blarina ozarkensis. Journal of Mammalogy 57:433-449.

Davis, Richard A., and Holmes A. Semken, Jr.
1975 Fossils of Uncertain Affinity from the Upper Devonian of Iowa. Science 187:251-254.

Semken, Holmes A., Jr. and R.J. Zakrzewski
1975 Claude W. Hibbard, 1905-1973. Journal of Mammalogy 56:275-279.

Semken, Holmes A., Jr.
1974 Microvertebrates from the Cherokee Sewer Site. Journal. Iowa Archaeological. Society 21:117-129.

Hallberg, George R., H. A. Semken, Jr. & L.C. Davis
1974 Quaternary Records of Microtus xanthognathus (Leach), the yellow-cheeked vole, from Northwestern Arkansas and Southwestern Iowa. Journal of Mammalogy 55:640-645.

Jenkins, John T. and Holmes A. Semken, Jr.
1972 Faunal Analysis of the Lane Enclosure, Allamakee County, Iowa. Proceedings Iowa Academy. Science 78:76-78.

Semken, Holmes A., Jr.
1971 Small Mammal Remains from the Wittrock Mill Creek Culture Site. Pp.109-113 In Prehistoric Investigations. Office of the State Archaeologist of Iowa Report. 3.

Nelson, Robert A. and Holmes.A. Semken, Jr.
Paleoecological and Stratigraphic Significance of the Muskrat in Pleistocene Deposits. Geological Society America Bulletin 81:3733-3738.

Straka, Joseph J. II and Holmes A. Semken, Jr.
1969 A Dinichthyid in the Middle Devonian of Iowa. Journal of Paleontology. 43:1423-1428.

Semken, Holmes A., Jr. and Sherwood.D. Tuttle
1968 Laboratory Studies in Historical Geology. W.C. Brown, Dubuque. 182 p.

Semken, Holmes A., Jr.
1967 Mammalian Remains from Rattlesnake Cave, Kinney County, Texas. Texas Memorial Museum, Pearce-Sellards Series 7:1-11.

Semken, Holmes A., Jr.
1966 Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the McPherson Equus Beds (Sandahl Local Fauna), McPherson County, Kansas. Contributions. Museum Paleontology, Univiversity of Michigan 20:121-178.

Semken, Holmes A., Jr. & Clayton .L. Griggs
1965 The Long-nosed Peccary, Mylohyus nasutus from McPherson County, Kansas. Papers Michigan Academy Science 50:267-274.

Semken, Holmes A., Jr., Barry. B. Miller, & John.B. Stevens
1964 Late Wisconsin Woodland Musk Oxen in Association with Pollen and Invertebrates from Michigan. Journal of Paleontology 38:823-835.

Semken, Holmes A., Jr.
1961 Fossil Vertebrates from Longhorn Cavern, Burnet County, Texas. Texas Journal Science 8:290-310.

Papers Presented

2002. C-14 chronostratigraphy and lithostratigraphy of late Pleistocene megafauna extinctions in the New World. Abstracts of the Society of American Archaeology, 67th Annual Meeting. (Graham, R., T. Stafford, E. Lundelius, H. Semken and J. Southon)

1999 Comparison of paleoecological interpretations derived from two juxtaposed, contemporaneous micromammal faunas collected from cultural and non-cultural associations; Great Plains of North America (title modified for presentation). XV International Congress, International Union for Quaternary Research (abs. p. 163), Durban, South Africa. (Holmes A. Semken Jr., Scott A. Behrends, Steven C. Wallace and Richard W. Slaughter)

1999 Depositional Environments and Paleoecology of the Neogene Lufengpithecus-bearing Deposits, Lufeng Basin, Yunnan, China. Fifth Conference of the China Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (abs. p.9), Yuxi Museum, Yunnan, China. Publ. Beijing Museum (Chen, Wanyong, Yingjun Tang, Holmes A. Semken, Jr. and Jian Guan)

1998 Taphonomy and Paleoecology of Micromammals from the zooarchaeological record: The Lundelius Legacy (abs.). Lundelius symposium on Quaternary vertebrate paleontology. University of Texas-Austin.

1998 Combining Speleothem Carbon and Faunal Assemblages to Examine Vegetation Change in the Southern Midwest (abs. p. 167). Geological Society America Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada. (Denniston, Rhawn F., Luis. A. Gonzalez, Holmes A. Semken, Jr., Mark K. Reagan and Yemane Asmeron)

1998 Contemporaneity of megamammal extinctions and the reorganization of non-analog micromammal associations during the late Pleistocene of North America (abs. p148). 8th International Congress, International Council for Archaeology. Victoria, BC, Canada. (Holmes. A. Semken, Jr., Thomas W. Stafford,Jr., & Russell W. Graham)

1997 Status of AMS 14C dating accuracy and its affect on dating Pleistocene megafauna extinctions (abs.). Mammoth Conference, Lawrence, Kansas (Thomas W. Stafford,Jr., Russell. W. Graham, Holmes A. Semken, Jr., and John Southon).

1997 AMS 14C Chronologies for late Pleistocene mammal extinctions and human migrations in North America. Symposium: Worldwide Extinctions (abs.). Perth, Australia (Thomas. W. Stafford, Jr., Russell W. Graham, Holmes A. Semken, Jr. and John Southon)

1997 Chronology and Timing of the Terminal Plesitocene Extinction Event in the Mid-latitudes of North America. Seventh International Theriological Congress (abs. p. 390), Acapulco, Mexico. (Thomas W. Stafford, Russell W. Graham, Holmes. A. Semken, Jr. and John. Southon, Graham presenter)

1997 Pleistocene Extinctions: Chronology, Non-analog Communities, and Environmental Change. In Humans and Other Catastrophes: A New Look at Extinctions and The Extinction Process (abs). Symposium sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History, New York (Russell.W. Graham, Thomas W. Stafford and Holmes A. Semken, Jr).

1996 AMS C-14 Analysis of Non-Analog Late Pleistocene Mammalian Communities (abs. p. 305). Geological Society America, Annual Meeting, Denver (Russell W. Graham Holmes A. Semken, Jr.and Thomas W. Stafford, Jr.).

1996 Taphonomic and Paleoecologic Implications of Late Holocene Mammalian Samples from Iowa Archaeological and Paleontological sites. 54th Annual Plains Conference (abs p. 109) Iowa City (Holmes A. Semken Jr. and Russell.W. Graham).

1996 AMS C-14 Analysis of Non-Analog Late Pleistocene Mammalian Communities. 1996 Ann. Meeting Geological Society America, (abs) Denver. (Poster with Russell.W. Graham (senior) and Thomas.W. Stafford, Jr.)

1995 Correspondence Analysis of Mammalian Remains from Missouri Basin Archaeological Sites in North and South Dakota (abs. p.73). Society American Archaeology, 60th Annual Meeting, Minneapolis (Carl R. Falk, Holmes A. Semken, Jr. and Russell W. Graham, presented by Semken).

1995 Taphonomic and Paleoenvironmental Signals in Late Holocene Mammal Faunas Along The Middle Missouri River, USA: Implications For TheThantocoenosis Versus The Biocoenosis,. International Union for Quaternary Research, XIV International Congress (abs. p.249). Berlin, Germany. (Holmes A. Semken, Jr., Russell W. Graham and Carl R. Falk)

1994 Correspondence Analysis of Micromammalian Remains from Late Holocene Archaeological sites along the Missouri River of North America: Reading Patterns in Faunal Assemblages.. International Council for Archaeolozoology (abs.) Konstanz, Germany. (Holmes A. Semken Jr., Russell W. Graham and Carl R. Falk)

1994 Paleoecologic and Taphonomic patterns derived from correspondence analysis of zooarchaeological and paleontological remains. Neogene and Quaternary Mammals of the Palaearctic: A Converence in honor of Professor Kazimcery Kowalski, (abs.) Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow (Holmes A. Semken Jr. and Russell W. Graham).

1992 Taphonomy of Rodent and Insectivore Remains in Archaeological Sites From the American Great Plains (abs). Joint Workshop on [Former] Soviet-American Paleozoology, Springfield. (Holmes A. Semken, Jr. and Carl R. Falk).

1992 Vertebrate Biogeography and Paleoecology of the Last Glacial Maximum in the Upper Midwest. North-Central Section - Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Program, v. 24, No. 4, p. 17, Iowa City. (Robert L. Foley and Holmes A. Semken, Jr.).

1991 The Taphonomy of Ground Dwelling Sciurids (Cynomys and Spermophilus) and Their Use in Subsistence by Prehistoric People on the North American Great Plains, USA. XIII INQUA Congress, Beijing, PRC. (Holmes A. Semken Jr. and Carl R. Falk).

1991 AMS 14C Dating of Individual Species of Small Mammals: Paleoenvironmental Reconstructions for 20 KA to 8 KA B.P. Rocky Mountain Section, Geological Society of America v. 23, No. 4, p. 92 Program with Abstracts (Thomas W. Stafford and Holmes A. Semken, Jr.).

1990 The Evolution of Sweat Glands. Proceedings of the Twelfth International Biometeorological Congress, Vienna. (Edgar Folk and Holmes A. Semken Jr,).

1990 Taphonomy of Ground Dwelling Sciurids and Plains Village Tradition Subsistence During the Late Prehistoric Period, North-Central South Dakota (abs.). Special Symposium - Fifty Years of Discovery: The Lubbock Lake Landmark, Texas. (Holmes A. Semken Jr.and Carl Falk) Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock (Honorarium, 10 countries represented).

1990 Taphonomy of Micromammals From Three Late Prehistoric Village Refuse Pits, Northcentral South Dakota. Sixth International Conference of the International Council for Archaeozoology (abs.). Washington, D.C. (Holmes A. Semken Jr and Carl R. Falk).

1989 Zooarcheology of the Commanding Officers Quarters, Ft. Randall, South Dakota. 47th Plains Conference (abs. p. 74), Sioux Falls, S.D. (with Cary Miller, undergraduate scholar).

1989 Preparing for Global Change: A Midwest Perspective. Panelist, Iowa City.

1988 Fossil Vertebrates as Paleoecological Indicators of Geomorphic Events. Department of Geology, University of Baluchistan, Quetta, Pakistan.

1987 Fossil Micromammals and Quaternary Environments. Institute Vertebrate Paleontology of Paleoanthropology (Beijing), Northwest University (Xian) and Yunan Institute of Geological Sciences (Kunming), Peoples Republic of China.

1986 Paleoecological Significance and Subsistence value of Small Mammal Remains Recovered from Archaeological Sites. Penrose Conference on Archaeological Geology, St. Simons Island, Ga. (Key Speaker).

1986 The Late Wisconsinan Biome of the Southeastern United States. Smith Symposium (abs. p. 27-28), Buffalo.

1986 Zooarchaeology of rodent remains in Plains Village Archaeological sites (abs. p. 745). Geological Society America Annual Meeting, San Antonio.

1986 A Common Denominator of Late Wisconsin Environments. 46th Annual Meeting, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Philadelphia.

1986 Politics in museum exhibit preparation: Examples from the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History (with D.C. Anderson). Pre-circulated paper 11th Congress, International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences. Southhampton and London, UK.

1986 Rodents as a Food Resource Among North American Plains Indians. Vth International Conference, International Council for Archaeozoology Abstracts. Bordeaux, France. (Holmes A. Semken, Jr. and D.C. Anderson)

1985 Evolution of Primates and the need for the eccrine gland (G.E. Folk, Jr.-senior author). In Symposium - Biology of Sweat Glands. Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 69th Annual Meeting, Anaheim. (presented by G.E. Folk).

1985 Exhibit Design Problems, In Symposium: Iowa Hall. "A Capital Project Case Study". Tenth Annual Meeting, Iowa Museum Association.

1984 Taxonomic Problems with Microtus on the Northern Plains. 42nd Annual Plains Conference. Program and Abstracts p. 41, Lincoln.

1984 Changes in Mammalian Community Structure Across the Pleistocene/ Holocene Boundary, Peccary Cave Sequence, Northwestern Arkansas. International Geological Congress abstracts 1:308, Moscow, USSR.

1984 Terrestrial Fauna. In: Peoples of the Past: Environmental and Cultural Change in the Prairie Peninsula. Symposium, Illinois State Museum. Springfield, Il.

1984 Fossil Vertebrates of the Loess Hills. 96th Annual Meeting, Iowa Academy Sciences. w/R.S. Rhodes II. Program Abstract C, Loess Hills Symposium. Iowa City.

1983 Paleoecology of a Late Wisconsinan/Holocene Micromammal Sequence in Peccary Cave, Northwestern Arkansas. 43rd Annual Meeting, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Laramie.

1982 Holocene Mammalian Biogeography and Climatic Charge in Eastern North America (abs). XI INQUA Congress, Moscow, USSR.

1981 Fossil Micromammals and the Pleistocene/Holocene Boundary. Poster paper, 41st Annual Meeting, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Ann Arbor.

1981 Holocene Climate Variability: The Record Based on Mammals from Northern Plains Archaeological Sites (abs). North Central GSA Annual Meeting, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.

1981 Holocene Climate Changes in Iowa: The Mammalian Record(abs). 93rd Session Iowa Academy of Science. Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

1980 Micromammal Remains from Archaeological Sites as Indicators of Holocene Climates. 40th Annual Meeting, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. University of Florida, Gainesville.

1980 Holocene Climatic Changes in the Northern Plains of the United States: the Mammalian Record. 38th Annual Plains Conference, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. Conference Program Chairman.

1980 Postglacial Mammalian Distribution, Climatic Change and Cultural Response. SUI Sigma Xi Banquet Speaker. May 7. Iowa City.

*1980 Holocene Mammal Distributions on the Great Plains. Symposium: Man and Changing Environments in the Great Plains. Main Speaker, honorarium. April 16-18, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

1980 Cultural and Paleoecological Relationships of Small Mammals in Archaeological Sites. University of Wyoming, Biological Interdepartmental Seminar Series, Laramie.

1979 Holocene Environments on the Eastern Plains. 39th Annual Meeting, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Pittsburgh, PA. 1979 Small Mammal Distributions in Four Plains Village Sites. 37th Annual Plains Conference, Kansas City, Kansas.

1979 The Cherokee Project: An Overview of Research 1973-1979. Iowa Acad. Sci., 91st Annual Meeting, Mt. Vernon, Iowa.

1977 Holocene Climatic Reconstructions from the Cherokee Micromammals. 35th Annual Plains Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska.

1976 Microvertebrate Analysis in Archaeology. Iowa Arch. Soc. Ann. Meeting, Iowa City

1976 Development of the Pleistocene Biostratigraphic Sequence in Meade County, Kansas. Banquet Speaker, 1976 Pleistocene Field Conference.

1975 Vertebrates as Paleoecological Indicators of Pleistocene Environments. Quaternary Non-Marine Paleoecology Conference, Waterloo, Ontario.

1974 Post-Glacial Climates As Interpreted from Small Mammal Remains in Iowa. Abstracts of American Quat. Assoc. Ann. Meeting (Invited Discussant). Madison.

1974 Micromammal Distribution and Migration During the Holocene. Abstracts of American Quat. Assoc. Ann. Meeting (Invited Discussant). Madison.

1974 Late Pleistocene Climates of Central North America. Claude W. Hibbard Memorial Symposium. Ann Arbor, MI.

1974 With Hibbard in Kansas. Memorial to C.W. Hibbard presented at the Claude W. Hibbard Memorial Symposium Banquet, Meade, KS.

1973 Late Wisconsin Climates of the Central United States, Via a Statistical Technique Useful in Interpreting Archaeological Faunal Remains. Plains Conference. Columbia.

1973 Glacial Climates of the Central U.S. Abstracts of Soc. Vert. Paleont. Ann. Meeting p. 10. Dallas.

1973 Vertebrate Paleontology as a Discipline in Geochronology. The North American Pleistocene Sequence. Geol. Soc. America, Abs for l973 Ann. Meeting, p.721 Dallas (presented by E. L. Lundelius

1972 The Paradox of Monkey Sweat Glands. Abstracts for 52 Ann. Meeting, Soc. Am. Mammalogists. Tampa. (G. Edgar Folk and Holmes A. Semken, Jr.).

1972 Small Mammals from Peccary Cave, Northwestern Arkansas. Abstracts of the Soc. Vert. Paleont. Meeting, p. 8. Lincoln.

1971 Ice Age Mammals. Seminar, Dept. of Geology, Univ. of Wisconsin -Milwaukee.

1970 Interpreting Small Mammals. Seminar series at the Center for Climatic Research. U. of Wisconsin. Madison.

1969 Small Mammals in Archaeological Sites. Iowa Acad. Sci. Cedar Falls

1969 Paleoecological and Stratigraphic Significance of the Muskrat in Pleistocene Deposits. Geol. Soc. America Abstracts for 1969 Ann. Meeting, p. 159. Atlantic City. (Nelson, Robert S. & Holmes A. Semken, Jr).

1969 Paleoecological Implications of Micromammals from Peccary Cave, Newton County, Arkansas. Geol. Soc. America Abstracts with the South Central Meetings, p. 27. Lawrence.

1968 A Geologist's Evaluation of the Earth Science Curriculum Project Nat. Sci. Teachers Assoc. Conference. Chicago.

1968 Dunkleosteus in the Middle Devonian of Iowa. Geol. Soc. America Abstracts for North-central Section. Iowa City.

1967 Fossils of Uncertain Zoological Affinities from the Maple Mill Shale of Southeastern Iowa. Geol. Soc. America Abstracts for 1967 Ann. Meeting p. 44. New Orleans. (presented by Richard A. Davis).

Book Reviews

2003. Review of: In Quest of Great Lakes Ice Age Vertebrates. by J. Alan Holman. Michigan State University Press. East Lansing. 230 p. Journal of Paleontology 77:405-407.

Semken, Holmes A., Jr.
1990 Review of: Megafauna and Man: Discovery of America's Heartland. Northern Arizona Univ. Press. Plains Anthropologist 36:369-372.

1975 Review of: Mammalian Osteo-Archaeology: North America by B. Miles Gilbert (1973). Missouri Arch. Soc. Spec. Pub. Plains Anthropologist 20, n. 67:77-79.

1975 Review of: The Age of Mammals by Bjorn Kurten. Columbia Univ. Press. Journal of Paleontology. 49:230-232.

1974 Editors review of: Human Ecology by Sladen and Dyson-Hudson. Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

1970 Editors review of: Earth History and Plate Tectonics by Seyfert and Sirkin. Harper and Row. Acknowledgment - p. vii.

1969 Review of: Quaternary Paleoecology, Ed. by E.J. Cushing and H.E. Wright. Yale University Press. Journal of Paleontology. 43:1306-1309.

Workshops

Taphonomy of Micromammals in Archaeological Sites, XV International Congress, International Union for Quaternary Research, Durban, South Africa (Christine Denys and Holmes A. Semken, Jr.) 1999

Joint Russian-American workshop on Quaternary Paleozoology (10 ex-Soviets and 10 Americans), NSF Sponsored, Illinois State Museum, Springfield. 1992

Paleoecology of Zooarchaeological Remains. In: Application of Geomorphological and Paleoenvironmental Analyses to Corps of Engineers Cultural Resource Surveys; (1.5 days of a 5-day program). US Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi, April 27-May 1, 1986.

Films and Radio

1989 Discussant. In Climatic and Ecological Changes in the Midwest over the Last 15,000 Years. Iowa Connections - WSUI: 30 minutes.

1985 Production Consultant and Participant. In "Land Between Two Rivers, The Evolution of Iowa as Told by Stone, Earth & Life". Public Broadcasting System, Des Moines

1979 Associate Director, Production Consultant and Participant. In "Iowa's Ancient Hunters: An Archaeological Reconstruction of a Prehistoric Site". Produced by Audiovisual Center, The University of Iowa. Received Golden Eagle Award.

Iowa Hall Gallery, Museum of Natural History

Participated in conception, design, fund raising, exhibit preparation, and supervision of contractors in preparation of the gallery.

Open File and Contract Completion Reports

Primary funding for open file reports, on a contract basis, was provided by the Corps of Engineers; National Park Service, Interagency Archaeological Services; North Dakota Parks and Recreation Department; State Archaeologist of South Dakota; Iowa Department of Transportation; and Minnesota Department of Transportation.

Semken, Holmes A. Jr. and Stanley A. Ahler
2003 Micromammal remains: taphonomy and taxonomy. In Ahler, S. A. (ed.) Archaeology At Menoken Village, A Fortified Late Plains Woodland Community In Central North Dakota. Pp.231-238. Research Contribution of the PaleoCultural Research Group, Flagstaff, prepared for the North Dakota State Historical Society and the North Dakota Department of Transportation, Bismarck

Semken, Holmes A., Jr.
2002. Inventory and Analysis of rodent, insectivore, and bat remains from the Scattered Village. In Ahler, S. A. (ed.) Prehistory on First Street NE: The Archaeology of Scattered Village in Mandan, North Dakota. Research Contribution No. 40 of the PaleoCultral Research Group, Flagstaff, Pp. 8.1-8.10. Submitted to the City of Mandan and the North Dakota Department of Transportation, Bismarck.

Falk, Carl R., Darcy F. Morey, and Holmes A. Semken, Jr.
1999. Preliminary Description of Select Samples of Faunal Remains from the McKinney Site, 13LA1. To University of Illinois. Research Contribution 16, PaleoCultural Research Group. Flagstaff.

Chen, Wanyong, Tang Yingjun, Holmes A. Semken, Jr. and Guan Jian
1999 Depositional Environments and Paleoecology of the Neogene Lufengpithecus-bearing deposits, Lufeng Basin, Yunnan, China. The Album of Research Manuscripts for the 7th Conference of the Chinese Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 1999:Pp. 9-31. Beijing Natural History Museum.

Semken, Holmes A., Jr.
1997 Micromammal Remains. In Archaeology of the Mandan Indians at On-A-Slant
Village (32MO36), Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park, Morton County, North
Dakota. (Pp.155-161) Rept. To the North Dakota parks and Recreation Dept. by Univ. Northern Arizona, Flagstaff

Morey, Darcy F., Carl R. Falk, and Holmes A. Semken, Jr.
1996 Vertebrate Remains from the McKinstry Site. In The McKinstry Site (21DC2): Rinal Report of Phase III Excavations for MN/DOT (M.M. Thomas and David Mather, eds.), Pp. 15.1-15.46, Loucks & Associates, Maple Grove, MN.

Benton, Rachel, Holmes A. Semken, Jr., and L. Carson Davis
1995 Inventory and Preliminary Interpretation of the Alkali Creek Microvertebrates. In Alkali Creek: A Stratified Record of Prehistoric Flint Mining in North Dakota (Michael D. Metcalf, ed.) Pp. 439-443 + Appendix VII: 7p. Prepared for USDA Soil Conservation Service, Bismark, ND, by Metcalf Archaeological Consultants, Eagle, CO.

Semken, Holmes A., Jr.
1995 Small Mammal Bone in The Lower Grand Site. In Archaeological Investigations at the Lower Grand Site (39CO14), Corson County, South Dakota: A report on the 1984 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Excavations (R. Peter Winham, ed.) Pp. 62-63 (Pt. 1). Archaeology Laboratory Augustana College Contrast Series No. 101.

Croft, Darin and Holmes A. Semken, Jr.
1993 Inventory of Faunal Remains from the Wall Ridge Site, Mills Co. Iowa. Open File Report, Office of the Iowa State Archaeologist.

Ahler, S.A., Lynn M. Snyder, Carl R. Falk and Holmes A. Semken, Jr.
1993 KRNI and Upper Knife-Heart Region Unmodified Faunal Remains. In Phase I Archaeological Research Program for the Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site, Part III: Analysis of the Physical Remains (Thomas D. Thiessen, ed.), Pp. 263-272. Midwest Archaeological Center Occasional Studies in Anthropology, No. 27. Lincoln, 340 p.

Falk, Carl R., Holmes A. Semken, Jr., et al.
1991 Inventory of Identified Vertebrate Specimens from Phase I Archaeological Investigations at the Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site, Mercer County, North Dakota. Midwest Archeological Center, U.S. National Park Service, Lincoln, Nebraska. Department of Anthropology, University of North Dakota, Contribution 267. Grand Forks.

Ahler, Stanley A., Lynn M. Snyder, Carl R. Falk and Holmes A. Semken, Jr.
1991 KRNI and Upper Knife-Heart Region Unmodified Faunal Remains. In The Phase I Archaeological Research Program for the Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site, Part III: Analysis of the Physical Remains. Midwest Archaeological Center Studies in Anthropology. (Thomas D. Thiessen, ed.). Midwest Archaeological Center, U.S. National Park Service. Lincoln.

Semken, Holmes A., Jr., Cary Miller and James Cordell.
1990 Vertebrates Recovered from the Ft. Randall Historic Site, South Dakota. Corps of Engineers, Omaha District Contract DACW 45-89-M-E004.

Van Nest, Julieann and Holmes A. Semken, Jr.
1988 Analysis of Rodent and Insectivore Cranial Remains. In Archaeological Mitigation at Taylor Bluff Village (32 ME 366), Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site (Stanley A. Ahler, ed.). Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of North Dakota Contribution No. 240. Grand Forks.

Semken, H. A., Jr., and R. S. Rosenberg
1987 Rodent and Insectivore Remains from Big Hidasta, Lower Hidatsa, and Sakakawea. Appendix F, In Animal Remains from Plains Village Archaeological Sites in the Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site, Mercer County, North Dakota (by C. R. Falk), Rept. to the Natl. Park Service, Midwest Archaeol. Center, Lincoln.

Semken, Holmes A., Jr.
1983 Rodent and Insectivore Remains. In The Archaeology of the Mondrian Tree Site (32MZ58), McKenzie County, North Dakota (Dennis L. Toom and Michael L. Gregg, eds.), Vol. 2, Chap.16: 1-25. Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of North Dakota Contribution No. 193. Grand Forks.

Woodman, Neal, and H.A. Semken, Jr.
1982 Small Mammal Remains Recovered from the Cross Ranch, Oliver County, North Dakota: 1980 and 1981. In Cross Ranch Archaeology by S.A. Ahler, C.R. Falk, and P.R. Picha. Department of Archaeology, University of North Dakota Contribution No.174. Grand Forks.

Semken, Holmes A., Jr.
1982 Mammalian Remains. In A Preliminary Report on the Arthur Site, East Okoboji Lake, Iowa (J.C. Tiffany, ed.) p. 119-132. Research Papers Series 7, No.1, Office of the State Archaeologist of Iowa.

Semken, Holmes A., Jr.
1982 Descriptive Analysis of the Rodent Cranial Elements Collected from the Travis I (39CO213) Site, Corson County, South Dakota, In Archaeological Investigations at the Travis I Site, 39CO213, Corson County, South Dakota: (J.W. Haberman, ed.) p. 403-423. South Dakota Archaeological Research Center Contract Investigations Series 37.

Semken, Holmes A., Jr. and Marsha R. Satorius
1981 Small Mammal Remains Associated with the Oakwood Lakes (39 BK7) Site, Brookings County, South Dakota. In The Archaeological Excavations at 39 BK7, Brookings County, South Dakota, Fall 1979 (L.A. Hannus, ed.) p. 261-276. South Dakota Archaeological Research Center Contract Investigations Series 33.

Semken, Holmes A., Jr. and Marsha R. Satorius
1980 Distribution and Climatic Significance of Small Mammals from the White Buffalo Robe Site. In The Archaeology of the White Buffalo Robe Site (C. H. Lee, ed.) p. 618-637 and Appendix E, p. 894-897. University of North Dakota, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology Contribution 122. Grand Forks.

Semken, H.A., Jr. and R.M. Schieken
1977 The McQuiston Historic Site (13WP25) Gun Lock. Appendix D. In above, p. 96-97.

Semken, Holmes A., Jr.
1976 Faunal Analysis of the McQuiston Historic House Site (13WP25), Wapello County, Iowa; Appendix C In Final Report of the Archaeological Investigations at the Site of the Ottawa Generating Station, Chillicothe, Iowa. Office of the State Archaeologist of Iowa, Contract Completion Report 73:93-95.

Rhodes, R.S., II and H.A. Semken, Jr.
1976 Paleontological Investigations within the Waubonsie Creek Watershed, Iowa. National Park Service Federal Center, Denver, Colorado. 48 p.

1976 Descriptive Analysis of the Rodent and Insectivore Cranial Elements Collected from the Helb, Lower Grand, and Walth Bay Sites, Oahe Reservoir, South Dakota. Midwest Archaeological Center, National Park Service, Lincoln, Nebraska. 77 p.

Semken, Holmes A., Jr.
1974 Vertebrate Remains. In Report on Cold Water Cave, Appendix VIII, p. 37-39. Iowa Geological Survey, Iowa City, Iowa.

Grants

Senior Person. Processes Promoting Stability in the Prehistoric Mandan Cul.ture Tradition (S. Ahler & R. Wood, Co-P.I.), Dec.1997. Paleocultural Cultural Reaseach Group, Flafstaff. To NSF

Co-P. I. Consequences of Global Climatic Change on Terresterial Ecosystems: Rates of Response for Individual Mammal Species. PI Thomas Stafford (Univ. Colorado, Boulder) and Co-PI's Russell Graham (Denver-Museum) and Ernest Lundelius (Univ. Texas-Austin).To DOE (OER) Feb. 1997 Not Funded

Project Staff; The Household Economy of a Prehistoric Homestead from the Glenwood Culture of The Great Plains, submitted 1996 to NSF from Office of The Iowa State Archaeologist. Not Funded.

Cooperative Agreement - National Park Service and Department of Geology. #1443-CA-1200-93-003 to supervise Ph.D. program of a NPS professional staff member (1995-1999) $10,000

Co-PI., Global Change Program #NR-78; Biodiversity of Holarctic: Mammals and Their Connection with Climatic Dynamics. With Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Science (1993-94). $15,700

Co-PI. NSF#EAR-9118683; Dynamics of Late Pleistocene Vertebrate Extinctions: Absolute Chronologies Based on AMS14 Dating (1992 - 1994). $120,000

Co-PI. NSF#EAR-9018958; Collaborative Research: Accelerator
14- Dating of Individual Species of Small Animals for Reconstructing Paleoclimates 20,000-8000 Yr. B.P. in North America. To Univ. Colorado
(1990-1992). $210,000

Collaborator NSF#BSR900-5144; FAUNMAP: Dynamic Biogeography of North American Mammals - to Illinois State Museum (1990-1993). ?$450,000

Project Officer: DNR-GSB 87-6257-01, Provide services for Iowa Groundwater Protection Act of 1987 via 8 R.A.'s/year for 5 years.

Senior Person, NSF#BNS-84-18586: Farmers and Hunters: Interdependence between the Pueblos and Plains, K. Spielmann, PI, SUI 1984)

PI. NSF#BNS 76-06799: Holocene Ecological and Cultural Reconstruction in Northwest Iowa, Archaeology & Paleontology of the Cherokee Sewer Site (1976).

PI. NPS Salvage Project: Paleontological Investigations within the Waubonsie
Creek Watershed, Iowa. (1974)

PI. NSF B70863R to Univ. of Ark. for small mammals of Peccary Cave. (1969)

NSF ISEP Grant - Laboratory of Vertebrate Paleontology (1968)

NDEA Title VI Grant - Undergraduate Geology Laboratory (1967)

Invited Lectures, Symposia and Conference Presentations (Titles in Papers Presented)

Organizations: International Quaternary Union, Durban, South Africa: 1999. International Congress, International Council for Archaeozoology, Victoria, British Columbia.1998, Lundelius Symposium on Quaternary Vertebrate Paleontology, Austin, Texas, 1998. Mammoth Conference. 1998, Worldwide Extinctions, Perth, Australia, 1997. Morphological Change in Quaternary Mammals of North America: Rome, Georgia (Invited - Honorarium; declined). Session Chair & paper presentation - Neogene and Quaternary Mammals of the Palaearctic. Polish Acad. Science, Krakow, 1994. Fifty Years of Discovery: The Lubbock Lake Landmark, Lubbock, (Honorarium, 10 countries represented), 1990. Megafauna and Man: Discovery of America's Heartland (Invited - attended but declined presentation), 1989. Penrose Conference on Archaeological Geology: St. Simons Island, Ga., 1986. Smith Symposium, Buffalo (NY) Museum of Science, Buffalo, 1986. Peoples of the Past: Environmental and Cultural Change in the Prairie Peninsula: Springfield, 1984. Banquet speaker; Man and Changing Environments: Lincoln, 1980. Claude W. Hibbard Memorial Symposium (Banquet Speaker): Ann Arbor, 1974. Pleistocene & Recent Environments on the Great Plains: Lawrence, 1968.

Universities: University of Michigan (Case Memorial), University Texas, Iowa State University, St. Lawrence University, University of Wyoming, South-Central Friends Pleistocene (Banquet Speaker), Northern Illinois University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, University of Illinois, Bejing Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, University of Baluchistan, University of Nebraska, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology, Beijing, Illinois State Museum, American Museum Natural History.

TEACHING

Thesis Titles (1 PhD, 1 MS in progress-2003)

Wallace, Steven C. 2001
Morphometrics, Schmelzmuster, and Biogeography of Selected Late Quaternary Small Mammals From Eastern North America With Emphasis On the Wapsipinicon Local Fauna, Jones County, Iowa. (Ph. D)

Slaughter, Richard W. 2001. Terminal Pleistocene and Holocene Mammal Remains From Bogus Cave, Jones County, Iowa. (Ph. D)

Benton, Rachel C. 1999. Comparative Taphonomy of Holocene Microvertebrate Faunas Preserved In Fissure Fill Versus Shelter Cave Deposits (Ph. D)

Work, Paula Thorson 1998. Taphonomy And Paleoecology Of The Mddle Holocene Lilienthal Fossil Biota, Cedar County, Iowa. (Ph. D)

Jans, Carmen M. 1993. Paleoecology and Mammalian Biostratigraphy of Duhme Cave, Jackson County, Iowa.

Walters, Gregory D. 1990. Paleoecological Analysis of Micromammals from the Sweet Jane Local Fauna, Boone County, Iowa, and investigations into the application of bone fracture analysis to microvertebrate taphonomy.

Gilbert, C. Criss, 1989. Fence Cave Local Fauna: Changing Historic Land Use Patterns Interpreted Via Faunal Distributions in Northeast Iowa.

Behrends, Scott Alan, 1989. Paleoenvironmental Interpretation of the Late Holocene Chaboneau Local Fauna, Mills Co., Iowa.

Van Nest, Julieann, 1987. Holocene Stratigraphy and Geomorphic History of the Buchanan Drainage, A Small Tributary to the South Skunk River Near Ames, Iowa.

Geppert, T. J. 1984. Small Mammals of Shield Trap, East Pryor Mountain, Montana.

Rosenberg, Robert A. 1983. The Paleoecology of the Late Pleistocene Wisconsinan Eagle Point Local Fauna, Clinton County, Iowa.

Foley, Robert L. 1982 (Ph.D.). The Moscow Fissure Local Fauna, Late Pleistocene (Woodfordian) Vertebrates from the Driftless Area of Southwest Wisconsin. (Ph. D)

Hudak, Curtis M. 1982. Paleoecology of an Early Holocene Faunule and Florule from the Dows Local Biota of North-Central Iowa.

Megivern, Katherine J. 1982. Paleoclimatic Significance of the Pleistocene Insectivora and Rodentia of Trench 24, Peccary Cave, Newton County, Arkansas.

Rhodes, Richard S. II. 1982 (PhD). Mammalian Paleoecology of the Farmdalian Craigmile and Woodfordian Waubonsie Local Faunas, Southwestern Iowa. (Ph. D)

Woodman, Neal 1982. A Subarctic Fauna from the Late Wisconsinan Elkader Site, Clayton County, Iowa.

Bardwell, Jennifer. 1981. The Paleoecological and Social Significance of the Zooarchaeological Remains from Central Plains Tradition Earthlodges of the Glenwood Locality, Mills County, Iowa.

Hajic, Edwin R. 1981. Geology and Paleopedology of the Koster Archaeological Site, Greene County, Illinois.

Satorius-Fox, Marsha R. 1981. Paleoecological Analysis of Micromammals from the Schmidt Site, A Central Plains Tradition Village in Howard County, Nebraska.

Fay, Leslie P., 1978. Mammals of the Garrett Farm and Pleasant Ridge Local Biotas (Holocene). Mills County, Iowa.

Sammis, Catherine G., 1978. Mammalian Osteo-Archaeology of the Mitchell Site, Mitchell, South Dakota.

Dulian, James J. 1975. Paleoecology of the Brayton Local Biota, Late Wisconsinan of Southwestern Iowa.

Davis, L.C., 1975. (Ph.D.) Late Pleistocene Geology and Paleoecology of the Spring Valley Basin, Meade County, Kansas.Fay, Leslie P., 1978. Mammals of the Garrett Farm and Pleasant Ridge Local Biotas (Holocene). Mills County, Iowa. (Ph. D)

Thieling, S.C. 1973. The Lost River Cave Faunas, Driftless area, Blue Mounds area, Iowa County, Wisconsin.

Graham, R.W. 1972. Biostratigraphy and Paleoecological Significance of the Conrad Fissure Local Fauna with Emphasis on the Genus Blarina. Jenkins, J.T. 1972. The Pleistocene Geology and Paleoecology of the Fremont County Quarry, Fremont County, Iowa.

Jenkins, J.T. 1972. The Pleistocene Geology and Paleoecology of the Fremont County Quarry, Fremont County, Iowa.

Johnson, P.C. 1972. Mammalian Remains Associated with Nebraska Phase Earth Lodges in Mills County, Iowa.

Kramer, T.L. 1972. The Paleoecology of the Post-Glacial Mud Creek Local Biota, Cedar and Scott Counties, Iowa.

Rebertus, D.C. 1972.(Ph.D.) Sedimentary Analysis of Artesian Spring Sands, Meade County, Kansas. Ph.D. joint supervisor: R.E. Yager. (Ph. D)

Faflak, R.E. 1971. Chert Solubility and Application to Archaeological Dating.

Hall, S.A. 1971. Paleoecological Interpretation of Bison, Mollusks, and Pollen from the Hughes Peat Bed, Linn County, Iowa.

Eshelman, R.E. 1971. The Paleoecology of Willard Cave, Delaware County, Iowa.

Dechert, H.S. 1968. Paleoecology and Correlation of the "Aftonian" Fauna from Harrison and Monona Counties, Iowa.

Student Papers Published and Presented (partial list) while at Iowa

Wallace, Steven C. 2001. Confirmation of Microtus montanus (Mountain Vole) from the Late-Wisconsinan Jones Local Fauna, Meade County,Kansas. Current Research Pleistocene 18: 117-119.

Wallace, Steven C. 2000. Four New AMS 14C Dates on Microtus xanthognathus with Comments on Midwestern Paleoecology. Current Research Pleistocene: 17: 138-139.

Slaughter, Richard W. and Steven P. Jones. 2000. Late-Glacial Record of Dicronstonyx from Honey Dipper Den, Jones County, East-Central Iowa. Cirrent Research Pleistocene 17: 1333-135.

Wallace, Steven C. 1999. Use of Discriminate Analysis to Identify Two Enigmatic Microtines on the Great Plains. XV INQUA Congress, Durban, South Africa

Peterson, C.L., W. Whittaker and S.C. Wallace, 1998. Phase II Archaeological Testing of Site 13 JH 743, Napoleon Park, City of Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa. Contract Completion Report 563, Office of State Archaeologist, University of Iowa, Iowa City.

Wallace, Steven, 1998. Distinction Between Species of Microtus based on Schmelzmuster (enamel microstructure). Iowa Miscroscopy Annual Meeting, Iowa City, Award in Recognition of Outstanding Student Research.

Collins, J.M. and R. W. Slaughter, 1997. Late Woodland Faunal Exploitation as Viewed from a Dubuque-Area Rock Shelter. 109th Annual Meeting of the Iowa Academy of Science, Clarke College, Dubuque, Iowa.

Collins, J.M., R.W. Slaughter, D.L. Asch, K.K. Hirst and J.L. Cordell, 1997. A Brief Evaluation of the Carroll Rock Shelter, Dubuque County, Iowa. Journal of the Iowa Archaeological Society. 44:84-101.

Collins, J.M. and R.W. Slaughter, 1996. An Interesting Rock Shelter Assemblage from Northeastern Iowa. Paper Presented at the 54th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference, Iowa City, IA.

Benton, Rachel C., 1995, Taphonomic Analysis of Holocene Fissure Fill Deposits Within the Green River Formation in Southeastern Wyoming, USA., (abs. p.27), International Union for Quaternary Research, XIV Congress, Berlin.

Benton, Rachel C., 1995, Promoting Research and Protecting Paleontological Resources at Badlands National Park, North-Central Section, Geological Society of America.

Benton, Rachel C. and A.L. Lisenbee, 1995, A Need for a New Look at The Fracture Systems of the White River Badlands, South Dakota (abs. p.38) North-Central Geological Society America.

Croft, Darin A. and Holmes A. Semken, Jr. 1994. Distribution of Mammalian Osteological Elements Recovered from Waterscreened Features, House Fill, and Overburden of The Wall Ridge Earthlodge (13ML176). Mills County, Iowa. Current Research in the Pleistocene 11:65-67.

Jans, Carmen M. 1993. Anomalous Dentitions in Holocene Woodland Voles, Microtus pinetorum from Duhme Cave, Eastern Iowa. Current Research in the Pleistocene 10: 103-105.

Jans, Carmen, 1992. Paleoecology and Vertebrate Biostratigraphy of Duhme Cave in Eastern Iowa. Poster Paper: Joint Workshop on [Former] Soviet-American Paleozoology.

Thorson, Paula J., 1992. Holocene Mud Creek Local Biota: Evidence for Forest Expansion During the Altithermal of North America. Poster Paper: Joint Workshop on [Former] Soviet-American Paleozoology.

Van Nest, Julieann and E. Arthur Bettis III, 1989. Postglacial Response of a Stream in Central Iowa to Changes in Climate and Drainage Basin Factors. Quaternary Research 33: 73-85.

Nerenhausen, Amy and Holmes A. Semken, Jr., 1989. The Use of Micromammals as Vertebrate Fossils. Mid-America Paleontological Society Digest 12:79-88. (amateur society)
Foley, Robert L. and Lyn Raue, 1987. Lemmus sibericus from the Late Quaternary of the Mid-West. Current Research in the Pleistocene, Vol. 4: 105-107.

Rhodes, R. Sanders II, 1984. Paleoecology and Regional Paleoclimatic Implications of the Farmdalian Craigmile and Woodfordian Waubonsie Mammalian Local Faunas, Southwestern Iowa. Illinois State Museum - Reports of Investigations, No. 40, 1984.

Foley, Robert L., 1984. Late Pleistocene (Woodfordian) Vertebrates from the Driftless Area of Southwestern Wisconsin, the Moscow Fissure Local Fauna. Illinois State Museum - Reports of Investigations, No. 39, 1984.

Hudak, Curtis M., 1983. Paleoecology of an Early Holocene Faunal and Floral Assemblage from the Dows Local Biota of North-Central Iowa. Quaternary Research 21, 351-368, 1984.

Fay, Leslie P., 1978. Catalog of Quaternary Palynologic and Vertebrate Localities in Iowa, Proc. Iowa Acad. of Sci. 85 (1):35-38, 1978.

Johnson, M.E., 1974. Occurrence of a Ctenacanthoid Shark Spine from the Upper Devonian of North Central Iowa. Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci. 81:56-60.

Butler, K.E., 1974. Identification and Interpretation of American Bison Remains from the Cherokee Sewer Site. Jour. Iowa Arch. Soc. 21:97-115.

Eshelman, R.E., 1972. Faunal Analysis of the Schmitt Site. Iowa Acad. Sci. Proc. 79:59-61.

Davis, L.C., Eshelman, R.E., and Prior, J.C., 1972. A Primary Mammoth Site with Associated Fauna in Pottawattamie County, Iowa. Iowa Acad. Sci. Proc. 79:62-65.

Hall, S.A., 1972. Holocene Bison occidentalis from Iowa. J. Mammalogy 53:604-606.

Nassichuk, W.W., 1971. Helicoprion and Physonemus, Permian Vertebrates from the Assistance Formation, Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Geol. Soc. Canada Bull. 192:83-93.

Nassichuk, W.W., and Spinosa, Claude, 1970. Helicoprion Sp., A Permian Elasmobranch from Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic. J. Paleont. 44:1130-1132.

SERVICE

College/University Committees *= present assignment

Iowa Visiting Scientist, Natural History Museum, Executive Committee, Disciplinary Board, General Undergrad Advisor, Iowa Night, Faculty Assembly, Iowa High School Visitation Tour, Core Course Review Committee, Eastern Iowa Science Fair Director, Geological Consultant, Sanford Museum, Sigma Xi Departmental Representative, Sigma Gamma Epsilon, Advisor (sponsored attainment of Iowa's Chapter), Chairman, Anthropology Review Committee, Iowa Science & Humanities Symposium (Speaker at 3 successive meetings), Judicial Commission, Hearing Panel Number 1, NSF Undergraduate Preproposal Review, Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation (Living History Farms Committee of Iowa's First Farmers Exhibit), Natural Sciences Coordinating Committee, Review Committee, Department of Classics, Chairman, Search Committee for State Archaeologist, Research Supervisor, Undergraduate Presidential Scholar Program (1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992), Advisory Committee, Program in Evolutionary Ecology and Behavior, ACT Consultant for exams, Editorial Board, Great Plains Natural Science Series, CLEP Natural Science Review Committee, Foreign Language Coordinating Committee, "Global Group" participant, Honors Program, Scholarship review committee, Ad Hoc Collections Advisory Committee, Museum of Natural History, Program Committee, Museum Natural History, Iowa Quaternary Studies Group, Exec. Committee, Orientation Program for New Foreign Students, Consultant, Putnam Museum Natural History fossil vertebrate exhibit, Articulation Conference, Association Iowa Community Colleges, UNI Geology Graduate Program Review, Chair Graduate College, TA/RA Stipend Committee, Foreign Culture and Civilization Committee, Search Committee, Associate Editor, Office State Archaeologist, *Advisory Committee, Office State Archaeologist (Chairman - 4 Terms), Curriculum Committee, Space Committee, Undergraduate advisor, Geology, Chair, Faculty Search Committee, invertebrate paleontology

National Committees

Curriculum & Standards Committee - NAGT (National)
Program Co-Chair for 38th Annual Plains Conference
Representative, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology to the American Geological Institute Member Society Council (1987-1996)
American Geological Institute Nominating Committee ( 1992 and 1995)
American Geological Institute Executive Committee, Secretary (1992 - 1993)
National Historic Landmark Committee, National Park Service/Soc. Am. Arch. (1997-2000)

Journal Reviews

Journal of Paleontology, Journal of Mammalogy, Carnegie Museum Natural Science, Iowa Academy Science, Israel Journal of Zoology, Illinois State Museum Bulletin, Southwestern Naturalist, Science, Plains Anthropologist, Academic Press (books), Quaternary Research, Paleoindian Lifeways Symposium, Decade of North American Geology Quaternary Volume, Journal Vertebrate Paleontology, Smithsonian Contribution to Paleobiology, National Geographic Research, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Acta Zoologica Fennica, Smithsonian Magazine, Research & Exploration, Bulletin Florida Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles County Museum Technical Series, Royal Ontario Museum Special Publications, Memoirs Beijing Natural History Museum., Journal of Archaeological Science, Paleos,

Grant Proposal Reviews (1997 - 2002)

National Geographic Society
National Science Foundation
Iowa Science Foundation
American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund
International Science Foundation

Tenure/Promotion Reviews

Southern Methodist University, University of Massachusetts, South Dakota School of Mines, University of Texas Depts. of Geology and Geography, University of Kansas, University of Oklahoma, University of Florida, University of Iowa-outside, University of Tennessee, and University of Michigan.

Fossil Identification

University of Wisconsin; National Park Service; Office of State
Archaeologist of Iowa; Loras College; Central College; Augustana College;
William Penn; Carnegie Institution; Royal Ontario Museum; U.S. National
Museum; American Museum Natural History; University of Michigan, Museum of
Paleontology; University of New Mexico; Sanford Museum; University of
Nebraska; University of Kansas; University of Arkansas; Southeast Missouri
State College; Cincinnati Museum of Natural History; Department of
Archaeology, University of North Dakota; Indiana State Museum; Department of
Anthropology, University of Wyoming; Illinois State Museum; State
Archaeologist of South Dakota, Yakutsksgeologia PGO USSR; Saint Joseph
Public Museum, Arizona State University.

MEETINGS ATTENDED: *Abstracts or duty as national officer

Geological Society of America
National: Toronto, 1998; *Denver, l996, *Seattle, 1994, *Boston, 1993; San Diego, 1992; Dallas 1990; St. Louis 1989; Denver, 1988; Phoenix, 1987; *San Antonio, 1986 *Dallas, 1973; Milwaukee, 1971; Washington, 1970; *Atlantic City, 1969; New Orleans, 1967.
North Central Section: *Iowa City, 1992, *Ames, Iowa, 1981; Ann Arbor, 1978; Iowa City, 1968; Bloomington, 1967.
South Central Section: Lincoln, 1972, Lawrence, 1969.
Society Vertebrate Paleontology: Salt Lake City, 1998, Chicago, l997, Seattle, 1994; Austin, 1989; Drumheller, Alberta, 1988; Tucson, 1987; *Philadelphia, 1986; Rapid City, 1985; ; *Laramie, 1983; *Ann Arbor, 1981; *Gainsville, 1980; *Pittsburgh, 1979; Boulder, 1976; ; *Dallas, 1973; *Lincoln, 1972 Toronto, 1971; Washington, 1970; Chicago, 1968; Lawrence, 1966.
American Association Petroleum Geologists: Houston, 1988; San Antonio, 1989; San Francisco, 1990; Dallas, 1991; *New Orleans, 1993; *Denver, 1994.
Iowa Academy Science: *1984 *1981, *1979, 1972, 1971, 1970, *1969, *1968, 1967, *1966.
International Quaternary Union: *Durban, South Africa; *Berlin, 1995, *Beijing, PRC, 1991; *Moscow, USSR, 1982; Boulder, 1965
International Geological Congress: *Moscow, USSR, 1984; Montreal, 1972.
Pleistocene Field Conference: San Antonio, 1992; Council Bluffs, 1990; Fredricksburg, 1989; Prairie Du Chien, 1983; ; Burlington, 1980; *Meade, 1976; Sidalia, 1975; Lincoln, 1970; Bismark, 1967; Columbus, 1966; Tama, 1965.
Plains Conference: Boulder, 1997; *Iowa City, 1996; *Sioux Falls, 1989; *Iowa City, 1985; *Lincoln, 1984; *Iowa City, 1980; *Kansas City, 1979; *Lincoln, 1977; Minneapolis, 1976; * Lincoln, 1975; Columbia, 1973.
American Quaternary Association: Champaign, 1986; Edmonton, Medicine Hat & Hinton, 1978; *Madison, 1974.
Sessions Chaired: Discussant, Society American Archaeology Anaheim (1994), GSA National 1986. SVP 1973 & 1980. Quaternary Non-Marine Paleoecology Conference: *Waterloo, Ontario, 1975; GSA (regional) 1968 & 1971.
Midwest Archaeological Conference: *Iowa City, 1983
International Council for Archaeozoology: *Victoria, British Columbia (1998), *Konstanz, Germany (1994) *Washington, D.C., 1990; *Bordeaux, France, 1986.
International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences. *Southhampton and London, England, 1986
Society American Archaeology: *Nashville, 1997; *Minneapolis, 1995; *Anaheim, 1994.