Judith Totman Parrish

Professor, GSA President Paleoclimatology jparrish@uidaho.edu McClure 307A (208)885-5006 Webpage

EDUCATION

• PhD, Earth Sciences, 1979—University of California, Santa Cruz
• MS, Earth Sciences, 1977—University of California, Santa Cruz
• MA, Biology, 1976—University of California, Santa Cruz
• BS, Biology, 1972—University of California, Santa Cruz

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Paleo-upwelling in the oceans and its effect on sedimentary rocks and fossils
• Climate of the supercontinent Pangea
• High-latitude climate in the Cretaceous
• Rhetoric of global climate change in the media

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Colombi, C., and Parrish, J.T., 2008, Taphonomy of the paleofloral assemblages in the Ischigualasto Formation, Upper Triassic (Carnian), Argentina: Palaios, v. 23, p. 778-795.
• Parrish, J.T., and Falcon-Lang, H.J., 2007, Coniferous trees associated with interdune deposits in the Jurassic Navajo Sandstone Formation, Utah, USA. Palaeontology, v. 50, p. 829-843.
• Fiorillo, A.R., and Parrish, J.T., 2004, The first record of a Cretaceous dinosaur from western Alaska. Cretaceous Research, v. 25, p. 453-458.
• Parrish, J.T., Peterson, F., and Turner, C.E., 2004, Jurasssic “savannah”--plant taphonomy and climate of the Morrison Formation (Jurassic, Western U.S.A.) and its equivalents in Canada: Sedimentary Geology, v. 167, p. 137-162.
• Rees, P.McA., Noto, C.R., Parrish, J.M., and Parrish, J.T., 2004, Late Jurassic climates, vegetation, and dinosaur distributions. Journal of Geology, v. 112, p. 643-654.