BENN BREEDEN, PhD
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​AFFILIATION
National Science Foundation Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow
National Museum of Nature and Science
​Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
​  ​EDUCATION
  • UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, Salt Lake City, UT
    PhD in Geology - August 2022
    Dissertation: "Reptile diversification in the aftermath of the Toarcian Ocean Anoxic Event: evidence from southern Japan"  
  • THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, Austin, TX
    MS in Geological Science – May 2016
    Thesis: "Observations on the osteology of Scutellosaurus lawleri (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) on the basis of new specimens from the Lower Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona"
  • UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, College Park, MD
    BS in Geology – August 2011
    Thesis: "A stable isotopic investigation of resource partitioning among neosauropod dinosaurs of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation"
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AWARDS AND HONORS
  • Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship - $180,000. National Science Foundation. 05/2022.
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship for Overseas Researchers (Standard Program) - ¥8,688,000 JPY. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. 05/2022. (Declined)
  • Global Change & Sustainability Center Research Award - $3000. Global Change & Sustainability Center, The University of Utah. 10/2019.
  • Graduate Student Research Grant - $1800. Geological Society of America. 04/2019.
  • David S. Chapman and Inga M. Chapman Fund - $1000. Department of Geology & Geophysics, The University of Utah, 08/2018.
  • Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research - $5000. American Philosophical Society. 06/2018.
  • Doris O. and Samuel P. Welles Research Fund - $900. University of California Museum of Paleontology, The University of California, Berkeley, 04/2018.
  • David S. Chapman and Inga M. Chapman Fund - $1000. Department of Geology & Geophysics, The University of Utah, 11/2017.
  • Global Change & Sustainability Center Research Award - $2600. Global Change & Sustainability Center, The University of Utah. 10/2017.
  • Graduate Student Research Grant - $1800. Geological Society of America. 04/2017.
  • Doris O. and Samuel P. Welles Research Fund - $750. University of California Museum of Paleontology, The University of California, Berkeley, 05/2016.
  • Bullock-Keller Fund - $300. Department of Geology & Geophysics, The University of Utah, 09/2015.
  • Ernest L. and Judith W. Lundelius Endowment in Vertebrate Paleontology - $1,701. Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, 05/2015.
  • Doris O. and Samuel P. Welles Research Fund - $700. University of California Museum of Paleontology, The University of California, Berkeley, 05/2014.
  • Ernest L. and Judith W. Lundelius Endowment in Vertebrate Paleontology - $1,150.70. Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, 05/2014.
  • Ronald K. DeFord Field Scholarship Fund - $550. Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, 05/2014.
Picture
​Overlooking the Triassic-Jurassic Glen Canyon Group strata exposed along the Adeii Eechii Cliffs in the Navajo Nation, Arizona. June 2014.
GEOLOGICAL AND PALEONTOLOGICAL FIELD EXPERIENCE
  • 2022 (April) – ​Lower Jurassic Glen Canyon Group, Navajo Nation, Arizona
  • 2020 (February) - Lower Jurassic Toyora Group, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
  • 2019 (August) - Lower Jurassic Toyora Group, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
  • 2019 (April) - Lower Jurassic Toyora Group, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
  • 2018 (September) - Lower Jurassic Toyora Group, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
  • 2018 (August) - Upper Triassic Chinle Formation, Ghost Ranch, New Mexico
  • 2018 (July) - Lower Jurassic Toyora Group, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
  • 2018 (April) - Lower Jurassic Glen Canyon Group, Navajo Nation, Arizona
  • 2017 (July-August) - Upper Triassic Chinle Formation, Ghost Ranch, New Mexico
  • 2017 (May) - Upper Cretaceous Kaiparowits Formation, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah
  • 2017 (March) - Upper Triassic Chine Formation, Indian Creek, Utah
  • 2016 (June) – Upper Triassic Luning Formation, Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park, Nevada
  • 2016 (May) – Upper Cretaceous Kaiparowits Formation, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah
  • 2016 (March) – Upper Triassic Chine Formation, Indian Creek, Utah
  • 2015 (September) – Upper Cretaceous Kaiparowits Formation, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah
  • 2015 (August) – Upper Triassic Chine Formation, Indian Creek, Utah
  • 2015 (June) – Lower Jurassic Glen Canyon Group, Zion National Park, Utah
  • 2014 (June) – Lower Jurassic Glen Canyon Group, Navajo Nation, Arizona
  • 2014 (May) – Upper Cretaceous Kaiparowits Formation, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah
  • 2013 (May) – Upper Cretaceous Kaiparowits Formation, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah
  • 2012 (August to September) – Upper Triassic Chinle Formation and Lower Permian Cutler Group, Lisbon Valley and Indian Creek, Utah​
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WORK EXPERIENCE
  • Laboratory Assistant, University of Maryland Paleoclimate Colaboratory Laboratory, October 2011 to April 2013
  • Laboratory Assistant, University of Maryland Stable Isotope Geochemistry Laboratory, September 2009 to September 2011
  • Micropaleontology Intern, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, January 2011
  • Paleobiology Intern, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, January 2010 to May 2010
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