CV - BENN BREEDEN, PhD

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"

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.

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

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