Faculty and Staff

David L Meyer

Professor

505 Geology-Physics Building
513-556-4530
david.meyer@uc.edu

Education

PhD, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1971 (Geology).

Research Support

Ohio Board of Regents, High-resolution underwater video for teaching of coral reef geology and biology, University of Cincinnati. $4699. Funded 2004

, University Research Council, University of Cincinnati. Funded 1999

Life and death of the crinoid Uintacrinus (Late Cretaceous), National Geographic Society Research Grants. $13749. Funded 1996

Ohio Board of Regents Instructional Equipment Program , University of Cincinnati. $4523. Funded 1995

With A.I. Miller and S.M. Holland, Collaborative research: High resolution event stratigraphy of the Kope - Corryville sequence in the type Cincinnatian, National Science Foundation. $155,675. Funded 1992 to 1993.

With W. I. Ausich, Collaborative research: Fort Payne Formation echinoderms: systematics, paleoecology, and regional synthesis (L. Mississippian, Midcontinental U.S.), National Science Foundation. $60,000. Funded 1989 to 1991.

With W. I. Ausich, Collaborative research: Carbonate buildups in the Fort Payne Formation (Lower Mississippian) of south-central Kentucky: Taphonomic and paleoecologic models, National Science Foundation. $71,500. Funded 1985 to 1987.

Ecology of crinoid echinoderms at Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef , National Geographic Society Research Grants. $6676. Funded 1982

Associate Investigator with D.B. Macurda, Jr., The comparative feeding behavior of crinoids and ophiuroids, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Manned Undersea Science and Technology Office. Funded 1978

(PI) Evolutionary, ecological, and taxonomic interrelationships of Western Pacific crinoids (Echinodermata), National Science Foundation. $49,900. Funded 1977 to 1979.

Associate Investigator with D.B. Macurda, Jr., Ecology and functional morphology of Indo-Pacific crinoids, National Science Foundation. Funded 1975 to 1976.

University Research Council, University of Cincinnati. Funded 1975 to 1976.

Associate Investigator with D.B. Macurda, Jr., Taxonomy, functional morphology, and zoogeography of Caribbean crinoids, National Science Foundation. Funded 1973 to 1974.

Grant-In-Aid of Research, Sigma Xi. Funded 1968 to 1969.

Published Abstracts

Dattilo, Benjamin F., David L. Meyer, Matthew R. Gaynor, and Keith Dewing (2007). Sediment avoidance and escape trace associated with Rafinesquina alternata, an Upper Ordovician strophomenid brachiopod from the Cincinnati region, Ohio and Kentucky [Abstract]. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 39(3), 9.

(2006). Rings around the Rafinesquina: new evidence for life position and activity of an Ordovician strophomenid brachiopod [Abstract]. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 38(3), 22.

with Brad Deline (2005). Intraspecific morphological disparity of crinoid columnals in relation to water depth in the type Cincinnatian (Upper Ordovician, 443-453 mya) [Abstract]. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 37(7), 460.

With A. J. Webber and C.V. Milsom (2005). Population structure and orientation patterns of Uintacrinus in the Upper Cretaceous (Santonian) of the Western Interior USA [Abstract]. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, 37(7), 62.

Peer Reviewed Publications

C. G. Messing, D. L. Meyer, U. E. Siebeck, L. S. Jermiin, D. L. Vaney, G. W. Rouse (2006). A modern soft-bottom, shallow-water crinoid fauna (Echinodermata) from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Coral Reefs (25), 164–168.

R. A. Krause, Jr. and D.L. Meyer (2004). Sequence stratigraphy and depositional dynamics of carbonate buildups and Associated facies from the Lower Mississippian Fort Payne Formation of southern Kentucky, U.S.A.. Journal of Sedimentary Research , 74 (6), 87–100.

J.M. Bries, A. O. Debrot, and D. L. Meyer (2004). Damage to the leeward reefs of Curaçao and Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles from a rare storm event: Hurricane Lenny, November, 1999. Coral Reefs, 23 (2), 297-307.

Reviews

BookReview.H. Hess, W.I. Ausich, C.E. Brett,, & M.J. Simms (2000). [Review of Fossil Crinoids] American Paleontologist 8(2), 13-14.

Other Publications

(1997). Implications of research on living stalked crinoids for paleobiology. Geobiology of Echinoderms, The Paleontological Society Papers. Paleontological Society Short Course, Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Salt Lake City(3).

With R.A. Krause, Jr., and W.I. Ausich (2002). Carbonate buildups in the Fort Payne Formation (Lower Mississippian), Cumberland County, Kentucky. Guidebook for geology field trips in Kentucky and adjacent areas. Joint Meeting of the North-central and Southeastern Section of the Geological Society of America, Lexington, Kentucky.

With C.G. Messing, G.A. Minnery,, & L. Somers (1984). The comparative feeding behavior of crinoids and ophiuroids. Final Report for N.O.A.A., Manned Undersea Science & Technology Program, Mission 79-3.

Invited Presentations

(2004). International Marine Aquarium Society, Chicago.

(2003). Ohio State University

(2003). University of Akron

Department of Geology
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Cincinnati OH 45221-0013

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