Stephen Rowland
Emeritus Professor of Geology
Paleontology, Paleoecology, Stratigraphy, History of Geology
Office: LFG
Phone: (702) 895-3625
Email: steve.rowland@unlv.edu
Frenchman Mountain Great Unconformity Site
Education:
Ph.D. – University of California, Santa Cruz: 1978
Research interests:
Dr. Rowland and his students are actively engaged in paleoecological studies of Pleistocene mammalian faunas and the paleoecology of Cambrian and Neoproterozoic reef ecosystems. He also does research in the history of geology.
Selected Publications:
Rowland, S.M., Caputo, M.V, and Jensen, Z.A., 2020, Early adaptation to eolian sand dunes by basal amniotes is documented in two Pennsylvanian Grand Canyon trackways. PLOS ONE, 15.8 (2020): e0237636. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237636
Karlstrom, K.E., Mohr, M.T., Schmitz, M.D., Sundberg, F.A., Rowland, S.M., Blakey, R. Foster, J.R., Crossey, LJ., Dehler, C., and Hagadorn, J., 2020, Redefining the Tonto Group of Grand Canyon and recalibrating the Series 2-Miaolingian Epoch boundary of the Cambrian time scale: Geology, v. 48, no. 5, p. 425-430.
Rowland, S.M., and Rodriguez, M.G., 2014, A multicellular alga with exceptional preservation from the Ediacaran of Nevada: Journal of Paleontology, v. 88, p. 263-268.
Rowland, S.M., and Korolev, S., 2012, Russian to English translation of On the Strata of the Earth (1763), by Mikhail Lomonosov. Geological Society of America, Special Paper 485, 41 p.
Rowland, S.M., 2009, Thomas Jefferson, extinction, and the evolving view of Earth history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In: Rosenberg, G.D., ed., The Revolution in Geology from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment: Geological Society of America Memoir 203, p. 225-246.
Courses taught
Fossil Record
Earth and Life Through Time
Quaternary Paleoecology
Science in American Culture
Graduate seminars in Paleontology and Paleobiology.