Wendy Taylor

Faculty Research Associate, School Of Earth and Space Exploration

wendy.l.taylor@asu.edu

781 E. Terrace Mall, ISTB4 TEMPE, AZ 85287-6004
Mail code: 6004

Campus: Otherus
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Long Bio

Taylor is a Faculty Research Associate in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and a Curriculum Developer for the Immersive Virtual Field Trips (iVFT) project at ETX. She has been employed at ASU since 2006, where she served as an Instructional Specialist for NASA missions to the Moon and Mars and as the Education and Public Outreach Lead for ASU’s Astrobiology Program and the Center for Meteorite Studies. She also worked as the Education and Public Outreach Coordinator for the EarthScope National Office at ASU. Wendy began her career in research and collections at several major natural history institutions including the Paleontological Research Institution, The Field Museum and the University of Chicago. Today she divivdes her time between elearning work for the ETX and paleontological research on the evolution of early life across the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary in northern Norway and South Africa.

Education

1997 Ph.D., Geosciences, University of Rochester, USA 1994 M.S., Geosciences, University of Rochester, USA 1989 B.S., Geosciences, Fredonia State University of New York, USA

Research Website URL

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Wendy_Taylor2

Google Scholar URL

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SniOKSkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Publications

Reid, M., Taylor, W.L., Bordy, E., Brett, C.E. and Hunter, A.W., 2019, Taphonomy and paleoecology of an ophiuroid-stylophoran obrution deposit from the Lower Devonian Bokkeveld Group, South Africa, Palaios 34 (4): 212–228.

Agić, H. Högström, A.E.S., Moczydlowska, M., Jensen, S., Palacios, T., Meinhold, G., Ebbestad, J.O.R., Taylor, W.L. and Høyberget, M., 2019, Organically‐preserved multicellular eukaryote from the late Neoproterozoic Nyborg Formation, Arctic Norway, Scientific Reports 9, Article number: 14659.

Mead, C., Buxner, S., Bruce, G., Taylor, W.L., Semken, S. and Anbar, A.D., 2019, Immersive, interactive virtual field trips promote science learning, Journal of Geoscience Education, DOI: 10.1080/10899995.2019.1565285.

Reid, M., Hunter, A.W., Taylor, W.L. and Bordy, E., 2019, A new genus of Protasteridae from the Lower Devonian Bokkeveld Group of South Africa, Palaeontologica Africana, 53: 66-74.

Reid, M., Bordy, E., Taylor, W.L., le Roux, S. and du Plessis, A., 2018, MicroCT scanning of fossil echinoderms: A robust and non-destructive tool for taphonomic analyses, GigaScience, 8:1-8. DOI: 10.1093/gigascience/giy156.

Jensen, S., Högström, A.E.S., Almond, J., Taylor, W.L., Meinhold, G., Høyberget, M., Jan Ove R. Ebbestad, J.O.R., Agić, H. and Palacios, T., 2018, Scratch circles from the Ediacaran and Cambrian of Arctic Norway and the Republic of South Africa, with a review of scratch circle occurrences, Bulletin of Geosciences, Czech Geological Survey, 92(3), 287-304.

Jensen, S., Högström, A.E.S., Høyberget, M., Meinhold, G., McIlroy, D., Jan Ove R. Ebbestad, J.O.R., Taylor, W.L., Agić, H. and Palacios, T., 2018, New occurrences of Palaeopascichnus from the Stahpogieddi Formation, Arctic Norway, and their bearing on the age of the Varanger Ice Age, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 55: 1253-1261.

Reid, M., Bordy, E.M. and Taylor, W.L., 2015, Taphonomy and sedimentology of an echinoderm obrution bed in the Lower Devonian Voorstehoek Formation (Bokkeveld Group, Cape Supergroup) of South Africa, Journal of African Earth Sciences 110, 135-149.

Högström, A. and Taylor, W. L., 2001, The machaeridian Lepidocoleus sarlei Clarke, 1896, from the Rochester Shale (Silurian) of New York State, Palaeontology 44, 113-130.

Research Activity

Arrowsmith,Ramon*, Fouch,Matthew James, Garnero,Edward, Semken,Steven, Taylor,Wendy Lynn. Bridging Data New Technologies and Communities to Enable and Communicate EarthScope Exploration and Discovery. NSF-GEO-EAR(5/1/2011 - 4/30/2016).
Semken,Steven*, Anbar,Ariel David, Anbar,Ariel David, Burleson,Winslow S, Burleson,Winslow S, Hodges,Kip Vernon, Taylor,Wendy Lynn. NASA Triad: A Triangulated Program to Promote NASA STEM Education Nationwide. AMER GEOLOGICAL INST(8/15/2010 - 8/31/2015).
Birchfield,David A, Elser,Monica Mueller, Ganesh,Tirupalavanam Gopal, Greenes,Carole E., Haag,Susan G, Kazilek,Charles Joseph, Megowan,Colleen, Middleton,James Arthur, Phillips,Elizabeth Deutsch, Taylor,Wendy Lynn. Innovation through Institutional Integration (I3): The Modeling Institute. NSF-EHR-DUE(9/15/2009 - 8/31/2014).

Expertise Areas

Paleobiology

Science Education

Digital Educational Content