Sarah A. Spaulding

California Academy of Sciences
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, CA 94118
(415) 750-7078
sspaulding@calacademy.org

Ph.D.    Graduate Program in Ecology (1996), Colorado State University, Fort Collins CO

M.S.     Biology (1991), Colorado State University, Fort Collins CO

B.A.      Biology (1982), University of Colorado, Boulder CO

My principal interest is the aquatic environment, and how it changes at varying temporal scales. Currently, I am addressing the relationship of environmental, geologic, and evolutionary change through paleoecology, systematics, and biogeography of freshwater diatoms. My research goal is to understand the fundamental biologic, ecologic, and taxonomic relationships among diatoms in order to develop refined understanding of the temporal and spatial distribution of diatom lineages, and ultimately how distributions relate to environmental parameters and evolutionary history.

Spaulding, S.A., J.P. Kociolek & D. Davis. 2001.

A new diatom genus from a playa lake in New Mexico, USA with the description of two new species. European J. of Phycology.
 

Spaulding, S.A. & J.P. Kociolek. 2001.

Freshwater diatoms (Bacillariophyceae) In: Goodman, S. & Benstead, J. (eds). Natural History of Madagascar, University of Chicago Press.
 

 

Kociolek, J.P. & S.A. Spaulding. 1999.

Freshwater diatom biogeography. Nova Hedwigia 71: 223-241.
 

Spaulding, S.A., J.P. Kociolek & D. Wong. 1999.

A taxonomic and systematic revision of the genus Muelleria (Bacillariophyta). Phycologia 38: 314-341.
 

Spaulding, S.A. & D. McKnight. 1998.

Diatoms as Indicators of Environmental Change in Antarctic Freshwaters.  In: Smol, J. & E.F. Stoermer (eds). The Diatoms: Applications for the Environmental and Earth Sciences. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. pp. 249-263.