The Texas Memorial Museum, Bureau of Economic Geology, Institute for Geophysics, and Marine Sciences Institute of the University of Texas at Austin have many geoscientists, paleontologists, and biologists who work with graduate students in Vertebrate Paleontology, including
Roger Barnaby, Ph.D., 1989, Virginia Tech: Carbonate stratigraphy; petrography; diagenesis; geochemistry
David Cannatella, Ph.D., 1985, University of Kansas: P hylogeny of ranoid frogs, the evolution of calls and larynx in Physalaemus, relationships among the major clades of frogs, the ontogeny of the skull in anurans, and bufonid systematics.
Alan Dutton, Ph.D., 1982, UT Austin: Hydrogeology of the sedimentary basins, paleohydrology, flow in the unsaturated zones, isotope hydrology, and aqueous geochemistry;
Shirley P. Dutton, Ph.D., 1986, UT Austin: Sedimentary petrology
Bob Handford, Ph.D., 1976, LSU: Carbonate depositional systems and sequence stratigraphy
Dean Hendrickson, Ph.D. 1987, Arizona State University: conservation of freshwater ecosystems, evolution, biogeography and ecology of freshwater fishes of North American deserts.
David Hillis, Ph.D. 1985, University of Kansas: Phylogenetic relationships, speciation patterns and mechanisms, molecular evolution (including the use of experimental systems), and the consequences of hybridization and hybrid zones.
Sue Hovorka, Ph.D., 1990, UT Austin: Sedimentology in environmental applications
Robert K. Jansen, Ph.D., Ohio State University: Molecular systematics, molecular evolution, chloroplast DNA evolution, phylogeny and evolution of the Sunflower family.
Charles Kerans, Ph.D., 1982, Carleton: Carbonate sequence stratigraphy and reservoir characterization
Mark Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., 1983, University of Washington: Evolution, population and qualitative genetics, sexual selection.
Lawrence Lawver, Ph.D., 1976, Scripps: Heat flow in oceanic sediments;
Robert Mace, M.A., 1990, New Mexico Tech: Hydrogeology and contaminant transport; numerical modeling; fracture hydrology.
Paul Mann, Ph.D., 1983, SUNY Albany: stratigraphy and marine geology/geophysics of the Caribbean region
Ann Molineux, Ph.D., 1997, The University of Texas at Austin: evolution and paleoecology of non-vertebrates.
William Mullican, M.S., 1981, Texas Tech: Groundwater flow modeling playa hydrogeology
David Parichy, Ph.D., 1997, University of California, Davis: Developmental and genetics of morphological evolution
Eric Pianka, Ph.D., 1965, University of Washington, Seattle: Population and community ecology.
Robert Reedy, M.A., 1996, New Mexico Tech: Hydrogeology; field instrumentation
Steve Ruppel, Ph.D., 1979, Tennessee: Carbonate sedimentology.
Michael J. Ryan, Ph.D. 1982, Cornell University: Animal communication, sexual selection, evolution of behavior.
Bridget Scanlon, Ph.D., 1985, Kentucky: Study of karstic terrain; physical controls on hydrochemical variability; flow and transport in the unsaturated zone.
Becky Smyth, M.A., 1995, UT Austin: Hydrogeology
Jeri Sullivan, Ph.D., 1997, New Mexico Tech: Hydrogeology
Edward Theriot, Ph.D. 1983, University of Michigan: ecology and evolution of diatoms.
Brian Willis, Ph.D., 1991, SUNY Binghamton: Sedimentology.
