Staff Spotlight
Dr. David M. Jarzen
Courtesy Research Scientist
208 Dickinson Hall
Museum Road & Newell Drive
Gainesville, FL 32611
(352) 273-1933
Email: dmj@flmnh.ufl.edu
Ph.D. University of Toronto, 1973
FLMNH Paleobotany & Palynology Collection
Research Interests
- Paleogene and Neogene palynology of Florida and the Caribbean.
- Palm pollen and the fossil record; biogeography and paleoecology.
- Forensic palynology.
- Fossil and Recent Anthocerotaceae
Ongoing Fieldwork
- Biodiversity studies in Africa.
- Photographic essays on the Everglades and Corkscrew Swamp, Florida.
- Florida Paleogene and Neogene outcrops and cores.
Collection Activities
- Palynology Modern Pollen and Spore Collection and Database.
- Palynology Fossil Locality Collection and Database.
- Phytolith Collection and Database.
Courses Taught
- Palynology: practice and procedures.
- Forensic palynology
- Palynology and Archaeology
- Palynology Laboratory procedures and safety.
Graduate Students
Mejia Velasquez, Paula, Ph.D UF, Gainesville, FL
- Department of Botany. Late Cretaceous pollen records from Colombia, South America.
Elizabeth Hare, MSc UF Gainesville, FL
- Environmental Archaeology . Modeling land use patterns at the classic Maya site of Motul de San José
Johnson, Rosalyn, Ph.D. UF Gainesville, FL.
- Forestry. Landscape influences on native bee communities and pollen foraging.
Representative Publications
Hu, Shusheng, Dilcher, D., Schneider, H. and Jarzen, D.M. 2006. Eusporangiate ferns from the Dakota Formation, Minnesota, USA. International Journal of Plant Sciences 167(3):579-589.
Jarzen, D.M., and Dilcher, D. 2006. Middle Eocene terrestrial palynomorphs from the Dolime Minerals and Gulf Hammock quarries, Florida. Palynology, 30: 89-110.
Jarzen, D.M. and Jarzen, S.A. 2006. Collecting pollen and spore samples from herbaria. Palynology, 30: 111-119.
Jarzen, D.M. and Dilcher, D.L. 2007. Report on a palynological assessment of Holocene mangrove vegetation at the American Memorial Park, Saipan, Northern Marianas. In: Starmer, J. (ed.). Ecological Assessment of the Mangrove Habitat in the American Memorial Park, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. Pacific Marine Resources Institute Survey Report 2007-2, pp. 41-63.
Jarzen, D.M., Manchester, S.R., Retallack, G. and Jarzen, S.A. (Editors). 2007. Advances in Angiosperm Paleobotany and Paleoclimate Reconstruction-Contributions honouring David L. Dilcher and Jack A. Wolfe. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 258: 1-189.
Steadman, D.W., Franz, R., Morgan, G.S., Albury, N.A., Kakuk, B., Broad, K., Franz, S.E., Tinker, K., Pateman, M., Lott, T.A., Jarzen, D.M., and Dilcher, D.L. 2007. Exceptionally well-preserved late Quaternary plant and vertebrate fossils from a blue hole on Abaco, The Bahamas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(50): 19897-19902.
Hu, S., Dilcher, D.L. , Jarzen, D.M. and Taylor, D.W. 2008. Early steps of angiosperm-pollinator coevolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105(1): 240-245.
Jarzen, D.M. and Hogsette, J.A. 2008. Pollen recovered from the exoskeleton of Stable Flies Stomoxys calcitrans (Linnaeus 1758). Palynology 32: 77-81.
Jarzen, D.M. and Nelson, L.A. 2008. Palynological investigation of post-flight Solid Rocket Booster foreign material. The Microscope 54 (4): 157-162.
Crook, M.R., Hale, S., Jarzen, D.M., Kistler, L., Newsom, L., Rich, F., Russell, D., Sheldon, E., and Wieczkowski, J. 2009. Bilbo (9CH4) and Delta (38JA23): Late Archaic and Early Woodland shell mounds at the mouth of the Savannah River. Georgia Department of Transportation, Occasional Papers in Cultural Resource Management Number 17: 1-96.
Jarzen, D.M. and Dilcher, D.L.2009. Palynological assessment of Holocene mangrove vegetation at the American Memorial Park, Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. Grana, 48(2):136-146.
Pocknall, D.T. and Jarzen, D.M. 2009. Pollen with viscin threads from the late Cretaceous and Paleocene, Mérida Andes, Western Venezuela. Palynology 33(2):55-61.
Elsik, W.C. and Jarzen, D.M. 2009. New species of the late Cenozoic fungal form-genus Mediaverrunites Jarzen & Elsik 1986 ex Nandi & Sinha 2007. Palynology 33(2): 99-104.
Jarzen, D.M. and Klug, C. (in press) A preliminary investigation of a lower to middle Eocene palynoflora from Pine Island, Florida, U.S.A. Palynology.
Jarzen, D.M., Corbett, S.L. and Manchester, S.R. (in press). Palynology and paleoecology of the middle Miocene Alum Bluff flora, Liberty County, Florida, U.S.A. Palynology.
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