Graduate Students in Earth and Planetary Sciences

David Bord M.S. Graduate Student Rutgers University Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Wright Labs, Rm 325 610 Taylor Road Piscataway, NJ 08854-8066 U.S.A. tel: 1-732-445-6989 e-mail: dbord@eden.rutgers.edu link to course webpage: link to personal webpage:

Research Interests:

• Micropaleontology
• Morphology
• Evolution

Education / Degrees:

• B.S. in Evolutionary Anthropology, 2005. Rutgers University, Rutgers College, New Brunswick, NJ

Courses / Instruction:

• Introduction to Physical Geology Lab

Advisor and Dissertation Committee:

• Dr. Marie-Pierre Aubry

Honors and Awards:

• 2007-2008 Northeast Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (NEAGEP) Bridge Scholar Fellowship.
• 2009-2010 GK-12 Teaching Fellowship

Publications:

• Aubry, M.-P., and Bord, D., 2009. "Reshuffling the Cards in the Photic Zone at the Eocene/Oligocene Boundary". Grological Society of America Special Paper (GSA-SP), 452, p. 279-301
• Aubry, M.-P., and Bord, D., 2005. “Trends in size changes in the coccolithophorids, calcareous nannoplankton, during the Mesozoic: A pilot study.” Micropaleontology, 51(4)299 – 308.

Meetings / Abstracts:

• Bord, D., 2009. "Dating unconformities using evolutionary patterns." ExxonMobil Workshop on Integrated Bio-, Chemo-, and Sequence Stratigraphy. Rutgers University
• Bord, D. and Aubry, M.-P., 2009. "Comparative morphometric analysis in two Paleocene calcareous nannoplankton taxa" NAMS-cosponsored international scientific conference: Problem Solving with Microfossils II. Houston, Texas. USA
• Bord, D. and Aubry, M.-P., 2008. “Morphological Similarities Linking Fossil Species E. macellus to Extant Coccolithophorids, Gaarderia and Umbellosphaera: Significant implications for the function of coccoliths” 12th International Nannoplankton Association conference. Lyon, France.
• Aubry, M.-P., and Bord, D., 2008. “A Classification of the Cenozoic Coccolithophorids” 12th International Nannoplankton Association conference. Lyon, France.
• Bord, D., 2008. “Does Variability in Coccolith Morphology Represent Physiology” Achievement Conference and Research Exhibition for the Northeast Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (NEAGEP).