Dr. Stephen J. Culver


Dr. Stephen J. Culver - Professor & Department Chairperson
Office	Graham 101
Phone	252-328-6360
*Paleontology*
D.Sc.	University of Wales (1996)
Ph.D.	University of Wales (1976)
B.S.	University of Wales (1973)

Dr. Culver may be reached via Email : culvers@mail.ecu.edu

Current Professional and Scholarly Interests

My research interests include the ecology, paleoecology, biogeography and paleobiogeography of benthic foraminifera, particularly around North America and in the Atlantic deep-sea. I also use foraminiferal data to reconstruct past environments and past biotic response to global change. Current projects include "Mesoscale response to rapid environmental change in Kimmeridgian benthic foraminifera" with former colleagues at the Natural History Museum, London and "Foraminiferal diversity and communities through time" with Marty Buzas of the Smithsonian Institution. Since moving to North Carolina in the summer of 1999, I have added the Quaternary history of coastal North Carolina to my research interests.

Selected Publications

Swallow, J. and Culver, S.J. 1999. Living (rose Bengal stained) benthic foraminifera from New Jersey continental margins. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 29: 104-116.

Snedden, J., Kreisa, R., Tillman, R., Culver, S.J. and Schweller, W. 1999. An expanded model for modern sand ridge genesis and evolution on the New Jersey Atlantic shelf. SEPM Special Publication, 64: 147-164.

Buzas, M.A. and Culver, S.J. 1999. Understanding species diversity through the log series distribution of occurrences. Diversity and Distribution, 8: 187-195.

Culver, S.J. and Buzas, M.A. 1999. Biogeography of neritic benthic foraminifera. In Sen Gupta, B. (ed.), Modern Foraminifera, Kluwer, p. 93-102.

Culver, S.J. 1999. Evolution caught in the act: the evidence of microfossil morphology. In Springer, D., and Scotchmoor, J. (eds.), Evolution: Investigating the Evidence. Paleontological Society, Special Publications, 9: 155-170.

Culver, S.J. 2000. Thomas Hardy, driver ants and some West African fossils. In, Whybrow, P. (ed.), Travels with Fossil Hunters, Cambridge University Press, p. 93-106.

Culver, S.J. and Rawson,P.F., (editors), 2000. Biotic Response to Global Change: The Last 145 Million Years. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 501p.

Culver, S.J. and Buzas, M.A. 2000. Global latitudinal species diversity gradient in deep-sea benthic foraminifera. Deep-Sea Research I., 47: 259-275.