CURRICULUM VITAE
WILLIAM C. PARKER
Department of Geology Birthdate: 5/25/52
Florida State University Citizenship: U.S.
Tallahassee, Florida 32306 Phone: (904) 8943037 or (904) 6445860
EDUCATION:
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE
Received B.A. degree in Geology, 1973
GRADUATE TRAINING:
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE
Received M.A. degree in Geology, 1975.
Thesis Paleoecological Significance of Population structures and Dynamics of Selected Middle Ordovician Brachiopods; 1975.
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Received Ph.D. in Geophysical Sciences, 1983.
Dissertation Ecologic Succession and evolution in Paleozoic Softbottom BrachiopodBryozoan Communities; 1983.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Summer, 1973 Paleontology Lab Assistant for Dr. R.E. McLaughlin, University of Tennessee.
Fall, 1973 Teaching Assistant in Introductory Geology, University of Tennessee.
Winter and Teaching Assistant in Introductory Paleontology, University of Tennessee.
Spring, 1973
Winter and Parttime draftsman and scientific Russian translator for Dr. K. R. Walker, University of
Spring, 1975 Tennessee
Fall, 1978: Course Assistant in Introductory Physical Science, University of Chicago
Fall and .
Winter, 1979
Summer, 1979 Computer programmer for Dr. D.M. Raup, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.
Fall, 1980 Assistant Professor in Geology, Florida State University. Parttime consultant to DNR
to 1986 .
Fall, 1986 Associate Professor in Geology, Florida State University.
to Present
Summer 1989 Participant in NCAR Global Change Instruction Workgroup
to Summer 1991
Summer 1990 Contract employee to Florida DEP
to Spring 1992
1995 to 1997 Contract employee to SDI Environmental
1997 to 1999 Associate Chair, FSU Department of Geology
2001 Assist departmental chair in administrative matters
to Present
2001 to Co-Editor Journal of International Society of Environmental Micropaleontology
2005 Microbiology, and Meiobenthology
GRADUATE AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
W.A. Tarr Award, Sigma Gamma Epsilon, l973:National Science Foundation graduate study fellowship, September, 1974August, 1977; McCormick Fellowship University of Chicago, September, 1975 August, 1978; Geological Society of America, research grants, 1977, 1978; Research grant, Joseph Henry O.C. Marsh Fund, National Academy of Sciences, 1978; Dee Fellowship, Field Museum of Natural History, 19781979.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Gamma Epsilon, Paleontological Association
PUBLICATIONS:
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Walker, K.R. and Parker, W.C., 1976. Population structure of a pioneer and a laterstage species in an Ordovician ecologic succession. Paleobiology, 2: 191201.
Arnold, A.J., d'Escrivan, F., and Parker, W.C., 1985. Predation and avoidance responses in the Foraminifera of the Galapogos Hydrothermal Mounds. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 15: 3842.
Parker, W.C., Ragland, P.C., and Textoris, D., 1985. Controls on trace elements in the Ordovician Black River group, New York, U.S.A., Chemical Geology, 53: 83-94.
Parker, W.C., Arnold, A.J., and Berggren, W.A., 1986. Analog Morphocorrelation: A new technique for high-resolution stratigraphy. Palaios, 1: 183-188.
Hunter, R.S.T., Arnold, A.J., and Parker, W.C., 1988. Evolution in the Paleocene Globorotalia (Turborotalia) pseudobulloides lineage in the Gulf of Mexico. Micropaleontology, 34: 181-192.
Furbish, D.J., and Parker, W.C., 1992. On the lengths of crossing excursions: the case of a discrete normal process with underlying exponential autocovariance. Journal of Stochastic Hydrology and Hydraulics, 6: 167-182.
Arnold, A. J., Kelley, D.C., and Parker, W.C., 1995. Causality and Cope's Rule: Evidence from the Planktonic Foraminifera, Journal of Paleontology, 69: 203-210.
Arnold, A.J., Parker, W.C., and Hansard, S.P., 1995. Aspects of the post-Cretaceous recovery in the Cenozoic planktic Foraminifera. Marine Micropaleontology, 26: 319-327.
Kelley, D.C., Arnold, A.J., and Parker, W.C., 1996. Paedomorphosis and the Origin of the Paleogene genus Morozovella. Paleobiology, 22: 266-281.
Parker, W.C., and Arnold, A.J., in press 1997. Species survivorship in the Cenozoic planktonic foraminifera: a test of exponential and Weibull models. Palaios, 12: 3-11.
Ragland, P.C., Parker, W.C., and Conley, J.F.,1997. A multivariate method for determining the provenance and depositional environment of metasedimentary rocks: an example from the Fork Mountain Formation, southwestern Virginia Piedmont. Geochemical Journal.31:275-288 .
Ragland, P.C., Conley, J.F., Van Orman, J. A., and Parker, W.C., 1997. Use of Principal Components Analysis in petrology: An example from the Martinsville Igneous Complex, Virginia, U.S.A., Mineralogy and Petrology.60: 165-184.
Ragland, P.C., Kish, S. A., and Parker, W.C., 1998. Compositional Patterns for Lower Mesozoic Olivine Tholeiitic Diabase Dikes in the Deep River Basin, North Carolina. Southeastern Geology. 38:91-102.
Kelly, D. C., Arnold, A. J., and Parker, W. C., 1999. The influence of Heterochrony on the stratigraphic occurrence of Morozovella angulata. Journal of Foraminiferal Research 29:58-68.
Parker, W.C., Feldman, A.H., Arnold, A.J., 1999. Paleobiogeographic patterns in the morphologic diversification of the Neogene planktonic foraminifera. Paleobiogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, 152:1-14.
Furbish, D. J. and Parker, W.C., 2000 Corks, buoyancy and wave-particle orbits. Journal of Geoscience Education. 48:500-507.
Doran, N., Arnold, A.J., W.C. Parker, and F. Huffer, 2004. Deviation from red queen behavior at stratigraphic boundaries: evidence for directional recovery. IN The Palynology & Micropalaontology of Boundaries. Jour. Geol. Soc. London.
Peer Reviewed Book Chapters
Ziegler, A.M., Bambach, R.K., Parrish, J.T., Barrett, S.F., Gierlowski, E.H., Parker, W. C., Raymond, A., and Sepkoski, J.J., 1981. Paleozoic biogeography and climatology. in Paleobotany, Paleoecology, and Evolution. (Niklas, K.J., ed.), Praeger, New York. pp. 231261.
Raymond, A.L., Parrish, J.T., and Parker, W.C., 1985. Phytogeography and Paleoclimate of the Early Carboniferous. in Geological Factors and the Evolution of Plants. (Tiffney, B., ed.), Yale University Press, New Haven. pp. 169222.
Raymond, A.L., Barrett, S., and Parker, W.C., 1985. Early Devonian Phytogeography. in Geological Factors and the Evolution of Plants. (Tiffney, B., ed.), Yale Univ. Press, New Haven. pp. 129167.
Arnold, A.J., and Parker, W.C.,1999. Biogeography of planktic foraminifera. IN Modern Foraminifera. Sen Gupta, B., editor. Kluwer Academic, Boston, pp103-122.
Parker, W.C., and Arnold, A. J. 1999. Quantitative Methods of Data Analysis in Foraminiferal Ecology IN Modern Foraminifera. Sen Gupta, B., editor. Kluwer Academic, Boston, pp 71-92.
Yanko, V, Arnold, A.J., and Parker, W.C.,1999. The Effect of Marine Pollution on Benthic Foraminifera. IN Modern Foraminifera. Sen Gupta, B., editor, Kluwer Academic, Boston, pp 217-238.
Peer Reviewed Field Guides
Parker, W.C., 1993. Coastal Processes of the Florida Panhandle - An Introduction for Undergraduate and Science Teachers. IN Geologic Field Studies of the Coastal Plain in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida, (Kish, S.A., ed.), Southeastern Geological Society, Guidebook 33: 63-73.
Unreviewed Publications
Pontigo, F., Parker, W.C., and Tanner, W.F. 1983. Statistical determination of mean strike and dip. Transactions, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, Transactions. 23: 383387.
Parker, W.C., Clark, M.W., Wright, R.C., and Clark, R.K., 1984. Population dynamics, Paleogene abyssal benthic foraminifers, eastern South Atlantic. DSDP Initial Reports. 73: 481486.
Lloyd, J.M., Ragland, P.C., Ragland, J.M., and Parker, W.C., 1986. Diagenesis of the Jurassic Smackover Formation, Jay Field, Florida, IN Continental Slope; Frontier of the 80's. (Knochenmus, D., ed.) Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, Transactions 36: 201-212.
Gennett, J.A., Raymond, A., and Parker, W.C., 1986 Changes in floral composition with depositional environment in Texas Jackson Group lignites. Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, Transactions 36: 449-456.
Parker, W.C., 2000, Evolutionary Catastrophies: The Science of Mass Extinction. (Book Review) Palaios 15:579-580.
Short Course Notes
Odom, A.L., Cowart, J.B., and Parker, W.C., 1985. Dating Geologic Materials. Association of Engineering Geologists. Short Course Notes, 53 p.
Parker, W.C., 1993. Kriging Techniques and Applications. Notes for short course presented at Southeast section, Geological Society of America, Department of Geology, FSU, 54 p.
Contract Reports
Parker, W.C., 1991. Statistical Analysis of EDB Data for Jackson, Highlands and Polk Counties. Florida DER, Contract Task Report WM358.1, 13 p.
Parker, W.C., 1991. Statistical Analysis of EDB Data for Jackson, Highlands, and Polk Counties. Florida DER, Contract Task Report WM358.2, 12 p.
Parker, W.C., 1992. Geostatistical Delineation of Groundwater Contamination. Florida DER, Contract Task Report WM358.3, 9 p.
Parker, W.C., 1992. Geostatistical Delineation Procedure Working Manual. Florida DER. 37 p.
Parker, W.C., 1992. Contract Report, Task Assignment WM-358.4. Florida Dept. Environmental Regulation. 12 p.
Parker, W.C., 1996. Attempt to determine semivariance range in Cross Bar Ranch wellfield hydrograph records. Contract report to SDI Environmental Services, Tampa, 12 p.
Parker, W.C., 1996. Using semivariance techniques to estimate optimum node spacing for modeling. Appendix to “Water resource evaluation and hydrologic modeling of the central northern Tampa Bay region.” SDI Environmental Services Project No. WCF-690. 5 p.
Parker, W.C. and Arnold, A.J., 2003., The Application of Benthic Foraminifera to Environmental Analysis of Coastal Habitats of the Florida Panhandle:Results.A contract report Submitted June 30, 2003 to Florida Geologic Survey. 18 p.
Abstracts
Walker, K. R., and Parker, W.C., 1976. Population structure of a pioneer and later stage species in an Ordovician ecologic succession. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 8(4): 293294.
Parker, W.C., 1979. Factors influencing ecologic succession: a comparison of two Ordovician examples. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 11 (5): 253.
Raymond, A., and Parker, W.C., 1979 Paleoecological implications of quantitative analysis of plant remains from modern swamp communities. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 11(5): 254.
Parker, W.C., 1980. Interaction between patterns of community replacement and ecological succession: An example from the Upper Ordovician of Indiana. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 12(7):496.
Raymond, A. and Parker, W.C., 1981. Macrofloral biogeography of the lower Carboniferous. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 13(7): 535.
Pontigo, F.A., Jr., Parker, W.C., and Tanner, W.F., 1982. Statistical determination of mean strike and dip: an example from the basal Tuscaloosa, eastern Alabama. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 14(7): 590-591.
Pontigo, F.A., Jr., Parker, W.C., and Tanner, W.F., 1983. Statistical determination of mean strike and dip: an example from the basal Tuscaloosa, eastern Alabama. American association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin. 67(9): 1470.
Allen, T, Scott, T., and Parker, W.C., 1983. Stratigraphy and carbonate deposition of Eocene strata in central peninsular Florida. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 15(2):99.
Parker, W. C., 1983. Effects of faunal interactions on carbonate clastic transitions: Results from a comparison of Paleozoic community ecological successions. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 15(2): 105.
Parker, W.C., Arnold, A.J., d’Escrivan, F., 1985. Foraminifera of the Galapogos hydrothermal mounds: Predation and avoidance responses. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 17(2): 78.
Lloyd, J.M., and Parker, W.C., 1985. Hydrocarbon reservoir formation: paleoenvironmental and structural inter-relationships in the Jurassic Smackover Formation, Jay Field, Florida. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 17(7): 645.
Parker, W.C., Ragland, P.C., and Pontigo, F.A., Jr., 1985. Diagenetic sequences in the Smackover Formation, Apalachicola Embayment, Florida: and “holistic” approach. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 17(7): 685.
Caldwell, B., and Parker, W.C., 1985. Middle Ordovician Reefal Bioherm Complex in NW Georgia Southern end of the Holston/Rockdell Trend? Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 17(2): 82.
Ragland, P., Arthur, J., and Parker, W.C., 1985. QMode factor analysis of ENA diabases from southeastern USA. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 17(2): 78.
Arnold, A.J., Hunter, R.S.T., Parker, W.C., Pirtle, J.S., Berggren, W.A., and Gould, S.J., 1986. Cladogenesis in two lineages of the Cenozoic planktonic foraminifera. North American Paleontological Congress IV, p. A2.
Arnold, A.J., Parker, W.C., and Berggren, W.A., 1986. Analog morphocorrelation: a new technique with implications for high-resolution absolute age dating. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin. 70(5): 560.
Arnold, A.J., Hunter, R.S.T., and Parker, W.C., 1986. Evolution and homeomorphy in the Paleogene Globorotalia (Turborotalia) psuedobulloides - G. (Globorotalia) pseudomenardii lineage. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 18(3): 209-210.
Lloyd, J.M., Ragland, P.C., Ragland, J.M., and Parker, W.C., 1986. Diagenesis of the Jurassic Smackover Formation, Jay Field, Florida. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin. 70(9): 1185.
Arnold, A. J., Kelley, D. C., Parker, W. C., and Peng, J., 1988. Morphometric and Phylogenetic Anaylses of the Cenozoic Planktonic Foraminifera. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 20(7): 200-201.
Caldwell, B.C., and Parker, W.C., 1989. Stratigraphic Framework of Middle Ordovician Rocks in the Red Clay and Sand Mountain Belts, Northeastern Georgia and Southeastern Tennessee. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 21(3): 7.
Parker, W.C., 1989. Kriging Applications and Pitfalls: A Layman's Discussion. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 21(3): 54.
Cooper, R.C. and Parker, W.C., 1989. The Nature and Model of Formation of Miocene Dolosilts in Jefferson, Madison, and Taylor Counties, Florida. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 21(3): 9.
Kelley, D.C., Arnold, A.J., and Parker, W.C., 1990. The Cenozoic Planktonic Foraminifera: Implications for Cope's Rule. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 22(4): 21.
Kelly, D.C., Arnold, A.J., and Parker, W.C., 1990. Evolutionary processes and patterns in the planktonic foraminiferal genus Morozovella McGowran. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 22(7): 200.
Arnold, A.J., Kelly, D.C., Hansard, P.C., and Parker, W.C., 1990. Macroevolutionary aspects of the post-Cretaceous recovery in planktonic foraminifera. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 22(7): 107.
Arnold, A.J., Kelley, D.C., and Parker, W.C., 1993. The temporal scale of iterative evolution in the Cenozoic planktonic Foraminifera: Implications for Cope's Rule and biostratigraphic practice. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 25(4): 1.
Kelley, D.C., Arnold, A.J., and Parker, W.C., 1993. Paedomorphosis in the evolution of Morozovella angulata., Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 25(4): 26.
Arnold, A.J., Parker, W.C., and Hansard, S.P., 1994. Survivorship in the Cenozoic planktonic foraminiferal species: comparing exponential and Weibull models. PaleoBios, University of California, Berkeley. 16: 22.
Kher, S., and Parker, W.C., 1995. Geochemistry of Calcite Cements from the Middle Ordovician of the S. Appalachians: A record of fluid-rock interaction. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Abstracts with Programs. 4: 49A.
Kher, S., and Parker, W.C., 1995. Vadose Meteoric Diagenesis in Late Ordovician (Richmondian) Carbonates of the S. Appalachians: A Glacio-Eustatic Sealevel Drop? Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 27(2): 66.
Kelly, D.C., Arnold, A.J., and Parker, W.C., 1995. Paedomorphosis and the origin of the Paleogene planktonic foraminiferal genus Morozovella. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 27(6): 244.
Parker, W.C., and Arnold, A.J., 1995. Species survivorship in the Cenozoic planktonic foraminifera: application of the Weibull model and its implications. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. 27(6): 244.