Bryan Sell	Ph.D. Student Advisor: Scott Samson
	Department of Earth Sciences 204 Heroy Geology Laboratory Syracuse University Syracuse, NY 13244-1070 USA Office: 321 Heroy Geology Laboratory Department: 315.443.2672 Fax: 315.443.3363 Email: bksell@syr.edu Office Hours: for Fall 2007 By Appointment

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RESEARCH INTERESTS

I am interested in basic problems that involve all types of stratigraphic data. My dissertation involves integrating radioisotopic dates, biostratigraphy, and geochemical ash-fall bed fingerprints into a highly refined time scale. With this I wish to address larger questions that involve tectonics, sedimentation/facies distribution, and evolutionary trends during the Paleozoic. Specifically, I am using U-Pb zircon and trace element chemistry with strontium isotopes of apatite from altered ash-fall beds called K-bentonites. With this work I have utilized methods with ID-TIMS, EMP, and SIMS. Through my current research I have developed a strong interest in the petrology of igneous apatite and I am currently working on developing and refining apatite standards for trace element analyses. For my undergraduate and masters theses I studied trilobite biostratigraphy in central Appalachia and the Tethyan Himalaya. I’m also interested in the temporal and spatial distribution ash-fall beds and how they relate to orogenesis, evolutionary trends, climate, and the rock record.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. student, 2004 – Present, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244.

M.S., Geology, 2002 – 2004, University of California, Riverside, CA 92507.

B.S.,Geology 1996 – 2000, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA 15701.

Liberal studies, 1994 – 1996, Community College of Beaver County, Monaca, PA.

FIELD PHOTOS

View of Mt. Everest from above North Face base camp

Trenton Falls, New York. Ash-Fall beds interbedded with shales and limestones

The grey layer is a typical altered ash-fall bed (K-bentonite). This bed is located at Black Knob Ridge, Oklahoma and is in the GSSP for the Middle to Late Ordovician

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Cambrian stratigraphy and depositional history of the northern Indian Himalaya, Spiti Valley, north-central India. Myrow, Paul M; Thompson, Karl R; Hughes, Nigel C; Paulsen, Timothy S; Sell, Bryan K; Parcha, Suraj K. Geological Society of America Bulletin, vol.118, no.3-4, pp.491-510, Apr 2006

Sell, B.K. and Hughes. 2003. Cambrian trilobites and stratigraphic correlations within Tethyan Himalaya, Geological Society of America, 2003 annual meeting, Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, no. 6 (200311): 174.

updated 11/15/07 (MMC)