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Education

Geology MS

"Morphometric Analyses of Tooth Size Variation in Miocene Mako Sharks Across Stratigraphic Formations of the California Coast"

California State University Long Beach

Geology BS

California State University Long Beach

GIS & Geospatial Technology Certificate

University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)

Geology AS-T

Santiago Canyon College

Publications

Balassa, D., Prothero, D.R., Cleaveland, C., Olson, S.M., and Marriott, K.I., 2022a, How did white-tailed deer respond to the Pleistocene Holocene transition?, in Abstracts with Programs, Denver, Colorado, Geological Society of America, 5, v. 54, doi:10.1130/abs/2022AM-379969.

Balassa, D., Prothero, D.R., and Olson, S.M., 2021, Did pronghorns change size after the ice ages?, in Abstracts with Programs, Portland, Oregon, Geological Society of America, 6, v. 53, doi:10.1130/abs/2021AM-364701.

Balassa, D., Prothero, D.R., Olson, S.M., Cleaveland, C., and Marriott, K.I., 2022b, Did pronghorns change size after the ice ages? New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, v. 90, p. 35–39.

Balassa, D., Prothero, D.R., Olson, S.M., Cleaveland, C., and Marriott, K.I., 2022c, How did white-tailed deer respond to the Pleistocene Holocene transition? New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, v. 90, p. 41–45.

Marriott, K., Olson, S.M., Balassa, D., Cleaveland, C., Watmore, K.I., LaVine, R.J., Olson, R.C., and Prothero, D.R., 2022, Ontogenetic Trends of Sutural Complexity in Jurassic Ammonites: Geosciences, v. 12, p. 66, doi:10.3390/geosciences12020066.

Olson, S.M., Prothero, D.R., Balassa, D., and Syverson, V.J.P., 2022a, Stasis in Neophrontops americanus (Egyptian vultures) from La Brea tar pits during the last glacial-interglacial cycle, in Abstracts with Programs, Denver, Colorado, Geological Society of America, 5, v. 54, doi:10.1130/abs/2022AM-379820.

Olson, S.M., Prothero, D.R., Balassa, D., and Syverson, V.J.P., 2022b, Stasis in Neophrontops americanus (Egyptian vultures) from La Brea tar pits during the last glacial-interglacial cycle: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, v. 90, p. 325–330.

Olson, S.M., White, R.S., Prothero, D., Balassa, D., Marriott, K., and Syverson, V.J.P., 2021, Ontogenetic growth in the Pleistocene pronghorn Stockoceras from San Joselito Cave, Mexico, in Abstracts with Programs, Online, Palaeovertebrata, 65, v. 44, p. 176.

Olson, S.M., White, R.S., Prothero, D.R., Balassa, D., and Syverson, V.J.P., 2022c, Ontogenetic growth in the Pleistocene pronghorn Stockoceras from San Joselito Cave, Mexico: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, v. 90, p. 321–324.

Olson, S.M., White, R.S., Prothero, D., Balassa, D., Marriott, K., and Syverson, V.J.P., 2021, Ontogenetic growth in the Pleistocene pronghorn Stockoceras from San Joselito Cave, Mexico, in Abstract book, Online, European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists, 65, v. 44, p. 176.

Stevens, M.S., Prothero, D.R., Cleaveland, C., Welsh, E., Marriott, K., Htun, T., Balassa, D., Olson, S.M., Watmore, K.I., and Wheeler, D., 2024, Systematics of the late Oligocene and Miocene Oreodonts (Merycoidodontidae: Artiodactyla): New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 385 p.