Email: thor.hansen@wwu.edu
Work: (360) 650-3648
Fax: (360) 650-7302
Office: ES 235
Lab: ES 110
Mailcode: 9080
Address:
Western Washington University
Geology Department
Bellingham, WA
98225-9080
Thor Hansen
Professor
Member of the WWU Geology faculty since 1985
Education
B.S. - George Washington University, l974
Ph.D. - Yale University, l978
Areas of Expertise
Paleontology
Courses Taught
- General Geology
- Physical Geology
- Historical Geology
- Dinosaurs and Their Environment
- Research in Marine Paleoecology
- Stratigraphy
- Paleoecology
- Honors Geology
- Science of Monsters
Selected Publications
Kelley, P.H., and T.A. Hansen. 2003. The fossil record of drilling predation on bivalves and gastropods, p. 113-139. In P.H. Kelley, M. Kowalewski, and T.A. Hansen (eds), Predator-Prey Interactions in the Fossil Record. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press.
Hansen, T.A., P.H. Kelley, and D.M. Haasl. 2004. Paleoecological patterns in molluscan extinctions and recoveries: Comparison of the Cretaceous-Tertiary and Eocene-Oligocene extinctions in North America. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 214(3):233-242.
Kelley, P.H., and T.A. Hansen. 2006. Comparisons of class- and lower taxon-level patterns in naticid gastropod predation, Cretaceous to Pleistocene of the U.S. Coastal Plain. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 236(3/4):302-320.
Kelley, P.H., and T.A. Hansen. 2007. A case for cannibalism: Confamilial and conspecific predation by naticid gastropods, Cretaceous through Pleistocene of the United States Coastal Plain, p. 151-170. In Elewa, A.M.T. (ed.), Predation in Organisms: A Distinct Phenomenon. Springer Verlag.
Kelley, P.H., and T.A. Hansen. 2008. Latitudinal patterns in naticid gastropod predation along the east coast of the United States: a modern baseline for interpreting temporal patterns in the fossil record. In: Bromley, R.G., Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., Genise, J.F., and Melchor, R.N. (eds.), Sediment-Organism Interactions: A Multifaceted Ichnology. SEPM Special Publications, v. 88.
Recent M.S. Students
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