RICHARD BARCLAY Curriculum Vitae - Department of Earth and ...

RICHARD BARCLAY
Curriculum Vitae
Northwestern University
Earth & Planetary Sciences
1850 Campus Drive
Evanston, Illinois 60208
barclay@earth.northwestern.edu
Mobile: (847) 644-9355
Office: (847) 491-8182
Fax: (847) 491-8060
www.earth.northwestern.edu/~barclay/
www.ucd.ie/plantpalaeo/barclay.html
EDUCATION
2004 – 2010 Northwestern University Earth Sciences Ph.D.
1999 – 2002 University of Florida Geology M.S.
1992 – 1996 Western Washington University Geology B.S.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
I use fossil plants to solve geological problems, and integrate the plant records with highresolution
geochemical records within temporally well-constrained sections. My research
interests are integrated together, but focus on 4 main areas: 1) Paleoclimate; 2) the Global carbon
cycle; 3) Mass Extinction Events; and 4) Species Evolution and Radiation. Fossil plants are
ideal archives of paleoclimate shifts, since their relative immobility forces them to adapt to
climate. During field work I collect macrofossil plants to reconstruct past temperatures and
precipitation regimes, and measure diversity levels to assess extinction patterns and subsequent
recoveries. I use mesofossil plant cuticle to reveal how CO 2 has fluctuated over time, while
creating coeval geochemical records to interpret changes to the global carbon cycle. My recent
research has revealed how volcanic release of CO 2 in the mid-Cretaceous helped to create
widespread marine anoxia and cause a second order mass extinction at the end of the
Cenomanian.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2002 – 2004 Assistant Paleobotany Collections Mgr. - Denver Museum of Nature & Science
1999 – 2004 Denver Basin Project Research Team Member
1999 Denver Basin Project Intern
1995 USGS Desert Laboratory, Tucson, AZ – Intern to Dr. Julio Betancourt
1994 University of Montana – Collections Assistant to Dr. George Stanley
Eastern Washington University – Field Assistant to Dr. Linda McCollum
HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2009 H. Scott Graduate Award for Outstanding Research Northwestern University
2006 – 2009 Marie Curie Experienced Research Fellow University College Dublin
2008 – 2009 Darwin Fellow – One-Book-One-NU Program Northwestern University
2005 – 2009 Sloss Fellowship – Summer Funding Northwestern University

Barclay CV
RESEARCH GRANT AWARDS
2005 Paleontological Society Graduate Student Research Grant
2005 Geological Society of America Graduate Student Research Grant
2005 The Evolving Earth Foundation Graduate Student Research Grant
2005 The Colorado Scientific Society Student Research Grant
2005 Peter Wilf – Penn State (Cuticle DB) Subaward from Packard Fellowship to Wilf
2004 Denver Basin Project NSF – Subaward for Field Work
2002 W. Interior Paleontological Society John Jenkins Scholarship
2002 The Evolving Earth Foundation Graduate Student Research Grant
2001 Geological Society of America Graduate Student Research Grant
2001 The Paleobiological Fund Student Research Grant
2001 The Colorado Scientific Society Student Research Grant
2000 Geological Society of America Graduate Student Research Grant
2000 The Paleobiological Fund Student Research Grant
FIELD RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2009 West Greenland Nuussuaq Peninsula Mid-K Paleobotany & Carbon Isotopes
2007 Colorado Plateau Utah, N. M., Wyo. Cen.-Tur. Paleobot. & C Isotopes - OAE2
2005 Colorado Plateau Utah & N. M. Cen.-Tur. Paleobot. & C Isotopes - OAE2
2004 Denver Basin Colorado Earliest Paleocene Plant Recovery
2004 Williston Basin Montana K-Pg Plant Extinction & Recovery
2003 Green River Fm. Utah Paleobotany Survey – Cough’s Tongue
2003 Kaiparowits Basin Utah Grand Staircase N. Mon. - Paleobotany
2002 Green River Fm. Utah Paleobotany – Vernal Museum Collection
2002 Kaiparowits Basin Utah Grand Staircase N. Mon. - Paleobotany
2001 Amazon Basin Brazil Botanical & Sedimentology of Rio Negro
2000 Denver Basin Colorado K-Pg Plant Extinction & Recovery
2000 Amazon Basin Ecuador Ethnobotany of the Rio Negro
2000 Mississippi Embay. Tennessee Paleobotany – Eocene Clay Pits
1999 Williston Basin N. Dakota K-Pg Plant Extinction (Kirk Johnson)
1999 Denver Basin Colorado Denver Basin Project Drilling Intern
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Geophysical Union
Botanical Society of America (Paleobotany)
Geological Society of America
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Barclay, R. S., McElwain, J. C., Dilcher, J. L., and Sageman, B. B., 2007, The Cuticle Database:
Developing an interactive tool for taxonomic and paleoenvironmental study of the fossil
cuticle record: in Jarzen, D. M., Manchester, S. R., Retallack, G. J., and Jarzen, S. A.
[eds.]: Advances in Angiosperm Paleobotany and Paleoclimatic Reconstruction -
Contributions Honoring David L. Dilcher and Jack A. Wolfe, Courier Forschungsinstitut
Senckenberg, v. 258, p. 39-55.
2

Barclay CV
Titus, A. L., Albright, L. B., and Barclay, R. S., 2005, The first record of Cenomanian (Late
Cretaceous) insect body fossils from the Kaiparowits Basin, northern Arizona, in Late
Cretaceous stratigraphy, depositional environments, and macro-vertebrate paleontology of
the Kaiparowits Plateau, Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, Utah
Field Guides 2005, 6, p. 101-128.
Barclay, R. S. and Johnson, K. R., 2004, West Bijou Site Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, Denver
Basin, Colorado, in Nelson, E. P., and Erslev, E. A., ed., Field trips in the southern Rocky
Mountains, USA: Geological Society of America Field Guide 5, p. 59-68.
Barclay, R. S., Johnson, K. R., Betterton, W. J., and Dilcher, D. L, 2003, Stratigraphy and
Megaflora of a K-T boundary section in the eastern Denver Basin, Colorado: Rocky
Mountain Geology, v. 38, no. 1.
Barclay, R. S., 2002, The Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary and Plant Diversity in the Earliest
Paleocene, Eastern Denver Basin, Colorado, [Masters Thesis], University of Florida, 195 p.
PUBLICATIONS IN REVIEW
Barclay, R. S., McElwain, J. C., and Sageman, B. B., in review for Nature Geoscience,
Volcanic CO 2 Pulse Activates Carbon Sequestration During Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic
Event 2.
PUBLICATIONS IN PREP FOR PHD THESIS
Barclay, R. S., Duckett, J. G., and McElwain, J. C., in prep, The oldest epiphyllous moss:
evidence for a 100 Ma symbiosis between epiphytes and Laurels, Science Brevia.
Barclay, R. S., McElwain, J. C., and Sageman, B. B., in prep, Stomatal index proxy for the CO 2
change during OAE2, Cenomanian-Turonian boundary, Earth and Planetary Science
Letters.
Barclay, R. S., Sageman, B. B., and Hurtgen, M. T., in prep, The terrestrial carbon isotope
response to OAE2: Comparing the marine and terrestrial records of global CO 2 release.
Geochimica et Cosmochemica Acta.
PUBLISHED PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS
Barclay, R. S., McElwain, J. C., and Sageman, B. B., 2009, Stomata and isotopes demonstrate
carbon cycle linkage 94 Million Years Ago, Annual Meeting of the Geochemical Society -
Goldschmidt Geochemistry Conference, Davos, Switzerland.
Barclay, R. S., McElwain, J. C., and Sageman, B. B., 2008, A stomatal index based CO 2 record
through OAEII, Cenomanian-Turonian Boundary (94Ma), EOS Transactions of the
American Geophysical Union, 89 (53), Fall Meeting Supplement, Abstract PP31C-1503.
3

Barclay CV
PUBLISHED PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS (CONTINUED)
Barclay, R. S., McElwain, J. C., and Sageman, B. B., 2008, Using the Micro-scale leaf
epidermis to interpret global marine anoxia: Unraveling Ocean Anoxic Event II at the
Cenomanian-Turonian boundary (94Ma), 8 th European Palaeobotany-Palynology
Conference, Bonn, Germany.
Barclay, R. S., McElwain, J. C., and Sageman, B. B., 2008, Atmospheric CO 2 through Oceanic
Anoxic Event II, Late Cretaceous (94Ma), Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of
America, Houston, Abstracts with Programs, v. 40, paper no. 126-13.
Barclay, R. S., McElwain, J. C., Dilcher, D. L., and Sageman, B. B., 2007, Beautiful CUTICLE:
Plant cuticle as a tool for taxonomic and paleoenvironmental determination, Annual
Meeting of the Botanical Society of America, Chicago, IL, July 2007, No.: P54009,
Abstract ID: 1727.
Barclay, R. S., McElwain, J. C., and Sageman, B. B., 2006, Ecological change across the
Cenomanian-Turonian boundary, Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America,
Philadelphia Vol. 38, Paper No. 137-15.
Barclay, R. S., McElwain, J. C., and Sageman, B. B., 2006, Testing the pCO 2 drawdown
hypothesis for Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 (94 ma) using fossil plant cuticle, Meeting of the
European Paleobotany and Palynology Conference (September), Prague, Czech Republic.
Barclay, R. S., Dilcher, D. L., McElwain, J. C., and Sageman, B. B., 2006, Calibrating
atmospheric CO 2 changes with the cuticle database, Advances in Paleobotany –
Recognizing the contributions of David L. Dilcher and Jack A. Wolfe on the occasion of
their 70 th birthday, Gainesville, FL.
Barclay, R. S., McElwain, J. C., Sageman, B. B., and Kenig, F., 2005, Testing the pCO 2
drawdown hypothesis at the Cenomanian-Turonian Boundary using fossil plant cuticle,
Earth System Processes 2, Calgary, Alberta, Paper No. 30-1.
Barclay, R. S., Johnson, K., Gorman, M., and Stammer, J., 2004, Early Paleocene floral
recovery in West Bijou Creek, eastern Denver Basin, Colorado, Annual Meeting of the
Geological Society of America, Denver, Colorado. Abstracts with Programs, Vol. 36, No.
5, p. 178
Barclay, R. S., 2003, The Green River Atlas Project: Deciphering the floral diversity of the
Parachute Creek Member of the Green River Formation, Western Interior Paleontology
Society Symposium - Volcanoes, Camels Carnivores: The Eocene/Oligocene Story.
Barclay, R. S. and Johnson, K. R., 2003, Disaster and recovery: Mapping the extent of the
earliest Paleocene FU1 floral zone in the Western Interior, Mid-Continent Paleobotanical
Colloquium, Chicago, IL.
4

Barclay CV
PUBLISHED PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS (CONTINUED)
Barclay, R. S., Bateman, W. D., Johnson, K. R., Wagner, S. B., and Graham, M. L., 2003, The
Parachute Creek Atlas Project: Deciphering the floral diversity of the Green River
Formation of Colorado and Utah, GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 35, no. 6.
Barclay, R. S., Johnson, K. R., Nichols, D. J., Fleming, R. F., Betterton, W. J., and Hicks, J. F.,
2002, Interpreting early Paleocene plant diversity patterns at the tightly constrained West
Bijou Creek K-T boundary section, Denver Basin, Colorado: GSA Abstracts with
Programs, Rocky Mountain Section, vol. 34, no. 4, p. A47.
Barclay, R. S., 2002, Analysis of Floral Diversity through the first 1.4 Ma of the Paleocene,
Eastern Denver Basin, Colorado: GSA Abstracts with Programs, vol. 34, paper no. 161-4.
Barclay, R. S., Dilcher, D. L., and Johnson, K. R., 2001, Patterns of post K-T boundary plant
diversity and rates of recovery in the Denver Basin, Colorado: GSA Abstracts with
programs, vol. 33, no. 6.
Barclay, R. S., Dilcher, D. L., and Johnson, K. R., 2001, A new K-T boundary locality in the
Denver Basin: Colorado, Abstracts to bi-annual meeting on the climate and biota of the
Paleogene, Powell, Wyoming.
Johnson, K. R., Ellis, B., Reynolds, M. L., Werth, K., and Barclay, R. S., 2000, Fossil floras
from synorogenic strata in the Denver Basin, Colorado, show high levels of Cretaceous-
Tertiary extinction followed by recovery to high diversity rain forest by 62 MA: GSA
abstracts with programs, vol. 32, no. 7, p. A-196.
EDUCATION & OUTREACH
– Project Excite - Science training for underprivileged 3 rd & 4 th Grade from Evanston
– SERTS – http://www.northwestern.edu/serts/;
Intensive, small group training of Northwestern University students in the methods of
paleobotany and paleoclimate, and how scientists use these to inform our understanding of the
process of species evolution. Taught 5 consecutive years at Northwestern as part of a course
on Evolution & The Scientific Method taught by Dr. Sageman:
http://www.earth.northwestern.edu/individ/brad/GEO114.html
– Parachute Creek Atlas Project – Developed online resource to display the plant diversity of the
Denver Museum’s collection of the Green River Formation. www.dmns.org.
– Cuticle Database Project – Developing a web accessible resource for comparison of modern
and fossil cuticles, hosted at: http://fm1.fieldmuseum.org/cuticle/PaleoCollaborator.
Username: cuticledatabase; Password: lauraceae2005.
– High School Student Shadows (Will Sparks, Jessica Shatkin)
– Undergraduate Student Interns (Jackie. Beard, C. Carney, P. McVary)
– Museum Interns (Nicole Boyle, Mark Gorman, Jane Stammer, Erin Steele, Michele Reynolds)
5

Barclay CV
RECENT COLLABORATORS
Asaro, Frank Geologist University of California, Berkeley
Bowring, Sam Geochronologist Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Betterton, Bill Geologist US Geological Survey
Collinson, Margaret Paleobotanist University of London
Dilcher, David Paleobotanist University of Florida
Duckett, Jeff Bryology Queen Mary University of London
Dunn, Regan Paleobotanist Graduate Student – University of Washington
Fricke, Henry Geochemist Colorado College
Jaramillo, Carlos Palynologist Smithsonian Institute, Panama
Hesselbo, Steve Stratigraphy Oxford
Hicks, Jason Magnetostratigrapher DMNS
Johnson, Kirk Paleobotanist DMNS
Laurin, Jiri Stratigrapher Charles University, Prague
Manchester, Steven Paleobotanist University of Florida
Nichols, Douglas Palynologist US Geological Survey
Obradovich, John Geochronologist US Geological Survey
Raynolds, Robert Stratigrapher Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Robinson, Stuart Isotope Geochemist University College London
Sampson, Scott Paleontologist University of Utah
Titus, Alan Paleontologist BLM-Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument
Wilf, Peter Paleobotanist Penn State University
GRADUATE ADVISORS
M.S. Advisor: David Dilcher, University of Florida
Ph.D. Advisors: Bradley Sageman, Northwestern University
Jennifer McElwain, University College, Dublin
6