Christopher Strganac
Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas 75275-0395
U.S.A.
Christopher Strganac received his BS in
Geological Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. Upon completing his
degree he spent two seasons as an interpretive park ranger at John Day Fossil
Beds National Monument in Oregon before coming back to Texas to pursue graduate
degrees in paleontology at Southern Methodist University. For his M.S., he
studied Oligocene mammals and their geological context from the Pacific
Northwest under the guidance of Dr. Louis L. Jacobs. Since his arrival to SMU,
he has performed field work on the Cretaceous of Alaska's North Slope, the
Oligocene of Ethiopia, the Cretaceous of Antarctica, and the Cretaceous of
Angola. The field work on the geology from the latter is the focus of his
current