Degrees Held:

M.Sc. Biology; North Carolina State University 2024

B.Sc. Biological Sciences, concentration in Ecology and Evolution, North Carolina State University, 2020

Degree Sought:

PhD Earth Sciences

Advisor:

Dr. Christopher Organ 

Preferred Email Address:

[email protected]

 

Conference Abstracts:

Bender, E.R., Gates, T.A., Johnson, E., Zanno, L.E., A New Kritosaurin Hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Late Campanian Williams Fork Formation of Colorado. 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, October 2023, Cincinnati, OH. [oral presentation]

 

Hedge, J., Bender, E.R., Zanno, L.E. Zanno, Orientation: a New R Function for Quantifying the Direction and Strength of  Orientation on Paleontological Surfaces and its Application to the Eggs of Oviraptorosauria. 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, October 2023, Cincinnati, OH. [poster]

 

Bender, E.R., Gates, T.A., Johnson, E., Zanno, L.E., A New Kritosaurin Hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Colorado, USA. 14th Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota, June 2023, Salt Lake City, UT. [oral presentation]

 

Bender, E.R., Gates, T.A., Evans, D.C., Sullivan, R.M., Williamson, T.W., Reconsidering the Osteology and Systematics of the Hadrosaurid Naashoibitosautus ostromi (Ornithopoda: Dinosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Kirtland Formation of New Mexico. Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, November 2022, Toronto, ON. [poster]

 

Bender, E.R., Patterns of Evolutionary Covariation Among Sexually Selective Traits in Ceratopsian Dinosaurs Support Different Functions for Brow and Nasal Horns. Annual NC State University Graduate Student Research Symposium, April 2022, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. [poster]

 

Bender, E.R., Gates, T.A. Comparison of the Threshold Model and Phylogenetic Generalized Least Squares in Correlation Analyses of Discrete Traits. Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, November 2021, Virtual. [oral presentation]

 

Bender, E.R., Gates, T.A. Quantifying the influence of multiple socio-sexual signals in the evolution of ceratopsian dinosaurs. Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, October 2020, Virtual. [oral presentation]

 

Swayze, A.J., Lloyd, D.T., Latta, K.N., Davis, L.R., Cromer, C.M., Bender, E.R., Gates, T.A., Zanno, L.E. Vertebrate biodiversity and faunal turnover during the Mesozoic of Thailand. Annual Undergraduate Research and Creativity Spring Symposium, April 2019, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.  [poster]