EDUCATION

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor, Bowling Green State University, 1999-present

Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, 1992-1999

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

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PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

Yacobucci, Margaret M.  (in prep.) The Tree of Life: Stephen Jay Gould’s contributions to systematics.  Invited book chapter for volume His View of Life: Reflections on the Scientific Legacy of Stephen J. Gould, Warren D. Allmon and Robert M. Ross, eds.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Yacobucci, Margaret M., and Manship, Lori.  (in prep.) Putting ammonites on the map: GIS mapping of constraints and asymmetry in ammonite suture shape.  To be submitted to Palaeontologia Electronica.

Yacobucci, Margaret M.  (in prep.) Evolution and developmental timing of the Cenomanian ammonite Metoicoceras.  To be submitted to Paleobiology.

Yacobucci, Margaret M.  (in review)  Multifractal and white noise evolutionary dynamics in Jurassic-Cretaceous Ammonoidea.  Submitted to Geology.

Yacobucci, Margaret M.  (in press, 2005)  Neogastroplites meets Metengonoceras: Morphological response of an endemic hoplitid ammonite to a new invader in the Middle Cretaceous Mowry Sea.  Accepted for publication in Cretaceous Research.

Yacobucci, Margaret M.  2004.  Buckman's paradox: Constraints on ammonoid ornament and shell shape.  Lethaia 37(1): 59-71.

Yacobucci, Margaret M.  2003.  Controls on shell shape in acanthoceratid ammonites from the Cenomanian-Turonian Western Interior Seaway of North America.  In: P. Harries and D. H. Geary, eds. High-Resolution Approaches in Stratigraphic Paleontology. Topics in Geobiology Vol. 21.  New York: Plenum Press.

Yacobucci, Margaret M.  1999.  Plasticity of developmental timing as the underlying cause of high speciation rates in ammonoids:  An example from the Cenomanian Western Interior Seaway of North America.  Pp. 59-76 in:  F. Olóriz and F. J. Rodríguez-Tovar, eds.  Advancing Research in Living and Fossil Cephalopods, Proceedings, IV International Symposium Cephalopods – Present and Past, Granada, Spain, July 15-17, 1996.  New York: Plenum Press.

Peer-Reviewed Abstracts:

Yacobucci, Margaret M.  2004. “I’m a scientist, not a politician!”: How to integrate critical thinking about values into a general education geology course (& why you should). GSA Abstracts with Programs 36(5).

Senglaub, Michael, and Yacobucci, Margaret M.  2004. Zoophycos size as a key to paleoenvironment in the Lower Devonian Carlisle Center Formation of New York State.  GSA Abstracts with Programs 36(5).

Richardson, Justin R., Evans, James E., and Yacobucci, Margaret M.  2004. Assessing the preservation potential of biogenic features in pre-Quaternary tufas and travertines—Applications to exobiology.  GSA Abstracts with Programs 36(5).

Yacobucci, Margaret M., and Manship, Lori.  2004. GIS analysis of sutural constraints and asymmetry in ammonoids: Testing the tie-point model for septal formation.  Sixth International Symposium, Cephalopods—Present and Past, Fayetteville, Arkansas, September 16-19, 2004.

Yacobucci, Margaret M.  2003. The Tree of Life: Stephen Jay Gould’s contributions to systematics. GSA Abstracts with Programs 34(7): A-32.

Yacobucci, Margaret M., and Manship, Lori.  2003. Putting ammonites on the map: GIS mapping of constraints and asymmetry in ammonite suture shape. GSA Abstracts with Programs 34(7): A-317-318.

Yacobucci, Margaret M.  2002. Ammonoids are taxa too: Diversity dynamics in Jurassic-Cretaceous ammonoids and why scale matters. GSA Abstracts with Programs 34(6): A-361.

Koy, Karen, and Yacobucci, Margaret M.  2001.  Terror in miniature: Trophic interactions in a shelly fauna of the Pennsylvanian of southern Ohio.  GSA Abstracts with Programs 33(6): A-14.

Yacobucci, Margaret M.  2001. Phylogenetic patterns and developmental timing in the Cenomanian acanthoceratid ammonite Metoicoceras. PaleoBios 21(supplement to No. 2):  136.

Yacobucci, Margaret M.  2000. Neogastroplites meets Metengonoceras: Morphological response of an endemic hoplitid ammonite to a new invader in the Middle Cretaceous Mowry Sea. GSA Abstracts with Programs 32(7): A-371.

Yacobucci, Margaret M.  1999. Buckman's paradox: Constraints on ammonoid ornament and shell shape. Berichte der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 46: 124.

Yacobucci, Margaret M.  1998.  Sea level versus taxon sorting as a control on shell shape in acanthoceratid ammonites from the Cenomanian-Turonian Western Interior Seaway.  GSA Abstracts with Programs 30(7): A-93.

Yacobucci, Margaret M.  1997.  Ontogenetic variability of rib characters in acanthoceratid ammonites from the Cenomanian Western Interior Seaway. GSA Abstracts with Programs 29(6): A-343.

Yacobucci, Margaret M.  1996.  Trends in morphological variability among acanthoceratid ammonites from the Cenomanian Western Interior Seaway.  GSA Abstracts with Programs 28(7): A-292. 

Yacobucci, Margaret M.  1995.  Do Cenomanian acanthoceratid ammonites from the Western Interior represent a species flock?  A critique of the cladistic emphasis on linear evolution.  GSA Abstracts with Programs 27(6):  A-115.

Yacobucci, Margaret M.  1994.  Hydrodynamics and shell shape variation of Upper Cretaceous acanthoceratid ammonites from the Powder River Basin, Central Western Interior.  GSA Abstracts with Programs 26(7):  A-58.

Yacobucci, Margaret M.  1990.  Phylogeny and biogeography of Ornithomimisauria (Theropoda: Saurischia).  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 10 (supplement to No. 3):  51A.

Book Reviews:

Yacobucci, Margaret M.  2004. Review of “Ammonites” by Neale Monks and Philip Palmer. Palaios 19(1):105-106.

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