Alexandra Apgar

PhD
Earth and Planetary Sciences

Alex’s research focuses on formally characterizing patterns of bone preservation and taxa distribution within different subenvironments of fluvial megafan networks across geologic time. Her current work involves calculating the size and diversity of local living vertebrate communities within different subenvironments of the Pilcomayo fluvial megafan in western Paraguay using audiomoths (recording devices) and camera traps, then comparing them to their corresponding carrion death assemblages. Once correlated with her findings within a megafan deposit in the fossil record (Petrified Forest National Park), these results should vastly improve interpretation of the vertebrate fossil record and greatly benefit Paraguayan conservation biology efforts.