Image: Dr. Katie Loughney joins UGA Geology Stratigraphy Lab to study non-marine fossil record This fall, Dr. Katharine (Katie) Loughney will begin a two-year NSF-funded postdoctoral project in the UGA Stratigraphy Lab, under the advisement of Dr. Steven Holland. In her research, Dr. Loughney will develop a model of the nonmarine fossil record in extensional basins, using basin-analysis and sequence-stratigraphic principles. Her stratigraphic, paleontologic, and geochemical fieldwork will focus on the Neogene Stewart Valley Group of western Nevada, building on her doctoral studies in the Barstow Basin of southern California. Dr. Loughney recently earned her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, under the advisement of Dr. Catherine Badgley. Dr. Loughney's research complements current studies in the UGA Stratigraphy Lab, which focus on developing a comprehensive understanding of the sequence-stratigraphic and basin-evolution controls on the non-marine fossil record. Rainbow Basin
