Education

Ph.D. in Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2006)
M.S. in Geology, The Ohio State University (2000)
B.S. in Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1998)

Positions

2005—2007

Visiting Assistant Professor, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA

2004—2005

Graduate Research Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

2000—2004

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

1998—2000

Graduate Teaching Assistant, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Research

Current research

Alex's research
I am an invertebrate paleontologist specializing in the fossil record of the asterozoan echinoderms (starfish and brittlestars), and particularly the ophiuroids (brittlestars). My research combines modern methods of phylogenetic analysis, paleoecology, and systematics with field and laboratory techniques and the intensive use of museum collections.

Selected Publications

Glass, A. 2006. New observations on some poorly known protasterid ophiuroids from the Lower Devonian Hunsr�ck Slate of Germany. Pal�ontologische Zeitschrift. [in press]

Glass, A. 2006. Pyritized tube-feet in a protasterid ophiuroid from the Upper Ordovician of Kentucky, U.S.A. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. [in press]

Glass, A. and M. Poschmann. 2006. A new species of brittlestar (Ophiuroidea, Echinodermata) from the Hunsr�ck Slate (Lower Emsian, Lower Devonian) of Germany. Palaeontology. [in press]

Glass, A. 2005. Isorophid edrioasteroids (Echinodermata) encrusting conulariids from the Hunsr�ck Slate (Lower Devonian, Emsian; Rhenish Slate Massif) of Germany. Senckenbergiana lethaea, 85(1): 31-37.

Glass, A. and D. B. Blake. 2004. Preservation of tube feet in an ophiuroid (Echinodermata) from the Lower Devonian Hunsr�ck Slate of Germany and a redescription of Bundenbachia beneckei and Palaeophiomyxa grandis. Pal�ontologische Zeitschrift, 78(1):73-95.

Glass, A., Ausich, W.I., and P. Copper. 2001. New cyclocystoids (Phylum Echinodermata) from Anticosti Island, Quebec and their bearing on cyclocystoid life modes. Journal of Paleontology, 77(5): 949-957.

Webster, G. D., D. J. Hafley, D. B. Blake, and A. Glass. 1999. Crinoids and stelleroids (Echinodermata) from the Broken Rib Member, Dyer Formation (Late Devonian, Famennian) of the White River Plateau, Colorado. Journal of Paleontology, 73(3): 461-486.

Public Outreach

Activities
If you are looking for information about the 2005 GSA talk on creation-evolution please e-mail me

Availability
Dr. Glass is available as a public lecturer, discussion host, and short-course guide on subjects including fossils, evolution, the nature of science, and the public's debate over creation and evolution.