Rebekah Ann Wright
Department of Geosciences
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
rwright@geo.arizona.edu, (520)-319-0606
http://www.geo.arizona.edu/~rwright

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

• BS in Geosciences with an emphasis in vertebrate paleontology, May 2003
• Minor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Research Assistant for Dr. Mihai Ducea & MS candidate Sarah Shoemaker, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, 8/01-present

• Preparation of samples for fission track dating
• Web page construction and maintenance
• Database research and construction of North American xenoliths

Research Assistant for Dr. Karl Flessa, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, 8/00-6/01

• Cataloguing collection specimens
• Web page maintenance
• Library research
• Field assistant

Biological Science Aid for Dr. Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman, USDA-ARS, Carl Hayden Bee Research Center, Tucson, AZ, 8/98-8/00

• Collected data on honeybee behavior and reproductive development
• Participated in data analysis
• Conducted mite bioassays

Society of Earth Science Students, Tucson Gem and Mineral Show Junior Education 1/03-2/03

• Organized fossil display
• Educated Volunteers

Event Supervisor for Science Olympiad Southern Arizona Regional Tournament 1/03

• Co-authored and administered fossil exam for the event

Society of Earth Science Students, Tucson Gem and Mineral Show Junior Education 2/00, 2/01

• Volunteer

Preceptor for Geosciences 308 (Paleontology), Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, 8/00-12/00

• Assisted students in laboratory exercises in the field and in the lab
• Assisted students with test preparation
• Designed lab exercise in vertebrate anatomy

Colorguard Instructor at Ironwood Ridge High School, Oro Valley, AZ, 8/03-present

• Taught basics on flag and rifle
• Composed flag and rifle routines for the marching band season

Colorguard Instructor at Sabino High School, Tucson, AZ, 8/99-12/99

• Taught basics on flag and rifle
• Composed flag routines for the marching band season

Colorguard Instructor at Canyon Del Oro High School, Tucson, AZ, 8/98-5/99

• Taught basics on flag and rifle
• Composed flag routines for the marching band and winterguard seasons

A W Voorhees Geology Scholarship for Undergraduate Research 2002

• Compared encephalization quotients of dinosaurs to birds and reptiles

Field Assistant for Dr. Karl Flessa, Department of Geosciences, Tucson AZ

• Collection of Chione shells for sclerochronology, Colorado River Delta, Mexico

Field Camp, Geosciences 414, University of Arizona, 5/01-6/01

• Field mapping in Western Colorado, Utah, Arizona and Nevada
• Became familiar with regional stratigraphy, geologic history, and geologic mapping in the eastern Colorado Plateau
• Constructed a regional tectonic and stratigraphic transect of the structural and geomorphic evolution of the central Cordilleran orogenic belt

• Laboratory Safety Training Certificate, University of Arizona Risk Management
• HOV Training, University of Arizona
• Software: Microsoft Office 2000, ArcView, Adobe Photoshop, HTML, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Sigma-plot
• Two college semesters of German, very good reading comprehension

• Don Witter Award for research presentation at GeoDaze, 2002
• A W Voorhees Geology Scholarship for Undergraduate Research, 2002
• Exxon Corporation Scholarship for field camp, 2001
• David L. Moore Memorial Scholarship, Spring 2001
• Scholarship from the Catalina Foothills Bobby Sox Organization, Fall 1998

Wright, R. A., Were Dinosaurs Bird Brains? 2002 30^th Annual GeoDaze Symposium Abstracts with Programs

Centro de Estudios de Almejas Muertas (Center for the Study of Dead Clams)

Society of Earth Science Students, University of Arizona

• Secretary 2001-2003
• Junior Education at The Tucson Gem and Mineral Show

Arizona Academy of the Performing Arts, eXaltation National Winterguard 2001-2002

Mirage Visual Ensemble, 1998-2001, Captain 1999-2000

Sierra Service Project through the United Methodist Church, Summers 1996-1998

RNR 503 Applications of GIS

Ecol 483 Herpetology

Ecol 438 Biogeography

Geos 308 Paleontology

Geos 397A Teaching Geosciences (Preceptor for Paleontology)

MCB 181 and 182 Introductory to Biology (two semesters)

Ecol 302 Ecology

Ecol 335 Evolutionary Biology

Geos 453 Glacial and Quaternary Geology

Ecol 485 Mammalogy

Geos 462 Introduction to Quaternary Ecology

Geos 482 Paleoclimatolgy

Math 263 Intro: Statistics and Biostatistics

Geos 101 Intro to Planet Earth

Geos 302 Stratigraphy and Sedimentology

Geos 304 Structural Geology

Geos 306 Mineralogy

Geos 356 Petrology

Geos 414 Geology Field Camp

Geos 310 Geoscience Communication

Geos 322 Intro to Geophysics

Anth 206 Native Peoples of the Southwest

His 141 History of the U.S. I

Mat 124 Calculus I