James St. John
Areas of Expertise
Cambrian paleontology and stratigraphy
Origin of deposits having soft-bodied fossils
Paleobiology of trilobites and other extinct Paleozoic arthropods
Ordovician paleontology and stratigraphy of the Ohio-Indiana-Kentucky area
Ancient and modern hard substrates and associated encrusting and boring organisms
Taphonomy
History of geology and paleontology (especially pre-1850)
Problematic fossil organisms
Subsurface and petroleum geology
Education
ABD in Geology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
M.S in Geology, 1994, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
B.A. (with Honors) in Geology, 1991, College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio