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Constance (Connie) Soja

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Constance (Connie) Soja

Professor of Geology, Emerita

Department/Office Information

Earth and Environmental Geoscience
  • BA, Denison University, 1977
  • PhD, University of Oregon, 1985
  • Smith College
  • University of Oregon
  • Seminar on Reefs
  • Tropical Field Course on Modern and Pleistocene Reefs
  • Tectonics and Earth History
  • U.S. Geological Survey
  • U.S. Forest Service
  • Ӱ̳ Presidential Scholar; University Professor
  • Phi Eta Sigma Professor of the Year
  • Several NSF grants, Ӱ̳ Picker Fellowships, National Academy of Science grant, Pew grants, GSA research grants; numerous other awards and grants

Past President and Trustee, Paleontological Research Institution (Ithaca, NY)

  • (*indicates student author)
     

    Soja, C.M., and White, B.  2016.  Lacustrine deposits in the Karheen Formation fortify links between Alaska’s Alexander terrane and the Old Red Sandstone continent in the Late Silurian-Early Devonian.  Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 86:564-586.

    Antoshkina, A.I., and Soja, C.M.  2016.  Using fossil “fingerprints” to circumscribe the paleogeography of two Alaskan terranes along the Uralian Seaway in the Late Silurian.  Vestnik, no. 2:14-23. 

    Soja, C.M.  2014.  A field-based biomimicry exercise helps students discover connections between biodiversity, form-and-function, and species conservation during Earth’s Sixth  Extinction.  Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 62:679-690.

    Soja, C.M.  2014.  The last good buy:  Evolution in the new age of extinction.  The Ӱ̳ Scene, v. 43 (3):26-31.  http://news.colgate.edu/scene/2014/04/the-last-good-buy.html

    Soja, C.M., and Antoshkina, A.I.  2013.  The Alexander terrane of the North American Cordillera: A critical analysis of Silurian-Devonian paleogeography.  Lithosphere, no. 4:3-21.  [in Russian]

    Soja, C.M. 2012. Reefs as the centralizing theme in an undergraduate paleontology course. Paleontological Society Special Paper: in press. 

    Pellegrini, A.F.A.,* Soja, C.M., and Minjin, C. 2012. Post-tectonic limitations on Early Devonian (Emsian) reef development in the Gobi-Altai region, Mongolia. Lethaia, v. 45:46-61. Click here to