Museum & Field Studies 2025 Recognition Ceremony

University of Colorado Museum of Natural History
Museum & Field Studies Recognition Ceremony
May 9, 2025


Welcome
Dr. Nancy J. Stevens
Director, University of Colorado Museum of Natural History

MFS Program Remarks
Dr. Jaelyn Eberle
Museum & Field Studies Program Director

Recognition of Graduates
Joel Crothers 
Juniper Guthrie
Kyra Hamel
Emily Howard
Patricia Marquez
Anna Paraskevopoulos
Casey Thater
Stephanie Tkacik

Closing Remarks
Dr. Jaelyn Eberle

Refreshments to Follow 


Master's of Science

Joel Crothers

Thesis: Fish & Reptiles of the ReBecca’s Hollow Site, Williams Fork Formation, Late Cretaceous (Edmontonian), Colorado & ‘Between the Dinosaurs’ Toes’: Approaches to Exhibiting Microvertebrate Fossils in Museum Displays (With Emphasis on the Cretaceous Period) 

Advisor: Dr. Jaelyn Eberle 

Not in attendance

Juniper Guthrie

Thesis: The Wilderness Garden: Decolonizing Museum/Archive Convergence

Advisor: Dr. William Taylor 

Kyra Hamel

Project: A Guide for Developing a Rapid Response Collection from a Spontaneous Memorial

Advisor: Dr. Patrick Kociolek 

Emily Howard

Project: The Decolonial Potential of Queer Crip Programming

Advisor: Dr. Nancy Stevens 

Patricia Marquez

Thesis: Estimating Identification Error within Natural History Collections using Intermontane Vole Species

Advisor: Dr. Christy McCain 

Casey Thater

Thesis: Anomalous Bone-filled Phosphatic Mass from the Hell Creek Formation: Origin and Ecological Significance 

Advisor: Dr. Karen Chin 

Professional Certificate

Anna Paraskevopoulos

PhD Ecology and Evolutionary Biology: Ant communities in montane ecosystems: distributions, thermal physiology, and the impacts of climate change

Advisor: Dr. M. Deane Bowers 

Not in attendance

Stephanie Tkacik

MS Geological Sciences: A New Study of the Florissant Mammalian Fauna and its Diversity

Advisor: Dr. Jaelyn Eberle 


The CU Museum would like to congratulate all of the 2025 graduates and wish them much success and happiness in their future endeavors.