Dr. Charles Ver Straeten

Curator of Sedimentary Rocks
charles.verstraeten@nysed.gov
518-486-2004

My focus is on Devonian Period Sedimentation and Stratigraphy, including sea level history, mountain building and sedimentation, paleoecology, and Devonian volcanic ash layers. In addition, I also study the deposition and preservation of volcanic ash layers in shallow seas and lakes through time.

Publications

2010

R. Kays, A. Curtis, J. Kirchman 2010, Rapid Adaptive Evolution of Northeastern Coyotes via Hybridization with Wolves, Biology Letters 6, 89-93. 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0575
J. Kirchman 2010, Carolina Parakeets. Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum 6, 16
J. Kirchman 2010, Legalities and Practicalities of Salvaging of Dead Birds for Museum Specimens, The Kingbird 60, 298-300.
J. Kirchman, C. Witt, J. McGuire, G. Graves 2010, DNA from a 100-year-old Holotype Confirms the Validity of a Potentially Extinct Hummingbird Species, Biology Letters 6, 112-115. 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0545
R. Kays, A. Curtis, J. Kirchman 2010, Reply to Wheeldon et al. ’Colonization History and Ancestry of Northeastern Coyotes’, Biology Letters 6, 248-249. 10.1098/rsbl.2009.1022

2009

J. Kirchman 2009, Genetic Tests of Rapid Parallel Speciation of Flightless Birds from an Extant Volant Ancestor, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 96, 601-616. 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01160.x
R. Feranec, J. Cryan, J. Kirchman 2009, Evolution Every Day. Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum 4, 10-11
J. Kirchman 2009, Extinct Birds. Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum 4, 8-9
J. Kirchman 2009, Natural History Collections and Evolution. Legacy: The Magazine of the New York State Museum 4, 14

2008

D. Raoult, D. Reed, K. Dittmar, J. Kirchman, J-M Rolain, S. Guillen, J. Light 2008, Molecular Identification of Lice from Pre-Columbian Mummies, The Journal of Infectious Diseases 197, 535-543.