Leo Hickey Professor Email Me Office: 242 ESC Phone: (203) 432-5006 Fax: (203) 432-3619 A More Detailed Webpage Research Interests: Plant phylogeny, evolution and paleoecology of the flowering plants, paleoclimate, and stratigraphy. Current Courses: History of Life: G&G 125b (with Derek Briggs and Jacques Gauthier) Stratigraphy: G&G 230a Paleobotany: G&G 315b, G&G 515b Stratigraphic Principles and Applications: G&G 511a Advanced Stratigraphy: G&G 611a Leaf Architecture of the Flowering Plants: G&G 617b Fossil Floras: G&G 805a/b Students and Postdocs: Craig VanBoskirk Selected Publication(s): Hickey, L. J., 2001, On the nomenclatural status of the morphogenera, Quereuxia and Trapago. Taxon 50:1119-1124. Royer, D. L., Hickey, L. J., and Wing, S. L., 2003, Ecological conservatism in the "living fossil" Ginkgo. Paleobiology 29:84-104. Fuller, D. Q and Hickey, L. J., 2005, Systematics and leaf architecture of the Gunneraceae. Botanical Review 71:295-353. Green, W. A. and Hickey, L. J., 2005, Leaf architectural profiles of angiosperm floras across the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary. American Journal of Science 305:983-1013. Miller, I. M., Brandon, M. T., and Hickey, L. J., 2006, Using leaf margin analysis to estimate the mid-Cretaceous (Albian) paleolatitude of the Baja BC block. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 245:95-114.