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Biography and education
Dr. Wernette is a many-generation Texan who became interested in geology and paleontology through the state and national parks of Texas and the rest of the United States. She has a BS and MS in geology from the University of Oklahoma and a PhD in geological sciences from The University of California, Riverside.
Teaching Interests
Research Interests
Featured grants
- Krause, Samantha Marie (Principal), Radoman-Shaw, Brandon Gregory (Co-Principal), Smith, Heather Lynn (Co-Principal), Wernette, Shelly Jean (Co-Principal), Kilby, James David (Co-Principal). EMBRACE-EAR-Growth: From Places to Peoples: A survey of geological materials and human-environment interaction on the Edwards Plateau that prioritizes student learning., National Science Foundation, Federal, $400000. (Submitted: May 15, 2024). Grant.
Featured scholarly/creative works
- Wernette, S. J., Hughes, N. C., Myrow, P. M., & Sardsud, A. (2023). Trilobites of Thailand’s Cambrian-Ordovician Tarutao Group and their geological setting. Papers in Palaeontology, 9(5). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1516
- Fortey, R. A., Wernette, S. J., & Hughes, N. C. (2022). Reed’s Ordovician trilobite types from Myanmar (Burma) and western Yunnan Province, China. Zootaxa, 5162(4), 301–356.
- Hughes, N. C., Peng, S., Harper, D., Myrow, P. M., Pham, N. K., Wernette, S. J., & Zhu, X. (2021). Cambrian and earliest Ordovician fauna and geology of the Sông Đà and adjacent terranes in Việt Nam (Vietnam). Geological Magazine, 159(1), 55–80. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756821000844
- Wernette, S. J., Hughes, N. C., Myrow, P. M., & Aung, A. K. (2021). Initial description of Cambrian fossils from Myanmar: Late Furongian trilobites from the southern part of Shan State and the Cambrian palaeogeographical affinities of Sibumasu. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 214. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2021.104775
- Wernette, S. J., Hughes, N. C., Myrow, P. M., & Sardsud, A. (2020). The Furongian (Late Cambrian) trilobite Thalandium’s endemicity reassessed along with a new species of Prosaukia from Ko Tarutao, Thailand. Thai Geoscience Journal, 1(1), 63–82.
Featured service activities
- Member
International Commission on Stratigraphy, Cambrian Stage 10 Working Group
- Member
Nontenure Line Faculty Committee
- Member
Paleontological Society, Sepkoski Committee
- Other
John Knox Ranch
- Volunteer
Heritage Museum of the Texas Hill Country
- Other
Geology Club