Dr. Lydia S. Tackett

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Education

• PhD, Earth Science, 2014, University of Southern California – Los Angeles, CA
• BA, Anthropology, 2007, Temple University – Philadelphia, PA
  
  

Professional experience

• 2025-present Assistant Professor in the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability, Missouri State University

• 2023-2025 Visiting Associate Professor of Geological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia

• 2020-2023 Associate Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Geospatial Sciences, North Dakota State University

• 2014-2020 Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Geospatial Sciences, North Dakota State University

Recent Publications:

Rigo, M.; Jin, X.; Godfrey, L.; Katz, M. E.; Sato, H.; Tomimatsu, Y.; Zaffani, M.; Maron, M.; Satolli, S.; Concheri, G.; Cardinali, A.; Wu, Q.; Du, Y.; Lei, J. Z. X.; van Wieren, C. S.; Tackett, L. S.; Campbell, H.; Bertinelli, A.; Onoue, T. (2024) Unveiling a New Oceanic Anoxic Event at the Norian/Rhaetian Boundary (Late Triassic). Scientific Reports 14 (1), 15574. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-66343-z.

Tackett, LS, Clement*, AR, Marolt º, S (2024) “Biosediment Assemblages Reveal Disrupted Silica Cycling and Redox Conditions Throughout the Rhaetian Stage: Evidence for a Precursor Event to the End-Triassic Mass Extinction” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 638, 112034. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112034. (LT and AC share first authorship)

Todaro, S, Rigo, M, Tackett, LS, DiPietro, S (2023) “Evidence of biodiversity crises documented on a carbonate peritidal succession from western Tethys (Sicily): new data on the end-Triassic mass extinction” Italian Journal of Geosciences 142 (1): 122–130. https://doi.org/10.3301/IJG.2023.04

Tackett, LS, Clement*, AC, Ziererº, D (2023) "Actinopterygian and chondrichthyan ichthyoliths reveal enhanced cosmopolitanism in Late Triassic marine ecosystems" Historical Biology. Doi: 10.1080/08912963.2022.2131405.

O’Neil*, G, Tackett, LS, and Meyer, M (2022) ”The role of surficial bioturbation in the latest Ediacaran: A quantitative analysis of trace fossil intensity in the terminal Ediacaran–lower Cambrian of California”. Palaios, 37(12):703-717. https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2021.050

Research and professional interests

• Biominerals and Biogenic Sediments

• Marine Predator-Prey Dynamics and Adaptation

• Mesozoic Marine Ecosystems and Climate Change

• Early Animal Ecosystems and Biomineralization