Zane Walker


KU PhD student Zane Walker
  • Doctoral Aspirant
  • Chancellor's Doctoral Fellow

Contact Info

Lawrence

Biography

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Brian Atkinson

Research Interest: Paleobryology, Bryology, Structure, Development, Phylogeny, Biodiversity.

Hometown: Montague, CA

Education

B.S. in Botany, Honors College, Oregon State University, 2024

Selected Publications

Walker, Z., Rothwell, G. W., and Stockey, R. A. 2023. Fossil evidence for sporeling development of a Mesozoic osmundaceous fern. American Journal of Botany 110(8): p. e16210–n/a, https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16210.

Walker, Z., Stockey, R., Rothwell, G., Atkinson, B., Smith, S., Iglesias, A. 2024. A fossil dicranid moss from the Late Cretaceous of Antarctica. The Bryologist. (In press).

Shevock, James R., Toren, David R., Brooks, Jason R., Whittemore, Alan T., Walker, Z. Bryoflora of the Marble Mountain Wilderness, Klamath National Forest, Siskiyou County, California. (In prep).

Walker, Z. A Brief Examination of Two species of Stereocaulon Using SEM. Bulletin of the California Lichen Society. (In review).

 

Selected Presentations

Walker, Zane; Stockey, Ruth; Rothwell, Gar; Atkinson, Brian; Smith, Selena; Iglesias, Ari. 2024: Late Cretaceous (Campanian) bryophyte flora: A permineralized moss from James Ross Island, Antarctica. IOP/IOPC 2024, Prague, Czech Republic.

Walker, Z., Shevock, J. R., Toren, D. R., Brooks, J. R., Whittemore, A. T., A Bryoflora of the Marble Mountain Wilderness, Klamath National Forest, Siskiyou county, California. Botany 2024, Grand Rapids, MI

Walker, Zane; Stockey, Ruth; Rothwell, Gar; Atkinson, Brian; Smith, Selena; Iglesias, Ari. 2023: A fossil moss from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) James Ross Island, Antarctica. Botany 2023, Boise, ID.

*Walker, Zane; Rothwell, Gar; Stockey, Ruth. 2021. A permineralized osmundaceous fern sporeling from the Lower Cretaceous of western Canada. Botany 2022 Anchorage, AK.

 

Grants & Other Funded Activity

Chancellor's Doctoral Fellowship Award, KU 2024

IOP Graduate Student Travel Grant, The International Organisation of Palaeobotany 2023

Remy, Remy, Winslow Travel Award, Botanical Society of America 2021-2024

Frank Kosko Memorial Scholarship, Shasta Ch. of California Native Plant Society 2021-2023

Kathryn Merrifield Scholarship, Oregon State University 2022

Augusta Rockafellar Scholarship, Native Plant Society of Oregon 2022

Travel Award from the Pteridological Section, Botanical Society of America 2022-2024

Bryophyte Mini-grant, California Native Plants Society 2022

Educational Grant, California Lichen Society