Joshua Colasante
- MS Student
Contact Info
Biography —
Joshua is an honors graduate of the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where he received numerous academic awards including the Diversified Gas & Oil Scholarship Award, Dean's Scholarship for Innovation in Geoscience, and the winner of the Outstanding Geoscience Day Research Presentation Award. He is being advised by Dr. Stephen Hasiotis.
Education —
Research —
Colasante’s research interests focus on ichnology, specifically Mesozoic System reconstructions using the ichnological record of vertebrate dinosaur tracks and invertebrate traces to constrain depositional history and paleoenvironments. Current research involves dinosaur-track-bearing deposits in marine carbonates of the Comanche Shelf, Texas. This work provides insight into Earth system processes during past greenhouse climates, offering context for understanding the environmental changes associated with modern anthropogenic warming.
Research Interests include:
- Ichnology
- Paleopedology
- Paleoecology
- Paleobotany
- Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction
- Stratigraphy
- Sedimentology
- Carbonates
- Basin Evolution
- Deep Time
Selected Publications —
Colasante, J.M., and Warnock, J.P., 2023. Deep Time in an Epeiric Sea: A Sequence Stratigraphic Approach to the Silurian-Devonian Keyser Formation of Pennsylvania (Appalachian Basin, USA): Geological Society of America Annual Meeting (GSA Connects 2023). Pittsburgh, USA.