C.V. and Publications

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Education

Ph.D. (2009) Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences
Dissertation: Reconstructing the physiology of extinct plants
Advisor: Prof. Andrew H. Knoll

B.A. (2003) Johns Hopkins University, Computer Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences
Thesis: Effects of ambient Mg/Ca ratios on the growth and calcification of the codiacean alga Penicillus capitatus
Advisor: Prof. Steven M. Stanley

Publications

Jonathan P. Wilson and 10 others. Incised valley deposits at the Proterozoic-Cambrian boundary in southern Namibia contain abundant Treptichnus pedum. In review.

Jonathan P. Wilson and Woodward W. Fischer, 2011. Geochemical support for a climbing habit within the Paleozoic seed fern genus Medullosa. International Journal of Plant Sciences, v. 172(4), p. 586-598. [PDF] doi: 10.1086/658929.

Jonathan P. Wilson and Woodward W. Fischer, 2011. Hydraulics of Asteroxylon mackei, an Early Devonian vascular plant, and the early evolution of water transport tissue in terrestrial plants. Geobiology, v. 9, p. 121-130. [PDF]

Jonathan P. Wilson and 17 others, 2010. Geobiology of the Late Paleoproterozoic Duck Creek Formation, Western Australia. Precambrian Research, v. 179(1-4), p. 135-149. [PDF]

Jonathan P. Wilson and Andrew H. Knoll, 2010. A physiologically explicit morphospace for tracheid-based water transport in modern and extinct seed plants. Paleobiology, v. 36(2), p. 335-355. [PDF]

Jonathan P. Wilson, 2009. Green life through time: a review of Thomas N Taylor, Edith L Taylor, Michael Krings, Paleobotany: The Biology and Evolution of Fossil Plants, 2nd ed. Science, v. 325, p. 36. doi: 10.1126/science.1174659. [PDF]

Jonathan P. Wilson, Andrew H. Knoll, N. Michele Holbrook, Charles R. Marshall, 2008. Modeling fluid flow in Medullosa, an anatomically unusual Carboniferous seed plant. Paleobiology, v. 34(4), p. 472-493. doi: 10.1666/07076.1. [PDF]

Jonathan P. Wilson and others. Physiological limits of the Gondwanan seed plant Glossopteris and Permian-Triassic extinction selectivity on land. Manuscript in preparation.

Abstracts

* denotes invited talk

2011:

Jonathan P. Wilson*. 400 million years of plant hydraulics. Claremont Graduate University Botany Department, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden.

Jonathan P. Wilson*. Physiological limits of the Late Paleozoic seed plant Glossopteris and selectivity during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction. 8th Annual Southern California Geobiology Symposium, University of Southern California.

Jonathan P. Wilson*. Environmental and evolutionary insights from the study of fossil plants. Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University.

2010:

Jonathan P. Wilson*. Reconstructing environmental history through the physiology of fossil plants. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.

Jonathan P. Wilson*. Ecological and evolutionary insights from the physiology of fossil plants. Department of Biology, Haverford College.

Jonathan P. Wilson*. Ecological and evolutionary insights from the physiology of fossil plants. Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech.

Jonathan P. Wilson*. Ecological and evolutionary insights from the physiology of fossil plants. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, MO.

Jonathan P. Wilson* and Woodward W. Fischer. Geochemical support for a climbing habit in the Paleozoic seed fern genus Medullosa. Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America (GSA), Denver, CO.

2009:

Jonathan P. Wilson*. Reanimating extinct plants. Public lecture for Science for the Public, Boston, MA.

Jonathan P. Wilson*. Reconstructing the physiology of extinct plants using mathematical modeling. Biological Networks Modeling Center, Caltech.

Jonathan P. Wilson*. Estimating fossil plant leaf area using scaling laws. Leaf Summit 2009, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Jonathan P. Wilson*. Reconstructing the physiology of extinct plants. Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Jonathan P. Wilson*. Reconstructing the physiology of extinct plants. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, UK.

2008:

Jonathan P. Wilson*. Reconstructing the physiology of extinct plants. UMR-AMAP, Montpellier, France.

Jonathan P. Wilson*, A. H. Knoll, N. M. Holbrook. Hydraulics of Medullosa, an anatomically unusual Carboniferous seed plant. International Association of Palaeobotany Congress VIII, 2008.

Jonathan P. Wilson. A model for assimilation and transpiration in fossil plants. GSA, 2008

2007:

Jonathan P. Wilson, N. M. Holbrook, A. H. Knoll. A physiological interpretation of the Late Paleozoic seed plant Medullosa. BSA, 2007.

2006:

Jonathan P. Wilson, A. H. Knoll. A physiologically explicit morphospace for water transport in vascular plants. GSA, 2006.

2005:

Jonathan P. Wilson, N. M. Holbrook, C. R. Marshall, A. H. Knoll. Modeling fluid flow in an extinct seed plant. GSA, 2005.

Posters

2010:

Jonathan P. Wilson*, Andrew H. Knoll, N. Michele Holbrook, Woodward W. Fischer, and Charles R. Marshall. The evolutionary history of water transport in living and fossil plants. 7th Annual Southern California Geobiology Symposium, Caltech.

2009:

Jonathan P. Wilson* and Woodward W. Fischer. Quantitative hydraulic models of early land plants provide insight into Middle Paleozoic terrestrial paleoenvironmental conditions. AGU, 2010.

2008:

Jonathan P. Wilson and others. Geobiology of the Late Paleoproterozoic Duck Creek Dolomite, Western Australia. GSA, 2008.

2006:

J. Grotzinger, M. Tice, J. Metz, J. Abelson, K. Hand, S. Jensen, A. H. Knoll, N. McLoughlin, B. Shepard, and Jonathan P. Wilson. Incised valleys, Treptichnus pedum, and the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary in Namibia. GSA, 2006.