Kenneth MacLeod
 Assistant Professor of Geological Sciences
Ken MacLeod grew up in Delaware and received his undergraduate degree in Biology and Geology from Williams College. He taught secondary school for a year and then went to the University of Washington for a M.Sc. and Ph.D. He had post-doctoral appointments at the Smithsonian Institution and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill before joining the MU faculty in 1999.
He teaches introductory and advanced classes in paleontology, plaeoclimatology, and sedimentology. His research efforts are directed toward better understanding relationships between the distribution of fossil organisms and variations in paleoclimate/paleooceanography across a wide range of temporal and spatial scales. Current projects include examination of Late Cretaceous paleooceanography and the Cretaceous/Tertiary (K/T) boundary, the Permian/Triassic (P/T) boundary, and the measurement and interpretation oxygen isotopic ratios in the phosphates.
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