Rogers' research is focused on sedimentary geology and vertebrate taphonomy. With regard to the rocks, he is most interested in terrestrial depositional systems. His work to date has focused on the reconstruction of nonmarine depositional systems and the application of sequence stratigraphic methods in nonmarine records. With regard to the fossils, he has spent most of his time exploring the taphonomy of dinosaur-bearing rocks. Rogers' work on rocks and dinosaurs (and dinosaur precursors) has taken him to the Cretaceous foreland basin of Montana, the Triassic Ischigualasto Basin of Argentina, the Triassic-Jurassic Karoo-equivalent rocks of southern Zimbabwe, and the Mahajanga Basin of Madagascar. He teaches a selection of courses that relate to his research interests, including: (1) History and Evolution of Earth (GEOL 155), (2) Paleobiology (of both Vertebrates and Invertebrates), and (3) Sedimentology and Stratigraphy (GEOL 265). Rogers has been teaching at Macalester since 1997. EDUCATION: B.S., Northern Arizona University; M.S., University of Montana; Ph.D., University of Chicago
Articles
Changes in shell durability of common marine taxa through the Phanerozoic: evidence for biological rather than taphonomic drivers (with Matthew A. Kosnik, John Alroy, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Frank T. Fürsich, Robert A. Gastaido, Susan M. Kidwell, Michal Kowalewski, Roy E. Plotnick, and Peter J. Wagner), Paleobiology (2011)
Using laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) to explore geochemical taphonomy of vertebrate fossils in the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine and Judith River Formations of Montana (with Henry C. Fricke, Vittorio Addona, Robin R. Canavan, Christopher N. Dwyer, Cara L. Harwood, Alan E. Koenig, Rachel Murray, Jeffrey T. Thole, and Josephine Williams), PALAIOS (2010)
Origins of microfossil bonebeds: insights from the Upper Cretaceous Judith River Formation of north-central Montana (with Mara E. Brady), Paleobiology (2010)
Overview of the Discovery, Distribution, and Geological Context of Simosuchus clarki (Crocodyliformes: Notosuchia) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar (with David W. Krause, Joseph J.W. Sertich, Sophia C. Kast, Armand H. Rasoamiaramanana, and Gregory A. Buckley), Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (2010)
Eotheroides lambondrano, new middle Eocene seacow (Mammalia, Sirenia) from the Mahajanga Basin, northwestern Madagascar (with Karen E. Samonds, Iyad S. Zalmout, Mitchell T. Irwin, David W. Krause, and Lydia L. Raharivony), Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (2009)
Contributions to Books
"Collecting Taphonomic Data from Vertebrate Localities", Vertebrate Paleontological Techniques (1994)
"Systematic Patterns of Time-averaging in the Terrestrial Vertebrate Record: A Cretaceous Case Study.", Taphonomic Approaches to Time Resolution in Fossil Assemblages , Short Courses in Paleontology (1993)
Other
"A geochemical approach to deciphering the origins of microfossil bonebeds in the Upper Cretaceous Judith River Formation, Montana" Abstracts of Papers, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 28, suppl. No. 3: 60A (with R. Canavan, A. Koenig, M. Brady, and C. Harwood) (2008)