20世纪70年代，美国古植物学家、古生态学家Robert A. Gastaldo在南伊利诺斯大学植物系（Department of Botany, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL）接受了化石植物研究的专业训练，分别于1975年和1978年获得硕士及博士学位。

   Robert A. Gastaldo曾供职于位于阿拉巴马州的Auburn大学地质系(Department of Geology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL)。1999年，Robert A. Gastaldo到位于缅因州的一所私立文理学院--Colby College地质学担任教授和系主任，2012年卸任(Department of Geology, Colby College, Waterville, ME)。

∮1教育背景（Education）

1972:B.A. Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA
1975:M.S. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
1978:Ph.D. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

   Robert A. Gastaldo的硕士学位论文基本信息：

Title: A Middle Pennsylvanian nodule flora from Carterville, Illinois /by Robert A. Gastaldo.

MainAuthor: Gastaldo,Robert A.

Published: Carbondale, Ill. : [s.n.], 1975.

Topics:Paleobotany - SouthernIllinois- Pennsylvanian. | Theses - SIUC - Botany | Coal - Illinois - Carterville.

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   Robert A. Gastaldo的硕士学位论文基本信息：

Title:Studies on a middle Pennsylvanian compression-impression flora from the overburden of the Herrin (No. 6) Coal at Carterville, Illinois / by Robert A. Gastaldo.

Main Author: Gastaldo,Robert A.

Published:1978.

Topics:Paleobotany - Illinois -Williamson County. | Paleobotany - Pennsylvanian| Dissertations - SIUC - Botany

∮2 研究兴趣 (Research interests)

古植物学与古生态学

∮3 部分论著 (Publications)[见附录]

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孙启高2015年8月9日整理

本期编目

古植物学的故事389期[总第390期]

Story of Paleobotany Series (No.389) [The 390^thissue in total]

Umbrella of American paleobotany-146-Robert A. Gastaldo

美国植物古生态学家Robert A. Gastaldo

http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-225931-913170.html

2015-8-15 04:56

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参见：

Robert A. Gastaldo

http://www.colby.edu/directory/profile/robert.gastaldo/

http://www.colby.edu/geology/Gastaldo.html

http://www.colby.edu/directory/profile/ragastal/

古植物学的故事372期[总第373期]

Story of Paleobotany Series (No.372) [The 373^rdissue in total]

尊重自然历史尊重学术历史

铁打的营盘VS流水的兵:Paleobotany vs Paleobotanist

http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-225931-903352.html

2015-7-6 22:06

古植物学的故事228期[总第229期]

Story of Palaeobotany Series (No.228)[The 229^thissue in total]

Umbrella of American palaeobotany--1: An unfinished list of American palaeobotanists

http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-225931-826366.html

2014-9-10 05:45

古植物学的故事370期[总第371期]

Story of Paleobotany Series (No.370) [The 371^stissue in total]

Umbrella of American paleobotany-129-

Open the Umbrella of American paleobotany--撑开美国古植物学之伞

http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-225931-901814.html

2015-7-1 00:02

古植物学的故事371期[总第372期]

Storyof Paleobotany Series (No.371) [The 372^nd issue in total]

Umbrella of American paleobotany-130-Donald A. Eggert (1934--2010)

Donald A.Eggert (1934--2010), P.D., Yale, 1960

http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-225931-902686.html

2015-7-3 23:14

古植物学的故事375期[总第376期]

Story of Paleobotany Series (No.375) [The376^th issue in total]

Umbrella of American paleobotany-132-

美国木化石专家—Elisabeth Anne Wheeler

http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-225931-905238.html

2015-7-14 04:43

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附录：Robert A. Gastaldo的部分论著

http://www.colby.edu/directory/profile/robert.gastaldo/

Gastaldo, R.A., Pludow, B.A., and Neveling, J., 2013, MudAggregates from the Katberg Formation, South Africa: Additional Evidence forEarly Triassic Degradational Landscapes: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v.83, p. 531-540.
Gastaldo, R.A., 2012, Taphonomic Controls on the Distribution of Palynomorphsin Tidally-influenced Coastal Deltaic Settings: PALAIOS, v. 27, p. 798-810.
Gastaldo, R.A., and Neveling, J., 2012, The terrestrial PermianTriassicboundary event is a nonevent: REPLY: Geology, v. 40, p. e257,doi:10.1130/G32975Y.1
Kosnik, M.A., Alroy, J., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Fursich, F.T., Gastaldo, R.A.,Kidwell, S.M., Kowalewski, M., Plotnick, R.E., Rogers, R.R., and Wagner, P.J.,2011, Changes in the shell durability of common marine taxa through the Phanerozoic:Evidence for biological rather than taphonomic drivers: Paleobiology, v. 37, p.303-331.
Falcon-Lang, H.J., Heckel, P.H., Dimichele, W.A., Blake Jr., B.M., Easterday,C., Eble, C.F., Elrick, S., Gastaldo, R.A., Greb, S.F., Martino, R.L., Nelson,W.J., Pfefferkorn, H.W., Phillips, T.L., and Rosscoe, S.J., 2011, No majorstratigraphic gap exists near the Desmoinesian-Missourian Stage boundary inNorth America: PALAIOS, v. 26, p. 125-139.
Gastaldo, R.A., and Demko, T.M., 2010, Long term hydrology controls the plantfossil record: in Allison, P.A., and Bottjer, D.J., eds., Taphonomy, SecondEdition: Processes and Bias Through Time: Topics in Geobiology, v. 32, p.249-286 (doi 10.1007/978-90-481-8643-3_7
Prevec, R., Gastaldo, R.A., Neveling, J., Reid, S.B., and Looy, C.V.,2010, An Autochthonous Glossoperid flora with Latest Permian palynomorphs fromthe Dicynodon Assemblage Zone of the southern Karoo Basin, South Africa:Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v., 292, p. 381-408. (doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.052)
Gastaldo, R.A., 2010, Peat or No Peat: Why do the Rajang and Mahakam DeltasDiffer?: International Journal of Coal Geology, v. 83, p. 162-172 (doi;10.1016/j.coal.2010.01.005)
Daly, R.G., and Gastaldo, R.A., 2010, The Effect of Orientation toGrowing-season Sunlight on Stomatal Parameters of Quercus rubra Around theBelgrade Lakes, Central Maine: PALAIOS, v. 25, p. 339-346.
Prevec, R., Labandeira, C.C., Neveling, J., Gastaldo, R.A., Bamford, M.K., andLooy, C.V., 2009, Portrait of a Gondwanan Ecosystem: A New Late PermianLocality from Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa: Review of Palaeobotany &Palynology, v. 156, p. 454-493.
Pashin, J.C., and Gastaldo, R.A., 2009, Carboniferous of the Black WarriorBasin, in Greb, S.F., and Chestnut, D.R., Jr., eds., CarboniferousGeology and Biostratigraphy of the Appalachian and Black Warrior Basins:Kentucky Geological Survey Special Publication 10, Series 12, p. 10-21.
Gastaldo, R.A., Purkynova, E., and Simůnek, Z., 2009, Megafloral PerturbationAcross the Enna Marine Zone in the Upper Silesian Basin Attests to LateMississippian Deglaciation and Climate Change: PALAIOS, v. 24, p. 350-366.
Gastaldo, R.A., Purkyňova, E., Simůnek, Z., and Schmitz, M.D., 2009, EcologicalPersistence in the Late Mississippian (Serpukhovian - Namurian A) MegafloralRecord of the Upper Silesian Basin, Czech Republic: PALAIOS, v. 24, p. 336-350.
Pace, D.W., Gastaldo, R.A., and Neveling, J., 2009, Aggradational andDegradational Landscapes in the Early Triassic of the Karoo Basin and Evidencefor Climatic Oscillation Following the P/Tr Event: Journal of SedimentaryResearch, v. 79, p. 276-291.
Gastaldo, R.A., Neveling, J., Clark, C.K., and Newbury, S.S., 2009, Theterrestrial Permian-Triassic boundary event bed is a non-event: GEOLOGY, v. 37,n. 3, p. 199-202.
Pfefferkorn, H.W., Gastaldo, R.A., DiMichele, W.A., and Phillips, T.L., 2008,Pennsylvanian tropical floras from the United States as a record of changingclimate: in Fielding, C.R., Frank, T.D., and Isbell, J.L., Eds., Resolvingthe Late Paleozoic Gondwanan Ice Age in Time and Space: GSA Special Paper 441,p. 305-316.
DiMichele, W.A.,and Gastaldo, R.A., 2008, Plant Paleoecology in Deep Time:Annals of the Missouri Botanical Gardens, v. 95, p. 144-198.
Gastaldo, R.A., and Rolerson, M.W., 2008, Katbergia gen. nov., aNew Trace Fossil from Upper Permian and Lower Triassic Rocks of the KarooBasin: Implications for Paleoenvironmental Conditions at the P/Tr ExtinctionEvent: Palaeontology, v. 51, p. 215-229.
Gastaldo, R.A., 2007, TAPHONOMY: in Parker, S.P., ed., McGraw HillEncyclopedia of Science and Technology. 10th Edition (updated and revised;online athttp://www.accessscience.com/emailedContent.aspx?emailID=vzha15BA76DC26Ccflcz101FBD2E0ajk44)
Gastaldo, R.A., and Degges, C.W., 2007, Sedimentology and Paleontology of aCarboniferous Log Jam: International Journal of Coal Geology, v. 69, p.103-118.
Greb, S.F., DiMichele, W.D., and Gastaldo, R.A., 2006, Evolution of WetlandTypes and the Importance of Wetlands in Earth History: in DiMichele,W.A., and Greb, S., eds., Wetlands Through Time: Geological Society of America,Special Paper 399, p. 1-40.
Allen, J.P., and Gastaldo, R.A., 2006, Sedimentology and taphonomy ofthe Early to Middle Devonian plant-bearing beds of the Trout Valley Formation,Maine: in DiMichele, W.A., and Greb, S., eds., Wetlands Through Time:Geological Society of America, Special Paper 399, p. 57-78.
Gastaldo, R.A., Gibson, M.A., and Blanton-Hooks, A., 2006, A Late MississippianBack-Barrier Marsh Ecosystem in the Black Warrior and Appalachian Basins: inDiMichele, W.A., and Greb, S., eds., Wetlands Through Time: Geological Societyof America, Special Paper 399, p. 139-154.
Behrensmeyer, A.K., Fursich, F.T., Gastaldo, R.A. Kidwell, S.M., Kosnik, M.A.Kowalewski, M., Plotnick, R.E., Rogers, R.R., and Alroy, J., 2005, Are the mostdurable shelly taxa also the most common in the marine fossil record?:Paleobiology, v. 31, p. 607-623.
Gastaldo, R.A., Adendorff, R., Bamford, M.K., Labandeira, Neveling, J., andSims, H.J., 2005, Taphonomic Trends of Macrofloral Assemblages Across thePermian-Triassic Boundary, Karoo Basin, South Africa: PALAIOS, v. 20, p.478-497.
Gee, C.T., and Gastaldo, R.A., 2005, Sticks & Mud, Fruits & Nuts,Leaves & Climate: Plant Taphonomy Comes of Age: PALAIOS, v. 20, p. 415-418.
Selover, R.W., and Gastaldo, R.A., 2005, A Reinterpretation of theWagendrift Quarry, Estcourt, Kwazulu Natal Province, and its Implications forKaroo Basin Paleogeography: Journal of South African Geology, v. 108 (3), p.429-438.
DiMichele, W.D., Gastaldo, R.A., and Pfefferkorn, H.W., 2005, Biodiversitypartitioning in the Late Carboniferous and Early Permian and its implicationsfor ecosystem assembly: Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, v.56, suppl. 1, no. 4, p. 32-49.
Selover, R.W., Gastaldo, R.A., and Nelson, R.E., 2005, An EstuarineAssemblage from the Middle Devonian Trout Valley Formation of Northern Maine:PALAIOS, v. 20, p. 192-197.