Roy E. Plotnick, Vita

Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

 

EDUCATION:

 

·         The University of Chicago, PhD, 1983; Advisor: J. John Sepkoski, Jr.

·      The University of Rochester , M.S., 1978; Advisor: David M. Raup, Columbia University, A.B., 1976

POSITIONS HELD:

 

·         Lecturer, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, September 1982‑December 1983 

·         Assistant Professor, UIC, December 1983 ‑ September, 1990

·         Associate Professor, UIC, September, 1990 -August 1998

·         Visiting Scientist Program, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. 1991-92  (sabbatical leave).

·         Visiting Scientist, Texaco E&P Technology Division, Summers 1993, 1994.

 

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

 

·         Plotnick, R.,  R. Gardner, and R. O'Neill.  1993. Lacunarity indices as measures of landscape texture. Landscape Ecology, 8: 201-211.

·         Plotnick, R. and R. Gardner. 1993. Lattices and landscapes.  Lectures in Mathematics in the Life Sciences, 23:129-157.

·         Plotnick, R. and M. McKinney. 1993. Ecosystem organization and extinction dynamics. PALAIOS , 8:202-212.

·         Middleton, G.,  R. Plotnick, and D. Rubens. 1995  Fractals and Non-linear Dynamics: New Numerical Techniques for Sedimentary Data. SEPM Short Course. 36., 174 pp.

·         Plotnick,  R., R. Gardner, W. Hargrove, K. Prestegaard, and M. Perlmutter. 1996. Lacunarity analysis: a general technique for the analysis of spatial patterns. Physical Review E, 53:5461-5468.

·         Aaronson, R. and  R. Plotnick. 1998. Coordinated stasis and community integration: a scale-independent interpretation of macroevolutionary dynamics. Pp. 430-450.  IN  McKinney, M. & J. Drake (ed.). Biodiversity Dynamics Columbia.

·         Plotnick, R.E. 1999. Creating models for interpreting data. Pp. 343-360 IN J. Scotchmoor and D. Springer, eds. Evolution: Investigating the Evidence.  Paleontological Society Special Publication 9.


·         Plotnick, R. 1999.  Landscape ecology and quantitative stratigraphy: parallel perspectives on spatial heterogeneity. Pp. 271-278 IN: Harbaugh, et al., eds. Numerical Experiments in Stratigraphy, SEPM Special Publications,  no. 62

·         Plotnick, R. and  T. Baumiller. 2000.  Invention by evolution: functional analysis in paleobiology. Paleobiology (25th Anniversary Special Volume).  In press

·         Plotnick R. and J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2001. A multifractal model for macroevolution Paleobiology (in press).

 

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:

 

·         Spatial analysis and modeling in geology and ecology

·         Landscape ecology

·         Evolutionary paleoecology