Sr Museum Scientist (Invertebrates)

Ashley received her BS, MS and PhD in Geosciences from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2010 and 2015, respectively. Her research focuses on paleocommunity structure and functional diversity dynamics during and after major environmental disturbance (e.g. climate regime transitions, mass extinction), and as such, has completed fieldwork in numerous international localities, including China, Italy, Argentina, and the Caribbean. Ashley was recently awarded a PS Norman Newell Early Career Grant, and is passionate about girls and underserved youth STEM education, serving as a volunteer mentor and project leader at a Bay Area non-profit (Scientific Adventures for Girls) since early 2017. 

Selected Publications

• Powell, C.L. and A.A. Dineen.  2023.  A new fossil Euspira? (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Naticidae) from the Gubik For-mation on the North Slope of Arctic Alaska.  PaleoBios 40(15): 1-28. Read it

• Banker, R.M., A.A. Dineen, M.G. Sorman, C.L. Tyler, and P.D. Roopnarine.  2022. Beyond functional diversity: the importance of trophic position to understanding functional processes in community evolution. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.983374. Read it

• Collareta, A., M. Bosselaers, P. Holroyd, and A.A. Dineen.  2022.  A forgotten cirripedological gem: A new species of whale barnacle of the genus Cetopirus from the Pleistocene of the United States West Coast. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1-8. doi:10.1017/S1755691022000214. Read it

• Kempf, H.L., I.O. Castro, A.A. Dineen, C.L. Tyler, and P.D. Roopnarine.  2020. Comparisons of Late Ordovician ecosystem dynamics before and after the Richmondian invasion reveal consequences of invasive species in benthic marine paleocommunities.  Paleobiology, 46 (3), pp. 320-336. Read it

• Dineen, A.A., P.D. Roopnarine, and M.F. Fraiser.  2019.  Ecological continuity and transformation after the Permo-Triassic mass extinction in northeastern Panthalassa.  Biology Letters. v.15 (3), p. 20180902.