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Jeffrey W Martz
Summary
Jeff Martz was born in Denver, Colorado, and grew up in Denver and Salida. Dr. Martz began his studies in paleontology as an intern at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science while still attending high school, and worked at Ashfall Fossil Beds in Nebraska in 1994 before attending Colorado State University in Fort Collins. Dr. Martz obtained his bachelor of science degree in zoology at CSU, where he also studied geology, and went on to get his Master's degree and PhD at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. At TTU, Dr. Martz became a specialist on Upper Triassic stratigraphy and vertebrate fossils, and subsequently spent three years as a park geologist at Petrified Forest National Park in northern Arizona, where he produced a geologic map of the park and extensively revised the stratigraphy of the Chinle Formation. He recent years, he produced several unpublished reports on Chinle Formation in southern Utah for the National Park Service, and also spent a year as a K-6 paraeducator working with special needs children in the Utah public education system. Currently. Dr. Martz is Assistant Professor of Geology at the University of Houston-Downtown, where he teaches Paleontology and Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, and continues to conduct paleontology and sedimentology fieldwork in the Chinle Formation in Arizona, Utah, and Nevada. Dr. Martz has also worked as a scientific illustrator, producing both black and white and color figures for scientific and popular publications.