Assistant Professor of Anatomy
School/College: Osteopathic Medicine
Email: check@pnwu.edu
Fields:
- Gross and Functional Anatomy
- Osteohistology
- Ecology
- Paleontology
Areas of Expertise:
- Evolutionary Biology
- Biomechanics
- Bone Physiology and Growth
- Archosaurian Life History
Methodological Expertise:
- Hard tissue histological processing
- Paleontological field methods
- Morphometrics
- Polarized Microscopy
Current Projects:
- Life history reconstruction of the non-avian dinosaur Maiasaura
- Assessing bone growth dynamics in modern mammals
- Intraskeletal growth mark variation in tetrapods
- Investigating mechanisms of metaplastic hard tissue development