Christopher Dewey has research interests in palaeobiology, palaeoecology, micropalaeontology, specifically Carboniferous and Permian ostracodes. His interests extend to taxonomy as a tool for understanding species distributions in time and space for environmental analysis. Dr. Dewey has active research projects in Newfoundland, Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and New Mexico. He teaches intro geology, historical geology, paleontology, sedimentology, regional geology of North America.

Dr. Dewey is the owner and chief instructor of the Starkville Martial Arts Academy. Chris began studying martial arts in 1968. He has been teaching martial arts for more than fifteen years in community, elementary, high school and university settings and currently teaches at Mississippi State University and the Starkville Martial Arts Academy.

Dr. Dewey is the major advisor for the Mississippi State University General Sciences degree. The General Sciences degree program is an interdisciplinary degree track that leads to the Batchelor of Science degree granted through the College of Arts and Sciences (not the Department of Geosciences). Students with a General Sciences degree have obtained employment in the public and private sector, in industry, federal, state and local government, in the military and also gone on to graduate level work in such diverse fields as any of the core science areas, biomedical engineering, agriculture, business and law.

General Science Requirements

Education

Ph.D. (Geology), Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1983
M.Sc. (Geology), University College, London, 1979
Dip. U.C. (Micropalaeontology), University College, London, 1979
B.Sc. (Geology), Second Class Honors, Bedford College, University of London, 1978

Experience

Associate Professor of Geology, Mississippi State University, 1989-present.
Assistant Professor of Geology, Mississippi State University, 1984-1989.
Assistant Professor of Geology, University of Saskatchewan, 1983-1984.
Instructor of Geology, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, 1982-1983.

Selected Publications

1987 Dewey, C. P., Palaeoecology of a hypersaline Carboniferous ostracod fauna. Jour. of Micropalaeontol. vol. 6, pt.2, pp. 29-33.

1989 Dewey, C. P., Lower Carboniferous ostracodes from the Maritimes Basin of eastern Canada. Maritime. Seds. and Atlantic. Geol. vol. 25, pt.1, pp. 63-71. (BY REQUEST).

1990 Dewey, C. P., Puckett, T. M., & Devery, H. B., Palaeogeographic significance of ostracode biofacies from Chesterian strata of the Black Warrior Basin in northwest Alabama. In: Whatley R. and Maybury C., eds., Ostracoda and Global Events. Chapman and Hall, London, pp. 527-540.

1993 Dewey, C. P. & Puckett, T. M., Ostracodes as a tool for understanding the distribution of shelf-related environments in the Chesterian strata of the Black Warrior basin in Alabama. In: Pashin, J. C., ed. New Perspectives on the Mississippian System of Alabama. 30th Annual Alabama Geological Society Field Trip Guidebook, November 11-13, 1993, pp. 61-68. (BY REQUEST).

1993 Dewey, C. P., Palaeoecology of ostracodes from a Lower Carboniferous chemosynthetic community. In: McKenzie, K. G. & Jones, P. J., eds. Ostracoda in the Earth and Life Sciences, Balkema Press, Rotterdam, pp. 77-89.

2001: Dewey, C. P., Ostracodes as a tool for understanding environmental distribution in the Carboniferous strata of the Eastern United States. In Wagner, R., ed., Carboniferous of the World, Volume IV. Available at http://www.uky.edu/KGS/coal/webcoal/pages/ostracodesdewey.html. INVITED

2002. Zellers, S., and Dewey, C. P., Paleontology at a distance - challenges of teaching paleontology online. Southeastern Geol. Soc. Amer. Mtg., Lexington, Kentucky, April 2002, Abstracts with Programs vol. 34.

2002. Tibert, N.E, and Dewey, C.P., From restricted sea to coastal floodplain: A review of ostracode palaeoecology from the Carboniferous Maritimes Basin, Atlantic Canada. Northeastern Geol. Soc. Amer. Mtg., Springfield, Massachusetts, March 2002, Abstracts with Programs, vol. 34, no. 1

2002: Dewey C.P., Level II Coaching Manual, Coaching and Education Certification Program, United States Judo Association, Colorado Springs, CO, 118p.

2003: Dewey C.P., Level III Coaching Manual, Coaching and Education Certification Program, United States Judo Association, Colorado Springs, CO, 134p.

2004. Dewey, C.P., Ostracodes as a tool for understanding paleoenvironmental change in Permo-Carboniferous strata. Combined Northeastern and Southeastern Geol. Soc. Amer. Section meeting, Tyson's Corner, Washington, D.C., Abstracts with Programs, vol. 36, no 2, March 2004. INVITED.

2004: Dewey C.P., Paradox of Being, Collected Poems. Fifth Estate Publishing, Alabama. 109p. ISBN 0-9746336-9-0.

In Subm. Tibert, N. and Dewey, C. P., Velomorpha nov. gen. from the Upper Carboniferous Joggins Formation, Nova Scotia: A re-evaluation of a presumed species of Carbonita and its metacopine placement within the Velomorphidae
nov. fam.. Micropaleontol.

Honors/Awards/Offices Held

Christopher Dewey is a member of numerous professional organizations and is the general science advisor for the MSU College of Arts and Sciences. In addition, Dr. Dewey is active as a martial artist. He serves as coach and faculty advisor to a club at the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science in Columbus. He has attained black belt ranks in Judo, Ju Jitsu, and Hapkido, and he also holds offices in several regional and national organizations.

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