National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

A bibliography of theses and dissertations pertaining to ostracodes appeared in Cypris 14 (1996). It included work published through April, 1995. The present listing includes previously unreported titles from April, 1995 through March, 1997, and was derived from the database of Dissertation Abstracts Online, University of Michigan.

We wish to thank David T. Steere, Jr., Smithsonian Institution Libraries, for his assistance in obtaining the listing.

Anderson, D.H., Microcrustacean growth and production in a forested floodplain swamp (Ceriodahnia dubia, Chydorus brevilabris, Osphranticum labronectum, Macrocyclops fuscus, Physocypris pustulosa, Cypridopsis vidua), 1995, The University of Alabama.

Anderson, T.M., Life history and larval ecology of Arrenurus hamrumi (Hydrachnida: Arrenuridae) (Argia vivida), Ph.D., 1996, Oregon State University.

Curry, B.B., Late Pleistocene lithofacies, paleolimnology and ostracode fauna of kettles on the Illinoian Till Plain, Illinois, U.S.A., Ph.D, 1995, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Curtis, J.H., Climatic variation in the Circum-Caribbean during the Holocene, Ph.D., 1997, University of Florida.

Cywinska, A., Stratigraphic analyses of ostracode fossils in East Lake, Ontario: The reconstruction of paleoclimatic and trophic conditions (Cypridopsis vidua, Physocypris globula, Physocypris pustulosa, Cypria opthalmica), Ph.D, 1995, University of Waterloo, Canada.

Erickson, M.A., Taphonomy and microfacies analysis of concretions from the Gogo Formation, Western Australia, 1997, M.S., California State University, Fresno.

Freed, A.B., Microfacies and depositional environments of the Hueco Formation (Permian), Van Horn Mountains, West Texas, 1997, M.S., Sul Ross State University.

Geier, M.H., Ichnology, sedimentology and stratigraphy of the ostracode zone, Bellshill lake-Killam area, east central Alberta, M.Sc., 1995, University of Alberta, Canada.

Harloff, J. and Mackensen, A., 1997, Recent benthic foraminiferal associations and ecology of the Scotia Sea and Argentine Basin: Marine Micropaleontology, 31: 1-29.

Little, T.J., On the consequences of restricted gene flow: reproduction and speciation in freshwater ostracodes, M.S., 1995, University of Guelph, Canada.

McCarthy, S.A., Patterns of spatial and temporal variability in Hawaiian soft bottom benthos (Mamala Bay, Polychaetes, Ala Wai Canal, Ostracods, Syllids, Copepods), Ph.D, 1996, University of Hawaii.

Nganga, P., Ostracode typology and oxygen isotopes in carbonates: A comparison of methods in paleoclimate reconstruction, Lake Turkana, Kenya, Ph.D, 1996, Duke University.

Park, L.E., Assessing diversification patterns in an ancient tropical lake: Gomphocythere (Ostracoda) in Lake Tanganyika (Phylogeny), Ph.D, 1995, The University of Arizona.

Schlipp, W.R., Regional geologic setting and analysis of ostracod fauna from the Lower and Middle Pennsylvania Round Valley and Morgan Formations in Dinosaur National Monument, Utah and Colorado (Round Valley Formation, Morgan Formation), 1997, The University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Stibbe, S.E., Hyporheic Fauna of a coastal plain blackwater stream (Meyers Branch, South Carolina), M.S., 1995, University of Georgia.

Swenson, R.O., The reproductive behavior and ecology of the tidewater goby Eucyclogobius newberryi (Pisces; Gobiidae), Ph.D, 1995, University of California, Berkeley.

Tapia-Ortega, G., La fauna de invertebrados de las fuentes de Valencia y Castellon y su relacion con las propiedades fisico-quimicas del agua (The invertebrate fauna of springs of Valencia and Castellon and its relationship with physico-chemical water properties), Ph.D, 1996, University de Valencia, Spain.

Tibert, N.E., A paleoecological interpretation for the ostracodes and agglutinated Foraminifera from the earliest Carboniferous marginal marine Horton Bluff Formation (Blue Beach Member), Nova Scotia, Canada, M.Sc., 1996, Dalhousie University, Canada.

Torres, Elizabeth, Molecular systematics and taxonomy of cypridinid ostracodes: patterns and evolution of bioluminescence and luminescent courtship behavior, Ph.D, 1997, University of California, Los Angeles.

Tsukawaki, S., Kamiya, T., Kato, M., Matsuzaka, T., Naraoka, H., Negishi, K., Ozawa, H., and Ishiwatari, R., 1997, Preliminary results from the R.V. Tansei-maru Cruise KT95-14 Leg 2 in the Southern Marginal Area in the Japan Sea, Part I, Sediments, Benthic Foraminifers and Ostracodes: Bulletin of the Japan Sea Research Institute, 28:13-43.

Tudoran, A., Biostratigraphy and palenenvironmental significance of Jurassic microfossils from Romania (Foraminifera, Ostracoda), Ph.D, 1997, The Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College.

Verschuren, D., Recent and Late Holocene paleolimnology of Lakes Naivasha and Sonachi, Kenya (Holocene, Lake Haivaxha, Lake Sonachil), Ph.D, 1996, University of Minnesota.

Wetzel, E.J., Seasonal recruitment and infection dynamics of Halipegus occidualis and Halipegus eccentricus (Digenea: Hemiuridae) in their arthropod and amphibian hosts (Intermediate hosts, Parasites), Ph.D, 1995, Wake Forest University.

Xia, Juanjuan, Stable-isotope and trace-element composition on ostracode shells and their application to paleoclimatic reconstructions in the northern Great Plains, Ph.D., 1996, University of Minnesota.