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Kent S. Smith, Ph.D. Kent S. Smith, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Anatomy

kent.smith@okstate.edu
918.561.8246

 

Instructional Activities

  • Gross and Developmental Anatomy – MS1
  • Paleomammalogy – Graduate
  • Primary Care Sports Medicine (Elective) – Post Primary Care Residency

Research Interests

My research interests include the evolution, biogeography, systematics, and comparative anatomy of fossil and recent mammals, predominantly insectivores and rodents. My projects use a number of techniques and approaches including multivariate statistical analyses, phylogenetics, field collections, and surveys. I also employ geographic information systems (GIS) to study interacting biotic and physical-environmental patterns (i.e., species patterns and physiographic features) and tooth and bacula morphology. Currently, my research projects involve field studies of recent and fossil mammals in Oklahoma, Nevada, and Utah.

My research efforts for Oklahoma mammals are two fold: 1) long-term, field oriented study of distributions and natural history of recent mammals, and 2) comprehensive surveys and field studies of the Pleistocene mammalian fauna and its paleoecological implications. Studies in Nevada include a very diverse Miocene-age mammalian fauna, which investigates the biogeographic and systematic relationships of several insectivore and rodent groups, in particular soricids, heterosoricids, talpids, castorids, eomyids, sciurids, and murids. Field studies in Utah (Wasatch Plateau) of recent and Quaternary montane mammals pursues investigations of immigration and extinction events on high-altitude refugia.

 

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