Professional Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Georgia (2019)
  • Master of Science, California State University, Fullerton (2012)
  • Bachelor of Science, California State University, Fullerton (2009)

Stanford Advisors

Contact

  • Academic
    monarrez@stanford.edu
    University - Scholar Department: Department of Geological Sciences Position: Postdoctoral Scholar

Additional Info

  • Mail Code: 2115

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Current Research and Scholarly Interests

My research at Stanford focuses on the evolution of body size of marine animals throughout the fossil record. Specifically, I am using body size as a predictor for marine animal extinction and origination throughout the last 500 million years. I am also working on body size evolution during intervals of rapid diversification of marine invertebrates during the early Paleozoic.

My overall research interests broadly focus on stratigraphic paleobiology. In particular, I seek to understand the various environmental and biotic factors driving macroevolutionary patterns of marine invertebrates in the fossil record within a sequence stratigraphic context. I am also interested in the variation and reconciliation of local and regional expressions of global macroevolutionary patterns and perturbations, such as mass extinctions.

Lab Affiliations

All Publications

  • The interaction of recovery and environmental conditions: An analysis of the outer shelf edge of western North America during the early Triassic PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY Woods, A. D., Alms, P. D., Monarrez, P. M., Mata, S. 2019; 513: 52–64

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.05.014

    View details for Web of Science ID 000454964700006

  • Regional and environmental variation in escalatory ecological trends during the Jurassic: a western Tethys hotspot for escalation? PALEOBIOLOGY Monarrez, P. M., Aberhan, M., Holland, S. M. 2017; 43 (4): 569–86

    View details for DOI 10.1017/pab.2017.12

    View details for Web of Science ID 000412546400004

  • Patterns of fossil distributions within their environmental context from the Middle Triassic in South Canyon, Central Nevada, USA JOURNAL OF PALAEOGEOGRAPHY-ENGLISH Monarrez, P. M., Bonuso, N. 2014; 3 (1): 74–89

    View details for DOI 10.3724/SP.J.1261.2014.00004

    View details for Web of Science ID 000410403900004

  • A Holocene record of Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)-related hydrologic variability in Southern California (Lake Elsinore, CA) JOURNAL OF PALEOLIMNOLOGY Kirby, M. E., Lund, S. P., Patterson, W. P., Anderson, M. A., Bird, B. W., Ivanovici, L., Monarrez, P., Nielsen, S. 2010; 44 (3): 819–39

    View details for DOI 10.1007/s10933-010-9454-0

    View details for Web of Science ID 000281973500006