Galina P. Nestell               

Most of my research for years has been focused primarily on the taxonomy and paleobiogeography of foraminifers of Middle-Late Permian and Triassic strata in the Crimea, Transcaucasia, and Volga River areas of present day Russia, Azerbaijan, the North Caucasus, and the Ukraine. I have also worked on Ordovician foraminifers from Russia and South America, Silurian foraminifers from Oklahoma, and on Pennsylvanian and Permian foraminifers from Texas and Kansas. A major project of the past few years with Merlynd Nestell, Bruce Wardlaw (US Geological Survey), and Gorden Bell (Guadalupe Mountains National Park) is the study of Middle Permian (Guadalupian) foraminifers, radiolarians, and conodonts from the Apache and Guadalupe mountains of West Texas. A number of papers dealing with these taxa have already been published and several more are presently in preparation.

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