Robert L. Anemone

Professor of Anthropology

GDB Presentations

2020

  1. Using remote sensing and machine learning to reconstruct paleoenvironmental features in the Koobi Fora Formation. ER Dorans, J Coelho, RL Anemone, R Bobe, S Carvalho, F Forest, DR Braun. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Los Angeles, CA.
  2. A new tillodont skull with exceptional preservation from the Great Divide Basin, Wyoming.  RL Anemone, H Ahrens, J Crowell, I Lundeen, P Morse, T Yokley. Society for Vertebrate Paleontology, Cincinnati, OH (virtual). 

2019

  1. Virtual reconstruction of a fossil mammal palate and dentition from the Eocene of SW Wyoming. RL Anemone, J Crowell, A Temkina. Southeastern Bioanthropology Interest Group, Cullowhee, NC.
  2. Fossil sites as landscape outliers: The potential of the DBSCAN clustering algorithm for detecting potential fossiliferous outcrops in forests. J Coehlo, RL Anemone, S Carvalho. Gesellschaft für Primatologie, Göttingen, Germany.
  3. Let the computers do the surveying: Applying support vector machines on spectral data to identify new fossiliferous deposits in Koobi Fora, Kenya. J Coelho, RL Anemone, R Bobe, S Carvalho. Paleoanthropology Society, Albuquerque, NM.
  4. A MaxEnt approach to estimate the likelihood of finding new fossil sites in Lake Turkana, Kenya using satellite images. J Coelho, DR Braun, R Bobe, RL Anemone, S Carvalho. European Society for the Study of Human Evolution, Liege, Belgium.
  5. Fossils, Satellites, and Drones: Developing a new Geospatial Paleontology across the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary in southwestern Wyoming. RL Anemone, CW Emerson. European Federation for Primatology/Primatological Society of Great Britain, Oxford, England
  6. Filling gaps in primate evolution: Machine learning approaches for automated fossil site discovery in Gorongosa, Mozambique. J Coelho, RL Anemone, S Carvalho.  European Federation for Primatology/Primatological Society of Great Britain, Oxford, England.

2018

  1. Developing a New Geospatial Paleoanthropology. RL Anemone, J Crowell. Osteology in the Carolinas, Charlotte, NC.
  2. New adapoid material (Primates, Adapiformes) from the Great Divide Basin of southwestern Wyoming. RL Anemone, J Crowell, B Nachman. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Supplement 165:11. 
  3. Developing a geospatial paleoanthropology: An example from vertebrate paleontology. RL Anemone, CW Emerson, J Crowell, B Nachman. Presented at annual meetings of the Paleoanthropology Society, Austin, TX.
  4. Finding the needle in a haystack: automating spectral remote searching for hominin fossil sites in Gorongosa, Mozambique.  Coelho, J, RL Anemone, S Carvalho. European Society for the Study of Human Evolution, Faro, Portugal.
  5. Pixels or Image-Objects? Comparing the performance of predictive models for fossil location. RL Anemone, CW Emerson. European Society for the Study of Human Evolution, Faro, Portugal.
  6. New approaches to collecting geospatial data in the field. RL Anemone. Mid Atlantic Bioanthropology Interest Group, Richmond, VA.
  7. Isotopic geochemistry as an independent ecological proxy in extant and extinct lizards: Diet and aridity in early Eocene Squamates.  Riegler, M, BC Gill, RL Anemone, B Nachman, MR Stocker. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Programs and Abstracts, 56.
  8.  New adapid material from Wyoming’s Great Divide Basin: Diversity and biogeography in the early Wasatchian of the American West. RL Anemone, J Crowell. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Programs and Abstracts, 65. 

2017

  1. New geospatial approaches in anthropological science: A report from SAR. RL Anemone.Osteology in the Carolinas, Greensboro, NC. 
  2. New tools and methods for developing a geospatial paleoanthropology. RL Anemone, CW Emerson, B Nachman. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Supplement 64: 101. 
  3. Early Eocene herpetofauna from the Wasatch Formation, Wyoming: Diversity and biogeography surrounding the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. M Riegler, MR Stocker, RL Anemone, B Nachman. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Programs and Abstracts, 184-185. 
  4. Three-dimensional virtual reconstruction of a Coryphodon maxilla from the Eocene of Wyoming. RL Anemone, J Crowell. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Programs and Abstracts, 74.
  5. Geospatial paleoanthropology: new tools and techniques from GIScience. RL Anemone, CW Emerson, B Nachman. European Society for the Study of Human Evolution, September, Leiden, Netherlands.
  6. New data on developmental sequences in the dentitions of the Euarchonta. W Dirks, B Nachman, RL Anemone. International Symposium on Dental Morphology, Bordeaux, France.
  7. Rotary and Fixed Wing Drone Use in Paleoanthropology. RL Anemone, CW Emerson, B Nachman, J Crowell. Mid Atlantic Bioanthropology Interest Group, Richmond, VA.

2016

  1.  3D digital outcrop models in paleoanthropological fieldwork. RL Anemone, B Nachman. Skeletal Biology in the Carolinas. Greenville, NC.
  2. Taking virtual anthropology to the field: Three dimensional digital outcrop models (3D-DOMs) of fossil localities.  RL Anemone, CW Emerson. School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe, NM.
  3. Developing Photogrammetric and LiDAR-Based Digital Outcrop Models of an Eocene Mammalian Fossil Locality. CW Emerson, RL Anemone, J Liu, T Jones. Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA.
  4. Geospatial paleontology: Developing and testing new approaches to locating vertebrate fossils. RL Anemone, CW Emerson, B Nachman.  Geological Society of America (SE), Columbia, SC.
  5. RL Anemone, B Nachman, W Dirks (2016) Dental anthropology in the Eocene: Using modern approaches to long-standing questions in the study of fossil primates. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Supplement 62: 81.
  6. The paleontology “connectome” project: Predicting the location of fossiliferous sediments using Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographical Information System (GIS) techniques. GC Conroy, GF Gunnell, RL Anemone. American Journal of Physical Anthropology,  Supplement 62: 120-121.
  7. New geospatial approaches in paleoanthropology fieldwork. RL Anemone.  Mid-Atlantic Bioanthropology Interest Group, Richmond, VA.

2015

  1. Exploring the stratigraphic and sedimentologic characteristics of a Paleogene mammal locality using three dimensional digital outcrop models. RL Anemone, CW Emerson, B Nachman, PL Phillips. Society for Vertebrate Paleontology, Dallas, TX.
  2.   Geospatial paleoanthropology: predicting and locating new fossil localities with approaches from the spatial sciences. RL Anemone, CW Emerson, B Nachman, A Bryant, GC Conroy. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, St. Louis, MO.
  3. Sedimentological characteristics of an extraordinarily rich mammalian fossil locality in the early Eocene Wasatch Formation, Great Divide Basin, Wy. PL Phillips, RL Anemone, B Nachman. Geological Society of America (SE), Chattanooga, TN.
  4. Laser scans, 3D prints, and fossil bones.  RL Anemone, A Bryant. AcadeMAKE conference, Greensboro, NC. 
  5. Geospatial paleoanthropology: Collaborative approaches to finding new fossils. RL Anemone. Osteology in the Carolinas, Greensboro, NC. 

2014

  1. Geospatial paleontology: Enriching paleontological fieldwork with new approaches from the spatial sciences.  RL Anemone, CW Emerson, GC Conroy, B Nachman.  Society for Vertebrate Paleontology, Berlin, Germany.
  2. A multi-scale geospatial model for identifying productive fossil localities in the Great Divide Basin, Wyoming. CW Emerson, RL Anemone.   Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Berlin, Germany.
  3. Testing predictive models for paleontological site location in the Eocene of Wyoming.  RL Anemone, CW Emerson, B Nachman.  The Age of Sensing:  5th International Conference on Remote Sensing in Archaeology,  Duke University.
  4. Predictive models for locating fossil primates based on geospatial methods.  RL Anemone, CW Emerson, B Nachman. International Primatological Society, Hanoi, Vietnam.
  5.  Applying geospatial analytical techniques to paleontological field studies.  CW Emerson, RL Anemone. Association of American Geographers, Tampa, Fl.
  6. Testing a predictive model for identifying fossil vertebrate localities in the Eocene of Wyoming. RL Anemone, CW Emerson, B Nachman, B Bommersbach. American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Calgary, Canada.
  7. Developing &  testing new geospatial predictive models in paleoanthropology.  RL Anemone. Osteology in the Carolinas, Chapel Hill.

2013

  1. Does predictive modeling work in the search for vertebrate fossils? A case study from Wyoming. RL Anemone, CW Emerson, B Nachman. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Los Angeles, CA. 
  2. Predictive modeling in the search for vertebrate fossils: Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA) in the Eocene of Wyoming.  B Bommersbach, RL Anemone, CW Emerson. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Los Angeles, CA. 
  3. Predictive modeling in the search for vertebrate fossils: Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA) in the Eocene of Wyoming.  B Bommersbach, RL Anemone, CW Emerson. East Lakes Division, Association of American Geographers, Toledo, OH.
  4. Ground-truthing a predictive model for locating fossil vertebrate localities in the Eocene of Wyoming. RL Anemone, C Emerson, B Nachman. Rocky Mountain Section of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Salt Lake City, UT.
  5. A diverse primate fauna from the early Eocene of southwestern Wyoming.  American Association of Physical Anthropologists,  Knoxville, TN, April 4-8.
  6. Let your fingers do the walking: A simple spectral signature model for “remote” fossil prospecting. GC Conroy, CW Emerson, RL Anemone, K Townsend.   American Association of Physical Anthropologists,  Knoxville, TN.
  7. Ground-truthing a neural network based predictive model for locating productive fossil localities in the Eocene of Wyoming.  RL Anemone, CW Emerson, B Nachman, GC Conroy, R Watkins.  American Association of Physical Anthropologists,  Knoxville, TN.