Chelsea assists with the physical care of the fossils and provides support for collections access and processing. She is part of the team that is reorganizing the Paleobiology collections storage spaces to increase access to the collections. She works with specimens across the whole department, including Vertebrate Paleontology, Invertebrate Paleontology, and Paleobotany. Chelsea's favorite part of her job is finding new topics to learn about.
M.S., Museum and Field Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2023
M. S., Integrative Biology, Kennesaw State University, 2021
B.S., Biology, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Affiliations
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
Research Interests
Chelsea's paleontological research interests are focused on the evolutionary morphology of Cenozoic mammals. Chelsea's museum collections interests focus on studying optimal conditions for long term artifact preservation.
Publications
Journal article
Lyon, L.M., Powell, C., McDonald, H.G. et al. Premaxillae of the Extinct Megalonychid Sloths Acratocnus, Neocnus, and Megalonyx, and their Phylogenetic Implications (Mammalia, Xenarthra). J Mammal Evol 23, 121–132 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10914-015-9308-7
Conference poster
Trenbeath, C. and Eberle, J. (2022). Small Survivors: Puercan Metatheria in the Western Interior. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.
Trenbeath, C. and Eberle, J. (2022). Early Cenozoic Survivors: Puercan Metatheria in the Western Interior. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, v. 50, no. 5.
Van Veldhuizen, J., Trenbeath, C., Herbertson, C. (2022) Georeferencing and Mapping Fossil Vertebrate Localities into the Bureau of Land Management’s Colorado Statewide Locality Database. The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.26517.13281
Trenbeath, C.S. and Taglialatela J.P. (2021). Laryngeal vocals in old world locals: air sacs usage in bonobos. 90th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
