Vitae

Education 

2013 – 2016 Doctor of Philosophy Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

2012 Honours in Palaeobiology Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

2009 – 2011 Bachelor of Science Majoring in Palaeobiology Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Employment History

Sept 2019– Present Assistant Professor, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

Nov 2017 – Aug 2019 Preparing Future Faculty Postdoctoral Fellow , University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

Aug 2013 – Oct 2017 Teaching Assistant and Lecturer, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Nov 2012 – Sept 2017 Research Assistant, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Feb 2017 – Sept 2017 Casual Technician, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Publications

(*Corresponding author, †Graduate student)

Articles in Preparation/Submitted/in Review

Richter Stretton, S.A.†*, Brock, G.A., Zhiliang Zhang, Paterson, J.R. Jacquet, S.M., & Betts, M.J. [in prep] Three-dimensional soft-part preservation of chaetae in the early Cambrian stem gastropod Pelagiella from the Flinders Ranges, South Australia; support for a deep lophotrochozoan symplesiomorphy of chaetae. Alcheringa.

Speir, E.†, Miller, A.†, Betts, M.J., Selly, T. & Jacquet, S.M.* [in prep] Condensation horizons in the Wirrapowie Limestone, Arrowie Basin South Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences.  

O’Neil, G. R., Tackett, L. S.*, Selly, T. Pulsipher, M., Rosbach, S., Jacquet, S.M., Schnucker, S.G., & Schiffbauer, J. D. [in prep] Taphonomic variants of tubular fossils from the White-Inyo late Ediacaran Deep Spring Formation, Inyo County, CA. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Speir, E.†, du Plessis, R., Oprean, D & Jacquet, S.M.*, [recommended for resubmission]. Bringing the field to the undergraduate geology classroom: The Rock Bridge Virtual Field Trip. Journal of Geoscience Education.

Manzuk, R.A.*, Nadeau, M. D., Mate, C.†, Jacquet, S.M., & Maloof, A.C. [in review] Lithofacies vectors: Disentangling environmental variability, diagenesis, and secular change in carbonate stratigraphies. American Journal of Science.

Rivera, T., Jacquet, S.M., Speir, E.† [in press] Designing and running virtual field classes. The Routledge Handbook of Field Research. 

Published Articles

26. Bennett, C.†, Mate, C. †, Jacquet, S.M.* 2025. Taxonomic revision and lateral distributions of small shelly faunas from reef-adjacent facies of the upper Harkless Formation, Nevada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 669:112922. DOI:10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112922 

25. Castle-Jones, J†*., Betts, M.J., Jacquet, S.M., Chen, F. Zhang, Z., Hall, P.A., Klaebe, R.M., Brock, G.A. 2025. A new integrated lower Cambrian chronostratigraphy for the Normanville Group, eastern Stansbury Basin, with definition of the oldest small shelly fossil Zones in South Australia. Australiasian Palaeontological Memoirs 57, 465–489. ISSN 2205-8877.

24. Richter Stretton†*, S.A. Jacquet, S.M., Paterson, J.R., Betts, M.J. 2025. Reappraisal of the carbonate microfacies, depositional environments and biostratigraphy of the lower Cambrian Second Plain Creek Member, Mernmerna Formation, Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences. DOI:10.1080/08120099.2025.2461065 

23. Speir E.†*, Oprean, D. & Jacquet. S.M. 2025. Navigating the terminological nuances of virtual field opportunities in the geosciences through multiple correspondence analysis. Journal of Geoscience Education. DOI:10.1080/10899995.2025.2475428 

22. Oprean, D.M.*, du Plessis, R., Spier, E. †, Jacquet, S.M. 2024. Engaging meaningful learning design principles in a gamified desktop VFE for geoscience education: The Rock Bridge State Park experience. Journal of Applied Instructional Design. DOI:10.59668/2033.18641

21. Jacobs, G.S.†, Jacquet, S.M., Selly, T., Schiffbauer, J.D., Huntley, J.W. 2024. Resolving taphonomic and preparation biases in silicified faunas through paired acid residues and X-ray microscopy. PeerJ. 12: e16767. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16767  

20. Jacquet, S.M.*, Webb, J-L.†, Huntley, J.W., Selly, T., Schiffbauer, J.D. 2023. X-ray tomographic microscopy of Eocene coprolites from Pipestone Springs Main Pocket, Southwest Montana. Frontiers in Earth Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2023.1130107 

19. Miller, A.A.†, Huntley, J. W., Jacquet, S.M.* 2022. Biotic interactions between conulariids and epibionts from the Silurian Waukesha Biota. Palaios. 37 (11):691-699. https://doi.org/10.2110/palo.2022.027 

18. Miller, A.A.†, Jacquet, S.M.*, Anderson, E.P., Schiffbauer, J.D. 2022. Conulariids from the Silurian (late Telychian) Waukesha Lagerstätte, Wisconsin. Historical Biology. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2021.2017917 

17. Jacquet, S.M.*, Selly, T., Schiffbauer, J.D. & Brock, G.A. 2021. Sclerite assembly, articulation and protective system of Lower Devonian machaeridians. Papers in Palaeontology.  https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1410 

16. Zhang, Zhiliang*, Zhang, Zhifei, Ma, J., Taylor, P. D., Strotz, L. C., Jacquet, S. M., Skovsted, C. B., Chen, F., Han, J. & Brock, G. A. 2021. Fossil evidence unveils an early Cambrian origin for Bryozoa. Nature, 599, 251-255. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04033-w 

15. Anderson, E. P.*, Schiffbauer, J. D., Jacquet, S. M., Lamsdell, J.C., Kluessendorf, J. & Mikulic, D. G. 2021. Stranger than a scorpion: a reassessment of Parioscorpio venator, a problematic arthropod from the Llandoverian Waukesha Lagerstätte. Palaeontology. 64 (3): 429-474. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12534

14. Teece, B. L.*, George, S. C., Agbaje, O. B. A., Jacquet, S. M. & Brock, G. A. (2020). Mars Rover Techniques and Lower-Middle Cambrian Microbialites from South Australia: Construction, Biofacies and Biogeochemistry. Astrobiology. 20 (5): 637-657. https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2019.2110

13. Schiffbauer, J. D.*, Selly, T., Jacquet, S. M., Merz, R. A., Nelson, L. L., Strange, M. A., Cai, Y., & Smith, E. F. (2020). Discovery of bilaterian-type through-guts in cloudinomorphs from the terminal Ediacaran Period. Nature Communications. 11 (1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13882-z

12. Selly, T., Schiffbauer, J.D.*, Jacquet, S. M., Strange, M. A., O’Neil, G. R., Andreasen, B. D., Cai, Y., Huntley, J. W., Thater, C. A.  Nelson, L. L., Smith, E. F., Bykova, N., Steiner, M., Yang, B. (2020). A new cloudinid fossil assemblage from the terminal Ediacaran of Nevada, USA. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 18 (4), 357-379. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2019.1623333

11. Jacquet, S. M.*, Betts, M. J., Huntley, J. W. & Brock. G. A. (2019). Facies, phosphate and fossil preservation potential across a Lower Cambrian carbonate shelf, Arrowie Basin, South Australia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 533: 109200. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.05.022

10. Claybourn, T. M.*, Jacquet, S. M., Skovsted, C. B., Topper, T. P., Holmer, L. E. & Brock, G. A. (2019). Mollusks from the upper Shackleton Limestone (Cambrian Series 2), Central Transantarctic Mountains, East Antarctica. Journal of Paleontology. 93(3), 437-459. doi:10.1017/jpa.2018.84

9. Jago, J. B.*, Gehling, J. G., Betts, M. J., Brock, G. A., Dalgarno, C. R., García-Bellido, D. C., Haslett, P. G., Jacquet, S. M., Kruse, P. D., Langsford, N., Mount, T. J. & Paterson, J. R. (2018). The Cambrian System in the Arrowie Basin, Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences: 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/08120099.2018.1525431

8. Betts, M. J.*, Paterson, J. R., Jacquet, S. M., Andrew, A. S., Hall, P. A., Jago, J. B., Jagodzinski, E. A., Wolfgang V. Preiss, James L. Crowley, Brougham, T., Mathewson, C. P., García-Bellido, D. C., Topper, T. P., Skovsted, C. B., & Brock, G. A. (2018). Early Cambrian chronostratigraphy and geochronology of South Australia. Earth-Science Reviews 185:498-543. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2018.06.005

7. Betts, M. J.,* Paterson, J. R., Jago, J. B., Jacquet, S. M., Skovsted, C. B., Topper, T. P. & Brock, G. A. (2017) Global correlation of the early Cambrian of South Australia: Shelly fauna of the Dailyatia odyssei Zone. Gondwana Research 46: 240-279. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2017.02.007

6. Jacquet, S. M.*, Brougham, T., Skovsted, C. B., Jago, J. B., Laurie, J. R., Betts, M. J., Topper, T. P.& Brock, G. A. (2017) Watsonella crosbyi from the lower Cambrian (Terreneuvian, Stage 2) Normanville Group in South Australia. Geological Magazine: 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756816000704

5. Betts, M. J.,* Paterson, J. R., Jago, J. B., Jacquet, S. M., Skovsted, C. B., Topper, T. P. & Brock, G. A. (2016) A new lower Cambrian shelly fossil assemblage zones in the lower Hawker Group, Arrowie basin, South Australia: Reply. Gondwana Research 44: 262-264.

4. Betts, M. J.*, Paterson, J. R., Jago, J. B., Jacquet, S. M., Skovsted, C. B., Topper, T. P. & Brock, G. A. (2016) A new lower Cambrian shelly fossil assemblage zones in the lower Hawker Group, Arrowie basin, South Australia. Gondwana Research 36: 163-195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2016.05.005

3. Jacquet, S. M.*, Jago, J. B. & Brock, G. A. 2016. An enigmatic univalve macromollusc from the lower Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3) Heatherdale Shale, South Australia. Australasian Palaeontological Memoirs 49:21-30.

2. Jacquet, S. M.* & Brock, G. A. 2016. Lower Cambrian helcionelloid macromolluscs from South Australia. Gondwana Research, 36: 333-358. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2015.06.012

1. Jacquet, S. M.*, Brock, G. A. & Paterson, J. R. 2014. New data on Oikozetetes (Mollusca: Halkieriidae) from the lower Cambrian of South Australia. Journal of Paleontology 88 (5): 1072-1084. https://doi.org/10.1666/13-137

Conference Proceedings

Oprean, D., Santos, D., Gould, H, Speir†, E., Plessis, R du., Jacquet, S.M. (2024). It’s All in the Design - the Learning Design: Comparing Active Learning Affordances within VLEs. The Journal of Applied Instructional Design 13 (2), 135-139. DOI:10.59668/1269.15659

Speir, L.E.*†, du Plessis, R., Oprean, D. & Jacquet, S.M. (2022). Designing virtual field environments closer to home: making a VFE of Rock Bridge Memorial State Park. Proceedings of 2022 8th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN).

Field Guide Chapter 

Jago, J. B., Kruse, P. D., Brock, G. A., Betts, M. J., Jacquet, S.M., Gehling, J. G. & García-Bellido, D. C. (2016) Day 2 – Sunday 3 July. Cryogenian and Cambrian of Fleurieu Peninsula. In Kruse P.D. & Jago J.B. (eds), Palaeo Down Under 2. Geological field excursion guide: Cryogenian-Ediacaran-Cambrian of the Adelaide Fold belt, Report Book 2016/00011. Department of State Development, South Australia, Adelaide. pp. 30-36. 

Conference Abstracts

(*Presenting author, †Graduate student)

Betts, M.J.*, Wong, C.K. †, Richter Stretton†, S.A., Speir, E. †, Castle-Jones, J. †, Jatupohnkhongchai, S. †, Gates, R.C. †, Paterson, J.R., Brock, G.A., & Jacquet, S.M. (2025) Honest crusts? Interrogating two enigmatic boundaries in the lower Cambrian Arrowie and Stansbury basins, South Australia. 22nd International Sedimentological Congress.

Wong, C. †, Manzuk, R.A., & Jacquet, S.M*. (2024) Hanging cryptic tubular sponges in the red crust of the lower Cambrian Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Geological Society of America Connects 2024 Meeting, Anaheim, California. Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 56, No. 5, doi: 10.1130/abs/2024AM-404120 [Poster]

Mate, C.*†, Speir, E., & Jacquet, S.M. (2024). Who dissolves, who dies, who tells your story: Disentangling selective biases in extraction methods for Cambrian Small Shelly Faunas. Geological Society of America Connects 2024 Meeting, Anaheim, California. Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 56, No. 5. doi: 10.1130/abs/2024AM-403894

Flynn, L.*†, Selly, T., & Jacquet, S.M. (2024). The Scoop on Poop: Constructing a Prey Size Model from the Inclusions of Coprolites of the Smoky Hill Member, Kansas. Geological Society of America Connects 2024 Meeting, Anaheim, California. Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 56, No. 5, 2024. doi: 10.1130/abs/2024AM-405327

Jacquet, S.M.* & Selly, T. (2024). Tenacious turds from the Upper Cretaceous Smoky Hill Member, Niobrara Chalk, Kansas. 12th North American Paleontological Convention. Program with Abstracts. Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Mate, C.*†, Speir, E., & Jacquet, S.M. (2024). Through the sieve and the acid bath: sample preparation and taphonomic biases of small shelly faunas from the Cambrian (Series 2: Stage 3) of South Australia. 12th North American Paleontological Convention. Program with Abstracts. Ann Arbor, Michigan. [Poster]

Bennett, C.*†, Mate, C., & Jacquet, S.M. (2024).  Reef-lecting on the Cambrian: Taxonomic revision and lateral distributions of small shelly faunas from reef-adjacent facies of the upper Harkless Formation, Nevada. 12th North American Paleontological Convention. Program with Abstracts. Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Betts, M.J.*, Zahirovic, S., Dowding, E.M., Domeier, M., Merdith, A., Allen, B.J., Hearing, T.W., Liu, A.G., Strotz, L., Topper, T.P., Jacquet, S.M., Marcilly, C.M,. Gates, R. (2024). Models, mysteries and mayhem: Tectonic reconstructions at the dawn of animal life. The 37th International Geological Congress 2024, Busan, Korea.

Bennett, C.*†, Jacquet, S.M., Mate, C., & Schiffbauer, J.D. (2023) Reef-lecting on Cambrian Communities: taxonomic revision and lateral distributions of small shelly faunas from reef-adjacent facies of the Upper Harkless Formation, Nevada. Geological Society of America Connects 2023 Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. DOI: 10.1130/abs/2023AM-394912

Mate, C.*†, Jacquet, S.M., & Betts, M.J. (2023) Insights into the affinity of the enigmatic small shelly fossil Stoibostrombus from the Cambrian of South Australia. Geological Society of America Connects 2023 Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania [Poster] DOI: 10.1130/abs/2023AM-392905

Speir, E.*† & Jacquet, S.M. (2023) Where have all the small shelly faunas gone? A multi-proxy approach to understanding the absence of fossils from the typically fossiliferous Mernmerna Formation of southern Australia. Geological Society of America Connects 2023 Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. DOI: 10.1130/abs/2023AM-395750

Wong, C.*† & Jacquet, S.M. (2023). Applying geochemical proxies in teasing apart the genetic history of the Flinders Unconformity and Red Crust, Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Geological Society of America Connects 2023 Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. DOI: 10.1130/abs/2023AM-392520

du Plessis, R.*, Speir, E., Oprean, D., & Jacquet, S.M. (2022). Immersive and engaging content creation with 360° images. Lessons learned from the design and development of a virtual field experience. Online Learning Consortium Accelerate. https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/olc-accelerate-2022-session-page/?session=11605&kwds= 

Wong, C*†. & Jacquet, S.M. (2022). A novel tubular sponge taxon found inhabiting cryptic environments of the reddened crust, Arrowie Basin, South Australia. Missouri Geological Survey Student Colloquium, Rolla. [Poster]

Speir. L.E.* †, du Plessis, R., Oprean, D., Jacquet, S.M. (2022) Take a virtual hike: building a virtual field experience of Rock Bridge Memorial State Park. Missouri Geological Survey Student Colloquium, Rolla. [Poster]

Bennett, C*†, Jacquet, S.M., Mate, C., Pulsipher, M.A., Rosbach, S, Selly, T. & Schiffbauer, J. D. (2022). A cautionary tale of coniform fossil taphonomy from the Cambrian Harkless Formation Nevada. Missouri Geological Survey Student Colloquium, Rolla. [Poster]

Jacquet, S.M.*, Webb, J-W.†, Selly, T., Huntley, J.W., Schiffbauer, J.D. (2022). New perspectives on preserved turds: Applications of X-ray tomographic microscopy in the study of coprolites and other bromalites. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver. DOI: 10.1130/abs/2022AM-382772

Jacobs, G.*†, Jacquet, S.M., Selly, T., Schiffbauer, J. D., Huntley, J. W. (2022) Fossils prepared two ways: advantages and shortcomings of micro-CT and acid maceration in complement. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver. DOI: 10.1130/abs/2022AM-383711

Bennett, C.*†, Jacquet, S.M., Mate, C., Pulsipher, M.A., Rosbach, S, Selly, T. & Schiffbauer, J. D. (2022). A cautionary tale of coniform fossil taphonomy from the Cambrian Harkless Formation Nevada. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver. DOI: 10.1130/abs/2022AM-381772

Speir. L.E.* †, du Plessis, R., Oprean, D., Jacquet, S.M. (2022) Virtually There: developing a geological virtual field experience of Rock Bridge Memorial State Park, Missouri, USA. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver. DOI: 10.1130/abs/2022AM-382284

Speir. L.E.* †, du Plessis, R., Oprean, D., Jacquet, S.M. (2022). Work-in-progress—Developing an Undergraduate Geology Virtual Field Environment. 8th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN) Virtual Campus [Poster] 

Speir. L.E.* †, du Plessis, R., Oprean, D., Jacquet, S.M. (2022) Virtually There: progress towards a virtual field experience of Rock Bridge Memorial State Park. Missouri Academy of Science Annual Meeting, Fayette, Missouri. 

Jacquet, S.M.*, Betts, M.J., Selly, T, Schiffbauer, J.D. and Brock, G.A. (2021) Shell ultrastructure and ontogeny of organophosphatic brachiopods from the Lower Cambrian of South Australia. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland Oregon. https://doi.org/10.1130/ABS/2021AM-367842 [Poster]

Speir, L.E.*†, Selly, T., Schiffbauer, J.D, Betts, M.J., Jacquet, S.M. (2021). Small shelly faunas and repeated phosphatic hardgrounds from the Lower Cambrian, Wirrapowie Limestone, Ikara-Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland Oregon. https://doi.org/10.1130/ABS/2021AM-368181

Webb, J-L.*†, Jacquet, S.M., Selly, T., Schiffbauer, J. D., & Farke, A. (2021) X-ray tomographic microscopy shines a light on fossilized feces from the Eocene Pipestone Springs Main Pocket, Montana. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon. https://doi.org/10.1130/ABS/2021AM-367718

Jacobs, G.*†, Selly, T., Jacquet, S.M., Schiffbauer, J. D., Huntley, J. W. (2021) Preparation biases in silicified faunas revealed by paired micro-CT and acid maceration. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland Oregon. https://doi.org/10.1130/ABS/2021AM-369961

Jacquet, S.M.*1, Miller, A., Speir, L., Selly, T., Schiffbauer, J. D., Paterson, J. R. & Betts, M.J. (2020). Paleoenvironmental and taphonomic implications for lower Cambrian phosphatic hardgrounds from South Australia. GSA Connects 2020. https://doi.org/10.1130/ABS/2020AM-356377

Miller, A.A.*†, Jacquet, S.M., Anderson, E.P., Huntely, J.W. & Schiffbauer, J.D. (2020) Ecology and taphonomy of Silurian conulariids from the Waukesha Lagerstätte, Wisconsin. GSA Connects 2020. doi: 10.1130/abs/2020AM-358370

Miller, A.A.*†, Jacquet, S.M., Anderson, E.P., & Schiffbauer, J.D. (2019) Conulariids: The Underdogs of the Waukesha—Taxonomy, taphonomy, and ecology of Silurian Conulariids from the Waukesha Lagerstätte, Wisconsin. Missouri Geological Survey’s Second Annual Student Colloquium, Missouri, USA. [Poster]

Jacquet, S. M.* & Selly, T. (2019) Augmenting traditional methods of teaching carbonate sedimentology with micro-CT and 3D segmentation. 11th North American Paleontological Convention (NAPC), Riverside, California, USA. 

Schiffbauer, J.D.*, Selly, T., Jacquet, S.M., Strange, M.A., Andreasen, B.D., Cai, Y., Nelson, L.L., & Smith, E.F. Soft-tissue preservation in cloudinomorphs from the terminal Ediacaran of Nevada may provide clues onto phylogenetic position. 11th North American Paleontological Convention (NAPC), Riverside, California, USA.

Jacquet, S.M.*, Brock, G.A., Selly, T. & Schiffbauer, J.D. (2018) X-ray microscopy of armored worms: the plate assembly and protective system of early Devonian articulated machaeridians from Australia. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. [Poster]

Schiffbauer, J.D.*, Selly, T., Jacquet, S.M.*, Strange, M.A., Andreasen, B.D., Cai, Y., Nelson, L.L. & Smith, E.F. (2018). New data on the cloudinids from the terminal Ediacaran of Nevada: Possible soft-tissue preservation may provide clues into phylogenetic position. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

Selly, T.*, Schiffbauer, J.D., Jacquet, S.M., Michael A. Strange, O’Neil, G.R., Andreasen, B. D., Cai, Y., Huntley, J. W., Thater, C. A., Nelson, L. L., & Smith, E. F. (2018). Taxonomic evaluation of a tubular assemblage from the terminal Ediacaran of Nevada. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

Anderson, E.P.*, Schiffbauer, J.D., Jacquet, S.M. 2018. Reevaluating taphonomic windows: exceptional preservation pathways in the Waukesha and their connection to other lagerstätten. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

Jacquet, S.M.*, Betts, M.J., Selly, T., Schiffbauer, J.D. & Brock, G.A. 2018. Shell ultrastructure of the organophosphatic brachiopod Eodicellomus from the Lower Cambrian of South Australia. International Conference on Ediacaran and Cambrian Sciences, Xi’an, China. [Poster]

Schiffbauer, J.D.*, Selly, T., Jacquet, S.M., Michael A. Strange, Andreasen, B.D., Cai, Y., Nelson, L.L., and Smith, E. F. 2018. New data on a tubular assemblage from the terminal Ediacaran of Nevada: Possible soft-tissue preservation may yield phylogentic position. International Conference on Ediacaran and Cambrian Sciences, Xi’an, China.

Selly, T.*, Schiffbauer, J.D., Jacquet, S.M., Strange, M.A., O’Neil, G. R., Andreasen, B. D., Cai, Y., Huntley, J. W., Thater, C. A., Nelson, L. L., & Smith, E. F. 2018. New data on a tubular assemblage from the terminal Ediacaran of Nevada: Taxonomic evaluation indicates a new species of Conotubus and a new cloudinid genus. International Conference on Ediacaran and Cambrian Sciences, Xi’an, China. [Poster]

Jacquet, S.M.*, Brock, G.A., Selly, T. & Schiffbauer, J.D. 2018. X-ray microscopy of plate assembly in early Devonian articulated machaeridians from Australia. 5th International Palaeontological Congress, Paris, France. Abstract Volume.

Jacquet, S.M.*, Betts, M.J. & Brock, G.A. 2017. Facies controls on Cambrian molluscan faunas. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, USA. Abstracts with Programs, 49, p. 233.

Jacquet, S. M.*, Betts, M.J. & Brock, G.A. 2016 Phosphate, facies and fossilisation of early Cambrian molluscs. p. 36 in Laurie, J.R., Kruse, P.D., García-Bellido, D. C. & Holmes, J.D. (eds.), Palaeo Down Under 2, Adelaide, July 2016. Geological Society of Australia Abstracts 117.

Jacquet, S.M.* & Brock, G.A. (2015) New Lower Cambrian macromolluscs from South Australia and taphonomic constraints in the fossil record. p. 35 in Molluscs 2015: Frontiers in Molluscan Research, Coffs Harbor. Malacological Society of Australasia Abstracts and Program.

Brock, G.A.*, Paterson, J.R., Betts, M.J., Skovsted, C.B., Jacquet, S.M., Topper, T.P. & Holmer, L.E.  (2015) The Cambrian Radiation in East Gondwana: New data, new dates, new fossils. p. 34 in The International Conference: The Rise of Animal Life (RALI 2015), Marrakesh. Abstracts and Program. 

Jacquet, S.M.*, Skovsted, C.B., Topper, T.P., Jago, J.B., Betts, M.J., Paterson, J.R. & Brock, G.A. (2015) Theme 17 – Stratigraphy and Applied Palaeontology Watsonella crosbyi and Definition of the Base of Terreneuvian, Stage 2 (lower Cambrian) in South Australia. AAGP-SEG International Conference and Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia. 

Jacquet, S.M.*, Brock, G.A. & Paterson, J.R. (2014) New data on Oikozetetes (Mollusca, Halkieriidae) from the lower Cambrian of South Australia. p. 543 In 4th International Palaeontological Congress, The history of life: A view from the Southern Hemisphere, Mendoza, Argentina. Abstract Volume.

Jacquet, S.M.*, Brock, G.A. & Skovsted, C.B. (2014) Reassessment of lower Cambrian molluscan biostratigraphy from South Australia. p. 21 in Devaere, L., Clausen, S. & Álvaro, J.J. (eds.) Stratigraphic overview of the Ediacaran and Cambrian from the Anti-Atlas, Morocco. University of Lille 1, France.

Teaching

Mizzou

Graduate Courses

• GEOL 8085 Problems: New Methods in Paleontology (co-taught with J. Schiffbauer) 

• GEOL 8002 Topics: Introduction to Image Processing, Analysis, and Visualization (co-taught with J. Schiffbauer)

Split-level Courses

• GEOL 4002/7002   Carbonate Depositional Environments

• GEOL 4002/7002   Curation and Care of Natural History Collections

Undergraduate Courses

• GEOL 3800 Sedimentology & Stratigraphy (with laboratory)

• GEOL 1400 Themes: Rocks on Reel

• GEOL 1200 Environmental Geology (with laboratory) 

Macquarie University

Teaching Assistant and Lecturer: Palaeontology: the history of life [BIOL261/263]; Biological Sciences capstone [BIOL362]; Marine Depositional Environments [GEOS206]; Introduction to Field Geology [GEOS226]; Life, the Universe and Everything [GEOS204]; Marine Geoscience [GEOS126]; Planet Earth [GEOS112]

Grants and fellowships

University of Missouri Research Council. PI. S.M. Jacquet, Co-PIs: T. Selly & Tackett, L. Ancient Appetites: Resolving dietary preferences in Cretaceous fish through the lens of fossilized feces ($12,678), Nov 2024 – 2025.

NSF EAR - Instrumentation & Facilities. PI T. Selly, Co-PIs K.M. Middleton, C.M. Holliday, J.D. Schiffbauer and S.M. Jacquet. EA: Upgrade of the X-ray tomographic microscope to expand operations at the University of Missouri X-ray Microanalysis Laboratory ($624,996), Jul 2023 – Jun 2025.

MU-CAS Student Success Proposal. PI S.M. Jacquet, CO-PIs: J.D Schiffbauer & H. Lamadrid. Enhancing Student Success at Mizzou:

Modernizing the Geological Sciences Teaching Collections ($100,000), Jan 2022 – 2023.

Swedish Research Council. PI. C. Skovsted/T. Topper, Co-PIs: M.J. Betts and S.M. Jacquet. Engineering the Cambrian explosion: The role of reef environments as drivers of early animal evolution ($400,692). Jan 2022 – 2025. 

American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund. PI. S.M. Jacquet. Scratching the disconformity surface: Formation of the lower Cambrian Flinders Unconformity and distal equivalents in the Arrowie Basin, South Australia ($110,000), Aug 2022 – 2023.

Paleontological Society Outreach and Education Grant. PI. S.M. Jacquet, D. Oprean,  L.E. Speir. Bridging the gap: creating a virtual field environment to uncover midwestern geologic history ($2,477), 2021 -2022.

University of Missouri Research Council. PI. S.M. Jacquet, Co-PIs: T. Selly, J.D. Schiffbauer: X-ray tomographic microscopy shines a light on fossilized feces to unravel feeding behaviors of 35 million-year-old vertebrates from Montana ($9,789), Jan 2020 – 2022

NSF EAR - Sedimentary Geology and Paleontology (SGP) Division. PI: S.M. Jacquet, Co-PI: T. Selly. Plugging the preservational pipeline: An integrated approach to tracking the taphonomic histories of Cambrian skeletal fossil assemblages ($343,878), Sept 2019 – 2023.

University of Missouri Postdoctoral Travel Award ($300), Jul 2018

University of Missouri Preparing Future Faculty for Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship Oct 2017-2019

University of New England Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined in place of MU Preparing Future Faculty Postdoc) Jan 2017