Luke Rose

Undergraduate research assistant at Appalachian State University with a background in Triassic microvertebrate fossils. Currently researching lungfish tooth plates from the Late Triassic American southwest and Early Triassic South Africa. Focused on quantitative analysis of tooth morphology as well as species diversity.

• SAFE Domestic Travel Grant - ASU - October 2023
• OSR Travel Grant - ASU - March & September 2023
• Summer Accelerator Grant - ASU - May 2023
• McKinney Paleontology Scholarship Fund - ASU - Spring 2023
• Mark DeBroder Memorial Scholarship Endowment for Geology - ASU - Spring 2023
• GES Department Undergraduate Research Assistantship - ASU - Fall 2022 & Spring 2023
• SAFE International Travel Grant - ASU - October 2022
• OSR International Travel Grant - ASU - September 2022
• Spring 2022 URA Award - ASU - Spring 2022
• Promising New GES Major Award - ASU - April 2021
• Dean's List - ASU - Fall 2022-Fall 2023
• Chancellor's List - ASU Fall 2020-Spring 2022
• Credit Suisse Scholarship - Scholarship America - Fall 2020-Spring 2022
• Appalachian Excellence Scholarship - ASU Fall 2020

• Pending for Review–Rose, L.J.P., Heckert, A.B., Lauer, B., and Lauer, R., 2024, Description of a new Upper Triassic lungfish (Sarcopterygii:Dipnoi) locality from New Mexico with a quantitative analysis of Late Triassic lungfish fossils in the American Southwest: Lithodendron, v. 1, p. x.

• Rose, L.J., Heckert, A.B., Hancox, P.J., 2023, Taxonomic significance of lungfish (Sarcopterygii:Dipnoi) tooth plates in the Lower Triassic (Olenekian) Burgersdorp Formation of Driefontein, South Africa: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2023, p. 370.
• Rose, L.J., Crothers, J.P., Heckert, A.B., Nesbitt, S.J., Stocker, M., Lauer, B., Lauer, R, 2022, Osteichthyans and chondrichthyans of the Upper Triassic Homestead Site of East-Central New Mexico, U.S.A., along with a comparison of lungfish (Sarcopterygii:Dipnoi) tooth plates from other Triassic localities across the American Southwest: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2022, p. 287-288.

Co-Authored:

• Carter, C., Rose, L., Heckert, A.B., Lauer, B., Lauer, R., 2023, Taphonomy and preservation bias of microvertebrate body fossils at the Revueltian Homestead Site (Upper Triassic: Norian), Garita Creek Formation of East-Central New Mexico, USA: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2023, p. 111-112.
• Heckert, A.B., Crothers, J.P., Rose, L.J., Nesbitt, S.J., Pugh, I., Stocker, M.R., Barrett, P.M., Wills, S., Ward, D., Lauer, B., Lauer, R., 2023, An exceptionally rich Upper Triassic microvertebrate site from the ?Early Revueltian (Mid-Norian) Garita Creek Formation of East-Central New Mexico, USA: 14th Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota, p. 129-131.
• Crothers, J., Heckert, A.B., Toran, M., Rose, L.J., 2023, What no eye has seen: digitization, 3D printing, and customization as an inexpensive means of reconstructing fossil specimens for exhibitions and outreach: Abstracts of the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Association for Materials and Methods in Paleontology,p. 63-65.
• Crothers, J.P., Pugh, I., Rose, L.J., Heckert, A.B., Toran, M., 2022, Printing, painting, and presenting lost worlds: art and 3D printing as an inexpensive tool for increasing the accessibility of vertebrate fossils in exhibitions and classrooms: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2022, p. 114.