Education
  • Ph.D., Rice University, Houston, Texas, U.S.A., 1974
  • M.A., Rice University, Houston, Texas, U.S.A., 1973
  • B.A., Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, U.S.A., 1968

Dr. Alan A. Ekdale is a Professor of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Utah.

Dr. Ekdale's research focuses on paleontology and paleoecology of marine invertebrates; animal-sediment interrelationships in continental, intertidal, shallow-marine and deep-sea environments; sedimentologic, stratigraphic, ethologic and environmental implications of trace fossils and ichnofabrics.

Relevant to the biota of the Gulf of Mexico, Dr. Ekdale has published the following:

Ekdale, A. A. 1974. Marine molluscs from shallow-water environments (0–60 meters) off the northeast Yucatan coast, Mexico. Bulletin of Marine Science 24(3): 638–668.