Previous Education:
The University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, B.S. in General Geology, 2007.
Undergraduate Thesis: "A Detailed Morphological Analysis of the Uropeltid Plectrurus aureus Beddome, 1880 Incorporating X-ray Computed Tomography."

UTIG Advisor: Mead Allison

Research Topic:
Implications of Black Mangrove Colony Expansion in Gulf of Mexico (GOM) Coastal Wetlands on Sea Level-induced Land Loss and Estuarine Productivity.
Rebecca is examining the soil chemistry and sediment properties of mangrove forested and marsh grass areas along the coast to determine the implications of mangrove expansion on land surface elevation/land loss and estuarine productivity in the GOM.

Presentations and Publications:
Comeaux R.S., Olori J.C., Bell C.J. Cranial osteology and preliminary phylogenetic assessment of Plectrurus aureus Beddome, 1880 (Squamata: Serpentes: Uropeltidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society (accepted for publication 31 March 2009).

Presentation-Texas Academy of Science (TAS): Abstract over summer work in Canyon Lake, TX accepted-presented in March 2007.

Awards:
American Federation of Mineralogical Societies Foundation Scholarship, 2009
COOP Undergraduate Research Fellowship Award, 2007
Udden, Hal H. Bybee Memorial, and JSG Academic Scholarship Funds, 2005, 2006 and 2007