EDUCATION                                                                                                                                                   

[2014-2019]      Ph.D. Geological Sciences & Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

[2023-Present]  Assistant Professor of Research, University of Texas at Arlington

2022-Present]  Research Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Reno

[2022]              Community Director, Postdoctoral Association, University of Nevada, Reno

[2020-2022]     Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Biology, University of Nevada, Reno

[2016-2018]      Paleobotany Assistance, Florida Natural History Museum

[2015]              Taxon Contributor, Diatoms of North America, https://diatoms.org/contributor/BehnazBalmaki

 

SELECTED CONFERENCES &PUBLICATON 

• Balmaki, B., Rostami, M.A., Christensen, T., Leger, E.A., Allen, J.M., Feldman, C.R., Forister, M.L., Dyer, L.A., 2022. Modern approaches for leveraging biodiversity collections to understand change in plant-insect interactions. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 10:924941.

• Balmaki, B., Christensen, T., Dyer, L.A., 2022. Reconstructing butterfly-pollen interaction networks through periods of anthropogenic drought in the Great Basin (USA) over the past century. Anthropocene. 37:100325.

• Balmaki, B., Christensen, T., Dyer, L.A., 2021.Quantifying Great Basin Butterfly-Pollen Networks Over a 100 -Year Time Series, Geological Society of America, Portland, USA, October 10-13

• Balmaki, B., Wigand, P., Frontalini, F., Shaw, A. T., Avnaim-Katav, S., Rostami, M.A., 2019. Late Holocene Paleoenvironmental Changes in the Seal Beach Wetland (California, USA): A Micropaleontological Perspective. Quaternary International. 530-531: 14-24.

• Balmaki, B., Wigand, P., Frontalini, F., Shaw. A, T., Avnaim-Katav, S., Rostami, M.A., 2019. Using Microfossils toReconstruct, Paleoclimatology and Paleo-seismic activities in Southern California Coastal Marsh, 11th North American Paleontological Convention (NAPC), Riverside, California, USA June 23-27.

• Rostami, M.A., M., Frontalini, F., Leckie, M., Coccioni, R., Font, E., Balmaki, B., 2019. Benthic foraminifera across the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary in the eastern Tethys (northern Alborz, Galanderud section): Extinction pattern and paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Journal of Foraminifera research.50(1): 25-40.

• Rostami, M.A., Frontalini, F., Leckie, M., Coccioni, R., Font, E., Balmaki, B., Dyer, L., 2019. Extinction Pattern and Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction Across the Cretaceous/Paleogene Boundary in the Eastern Tethys, NorthernAlborz: Using Benthic Foraminifera, 11th North American Paleontological Convention (NAPC), Riverside, California, USA, June 23-27.

• Balmaki, B., Wigand, E.P., Frontalini, F., Leeper, J.R., Carlin, J., 2017. Using Saltmarsh Foraminifera and Diatoms in the Seal Beach Wetlands, Southern California, as proxies of Sea Level Changes, American Geophysical Union, New Orleans, USA, December 11-15.

• Balmaki, B., Wigand, E.P., Leeper, J.R., Carlin, J., 2017. Using Diatoms to Reconstruct Past Depositional Environments in the Seal Beach Wetland, Geological problem solving with microfossils, North American Micropaleontology conference, Houston, USA, April 5-9.

• Leeper, J.R., Rhodes, Brady, B.P., Kirby, M., Scharer, M.K., Starratt, W.S., Hemphill-haley, E., Bonuso, N., Balmaki, B., Garcia, J.D., Creager, D., 2014. Evidence of coseismic subsidence along the newport-inglewood fault zone during the late Holocene, GSA Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, October 19-22.

• Medina, L. Wigand, P.E., Balmaki, B., Negrini, R., 2014. Pollen, geochemisty, and paleoclimatic implications ofTulare Lake sediments, San Joaquin Valley, CA over the past 19 ka. P63. Bakersfield, California, USA, April 27-30.

• Balmaki, B., Wigand, P.E., 2013. New Perspectives on the Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene Vegetation Transition in the Northern Mojave Desert, Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, USA, October27-30.