Contact Information
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
214 Bessey Hall
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588
T: (402) 472-2663
zkita@huskers.unl.edu
Previous Education
I completed a B.S. in Geobiology from Pennsylvania State University in 2009. I completed my senior thesis with Dr. Russell Graham.
Following graduation I moved to Lincoln, Nebraska to work with Dr. Ross Secord. I completed my M.S. in 2011 with a topic focusing on vertebrate paleontology and stable isotope geochemistry.
Current Research
Aspidolithus parcus parcus from Campanian, Chalk Monuments of Western Kansas
Western Kansas
I am currently working on a Ph.D. with Dr. David Watkins examining the geochronological sequence of calcareous nannofossil events in the Santonian through lower Campanian of the Western Interior Basin of North America.