Department of Biological Sciences

Ruth A. Stockey

Professor

Mailing address: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta,
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2E9
Office Number: B428 Bio Sciences
Email address: ruth.stockey@ualberta.ca
Fax address: (780) 492-9234
Phone Number: (780) 492-5518 or 492-0078

Academic degrees

• B.Sc. University of Illinois, Chicago Circle
• MSc: Ohio University
• PhD: Ohio State University

Areas of Involvement

Teaching

• Morphology & Evolution of Vascular Plants
• Paleobotany
• Plant Biology
• Flowering Plants of the World
• Special Problems

Administration

• Curator Paleobotanical Collections, Committee of Curators
• SEM User's Group

Other Activities

• Chairman, Board of Directors: International Karate-Do Goju-Kai Association, Canada
• Director of Publicity, IKGAC
• Vice-President: Friends of Goju-Do
• Karate Instructor, Level 1 Certified, Hokkyokuko Dojo

Current Research Interests

Paleobotany, anatomy and morphology of vascular plants and fungi. Phylogenetic trends in gymnosperms, evolution and systematics, especially conifers in the Araucariaceae and Podocarpaceae. Cretaceous and Tertiary plants: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms. Reproductive biology and whole plant biology of fossil aquatic vascular plants.

Recent Publications

RS Currah, RA Stockey and BA LePage. 1998.  "An Eocene tar spot on a fossil palm and its fungal hyperparasite." Mycologia 90 no. 4:  667-673.

GL Hoffman and RA Stockey.  1997.  "Morphology and paleoecology of Ricciopsis speirsae sp.nov. (Ricciaceae), a fossil liverwort from the Paleocene Joffre Bridge locality, Alberta, Canada." Canadian Journal of Botany 754:  1375-1381.

RA Stockey, BJ Frevel and P Woltz. "Cuticle micromorphology of Podocarpus, subgenus Podocarpus, section Scytopodium (Podocarpaceae) of Madagascar and South Africa." International Journal of Plant Science (Accepted for publication June 1998): 18 proof.

RA Stockey, BA LePage and KB Pigg. "Permineralized fruits of Diplopanax (Cornaceae, Mastixioideae) from the middle Eocene Princeton chert of British Columbia." Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology (Accepted for publication 6 February 1998): 20 ms and 1 table.

LePage, BA, RS Currah, RA Stockey and GW Rothwell. 1997. Fossil ectomycorrhizae from the middle Eocene. Amer. J. Bot. 84: 410-412.

Stockey, RA, GL Hoffman and GW Rothwell. 1997. The fossil monocot Limnobiophyllum scutatum: resolving the phylogeny of Lemnaceae. Amer. J. Bot. 84: 355-368.

Stockey, RA and GW Rothwell. 1997. The aquatic angiosperm Trapago angulata from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) St. Mary River Formation of southern Alberta. Int. J. Plant Sci. 158: 83-94.

Pigg, KB and RA Stockey. 1996. The significance of the Princeton chert permineralized floras to the middle Eocene upland biota of the Okanogan Highlands. Washington Geology 24: 32-36.

RA Stockey, H. Ko and P. Woltz. Cuticle micromorphology of Parasitaxus de Laubenfels (Podocarpaceae). International Journal of Plant Science 156 (1995): 723-730.

CJ Phipps, JM Osborn and RA Stockey. Pinus pollen cones from the Middle Eocene Princeton chert (Allenby Formation) of British Columbia, Canada. International Journal of Plant Sciences 156 (1995): 117-124.

GL Hoffman and RA Stockey. Sporophytes, megaspores, and massulae of Azolla stanleyi from the Paleocene Joffre Bridge locality, Alberta. Canadian Journal of Botany 72 (1994): 301-308.

GE Burrows and RA Stockey. The developmental anatomy of cryptogeal germination in bunya pine (Araucaria bidwillii). International Journal of Plant Sciences 155, no. 5 (1994): 519-537.

RA Stockey and KB Pigg. Vegetative growth of Eorhiza arnoldii Robison and Person from the Middle Eocene Princeton chert locality of British Columbia. International Journal of Plant Sciences 155 (1994): 606-616.

RA Stockey, H. Nishida and M. Nishida. Upper Cretaceous araucarian cones from Hokkaido and Saghalien: Araucaria nipponensis sp. nov. International Journal of Plant Sciences 155 (1994): 800-809.

DM Erwin and RA Stockey. Permineralized monocotyledons from the Middle Eocene Princeton chert (Allenby Formation) of British Columbia, Canada: Arecaceae. Palaeontographica Abt. B. 234 (1994): 19-40.

BA LePage, RS Currah and RA Stockey. The fossil fungi of the Princeton chert. International Journal of Plant Sciences 155 (1994): 822-830.

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