Andres Gomez
Andres Gomez
Address
Biologist, Universidad de Antioquia
MSc Earth Science. Universidad EAFIT
agunz77@gmail.com
Education and Degrees
M.Sc. Ciencias de la Tierra y Medio Ambiente. Universidad EAFIT. Medellin, Colombia, 2006. Grant AAPG.
B.Sc. Biology. Universidad de Antioquia. Medellin. Colombia, 2001.
Research Interests
My interests are focused on understanding the diversity of mollusk fossil assemblages from the point of view of trophism and escalation processes, and their relation with preservation of fossil (taphonomic implication), the configuration of assemblages, sizes of populations, and morphological variations through the fossil record, taking into account the life habit and strategy (K or R) of mollusks.
Current Research
My current research intends to understand the uplifting of Eastern Cordillera in Colombia, and its biogeographic implications, trough the reconstructions of paleoenvironments based on malacofauna fossil (taxonomy and taphonomy) of the Magdalena basin (MB) and western foothill of Eastern cordillera in the Llanos basin (LLB). We want to test the hypothesis of the marine incursion during Early Miocene and if it affected the faunas from LLB but not ones occurring in MB. It could be evidencing a considerable topography keeping isolated the population of mollusks from MMV and LLB.
Selected Bibliography
Reconstrucción de Cambios Paleobatimétricos en la región de Cartagena a partir de la Malacofauna fósil.. Gomez, A., Martinez, J.I., Yokoyama, Y. Abstract, IX Congreso Colombiano de Geología. Medellin, Agosto 31 de 2003.. IX Congreso Colombiano de Geología. Medellin, Agosto 31 de 2003.
Evidencias de Cambios Paleobatimétricos en la región de Cartagena, una respuesta a cambios climáticos en el Holoceno?” Gómez, A., Martínez, J.I., Yokoyama, Y. Abstract. XVII Encuentro ANECB. Cambio Climático y sus consecuencias en la Biodiversidad. Medellin, Octubre 2003.
The Late Holocene in the Cartagena region: Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of low marine terraces. Congreso Latinoamericano de Malacologia, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá, 4 al 8 de Julio. 2005.
Huesser Horizon: a lake and marine incursion in northwestern South Anerica during the early Miocene Andres A. Gomez, Carlos Jaramillo, Mauricio Parra., and Andres Mora. PALAIOS, 2009, v. 24, p. 136–147.