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Pamela Hallock
Pamela Hallock Muller is a scientist and Professor at the University of South Florida in the College of Marine Science. Her research has focused on reef-associated Foraminifera and algal symbiosis, extending into coral-reef ecology, paleobiology and carbonate sedimentology. She is a diversity and inclusion advocate that has championed gender equality for many decades.

Early years and education
Pamela Hallock began life on a small ranch on the Rosebud Reservation in south-central South Dakota. She attended elementary school in a one-room schoolhouse, and started high school in Mission. Her family moved to Missoula, Montana, in 1963, where she completed high school. She received her Bachelor’s degree in zoology from the University of Montana, Missoula in 1969, marrying a fellow zoology major, Robert Muller, in summer 1969 (they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 2019). She received her Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in oceanography from the University of Hawaii in 1972 and 1977 respectively.

Early career
Dr Hallock Muller’s first academic appointment was as assistant professor at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin in Odessa, TX, from 1978–1983. She then moved to the University of South Florida as an associate professor in 1983, earned tenure in 1986, and was promoted to full professor in 1988.

Research
Dr. Hallock Muller’s research career has combined field studies with conceptual synthesis. Her work centers on the role of nutrients, light and ocean chemistry in coral reefs, carbonate sedimentology and paleoceanography. She has studied algal symbiosis in the context of carbonate production, community structure and evolution of coral reefs. A key aspect of her research is the study of reef-associated Foraminifera, including distributions, population dynamics and functional morphologies, with applications in studies of environmental quality, paleoenvironments, carbonate sedimentation, and global environmental change. In addition to many decades of reef research using SCUBA, she participated in a 10-day saturation mission in the NOAA-National Undersea Research Center’s Aquarius Habitat in 1994. She has also participated in numerous research cruises, including the International Ocean Discovery Program’s Leg 194 in 2001. She has collaborated with researchers from around the world, hosting many of them in her lab.

Mentorship, Diversity & Inclusion
Throughout her career, Dr. Hallock Muller has been dedicated to her students, to mentoring women and underrepresented minorities, and has been active in gender-equity issues in academia. She has trained 48 master’s students, 25 Ph.D. students, and has served on a similar number of graduate-student committees. She has received multiple awards for her mentorship including the Association for Women Geoscientists Outstanding Educator Award in 1999, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Minority Ph.D. Program’s Mentor of the Year in 2012, one of the Top 25 women professors in Florida in 2013, and USF graduate-mentor awards in 2014, 2016 and 2018.

Selected Awards and Honors
2012. Elected Fellow, The Paleontological Society.

2015. Joseph A. Cushman Award for Excellence in Foraminiferal Research.

2017    Whos’Who Lifetime Achievement –Education, Science.

2018. Hallock & Schlager (1986) named one of ten “Landmark Papers in Carbonate Sedimentology and Stratigraphy” by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

2019. Raymond C. Moore Medal for Excellence in Paleontological Research, Society for Sedimentary Geology.

Selected Publications
Hallock, P. 1985. Why are larger foraminifera large? Paleobiology 11:195–208.

Hallock, P. and W. Schlager. 1986. Nutrient excess and the demise of coral reefs and carbonate platforms. Palaios 1:389–398.

Hallock, P. and E. C. Glenn. 1986. Larger foraminifera: a tool for paleoenvironmental analysis of Cenozoic carbonate facies. Palaios 1:55–64.

Hallock, P. 1987. Fluctuations in the trophic resource continuum: a factor in global diversity cycles? Paleoceanography 2:457–471. Hallock, P. 1988. The role of nutrient availability in bioerosion: consequences to carbonate buildups. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 63:275–291.

Cockey, E.M., P. Hallock, and B. Lidz. 1996. Decadal scale changes in benthic foraminiferal assemblages off Key Largo, Florida. Coral Reefs 15:237–248.

Hallock, P. 2000. Symbiont-bearing foraminifera: harbingers of global change. Micropaleontology 46(Suppl. 1): 95–104.

Hallock, P., Lidz, B.H., Cockey-Burkhard, E.M., and Donnelly, K.B. 2003. Foraminifera as bioindicators in coral reef assessment and monitoring: [https://doi-org/10.1023/A:1021337310386 The FORAM Index. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 81: 221–238].

Pomar, L., P. Hallock. 2008. Carbonate factories: A conundrum in sedimentary geology. Earth Science Reviews 87: 134–169.

Ross, B.J., Hallock, P. 2016. Dormancy in the Foraminifera: A review. Journal of Foraminiferal Research 46: 358–368.