Dr. Morris-Smith is an expert in Paleontology with an education background in geology and biology that includes stratigraphy, structural geology, paleoecology, vertebrates, invertebrates, botany, paleontology, and evolution. She is well qualified to teach the Evolution of the Earth (cross-listed BIOL 4301 and GEOL 4301) and Historical Geology. Her current research program focuses on atmospheric science and she has students engaged in this research program with her (GEOL 3300).