Jason D. Hogan
Degrees held:
M.Ed. Science Education from Harvard University
B.A. Earth & Ocean Sciences from Duke University
Degree sought:
Ph.D. Earth Sciences
Advisor:
Dr. David Varricchio
Research:
Jason Hogan studies maniraptoran dinosaur nesting physiology with an emphasis on actualistic methods. He was awarded the Alfred Sherwood Romer Prize (2023) for excellence in original pre-doctoral research by the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology for his experimental work examining oviraptorosaur nesting practices and subsequent hypotheses which offer a step-by-step solution to bridge the evolutionary gap between basal, crocodilian-like guarding of buried eggs and the predominant modern avian strategy of thermoregulatory contact incubation.
He also has an interest in the complex taxonomic problems surrounding the dinosaur Troodon formosus.
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Publications:
Hogan, J. D. (2024). The egg-thief architect: experimental oviraptorosaur nesting physiology, the possibility of adult-mediated incubation, and the feasibility of indirect contact incubation. Paleobiology, 50(1), 108-122.
Hogan, J. D., & Varricchio, D. J. (2023). Chthonic severance: dinosaur eggs of the Mesozoic, the significance of partially buried eggs and contact incubation precursors. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 378(1884), 20220144.
Varricchio, D. J., Hogan, J. D., & Freimuth, W. J. (2021). Revisiting Russell’s troodontid: autecology, physiology, and speculative tool use1. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 58(9), 796-811.
Hogan, J. D., & Varricchio, D. J. (2021). Do paleontologists dream of electric dinosaurs? Investigating the presumed inefficiency of dinosaurs contact incubating partially buried eggs. Paleobiology, 47(1), 101-114.
Varricchio, D. J., Kundrát, M., & Hogan, J. (2018). An intermediate incubation period and primitive brooding in a theropod dinosaur. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 12454.