Clastic Sedimentology - Fluvial Sedimentology

Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Continental, Deltaic, Shoreface, and Shallow-Marine Clastic Systems

High-Latitude Clastic Depositional Sequences

Dinosaur-Bearing Clastic Successions and Extinction Events

High-Resolution Imaging (e.g Photography, LiDAR) of Clastic Systems

Paleopedology

Remote Logistics

B.S. Geology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 2002

M.S. Geology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 2005

Ph.D. Geology, The University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 2010

Research Associate Bureau of Economic Geology, Quantitative Clastics Laboratory, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, 2009-2011: Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX

Post Doctoral Fellow, Bureau of Economic Geology, Quantitative Clastics Laboratory, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, 2009-2011: Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX

Research Assistant, Office of Polar Programs Project (OPP 0425636, OPP 0424594): Collaborative Research: An Ancient Arctic Dinosaur Ecosystem from the Late Cretaceous Prince Creek Formation, North Slope, Alaska – A Natural Case Study in a Greenhouse Climate Model- 2005-2009: Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK

Research Assistant, Office of Polar Programs Project (OPP 0126146, OPP 0126086): Late Paleozoic-Mesozoic Fauna, Environment, Climate, and Basinal History, Beardmore Glacier Area, Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica 2002-2005: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Department of Geosciences, Milwaukee, WI

Freelance Photographer, 1988-Present

Burton, D. Flaig, P.P., and Prather, T., (accepted: in revision), Regional controls on depositional trends: Insights from sequence stratigraphic correlation and mapping of the Sego and Loyd Sandstones, Uinta and Piceance Basins of Utah and Colorado, U.S.A.: (Journal of Sedimentary Research)

Flaig, P.P., Hasiotis, S.T., and Jackson, A.M., 2015, An Early Permian, paleopolar, postglacial, river-dominated deltaic succession in the Mackellar-Fairchild Formations at Turnabout Ridge, Central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology , v. x, p. x-x, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.08.004

Suarez, C.A., Flaig, P.P., Ludvigson, G.A., Gonzalez, L.A., Tian, R., Zhou, H., McCarthy, P.J., van der Kolk, D.A., and Fiorillo, A.R., 2015, Reconstructing the paleohydrology of a Cretaceous Alaskan paleopolar coastal plain from stable isotopes of bivalves: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. x, p. x-x, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.07.025

Jackson, A., Hasiotis, S.T., and Flaig, P.P., 2015, Ichnology of a paleopolar, river-dominated, shallow marine deltaic succession in the Mackellar Sea: The Mackellar Formation (Lower Permian) Central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. x, p. x-x, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.07.010

Fiorillo, A.R., McCarthy, P.J., and Flaig, P.P., 2015, A multi-disciplinary perspective on habitat preferences among dinosaurs in a Cretaceous Arctic greenhouse world, North Slope, Alaska (Prince Creek Formation: Lower Maastrichtian): Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. x, p. x-x, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.07.024

van der Kolk, D.A., Flaig, P.P., and Hasiotis, S.T., 2015, Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of a Late Cretaceous, muddy, river-dominated polar deltaic system: Schrader Bluff - Prince Creek Formation transition, Shivugak Bluffs, North Slope of Alaska, U.S.A.: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 85, n. 8, p. 903-936, http://dx.doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2015.58

Flaig, P.P., Fiorillo, A.R., and McCarthy, P.J., 2014, Dinosaur-bearing hyperconcentrated flows of Cretaceous Arctic Alaska: Recurring catastrophic event beds on a distal paleopolar coastal plain PALAIOS, v. 29, p. 594-611, http://dx.doi.org/10.2110/palo.2013.133

Hudock, J.W., Flaig, P.P., and Wood, L.J., 2014, Washover fans: A modern geomorphologic analysis and proposed classification scheme to improve reservoir models: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 84, p. 854-865, http://dx.doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2014.64

Suarez, C.A., Ludvigson, G.A., Gonzalez, L.A., Fiorillo, A. R., Flaig, P.P., and McCarthy, P.J., 2013, Use of multiple oxygen isotope proxies for elucidating Arctic Cretaceous paleohydrology, in Bojar, A.V., Melinte,-Dobrinescu, M.C., and Smit, J., eds. Isotopic Studies in Cretaceous Research, Geological Society of London Special Publication 382, p. 185-202, http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/SP382.3

Flaig, P.P., McCarthy, P.J., and Fiorillo, A.R., 2013, Anatomy, evolution, and paleoenvironmental interpretation of an ancient Arctic coastal plain: Integrated paleopedology and palynology from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Prince Creek Formation, North Slope, Alaska, USA, in Driese, S.G., and Nordt, L.C., eds., New Frontiers in Paleopedology and Terrestrial Paleoclimatology: Paleosols and Soil Surface Analog Systems, SEPM Special Publication 104, p. 179-230

Gulbranson, E., Taylor, E., Taylor, T, Ryberg, P., Isbell, J., and Flaig, P.P., 2012, Permian polar forests: Deciduousness and environmental variation: Geobiology, v. 10, p. 479-495, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1472-4669.2012.00338.x

Burton, D., Dunlap, D.D., Wood, L.J., and Flaig, P.P., 2011, LiDAR Intensity as a remote sensor of rock properties: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 81, p. 399-347, http://dx.doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2011.31

Flaig, P.P., McCarthy, P.J., and Fiorillo, A.R., 2011, A tidally-influenced, high-latitude coastal-plain: The Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Prince Creek Formation, North Slope, Alaska, in Davidson, S., Leleu, S., and North, C. eds., From River to Rock Record: The Preservation of Fluvial Sediments and their Subsequent Interpretation, SEPM Special Publication 97, p. 233-264. http://dx.doi.org/10.2110/sepmsp.097.233

Fiorillo, A.R., McCarthy, P.J., and Flaig, P.P., 2010, Taphonomic and sedimentologic interpretations of the dinosaur-bearing Upper Cretaceous strata of the Prince Creek Formation, northern Alaska: Insights from an ancient high-latitude terrestrial ecosystem. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 295, p. 376-388, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.02.029

Fiorillo, A.R., McCarthy, P.J., Flaig, P.P., Brandlen, E., Norton, D., Jacobs, L., Zippi, P., and Gangloff, R.A., 2010, Paleontology and paleoenvironmental interpretation of the Kikak-Tegoseak Dinosaur Quarry, (Prince Creek Formation: Late Cretaceous), northern Alaska: A multi-disciplinary study of an ancient high-latitude, Ceratopsian dinosaur bonebed, in Ryan, M.J., Chinner-Algeier, B.J., and Eberth, D.A., eds., New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royall Tyrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, p. 456-477, ISBN: 978-0-253-35358-0

Fiorillo, A.R., Tykoski, R., Currie, P., McCarthy, P.J., Flaig, P.P., 2009, Description of two partial Troodon braincases from the Prince Creek Formation (Upper Cretaceous) North Slope, Alaska: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 29, n. 1, p. 178-187

Flaig, P.P. and van der Kolk, D.A., 2015, Depositional environments of the Prince Creek Formation along the east side of the Toolik River, Sagavanirktok Quadrangle, North Slope, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Preliminary Interpretive Report 2015-4, 17 p., 1 sheet. http://dx.doi.org/10.14509/29407