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Research Scientist | Paleontologist | Biostratigrapher

Profile Summary
Subject Matter Expertise
Services
Writing Technical Writing
Research Market Research, User Research, Feasibility Study, Fact Checking, Gray Literature Search, Systematic Literature Review
Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting
Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Data Visualization, Data Insights
Work Experience

Physical Scientist

Natural Resources Canada

January 2022 - Present

Paleontological Collections Preparator

Royal BC Museum

May 2016 - March 2017

Education

PhD (School of Earth and Ocean Sciences)

University of Victoria

September 2017 - August 2021

MSc (School of Earth and Ocean Sciences)

University of Victoria

September 2015 - August 2017

Cultural Resource Management Diploma

University of Victoria Division of Continuing Studies

September 2011 - May 2013

BA, Political Science

University of Victoria

January 2006 - October 2010

Certifications
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Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Calcareous dinoflagellate cyst distribution across the K/Pg boundary at DSDP site 577, Shatsky Rise, western North Pacific Ocean @article{2021, doi = {10.1016/j.marmicro.2021.102057}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.marmicro.2021.102057}, year = 2021, month = {sep}, publisher = {Elsevier {BV}}, volume = {168}, pages = {102057}, author = {Sandy M.S. McLachlan and Vera Pospelova}, title = {Calcareous dinoflagellate cyst distribution across the K/Pg boundary at {DSDP} site 577, Shatsky Rise, western North Pacific Ocean}} . Marine Micropaleontology.
Sandy M. S. McLachlan(2021). Phelodinium fensomei sp. nov.: a protoperidineacean dinoflagellate cyst from the lower Paleocene (Danian) of the Oyster Bay Formation, Vancouver Island, Canada . Palynology. p. 1--11. Informa {UK} Limited
Sandy M.S. McLachlan and Vera Pospelova and Elaine C. Humphrey(2021). Vesiculation in the dinoflagellate cyst Cannosphaeropsis franciscana Damassa, 1979 across the K/Pg boundary (Vancouver Island, Canada) with implications for spiniferate gonyaulacacean taxonomy and ecophenotypy . Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 292. p. 104452. Elsevier {BV}
Sandy M.S. McLachlan and Vera Pospelova(2021). Dinoflagellate cyst-based paleoenvironmental reconstructions and phytoplankton paleoecology across the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary interval, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada . Cretaceous Research. 126. p. 104878. Elsevier {BV}
Sandy M. S. McLachlan and Vera Pospelova and Richard J. Hebda(2019). Areoligeracean dinoflagellate cysts from the upper Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada . Palynology. 43. (4). p. 669--689. Informa {UK} Limited
(2019). New and revised species of Archaeopus Rathbun, 1908 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Retroplumidae) from the eastern Pacific . Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen.
McLachlan, S. M. S., Pospelova, V., & Hebda, H. (2018). Dinoflagellate cysts from the upper Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) sedimentary rocks of Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada, with implications for Nanaimo Group biostratigraphy and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. Marine Micropaleontology, 145, 1–20 .
McLachlan, S. M. S., Kaiser, G. W., & Longrich, N. R. (2017) Maaqwi cascadensis: a large, marine diving bird (Avialae: Ornithurae) from the Upper Cretaceous of British Columbia, Canada. PLoS ONE, 12(12): e018947 .
McLachlan, S. M. S., & Haggart, J. W. (2018). Reassessment of the late Campanian (Late Cretaceous) heteromorph ammonite fauna from Hornby Island, British Columbia, with implications for the taxonomy of the Diplomoceratidae and Nostoceratidae. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 16(15), 1247-1299 .