Frank K. McKinney
Department of Geology
Appalachian State University
Boone, North Carolina 28608 USA

Ken (Frank K.) McKinney is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geology, Appalachian State University.  He has been research associate or visiting fellow  at Wolfson and St John’s Colleges of Cambridge University, The Natural History Museum (London), the Virginia Museum of Natural History, The Field Museum (Chicago), and The American Museum of Natural History.

McKinney’s research has centered on fossil and Recent bryozoans, including their taxonomy, evolution, ecology, and functional morphology.  He is coauthor with Jeremy Jackson of Bryozoan evolution (Unwin Hyman, reprinted by University of Chicago Press). The first sight in 1988 of a dredge haul composed largely of erect bryozoans and suspension-feeding echinoderms from the Croatian coast of the Adriatic Sea convinced him that time travel to a shallow Ordovician Sea had just been demonstrated. That and subsequent work with the prolific bryozoan fauna of the northeastern Adriatic Sea has resulted in a book in press with Columbia University Press, The northern Adriatic ecosystem – Deep time in a shallow sea.  Currently he is enmeshed in revision of the fenestrate bryozoan portion of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology.