* Indicates undergraduate mentee
- Ball, M.P., Hopkins, S.S.B., Cham, M.R., & C.A.E. Strömberg. The small mammal fauna of Beatys Butte (Harney County, Oregon, U.S.A.). Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (2026), Cleveland, OH. [Poster]
- Schweikhard, S.*, Hopkins, S.S.B., & M.P. Ball. Miocene mammalian community structure evolution in response to vegetation change in Nebraska. Undergraduate Research Symposium (2026), University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. [Poster]
- Sucec, K.*, Hopkins, S.S.B., & M.P. Ball. Phylogenetic Signal in the Order Carnivora. Undergraduate Research Symposium (2026), University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. [Poster]
- Quintanilla, A.L., Ball, M.P., & S.S.B. Hopkins. Phylogeny and ontogeny of a middle Miocene kentriodontid (Cetacea: Odontoceti) from Oregon. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting (2026), Portland, OR. [Poster]
- Ball, M.P. & S.S.B. Hopkins. Reassessing Rodent Diversity in the Oligo-Miocene of the Pacific Northwest Using Museum Dark Data. GSA Connects (2025), San Antonio, TX. [Poster]
- Ball, M.P., Poorboy, D.M., & J.J.M. Calede. Exploring the evolution and ecology of geomorph rodents using bite force analysis and GIS. North American Paleontological Convention (2024), Ann Arbor, MI. [Poster]
- Ball, M.P., Poorboy, D.M., & J.J.M. Calede. A Deep Time Perspective on Bite Force: A Case Study in Geomorph Rodents. Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (2023), Cincinnati, OH. [Poster]
- Hunt, M.E., Ball, M.P., Claxton, A., Martin, R.A., Jimenez-Hidalgo, E., & J.J.M. Calede. Contrasting body size evolution in entoptychine and geomyine gophers (Rodentia, Geomyidae). Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (2023), Cincinnati, OH. [Poster]
- Ball, M.P., Poorboy, D.M., Socki, F., & J.J.M. Calede. The ecology and evolution of bite force in geomorph rodents. Great Lakes Student PaleoConference (2022), Chicago, IL. [Poster]
- Ball, M.P., Poorboy, D.M., Socki, F., & J.J.M. Calede. Bite force estimates in geomyoid rodents: ecological and evolutionary implications. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting (2022), Phoenix, AZ. [Poster]