24 July 2002 The Biology Department would like to recognize the winners of this year's Edna R. Green Award, Neysa Cristol Adams Prize, and Chair's Award for Excellence in Biology. Congratulations to these Biology Graduates for their academic success. In addition, we would like to congratulate Dr. Sally Zigmond for winning this year's Biology Department Award for Excellence in Teaching. contact ...

Computational Paleontology Welcome to my Computational Paleontology homepage! This page is devoted to the use of mathematical models, simulation, computer graphics and computers in general in paleontology: Simulation of ontogeny (growth and form) Simulation of evolution and population genetics Population dynamics Simulation in functional morphology (mechanics, fluid dynamics etc.) Computer ...

Richard Owen (1804-1892) But can the various structures which Comparative Anatomy now unfolds, be referred to one, or do they manifest different types This is a question which is now in progress of Solution. . . . -- Richard Owen, Hunterian Lectures for 1837 Biographical Data Richard Owen was born in Lancaster, England, on July 20, 1804. His family traced its ancestry back to both Lancashire ...

The Bone Zone (TM) Paleontologists tell all about how they do it. Exclusive to The Dinosaur Interplanetary Gazette!Profile of Mark Norell ...

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-1873) I trust to outlive this mania (1867: in reference to Darwinism) Key figure in the history of organismal biology and geology. Formulated theory of the Ice Ages (i.e., that pre-historical glacial advances were due to world-wide climatic changes); idealist and leading exponent of creationism in the tradition of Cuvier (his mentor in Paris); founder of ...

Michal Kowalewski: Assistant Professor of Geobiology Office:3063 Derring Hall Phone: 540-231-5951 Fax: 540-231-3386 E-mail: michalk@vt.edu Instruction Research Publications Paleobiology Home Page CV How to Get to My House Note: Map oriented with North down Research Interests: Topics: Paleoecology, Taphonomy, Morphospace, Ichnology, Computer-Intensive Statistical Methods Organisms: Lingulid ...

Jere H. Lipps Evolutionary Paleobiology Group Evolution, Paleobiology, Ecology and Biogeography Background on this page and apertural image below is of the planktic foraminiferan Protentella prolixa Lipps, 1964, from the Miocene of Southern California. Contact Information for Group: Department of Integrative Biology & Museum of Paleontology University of California, Berkeley CA 94720 Lab ...

Homepage for the Reef Indicators Lab, USF-Marine Science ...

Contents | Next Born: Lyme Regis, England, May 21, 1799 Died: Lyme Regis, England, March 9, 1847 Finder of Fossils Mary Anning lived through a life of privation and hardship to become what one source called the greatest fossilist the world ever knew. * Anning is credited with finding the first specimen of Ichthyosaurus acknowledged by the Geological Society in London. She also discovered the ...

Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892) was a pioneering British comparative anatomist who coined the term dinosauria (from the Greek 'deinos' meaning 'fearfully great', and 'sauros' meaning 'lizard').

Othniel Charles Marsh (1831-1899) Along with J. Leidy and E. Cope, one of America's three great 19th century vertebrate paleontologists. Bitter enemy of Cope. Nephew of George Peabody, who as a wealthy benefactor of Yale University supported Marsh's research. As head of the Yale Peabody Museum, Marsh had a large technical staff; several former employees became disgruntled over his appropriation ...

James M. Clark Ronald Weintraub Associate Professor of Biology Systematics and Paleontology of Dinosaurs and Crocodylomorpha Department of Biological Sciences George Washington University 2023 G Street. NW Washington, D.C. 20052 344 Lisner Hall (office); 401 Bell Hall (lab) Tel. Lab: (202) 994-9210 Tel. Office: (202) 994-7144 Tel. Secretary: (202) 994-6090 Fax: (202) 994-6100 E-Mail: jclark@gwu.

James W. Valentine Active Emeritus Department of Integrative Biology University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 Telephone: (510) 643-5791 Email: jwvsossi@socrates.berkeley.edu Recent Publications: Valentine, J. W. and A. G. Collins (2000). The significance of moulting in Ecdysozoan evolution. Evolution & Development 2(3): 152-156. Valentine, J. W. (2000). Two genomic paths to the evolution of ...

John C. Merriam (1869-1945) Born in 1869 in Hopkinson, Iowa, John C. Merriam started his paleontological career in the usual way, collecting the fossils found near his home -- specifically, Paleozoic invertebrates. He received a bachelor's degree from Lenox College in Iowa, and then came to the University of California to study geology and botany. As was usual for American scientists at the ...

Steven M. Holland Associate Professor B.S., University of Cincinnati, 1985 Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1990 James Lee Wilson Award, SEPM C.V. Research Interests My research interests lie primarily in the integration of paleontology and sequence stratigraphy, but I also pursue a number of other more purely sequence stratigraphic projects. (1) How sequence stratigraphy controls the occurrence of ...

Gerald R. Smith Title Director, Museum of Zoology Curator of Fishes, Museum of Zoology Curator of Lower Vertebrates, Museum of Paleontology Professor of Biology Professor of Geological Sciences Address Fish Division, Museum of Zoology 1039A Ruthven Museum 1109 Geddes Ave. University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079 Phone: 313-764-0491 Fax: 313-763-4080 G. R. Smith Publications Fossil Fishes ...

Cuvier, Georges (1769-1832) ...

Charles Garrett Messing Professor of Oceanography Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center 8000 North Ocean Drive, Dania Beach, Florida 33004 Adjunct Associate Professor Department of Geological Science University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124 messingc@nova.edu PH: 954-262-3600 FX: 954-262-4098 Research Interests Systematics, phylogeny, biogeography and ecology of living crinoids ...

Louis Agassiz on Darwinism and Evolution ...

Department of Geology Dr. J Bret Bennington Paleontology / Paleoecology B.S. University of Rochester, 1985 Ph.D. Virginia Tech, 1995 Office: 138 Gittleson Hall Phone: 516-463-5568 Fax: 516-463-5120 Email: Geojbb@hofstra.edu Teaching Physical Geology 1C Geomorphology 33 Sedimentation 135 Historical Geology 2C Environmental Science 601 Hydrogeology 121 Citing Web Articles Dinosaurs 06C ...

Current research projects include studying the tooth replacement rates of the white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, the spiny dogfish, Squalus acanthias, and lanternsharks, genus Etmopterus. Links at the bottom of the page are given to a published article on Carcharocles megalodon.

A history of dinosaur hunting and reconstruction, particularly the evolving shape of Iguanodon from Gideon Mantell's discovery in Cuckfield to present day ...

Christopher A. McRoberts Assistant Professor of Geology (SUNY Cortland) Research Associate (American Museum of Natural History) PhD (1994) Syracuse University Bowers Hall, Rm. 348, Voice: (607) 753-2925 mcroberts@cortland.edu Teaching: There is always something new in geology. Imagine having to teach calculus! -Richard Cowen Physical Geology (GLY 261) occasional Historical Geology (GLY 262) ...

Paul J. Morris President and CEO of Athro, Limited Voice Phone Number: 215-699-2342 E-mail Address: mole@morris.net Postal Address: 2256 Bethel Road Lansdale, PA 19446 USA I am also the Biodiversity Information Manager at The Academy of Natural Sciences, where I oversee the databases for all the biodiversity collections, and do research in paleontology. Research Interests I am an invertebrate ...

Department of Geology Lisa E. Park Assistant Professor Specialties: Ostracodes, paleoecology, climate change, phylogeny reconstruction, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, taphonomy, biodiversity, large lakes, wetlands, small mammals Ph.D., 1995, University of Arizona M.S., 1991, University of Arizona B.A., 1988, The College of Wooster 122 Crouse Hall University of Akron Akron, OH 44325-4101 ...

Owen's Position in the History of Anatomical Science Rev. Richard Owen, The Life of Richard Owen (1894) Scientific Memoirs IV THE attempt to form a just conception of the value of work done in any department of human knowledge, and of its significance as an indication of the intellectual and moral qualities of which it was the product, is an undertaking which must always be beset with ...

Nan Crystal Arens Dr. Arens has relocated to: Department of Geosciences Hobart & William Smith Colleges Geneva, NY 14456 Tel. 315-781-3930 e-mail. arens@hws.edu ...

ASAP Articles - Finding life in ancient corals - Dorothy Hill. Also contains links to archival and history of Australian science, technology and medicine resources.

Carl W. Stock Professor B.A. 1967, Hartwick College; M.A. 1974, State University of New York at Binghamton; Ph.D. 1977, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill E-mail: cstock@wgs.geo.ua.edu Research Interests Research centers on the paleontology of stromatoporoids, including taxonomy, evolution, paleoecology, biostratigraphy, and paleobiogeography. More specifically, this research involves ...

Marlow G. Pellatt B.Sc. (1990); Ph.D. (1996) Simon Fraser University Biography I am currently the Coastal Ecologist for Parks Canada, Western Canada Service Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia. My Research Focus is on the ecological integrity, biological diversity, and paleoecology of Canada's national parks. I recently completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship with Simon Fraser University and the ...

Roy E. Plotnick Professor A.B. Columbia University, 1976 M.S. University of Rochester, 1978 Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1983 General Research Interests Invertebrate paleobiology; paleoecology; mathematical methods and models; fossil preservation; paleobiomechanics Current Research Projects Spatial statistics in ecology and stratigraphy, especially tools for data-model comparisons Spatially ...

T. Markham Puckett Assistant Research Geologist B.S., Biology and Geology, 1983, University of Southern Mississippi M.S., Geology, 1988, Mississippi State University Ph.D., Geology, 1993, University of Alabama E-mail: mpuckett@wgs.geo.ua.edu Research Interests Dr. Puckett's research interests focus on the biostratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy of the northern Gulf Coastal Plain. He has ...

Gar W. Rothwell Ohio University Presidential Research Scholar Professor of Environmental and Plant Biology Ph.D., University of Alberta, 1973 Phone: 740-593-1129, 740-593-1118 Fax: 740-593-1130 rothwell@ohio.edu Courses Taught BIOL 111 (Introduction to Plant Biology, 2000) PBIO 460/560 (Paleobotany, 2000 ) PBIO 308/508 (Morphology of Vascular Plants, 2001) PBIO 691 (Phylogenetic Nomenclature ...

A.W. Crompton Fisher Professor of Natural History Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard University MCZ Labs 204 26 Oxford Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 In studies of the masticatory system in recent and fossil vertebrates, Professor Crompton's laboratory uses cinefluoroscopy, electromyography and in vivo bone stain to determine the order of contraction of all the muscles involved in food ...

Colin D. Sumrall Ph. D., University of Texas at Austin, 1996 csumral@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu Research Interests: Phylogenetic systematics of Echinodermata (star fish, sea urchins, and their relatives). Phylogeny and late evolution of isorophinid edrioasteroids. Role played by fossils and long branches in phylogenetic systematics. Role of hard substrates in the early evolution of Echinodermata.

David L. Meyer Professor Ph.D., Yale Invertebrate paleobiology Office: Geology/Physics 505 Phone: (513) 556-4530 E-mail: David.Meyer@UC.EDU My research interests lie in the field of invertebratepaleontonlogy. Specifically, I am concerned withpaleobiology, the study of such aspects of ancientorganisms as ecology and functional morphotogy, which relates to the understanding of the ...

Back to Faculty Personal Home Page Dana H. Geary Associate Professor Paleobiology Ph.D., Harvard University phone: (608) 263-7754 email: dana@geology.wisc.edu Research My primary interest is in the patterns and processes of evolutionary diversification. I also have a strong focus on paleoecology and paleoenvironments, as they provide the context for evolutionary change. Much of my work involves ...

Madeleine Briskin Professor Ph.D., Brown Paleo-oceanography, Paleoclimatology, and Micropaleontology Office: Geology/Physics 507 Phone: (513) 556-3009 E-mail: Madeleine Briskin@UC.EDU Representative Publications: Paleocene Sea Level Movements with a 430, 000 year Quasi-periodic Cyclicity. 5, no. 2 (Apr. 1990, late publications Sept. 1990; with R. H. Fluegeman, Jr.). Paleocene Benthonic ...

Gwen M. Daley gdaley@geology.wisc.edu Department of Geology and Geophysics University of Wisconsin 1215 West Dayton Street Madison, Wisconsin Figure 1. Highly speculative reconstruction of the Ordovician bivalve Ambonychia radiata. Click here for more about my research. Research Interests and Resume Molluscan Databases Resume Research Interests and Publications Current Research PROFESSIONAL ...

Dr. Steve Hageman department of geology appalachian state university Courses - Research - Personal Page - contact me ...

Associate Professor on Stratigraphy, Historical Geology and Marine Geology Voice : +55 21 2598-3293 Fax : +55 21 2598-3294 E-Mail : lborghi@geologia.ufrj.br EDUCATION Ph.D., 2002, Geology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro M.Sc., 1993, Geology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro B.Sc., 1989, Geology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro RESEARCH INTEREST Sedimentology (provenance, dispersal ...