Sentences with phrase «paleontology department»

Volunteers with the Morrison Natural History Museum as a docent and works with their paleontology department uncovering fossils.

Students went to U.C. Berkeley and visited the Paleontology department, among others.

For this research project, Strausfeld teamed up with Gengo Tanaka of the Japan Agency for Marine - Earth Science and Technology in Yokosuka, Japan; Xianguang Hou, director of the Yunnan Key Laboratory for Paleobiology at Yunnan University in Kunming, China; and Hou's colleague Xiaoya Ma who is presently working with Gregory Edgecombe in the paleontology department of the Natural History Museum, London.

For this research project, Strausfeld teamed up with Gengo Tanaka of the Japan Agency for Marine - Earth Science and Technology in Yokosuka, Japan; Xianguang Hou, director of the Yunnan Key Laboratory for Paleobiology at Yunnan University in Kunming, China, and his colleague Xiaoya Ma who is presently working with Gregory Edgecombe in the paleontology department of the Natural History Museum, London.

One of the most important early Neandertal sites was discovered in modern - day Croatia in 1899, when Dragutin Gorjanovic - Kramberger, Director of the Geology and Paleontology Department of the National Museum and Professor of Paleontology and Geology at Zagreb University, alerted by a local schoolteacher, first visited the Krapina cave and noted cave deposits, including a chipped stone tool, bits of animal bones, and a single human molar.

Not exact matches

Kent is passionate about ancient sharks and rays, but he could not do that work because UMD's Department of Entomology, where he had his post, did not have a position for cartilaginous fish paleontology.

In fact, their taxonomic analysis displaces it from its alleged perch on the phylogenetic tree: «The Haarlem specimen is not a member of the Archaeopteryx clade,» says Rauhut, a paleontologist in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at LMU who is also affiliated with the Bavarian State Collections for Paleontology and Geology in Munich.

«This causes a shakeup in the fish family tree, which indicates that the ancestor shared by all ray - finned fishes lived tens of millions of years after previously thought, maybe in the aftermath of a mass extinction event around 360 million years ago that decimated many other groups,» said Friedman, an associate curator at the U-M Museum of Paleontology and an associate professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.

Friedman was supported by a Philip Leverhulme Prize and a Leverhulme Trust Project Grant, and by U-M's Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Museum of Paleontology, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

Jasinski, who is advised by Peter Dodson, a professor of paleontology in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science and professor of anatomy in the School of Veterinary Medicine, collaborated on the paper with Steven C. Wallace, a professor at East Tennessee State University and curator at the East Tennessee State University National History Museum at the Gray Fossil Site.

«In this respect they are believed to have behaved in a similar way to hyenas today,» said the study's lead author, Steven E. Jasinski, a student in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science in Penn's School of Arts & Sciences and acting curator of paleontology and geology at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg.

In their latest study, published today in the journal PLOS ONE, Scott Evans, a graduate student in the Department of Earth Sciences, and Mary Droser, a professor of paleontology, both in UCR's College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, show that the Ediacaran - era fossil animal Dickinsonia developed in a complex, highly regulated way using a similar genetic toolkit to today's animals.

All images © American Museum of Natural History and the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology, AMNH

The latest find was made there in 2010, and this new specimen has now been analyzed by a team of researchers led by LMU paleontologist Oliver Rauhut, a professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences who is also affiliated with the Bavarian State Collections for Paleontology and Geology in Munich.

- Daniel W. McShea Assistant Professor, Museum of Paleontology and Department of Geology, University of Michigan There has already been one relevant experiment.

«Based on this premise, the distribution of sizes within a mammal community can offer us valuable information about its climatic context,» explains Iris Menéndez, a researcher at the Department of Paleontology of the UCM and the Institute of Geosciences (UCM and CSIC).

The reviewer is at the Department of Integrative Biology and Director of the Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 - 4780, USA.

Department of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024, USA.

«This spectacular new predator, one of the largest and best preserved soft - bodied arthropods from Marble Canyon, joins the ranks of many unusual marine creatures that lived during the Cambrian Explosion, a period of rapid evolutionary change starting about half a billion years ago when most major animal groups first emerged in the fossil record,» said co-author Jean - Bernard Caron, senior curator of invertebrate paleontology at the ROM and an associate professor in the Departments of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Earth Sciences at U of T.

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Email: [email protected] EDUCATION: 1990 M.A., Paleontology, Univ. of Maine, Orono ME CERTIFICATION / ENDORSEMENTS: Initial Teaching Certificate — English, History Endorsement EXPERIENCE: 1993 — Present Managed widget department supervising a staff of 45 people with responsibility for a budget of $ 250,000.