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PRI was founded in 1932 by Gilbert Harris, a professor of geology at Cornell University from 1894 to 1934. Frustrated by the university's lack of assurance for the safety and perpetuation of his fossil collections and printing enterprise, Bulletins of American Paleontology, Harris established PRI as a separate organization, unaffiliated with Cornell, to house his collection of fossils and ...
Patrick Scott Druckenmiller is a Mesozoic paleontologist, taxonomist, associate professor of geology, Earth Sciences curator, and museum director [1] [2] of the University of Alaska Museum of the North, where he oversees the largest single collection of Alaskan invertebrate and vertebrate fossils. [3]
Nora Noffke is an American geologist who is a professor in the Department of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. Noffke's research focuses on the sedimentology of biofilm forming sedimentary structures in modern aquatic environments, where clastic deposits dominate. Such structures occur in the fossil ...
Kevin Padian (born 1951) is an American paleontologist. He is Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, Curator of Paleontology, University of California Museum of Paleontology, and was President of the National Center for Science Education from 2007 to 2008. [1]
For students, the program is available as a for-credit field paleontology course through Montana State University, Billings. From 2017 to 2019, Elevation Science also offered a dinosaur-themed summer camp program entitled Dinosaur Treasures in Our Backyard for children throughout rural Carbon County, Montana and in Cody, Wyoming.
Butler's undergraduate degree is a BSc in geology from the University of Bristol (2002). His Ph.D., in 2007, is from the University of Cambridge. [1]He then worked at the London Natural History Museum as, first a postdoctoral research assistant (2006–2008), and then a NERC researcher co-investigator (2008–2009).
Guntupalli Veera Raghavendra Prasad (born 1958) is an Indian paleontologist and former head of the department of geology at the University of Delhi. [1] He is known for his studies on the Mesozoic vertebrate groups of India [2] and is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. Indian Academy of Sciences, [3] Indian National Science Academy [4] and the National ...
Michael James Benton (born 8 April 1956 [2]) is a British palaeontologist, and emeritus professor of vertebrate palaeontology in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] His published work has mostly concentrated on the evolution of Triassic reptiles but he has also worked on extinction events and faunal ...