| Professor emeritus, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences |
| Curator emeritus, Museum of Paleontology |
| University of Michigan |
| 1109 Geddes Avenue |
| Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1079 |
| gingeric@umich.edu : 734-764-0489 (phone): 734-936-1380 (fax) |
Education
| A.B. | 1968 | Princeton University (Geology summa cum laude) |
| M. Phil. | 1972 | Yale University (Geology) |
| Ph.D. | 1974 | Yale University (Geology) |
Research interests
Vertebrate paleontology, especially
(1) the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM), Paleocene-Eocene evolutionary transition,
and origin of modern orders of mammals;
(2) origin and early evolution of whales;
(3) origin and early evolution of primates; and
(4) quantitative approaches to paleobiology and evolution, including rates of evolution on the time scale of the evolutionary process.
Web site
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~gingeric/index.htm
Professional positions
| 1968-1970 |
Mathematics
and Biology teacher, Kongwe Secondary School, P.O. Dowa, |
| 1973,1974 |
Teaching Assistant, Yale University |
| 1974-1979 |
Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan |
| 1979-1983 |
Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan |
| 1981-1983 |
Associate Professor, Departments of Biology and Anthropology, University of Michigan |
| 1983-2011 |
Professor, Depts. of Geological Sciences / Ecology and Evolutionary Biology / Anthropology, University of Michigan |
| 2000-2012 |
Ermine Cowles Case Collegiate Professor of Paleontology, University of Michigan |
| 2011-2014 |
Professor, Depts. of Earth and Environmental Sciences / Ecology and Evolutionary Biology / Anthropology, University of Michigan |
| 2015-pres. |
Professor emeritus, Depts. of Earth and Environmental Sciences / Ecology and Evolutionary Biology / Anthropology, University of Michigan |
Honors and awards
| 1964-1968 |
Princeton University Scholarship |
| 1970-1974 |
James D. Dana Fellowship, Yale University |
| 1973-1974 |
Shadle Fellowship of the American Society of Mammalogists |
| 1975 |
NATO
Postdoctoral Fellow, Université de Montpellier
( |
| 1980 |
Henry Russel Award for scholarly achievement, University of Michigan |
| 1981 |
Schuchert Award, Paleontological Society |
| 1983-1984 |
Guggenheim Fellowship, J. S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |
| 1983-1987 |
Senior Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows |
| 1990-pres. |
Fellow, Geological Society of America |
| 1992-pres. |
|
| 1997 |
Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award, University of Michigan |
| 2000-2012 |
Ermine Cowles Case Collegiate Professor of Paleontology |
| 2001 |
Elected member American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Evolutionary Biology) |
| 2005 |
André Dumont Medal of the Belgian Geological Society |
| 2005-pres. |
Fellow, Paleontological Society |
| 2005-2006 |
Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Forschungspreisträger (Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Germany): research award for senior scientists |
| 2008-2009 |
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program (multiple lectures on each of nine college and university campuses) |
| 2010 |
Elected member American Philosophical Society (Biological Sciences) |
| 2010 |
Honorary ‘Corresponding Member’ Paläontologische Gesellschaft |
| 2010-2012 |
President, Paleontological Society |
| 2012 |
Romer-Simpson Medal of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (remarks) |
Museum service
| 1974-1979 |
Assistant Curator, Museum of Paleontology |
| 1979-1983 |
Associate Curator, Museum of Paleontology |
| 1981-1987 |
Director, Museum of Paleontology |
| 1989-2011 |
Director, Museum of Paleontology |
| 1983-2014 |
Curator, Museum of Paleontology |
| 2015-pres. |
Curator emeritus, Museum of Paleontology |
University service
| 1983-1987 |
Senior Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows |
| 1985,1986 |
College of LS&A, Advisory Committee on Promotions, Natural Sciences |
| 1985-1987 |
Henry Russell Award Committee |
| 1994 |
Faculty Awards Committee, Rackham School of Graduate Studies |
| 2002-2003 |
University of Michigan Exhibit Museum of Natural History, Strategic Planning Team |
| 2004-2006 |
Evolution Theme Semester, LSA, Organizing Committee |
Broader professional service
| 1979-1981 |
Councilor, Paleontological Society |
| 1983-1985 |
Councilor, Society of Systematic Zoology |
| 1987-1991 |
National Research Council, NSF Graduate Fellowship Panel, Earth Sciences (1987, 1989, 1990, 1991) |
| 1996-2006 |
Board of Governors, Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (Vice-Chair 2000-2006) |
| 1999 |
National Science Foundation advisory committee for Human Origins Initiative |
| 1999 |
Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Program review panel |
| 1999-2001 |
International Subcommission Paleogene Stratigraphy (ISPS) working group on Paleocene-Eocene boundary, with meetings in Paris (France, 1999); Powell, Wyoming (U.S.A., 2001); Luxor (Egypt, 2002) |
| 2001 |
Co-organizer with Scott Wing and others of international conference on “Climate and Biota of the Early Paleogene”, July 3-8, Powell, Wyoming (ca. 120 participants from six continents) |
| 2002-2005 |
Paleontological Society Medal Committee, Paleontological Society |
| 2003-2006 |
Romer-Simpson Medal Committee, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (Chair, 2004-2006 ) |
| 2004-2012 |
Voting member, International Subcommission on Paleogene Stratigraphy (ISPS) of the International Commission on Stratigraphy ( ICS ) and International Union of Geological Sciences ( IUGS ) |
| 2006-2013 |
National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration |
| 2010-2012 |
President, Paleontological Society |
| 2010-2012 |
Executive Committee DETELON |
| 2011 |
Leadership Forum and Congressional Visits Day, American Geological Institute (April 19-21) |
| 2011-2012 |
'Transitions' Workshop, National Science Foundation (October 24-25, April 4) |
| 2012-2013 |
Advisory Board, STEPPE (Sedimentary geology, Time, Environment, Paleontology, Paleoclimate, and Energy) |
| 2014-2016 |
Arthur James Boucot Research Grants, Paleontological Society Committee |
| 2014-pres. |
Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research, American Philosophical Society Committee |
Editorial service
| 1980 |
Editor of symposium on Adaptive Grades in the Evolution of Primates published in Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Anthropologie , 71: 113-186 (l980). |
| 1980 |
Editor of Early Cenozoic Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, 100th anniversary commemorative volume published in University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology, 24: 1-146. |
| 1981-pres. |
Associate editor, American Journal of Science |
| 1983-1985 |
Associate editor, Paleobiology |
| 1984 |
Co-editor and organizer (with Catherine Badgley) of Mammals: Notes for a Short Course, published as Paleontological Society Short Course, pp. 1-234 (1984). |
| 1986-1989 |
Associate editor, Journal of Human Evolution |
| 1989-1995 |
Associate editor, Human Evolution (Angelo Pontecorboli, Florence) |
| 1987-1991 |
Associate editor, Paleovertebrata (Université de Montpellier) |
| 1989-1991 |
Associate editor, Paleobiology |
| 1989-2014 |
Editor of Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, and University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology |
| 1990-1991 |
Associate editor, International Journal of Primatology |
| 1991-pres. |
Associate editor, Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France |
| 1991-2000 |
Board of Editors, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution |
| 1992-2003 |
Board of Editors, Journal of Mammalian Evolution |
| 1993 |
Co-editor (Peter Dodson and Philip Gingerich) of Functional Morphology and Evolution (Ostrom Volume) published as American Journal of Science, volume 293A, pages 1-478 (1993). |
| 1996 |
Co-editor (Marc Godinot and Philip Gingerich) of Paléobiologie et Evolution des Mammifères Paléogènes: Volume Jubilaire en Hommage à Donald E. Russell, published as Palaeovertebrata, volume 25, pages 59-426 (1996). |
| 2003 |
Co-editor (Scott Wing, Philip Gingerich, Birger Schmitz, and Ellen Thomas) of Causes and Consequences of Globally Warm Climates in the Early Paleogene, Geological Society of America Special Paper, 369: 1-614. |
| 2004-2007 |
Co-editor (Tomasz Baumiller, Robyn Burnham, Philip Gingerich), Paleobiology |
Invited lectures (1995-present)
| 1995 |
American Museum of Natural History public lecture, New York |
| 1996 |
Turner Lecture, University of Michigan, Department of Geological Sciences, Ann Arbor |
| 1996 |
Kent State University, Department of Geology, Kent, Ohio |
| 1996 |
Wilbert Lecture, Louisiana State University, Department of Geology, Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| 1996 |
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| 1997 |
Special
Lecture, 3rd GEOSAS workshop on Siwaliks of
South Asia, Islamabad, |
| 1997 |
Department of Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| 1997 |
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge |
| 1997 |
Geological Society of America Penrose Conference on Paleocene-Eocene boundary, Albuquerque |
| 1997 |
Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution,
Université de Montpellier, |
| 1998 |
Michigan Alumni Association, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| 1998 |
Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside |
| 1998 |
Conferences
Jacques Monod-- Evolution, CNRS, Roscoff, |
| 1999 |
Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago |
| 1999 |
Early
Paleogene Warm Climates, University of Göteborg, |
| 1999 |
Geological
Survey of |
| 2000 |
Department of Geology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas |
| 2001 |
Department of Biology, Ohio University, Athens |
| 2002 |
Earth History and Paleobiology seminar, Harvard University, Cambridge |
| 2002 |
Maple Scholars program, Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana |
| 2002 |
Georgia
Southern Museum and Department of Geology and Geography, |
| 2002 |
Department of Geology, Yarmouk University, Irbid (Jordan) |
| 2002 |
Department of Biology, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti |
| 2002 |
Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan |
| 2003 |
Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago (Feb. 20) |
| 2003 |
Literature, Science, and Arts Collegiate Lecture, University of Michigan (Mar. 4) |
| 2003 |
Geology Lecture Series, Spokane Community College, Spokane (Mar. 5) |
| 2003 |
Science Speakers Series, Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana (Mar. 19) |
| 2003 |
Plenary lecture Symposium on Paleogene, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium, Aug. 27) |
| 2003 |
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette (Sept. 18) |
| 2003 |
Department of Geology, University of South Dakota, Vermillion (Oct. 6) |
| 2004 |
Northwestern University Medical School Integrated Graduate Program, Chicago (Feb. 24) |
| 2004 |
Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington (May 27) |
| 2005 |
André Dumont Lecture, Belgian Geological Society, Université Catholique, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium; Mar. 1) |
| 2005 |
National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration, Washington, D.C. (Mar. 7) |
| 2005 |
Department of Anatomical Sciences, State University of New York, Stony Brook (May 19) |
| 2005 |
Simons Fest, Duke University (Sept. 16) |
| 2006 |
Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas (Mar. 30-31) |
| 2006 |
Global Change seminar, Yale University, New Haven (Apr. 3) |
| 2006 |
Geowissenschaftliche Kolloquium, Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn (June 29) |
| 2006 |
AIBS Evolution Symposium, National Association of Biology Teachers, Albuquerque (Oct. 14) |
| 2006 |
Koenigswald retirement lecture, Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn (Oct. 27) |
| 2006 |
MARUM-RCOM Seminar, Universität Bremen, Bremen (Nov. 1) |
| 2006 |
Geosciences Colloquium, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich (Nov. 10) |
| 2006 |
Humboldt-Forschungspreisträgers Vortrag, Bonn (Nov. 30) |
| 2006 |
Paleobiologische Kring, Senckenbergmuseum, Frankfurt (Dec. 8) |
| 2007 |
Plenary lecture 2nd International Conference on Geology of Tethys, Cairo University, Egypt (March 20) |
| 2007 |
Alabama Lectures on Life's Evolution , University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, (April 19) |
| 2007 |
Bighorn Basin Coring Project workshop, Powell, Wyoming (June 24) |
| 2008 |
University of Michigan Society of Biology Students, Ann Arbor (Feb. 21) |
| 2008 |
Department of Geology, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio (March 4) |
| 2008 |
Hope College, Holland, Michigan (Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar; Sept. 18-19) |
| 2008 |
Measuring Evolution workshop, Oslo, Norway (Oct. 2-3) |
| 2008 |
Pardee Symposium, Geological Society of America, Houston (Oct. 6) |
| 2008 |
Paleocene Ecological and Climate Change symposium, GSA, Houston (Oct. 7) |
| 2008 |
Centre College, Danville, Kentucky (Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar; Oct. 20-21) |
| 2008 |
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York (Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar; Oct. 30-31) |
| 2008 |
Department of Geology, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt (Nov. 22) |
| 2009 |
Department of Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York (Feb.11) |
| 2009 |
Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, Austin College, Sherman, Texas (Mar. 5-6) |
| 2009 |
Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, Illinois College, Jacksonville, Illinois (Mar. 9-10) |
| 2009 |
Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York (Mar. 26-27) |
| 2009 |
Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, Denison University, Granville, Ohio (Mar. 30-31) |
| 2009 |
Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle (Apr. 7) |
| 2009 |
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey (Apr. 15) |
| 2009 |
Department of Biology, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan (Apr. 17) |
| 2009 |
Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia (Apr. 23-24) |
| 2009 |
Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, University of Oregon, Eugene (Apr. 30-May 1) |
| 2009 |
International Symposium on Paleogene Biota and Stratigraphy of Eastern Asia, Institute for Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Beijing, China (June 15-17) |
| 2009 |
Jeremy Jackson Symposium, North American Paleontological Convention (June 26) |
| 2009 |
Departments of Biology and Geosciences, Indiana/Purdue University Fort Wayne, Indiana (Sep. 18) |
| 2009 |
Darwin Lecture, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas (Oct. 7) |
| 2009 |
Saturday Morning Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Oct. 10) |
| 2009 |
Earthtime, Geological Society of America, Portland, Oregon (Oct. 20) |
| 2009 |
Early Evolution of Primates Symposium, University of Oslo, Norway (Nov. 7) |
| 2010 |
Case Western Reserve Institute for the Science of Origins, Cleveland (Feb. 12) |
| 2010 |
University of Michigan Institute for Humanities Spring Seminar, Ann Arbor (May 14) |
| 2011 |
William R. Farrand Public Lecture, Natural History Museum, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Jan. 21) |
| 2011 |
American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia (April 28) |
| 2011 |
Plenary Lecture, Ontario Ethology, Ecology and Evolution Colloquium, Toronto, Canada (May 7) |
| 2011 |
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (May 25) |
| 2011 |
Natural Science Colloquium, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn (Oct. 7) |
| 2011 |
Plenary Lecture, 22nd International Senckenberg Conference, Frankfurt (Nov. 18) |
| 2012 |
Darwin Lecture, Michigan State University, East Lansing (Feb. 10) |
| 2012 |
Biology and Phi Beta Kappa lectures, University of Mississippi, Oxford (Mar. 30) |
| 2012 |
Institut des Sciences de l´Evolution, Université de Montpellier II, Montpellier, France (Dec. 21) |
| 2013 |
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Nov. 7) |
| 2013 |
Chi Epsilon Civil Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Nov. 20) |
| 2014 |
Saudi Geological Survey, Jeddeh, Saudi Arabia (Mar. 8) |
| 2014 |
Département de Géologie, Université Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco (Oct. 11) |
| 2015 |
Center for Evolutionary Medicine, Arizona State University, Tempe (Feb. 5) |
| 2015 |
International Symposium on Terrestrial Paleocene, Qianshan, Anhui, China (June 3) |
| 2016 |
Darwin Lecture 2016, University of Kentucky, Lexington (Feb. 19) |
| 2016 |
Department of Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook (Apr. 19) |
| 2017 |
Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville (Jan. 27) |
| 2018 |
Departments of Biology and Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham (Oct. 29) |
| 2019 |
Messel Workshop 2019, Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt, Germany (Mar. 26) |
Community outreach
| 2000 |
PBS
documentary on evolution (filmed in laboratory in Ann Arbor and field in |
| 2001 |
British television Channel 4 documentary on Paleocene-Eocene boundary (filmed in field in Wyoming) |
| 2002 |
National Geographic television program in connection with Scientific American article on early evolution of whales (filmed in Ann Arbor) |
| 2002 |
Annenberg-sponsored Oregon Public Broadcasting television program on whales and evolution, target audience: national program for high school teachers (filmed in Ann Arbor) |
| 2003-2006 |
Focal contributor to National Science Foundation Informal Science Education Explore Evolution project (J. Diamond, PI) |
| 2005 |
UNESCO declaration of Wadi Al-Hitan as a World Heritage Site. This University of Michigan fossil-whale research site in Egypt is now visited by ca. 12,000 Egyptian and international students and ecotourists per year. |
| 2005 |
ARD German Television documentary on Wadi Hitan (filmed in Wadi Hitan, Egypt) |
| 2005 |
Film shorts on whale evolution, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa (filmed in Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| 2006 |
National Geographic special on hippos and their relatives (filmed in Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| 2006 |
National Geographic Wild Chronicles (filmed in Wadi Hitan, Egypt) |
| 2007 |
Whale evolution for Fukui Prefectural Museum (filmed in Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| 2008 |
‘Morphed’ Whale Evolution, National Geographic Television (filmed in Wadi Hitan, Egypt, and Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| 2008 |
Primate evolution for Atlantic Productions/History Channel television (filmed in Oslo, Norway) |
| 2008 |
Whale evolution for University of Michigan ‘Out of the Blue’ series, Big 10 Television |
| 2009 |
National Public Radio ‘Science Friday’ discussion of whale evolution (Feb. 6) |
| 2009 |
National Geographic Wild Chronicles #412 ‘Egypt Counter-top Fossils’ (filmed in Egypt and Ann Arbor) |
| 2009 |
Spanish Paleocene-Eocene documentary ‘Flysch, the Whisper of the Rocks’ (filmed in Wyoming, May 17-21) |
| 2009-2010 |
France 3 ‘Thalassa’ television special on whale evolution (filmed in Egypt and in Ann Arbor on Jan. 5-7) |
| 2010 |
National Geographic Magazine feature article ‘Valley of the Whales’ (photography in Egypt and Ann Arbor) |
| 2018 |
PBS 'Lineage' television special on whale evolution (filmed in Washington, D.C.) |
Research grants
| 1977-1982 |
Principal
Investigator of Smithsonian Foreign Currency Program grants entitled
“Fossil mammals in Paleocene and Eocene sediments of |
| 1977-1988 |
Principal Investigator of NSF grant DEB 77-13465 entitled “Evolution of North American Mammal Fauna across the Paleocene - Eocene Boundary”, 9/1/77 - 9/31/78; 10/1/78 - 9/30/80; DEB 80-10846, 10/1/80 - 9/30/82; DEB 82-06242, 10/1/82 - 9/30/84; EAR 84-08647, 10/1/84 - 9/30/86; BSR 86-07481, 10/1/86- 9/30/88. |
| 1980-1984 |
Principal Investigator of NSF grant BNS 80-16742 entitled “Variability and History of Primates”, 10/1/80 - 9/30/84. |
| 1982-1983 |
Principal
Investigator of NSF grant EAR 82-07256 entitled “Geology of Eocene whale-bearing
sediments of |
| 1986-1988 |
Principal Investigator of NSF grant BSR 86-11690 entitled “Reorganization and computerization of fossil vertebrate collection,” 1/1/87 - 12/31/88. |
| 1986-1994 |
Co-Principal
Investigator (with Elwyn Simons) of National
Geographic Society grant “Eocene archaeocete
whales of Fayum Province, |
| 1990-1991 |
Co-Principal Investigator (with C. E. Badgley and D. C. Fisher) of NSF grant BSR 86-05310 (amended) entitled “Coevolution on ecological and evolutionary time scales,” 1/31/90 - 1/31/91. |
| 1990-1992 |
Principal Investigator of NSF grant EAR 89-18023 entitled “Biodiversity at an epoch boundary: Paleocene-Eocene mammals and continental paleoclimates,” 9/1/90-8/31/92. |
| 1991-1993 |
Co-Principal Investigator (with J. Zachos) of NSF grant EAR 91-05147 entitled “Collaborative research on chronostratigraphy and paleoclimate of the Paleocene-Eocene boundary in the Bighorn Basin: an isotopic approach,” 4/1/91-4/1/93. |
| 1995-1997 |
Principal
Investigator of National Geographic Society grant 5537-95 entitled “Eocene
Archaeocete Whales of Sulaiman
Range, Punjab, |
| 1998-2001 |
Principal Investigator of NSF grant EAR 9714923 entitled “Archaeocete whales of Eocene Tethys: geochronology, paleobiology, and evolution,” 6/15/98-6/14/01. |
| 2001-2003 |
Principal Investigator of American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund grant PRF 36318-AC8 entitled “Mammalian immigration, faunal turnover, and climate change through the middle and late Paleocene of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming,” 5/1/01-8/31/03. |
| 2001-2001 |
Principal
Investigator of UM Turner Fund grant entitled “Excavation of first dinosaur
locality in |
| 2001-2001 |
Principal
Investigator of Jurassic Foundation grant entitled “Excavation of first
dinosaur locality in |
| 2002-2004 |
Principal Investigator of NSF grant EAR-0125502 entitled “High-resolution mammal biostratigraphy and response to transient climate change at the Paleocene-Eocene carbon isotope excursion,” 1/15/02-1/15/05. |
| 2002-2003 |
Co-Principal Investigator with G. F. Gunnell of NSF grant BCS-0129601 entitled “Paleocene-Eocene Plesiadapiform primate skeletons in freshwater limestones” 3/1/02-2/28/03. |
| 2002-2005 |
Principal Investigator of NSF grant EAR-0125502 “High-resolution mammal biostratigraphy and response to transient climate change at the Paleocene-Eocene carbon isotope excursion,” 1/15/02-1/15/05. |
| 2004-2005 |
Principal Investigator of National Geographic Society grant 7726-04 entitled “Basilosaurus: Eocene whale evolution and paleontological site protection in Egypt,” 10/1/04-9/30/05. |
| 2005-2006 |
Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (Germany) research award for senior scientists. |
| 2005-2006 |
Principal Investigator of NSF grant OISE-0513544 (U.S.-Egypt Joint Cooperative Research) “Archaeocete whales and other fossil vertebrates of Eocene Wadi Hitan (Fayum),” 9/1/05-8/31/06. |
| 2005-2008 |
Principal Investigator of NSF grant EAR-0517773 “Origin and early evolution of whales in Eocene Tethys (Pakistan),” 9/1/05-9/31/08. |
| 2007-2008 |
Co-PI with W. C. Clyde and S. L. Wing of NSF grant EAR-EAR-0707415 “Bighorn Basin coring project (BBCP) Phase I: workshop,” 1/15/07-2/14-08. |
| 2007-2009 |
Principal Investigator of American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund grant PRF 006227-ACS titled “Biotic Change in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, Before, During, and After the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM): Consistent with Orbital Forcing?” 9/1/07-8/31/09. |
| 2009-2012 |
Principal Investigator of NSF grant EAR-0920972 “Transition to tail-powered swimming in the first fully aquatic whales of Eocene Tethys (Egypt)” 7/1/2009-6/30/2012. |
| 2010 |
Co-PI with W. C. Clyde and S. L. Wing of NSF grant EAR-0958821 “Collaborative Research: Bighorn Basin Coring Project (BBCP) - Targeted Continental Drilling of Paleogene Hyperthermals,” (2010-2013). |
| 2013 |
Co-PI with J. W. Hess and H. E. Harper of NSF grant EAR-120274 STEPPE “Coordinating Office for Research on the Sedimentary Crust, Deep-Time and the Earth-Life System,” (2013-2016). |
Students and student committees
Ph.D. students supervised (University of Michigan
| 1975-1979 |
Kenneth D. Rose (Geological Sciences) |
Professor of Anatomy at Johns Hopkins University |
| 1977-1982 |
David W. Krause (Geological Sciences) |
Professor of Anatomy at Stony Brook University |
| 1979-1984 |
Neil A. Wells (Geological Sciences)) |
Professor of Geology at Kent State University |
| 1980-1986 |
Gregg F. Gunnell (Anthropology) |
Late Director, Division of Fossil Primates, Duke Lemur Center, Duke University |
| 1984-1989 |
J. G. M. Thewissen (Geological Sciences) |
Professor of Anatomy at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine |
| 1991-1995 |
Xiaoyuan Zhou (Geological Sciences) |
Intel Corporation, Portland, Oregon |
| 1992-1996 |
Mark D. Uhen (Geological Sciences) |
Professor of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Earth Sciences, George Mason University |
| 1993-1997 |
William C. Clyde (Geological Sciences) |
Professor of Geology at University of New Hampshire |
| 1996-2001 |
Jonathan I. Bloch (Geological Sciences) |
Professor and Curator at Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida |
| 1998-2004 |
Ross Secord (Geological Sciences) |
Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at University of Nebraska, Lincoln |
| 2002-2008 |
Iyad S. Zalmout (Geological Sciences) |
Paleontologist, Saudi Arabia Geological Survey, Jeddah |
| 2003-2009 |
Aaron R. Wood (Geological Sciences) |
Teaching Professor at Iowa State University, Ames |
| 2005-2011 |
Ryan Bebej (Ecol. Evol. Biology) |
Professor of Biology at Calvin College, Grand Rapids |
M.S. students supervised
| 1976-1978 |
Harvey Deutsch (1978: Geology) |
| 1979-1981 |
William A. Bartels (1981: Geology) |
| 1979-1981 |
Dale A. Winkler (1981: Geology) |
| 1980-1982 |
Amanda Alexander (1982: Geology) |
| 1980-1982 |
Logan Ivy (1982: Geology) |
| 1981-1983 |
Victor Torres (1983: Geology) |
| 1983-1985 |
Paul Koch (1985: Geology; w. D. Fisher) |
| 1990-1992 |
Mark D. Uhen (1992: Geology) |
| 1991-1993 |
William C. Clyde (1993: Geology) |
| 1993-1995 |
Jonathan I. Bloch (1995: Geology) |
| 1997-1999 |
Holly Severson (1999: Biology) |
| 1998-2001 |
Iyad Zalmout (2001: Geology) |
| 2001-2008 |
Tawny Seaton Reynolds (Geology) |
| 2004-2006 |
Thomas P. Eiting (2006, Geology) |
| 2005-2007 |
Brady Foreman (2007, Geology) |
| 2009-2011 |
Michael Cherney (Geology) |
Undergraduates supervised (list is incomplete):
| 1996-1998 |
Kenneth D. Angielczyk |
Geology/Biology: Eocene Asiatosuchus from the Drazinda Formation of Pakistan |
| 1996-1998 |
Angeli Goswami |
Geology/Biology: Ecology of marine mammals using isotopes |
| 2000-2003 |
Doug Boyer |
Geology: Functional morphology of Paleocene-Eocene micromammals |
| 2005 |
Hirotsugu Mori |
Geology: Tillodontia |
| 2006-2007 |
Katherine Slivensky |
Geology: Functional morphology of the protocetid femur |
| 2007-2008 |
Carly Manz |
Anthropology: Functional morphology of the protocetid neck |
| 2009-2010 |
Patrick Lind |
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology: Evolution of Proboscidea |
Doctoral committees (member only, University of Michigan) :
Tim D. White (Anthropology, 1975), Leonard Greenfield (Anthropology, 1976), William Jungers (Anthropology, 1976), Marcia Roberts (Anthropology, 1979), Kenneth Creighton (Biology, 1980), Robert Voss (Biology, 1982), Sandra J. Carlson (Geology, 1986), Paul L. Koch (Geology, 1989), Ralph Stearly (Geology, 1990), Robert K. Carr (Geology, 1994), David L. Dettman (Geology, 1994), Brian Bodenbender (Geology, 1994), Henry C. Fricke (Geology, 1998), David L. Fox (Geology, 1999), Guillermo D'Elia (Biology, 2002), Adam Van Arsdale (Anthropology, 2006), Adam Rountrey (Geology, 2009), Kathlyn M. Smith (Geology, 2010), Jennifer L. Carballo (Anthropology, 2011), Howard Tsai (Anthropology, 2012).
Doctoral committees (Université de Montpellier, France): Serge Legendre (1988), Stéphane Ducrocq (1992), Sabrina Renaud (1997), Gilles Escarguel (1998), Laure Danilo (2012)
Doctoral committee (Université de Paris, France): Emmanuel Gheerbrant (2001)
Doctoral committee (University of Ghent, Belgium): Pieter Missiaen (2008)
Habilitation committee (Université de Lyon, France): Gilles Escarguel (2008)
Doctoral committee, external reader (Monash University, Australia): Erich M. G. Fitzgerald (2008)
Doctoral committee, external reader (University of New South Wales, Australia): Kenny Travouillon (2008)
D. Phil. external examiner (Wolfson College, Oxford University, U.K.): Hesham Sallam (2010)
M.Sc. co-supervisor (Utrecht University, Netherlands): Niels de Winter (2010)
Postdoctoral/Research Fellows
| 1982-1985 |
Catherine E. Badgley, Michigan Society of Fellows |
| 1990-1991 |
Emmanuel Gheerbrant, CNRS-funded research postdoc |
1994-1996 |
P. David Polly, Michigan Society of Fellows |
1995-1996 |
Alexander Lavrov, University of Michigan International Center |
| 2002-2003 |
Jonathan I. Bloch, NSF-funded research postdoc |
| 2005-2006 |
Ross Secord, NSF-funded research postdoc |
| 2008-pres. |
Iyad S. Zalmout , NSF-funded research postdoc |
| 2009-2010 |
Aaron R. Wood , NSF-funded research postdoc |
| 2009-2010 |
Pieter Missiaen , Flanders Research Foundation postdoctoral fellow |
Visiting Scholars hosted
| 1998, 2000 |
Muhammad Arif, Geological Survey of Pakistan-National Science Foundation |
| 2001, 2004 |
Munir-ul-Haq, Geological Survey of Pakistan-National Science Foundation |
| 2006, 2008, 2010 |
Mohamed Sameh Antar, Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency-National Science Foundation |