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Pyenson and Haasl describe Miocene whale-fall in Biology Letters September 14, 2007 Graduate student Nick Pyenson and museum scientist David Haasl describe and discuss a fossil whale-fall from the Miocene of California in the latest Biology Letters. The fossil, found on Año Nuevo Island, is a small baleen whale (only 11 feet long) with mollusks attached to its skeleton. The find demonstrates that extremely large body size is not necessary for whale-fall communities, and suggests that the evolution of these communities did not rely on whale size. Read more about it at the UC Berkeley NewsCenter and see the paper in Biology Letters. |
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Barnosky receives Fulbright Senior Specialists Award July 31, 2007 Tony Barnosky, UCMP Curator and Professor of Integrative Biology, has been selected for a Fulbright Senior Specialists Award to conduct work in Santiago, Chile, at the Departamento de Ecología, Pontificia Universidad Católica, during Fall 2007. Tony will be working with Chilean faculty and students to study the ecological effects of global warming and is one of over 400 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad this year through the Fulbright Senior Specialists Program. |
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Kraatz receives Lincoln Ellsworth Fellowship April 9, 2007 UCMP grad Brian Kraatz received the two-year Lincoln Ellsworth Fellowship from the American Museum of Natural History. Brian will be with Dr. Meng Jin studying early rodent and rabbit evolution. The project will be incorporated into a larger NSF Tree of Life project studying all of mammals. |
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Award and fellowship for Pyenson April 9, 2007 UCMP grad Nick Pyenson received the 2007 Louderback Award to a student in paleontology. Annually the Louderback Fund makes awards to recognize both the academic accomplishments and contributions to museum and departmental activities of students in paleontology and the earth and planetary sciences. Nick also recently received a NSF East Asian Summer Institutes fellowship to study the earliest baleen-bearing mysticetes in New Zealand with Ewan Fordyce, University of Otago, this summer.
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