UCMP Profiles
Mark Goodwin
Education
– B.A., Paleontology, University of California Berkeley
– M.A., Paleontology, University of California Berkeley
– Ph.D., Geology, University of California at Davis
Contact Information

Mailing address:
University of California Museum of Paleontology
1101 Valley Life Sciences
Building # 4780
Berkeley, CA 94720-4780

Location:
Office: 1122 VLSB

E-mail:
mark@berkeley.edu

Phone and fax:
Office Phone: (510) 643-9745
Fax: (510) 642-1822

Mark Goodwin

Assistant Director, Museum of Paleontology

Research
Goodwin studies how dinosaur bones change with growth and how fossil bone is preserved, i.e. what's the difference chemically and mineralogically between an unaltered modern and fossil bone? What is the effect, if any, of the burial environment on the mineral and chemical properties and how do you measure it? Mark also has research interests in the behavior and life history of pachycephalosaurs, or dome-headed dinosaurs, and more recently with the very well known three-horned dinosaur, Triceratops. Field work in California, Montana, Alaska, Israel, and Ethiopia, has provided many new fossils to work on.

Chalachew Mesfin, Randy Irmis, Greg Wilson and Mark Goodwin outside of Abi Adi, Ethiopia
Chalachew Mesfin, Randy Irmis, Greg Wilson and Mark Goodwin outside of Abi Adi, Ethiopia

Chalachew Mesfin, Randy Irmis, Greg Wilson and Mark Goodwin outside of Abi Adi, Ethiopia
Mark collecting a juvenile Triceratops frill in the Hell Creek Formation, Montana.


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