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2016

APRIL 2016 issue
Night at the Museum
Director's Letter
Summer Adventures
Awards
Faculty in the Spotlight
What's new in the collections
Staff Updates
Minority Education
In Memoriam
Friends of UCMP

2015

JUNE 2015 issue
UCMP and the Nationl Parks
CalDay celebrates the Campanile and National Parks
Announcing our Student Awards
Saluting our undergraduate students
UCMP's Spring Break 2015 southern California field trip
Moving on: Progress with the USGS collections
UCMP visitors, Spring 2015
Dave Smith to retire
Tidbits & Calendar
Friends of UCMP

JANUARY 2015 issue
UCMP joins Campanile centennial celebration with a spotlight on McKittrick tar seep fossils
UCMP well represented at the 2014 SVP and GSA meetings
2014 UCMP publications
The Clemens Oral History Project: Funding goal is reached!
Letter from the Director
Tidbits & Calendar
Friends of UCMP

2014

SEPTEMBER 2014 issue
UCMP's summer 2014 adventures
McKittrick tarpit fossil collection grant!
USGS project update
The Clemens Oral History Project
Letter from the Director
Tidbits
Friends of UCMP

MAY 2014 issue
Growing UCMP's excellence: A new capital campaign
Clemens oral history project
Progress on the USGS project
A "bizarre and unusual" Cal Day
2014 Spring Break field trip: Kettleman Hills and Death Valley area
Announcing our student awards
Hell Creek revisited
Letter from the Director
Tidbits & Calendar
Friends of UCMP

JANUARY 2014 issue
Cataloging-the-archives project reaches a milestone and looks to the future
USGS project update
2013 UCMP publications
Letter from the Director
Tidbits & Web notes
Friends of UCMP

2013

SEPTEMBER 2013 issue
UCMP's 2013 summer adventures
Understanding Science for the iPad!
USGS project update
Letter from the Director
Tidbits
In memoriam
Friends of UCMP

MAY 2013 issue
One ammonite at a time: Rehousing and digitizing the USGS Menlo Park collection
An extinction-themed Cal Day
Our friend and collaborator, Garniss Curtis, passes away
Global change in deep time: How the past informs the future
UCMP presents a paleontology course for OLLI
Letter from the Director
Tidbits & Calendar
Friends of UCMP

JANUARY 2013 issue
More new faces at UCMP
New species from the drawers of UCMP
2012 UCMP publications
A salute to the Engdahl family
The oldest dinosaur?
Letter from the Director
Tidbits
Web notes and calendar
Friends of UCMP

2012

SEPTEMBER 2012 issue
Two new faces at UCMP
UCMP 2012 summer adventures
Announcing our student awards
News from the collections: Schenck's Foraminifera
Letter from the Director
Tidbits
Web notes and calendar
Friends of UCMP

JULY 2012 special issue
Judy Scotchmoor, UCMP's science educator, to retire
Letter from the Director

MAY 2012 issue
Saluting our volunteers
Cal Day 2012 highlights
The Clear Lake drilling project
Agreement with Caltrans signed!
Letter from the Director
Tidbits
Friends of UCMP

JANUARY 2012 issue
UCMP in 2012: A letter from the director
UCMP participates in campus-wide initiative on global change
2011 UCMP publications
Got fossils? — a UCMP/Caltrans agreement in the works
Paleontologists never really retire …
Finding fossils in national parks — a new interactive map on PaleoPortal
Tidbits
Web notes and calendar
Friends of UCMP

2011

DECEMBER 2011 special issue
Seven recollections of paleontologist Bill Berry
Tributes to Bill Berry
Letter from the Director

SEPTEMBER 2011 issue
Ten countries and nine states: UCMP in the summer of 2011
UCMP loses two friends: Bill Berry and Harley Garbani
Letter from the Director
Tidbits and Calendar
Friends of UCMP

MAY 2011 issue
Collaboration results in San Jose museum's mammoth exhibit
Cataloging the archives: Update I
April showers bring … Cal Day and crowds!
Letter from the Director
Tidbits
Friends of UCMP

JANUARY 2011 issue
The SPORE award
The Mellon Foundation CLIR grant
2010 UCMP publications
Letter from the Director
Tidbits and Calendar
Friends of UCMP

2010

SEPTEMBER 2010 issue
UCMP 2010 summer adventures
UCMP celebrates National Fossil Day
Third annual GESRI — another winner!
Congrats to Diane and Pat!
A gift to UCMP
UCMP and the Forams 2010 symposium
Web notes and Calendar
Letter from the Director
Tidbits
Friends of UCMP

MAY 2010 issue
UCMP — on the move!
Cal Day 2010
Field notes: Hunting for Paleozoic biogenic silica
Announcing our student awards!
Letter from the Director
Tidbits
Friends of UCMP

JANUARY 2010 issue
UCMP welcomes Charles Marshall
UCMP's 2009 publications
Letters from the Directors
First Gregory Fellowship to be awarded this spring
Tidbits
Web notes / Support UCMP
Friends of UCMP

2009

SEPTEMBER 2009 issue
UCMP's 2009 summer adventures
UCMP at NAPC
Changes at UCMP: Two retired and two hired
Many thanks to our volunteers
Tidbits
Web notes / Support UCMP
Friends of UCMP

MAY 2009 issue
Exploring a bit of UCMP in Oregon
Tiktaalik comes to UCMP
Dawn of a new Cal Day
Hot off the press!
Tidbits
Web notes & Calendar
Friends of UCMP

FEBRUARY 2009 issue
Understanding Science website clarifies what science is, is not
Architects of the Berkeley legacy of Cenozoic molluscan paleontology — part II
2008 UCMP publications
The Joseph T. Gregory Fellowship
Cal Day is coming!
The 2009 UCMP short course on Darwin
Tidbits
Friends of UCMP

2008

SEPTEMBER 2008 issue
UCMP's summer adventures 2008
Architects of the Berkeley legacy of Cenozoic molluscan paleontology
A bit of history
Tidbits
Friends of UCMP

MAY 2008 issue
Exploring California's fossil history
UCMP sparks national initiatives
Perfect weather attracts record Cal Day crowds
Tidbits & Calendar
Friends of UCMP

JANUARY 2008 issue
Joseph T. Gregory, 1914–2007
Understanding Evolution updates
UCMP publications 2007
UCMP says farewell and thanks to Dave Haasl
Tidbits
Web notes & Calendar
Friends of UCMP


2007

SEPTEMBER 2007 issue
Exciting adventures with a unique UCMP collection
Summer adventures 2007
Got science? Some upcoming and ongoing events
Tidbits
Friends of UCMP

MAY 2007 issue
UCMP research is featured on Cal Day
Paleontology and biology merge at Berkeley, 1957–present
Flat Stanley visits UCMP
Sharing science with the public … over pizza
A record crowd attends the 2007 UCMP short course
UCMP and the public understanding of science
In memoriam: Francis Clark Howell
Tidbits
Friends of UCMP
Web notes & calendar

JANUARY 2007 issue
MIOMAP
Development of modern paleontology at UCMP
UCMP publications
The Implications of Evolution short course
Tidbits
Friends of UCMP
Web notes & calendar


2006

SEPTEMBER 2006 issue
Summer adventures 2006
Merriam & Alexander
Paleobotany field trip
Caldwell appointed Director
New grants for Outreach
Tidbits
Friends of UCMP
Web notes & calendar

MAY 2006 issue
Smallest Triceratops
Joseph Le Conte
Website transformation
Cal Day 2006
Two new grants
Tidbits
Friends of UCMP
Web notes

JANUARY 2006 issue
Algae, abalones, and otters
Foundations of paleontology at UCMP
UCMP publications
Fossil focus
Tidbits
Friends of UCMP


2005

OCTOBER 2005 issue
San Jose mammoth
Summer adventures 2005
Tidbits
Web notes
Friends of UCMP

MAY 2005 issue
Return to Sharktooth Hill
Teaching biodiversity
Uniqueness short course
Cal Day 2005
New curators
Tidbits
Friends of UCMP

JANUARY 2005 issue
Triassic workshop
UCMP publications
Teacher associates
Leadership change
Interim Director’s letter
Tidbits
Friends of UCMP


2004

SEPTEMBER 2004 issue
UCMP summer adventures 2004
Symposium on Mollusca evolution
Staff changes
Interim Director’s letter
Tidbits
Web notes
Friends of UCMP

MAY 2004 issue
Eocene fossils
Broader UCMP community
Sharing our science
Interim Director’s letter
Tidbits
Web notes
Friends of UCMP

JANUARY 2004 issue
Understanding Evolution
Paleontological Portal
UCMP publications
Interim Director’s letter
Tidbits
Web notes
Friends of UCMP


2003

OCTOBER 2003 issue
UCMP summer adventures
Sharing our science
UCMP’s collections catalog
Interim Director’s letter
Tidbits
Web notes
Friends of UCMP

AUGUST 2003 issue
Analyzing Mt. Diablo fossils
New “skeletons” at UCMP
BNHM hosts NSCA meeting
Riverside collection
New faces
Director’s letter
Tidbits
Web notes
Friends of UCMP

JANUARY 2003 issue
UCMP salutes Bill Clemens
The Evolution Solution
2002 UCMP publications
Tidbits
Web notes
Friends of UCMP


2002

OCTOBER 2002 issue
UCMP’s summer adventures
Geosciences in Alaska
New Museum Scientists
Tidbits
Web notes
Friends of UCMP

MAY 2002 issue
Explorations Through Time
ucmp.berkeley.edu
A snapshot of the UCMP website
Thanks and fond goodbyes!
Tidbits
Web notes
Friends of UCMP

JANUARY 2002 issue
UCMP’s Molecular Lab
Paleo field classes
2001 UCMP publications
A special welcome
Tidbits
Web notes
Friends of UCMP


2001

NOVEMBER 2001 issue
UCMP’s summer field adventures
Recent activities at UCMP
UCMP represented at SVP
Tidbits
Web notes
Friends

AUGUST 2001 issue
The North American Paleontology Convention is a big success!
UCMP takes a lead in supporting the teaching of evolution
Director’s letter
Tidbits
Web notes
Friends
BNHM events

MAY 2001 issue
What’s inside a dinosaur bone?
Adventures in Baja
Cal Day 2001
A bright spot in CA’s energy crisis
Tidbits
Web notes
Friends of UCMP

JANUARY 2001 issue
Multi-tasking in the Prep Lab
What’s on tap at UCMP for 2001?
UCMP welcomes Heather Leitzke!
And the winner is . . . John Hutchinson!
Wolfeman gets the Gold!
A special offer from a special Friend
UCMP helps PIN celebrate 70 years!
2000 UCMP publications
Letter from the Director
Tidbits
Web notes
Friends of UCMP


2000

OCTOBER 2000 issue
A review of UCMP summer field research
Museum website gets a “makeover”
Letter from the Director
Friends of UCMP
Tidbits
Web notes

MAY 2000 issue
A focus on evolution and development for UCMP
The Lindlab
“Tracking the Course of Evolution” is a smash hit!
UCMP to host a conference and a convention
Astrobiology hits Cal Day!
Greetings to Colleen Whitney and Ann Shen
Friends of UCMP
Tidbits
Web notes

JANUARY 2000 issue
A retrospective look at PaleoBios, UCMP’s 33-year -old journal
“Tracking the Course of Evolution”
1999 UCMP publications
Collections’ corner
Friends of UCMP
Tidbits
Web notes


1999

SEPTEMBER 1999 issue
UCMP on display: Exhibits for VLSB
Taking steps toward new exhibits for UCMP
Sun continues to support UCMP
Wedding bells ring at UCMP
Friends of UCMP
Tidbits
Web notes Return to front page