ANNA K. BEHRENSMEYER

PRESENT APPOINTMENTS:
S ince 1981 Research Paleobiologist, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
Since 1988 Co-Director of the Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems Program, NMNH.
Since 1987 Adjunct Professor, Department of Geoscience, University of Arizona.
Since 1991 Adjunct Professor, Department of Geology, University of Pennsylvania.

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS:
1993-1996 Acting Associate Director for Science, NMNH.
1978-1981 Post-doctoral Fellow, Departments of Geology and Anthropology, Yale University.
1976-1977 Lecturer, Earth Science Department, University of California, Santa Cruz.
1973-1975 Miller Research Fellow, University of California, Berkeley.

EDUCATION:
BA in Geology from Washington University, St. Louis, 1967.
MA in Geology from Harvard University, 1969.
PhD in Geology and Vertebrate Paleontology from Harvard University, 1973.

CURRENT RESEARCH SUPPORT:
1993-7 Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Grant: "Paleoenvironmental implications of Miocene paleosols in northern Pakistan."
1996-8 Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Grant: "Evolution of Plio-Pleistocene vertebrate communities in Africa.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES:
Geological Society of America
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
Paleontological Society
Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists
International Association of Sedimentologists
1989-Present, Associate Editor, Palaios, Associate Editor, Paleoclimatology.

PRINCIPAL AREAS OF INTEREST:
Vertebrate taphonomy and paleoecology, with particular emphasis on the later Cenozoic of Africa and Pakistan.

PUBLICATIONS: (selected)
Behrensmeyer, A.K. 1988. Vertebrate Preservation in Fluvial Channels.
In: Ecological and Evolutionary Implications of Taphonomic Processes.
Behrensmeyer, A.K. and S.M. Kidwell (eds.), Paleo-3, 63(1-3): 183-199.
Behrensmeyer, A.K. 1991. Terrestrial Vertebrate Accumulations.
Pp.291-335. In: Taphonomy: Releasing the
Data Locked in the Fossil Record. Allison, P. and D.E.G. Briggs (eds.), New York: Plenum.
Behrensmeyer, A.K. and R.W. Hook. 1992. Paleoenvironmental contexts and taphonomic modes in the terrestrial fossil record. Pp. 15-136. In: Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time. Behrensmeyer, A.K., J.D. Damuth, W.A. DiMichele, R. Potts, H.D. Sues, and S.L. Wing (eds.), Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Behrensmeyer, A.K. 1993. The bones of Amboseli: Bone assemblages and ecological change in a modern African ecosystem. Nat. Geog. Res., 9(4): 402-421.
Behrensmeyer, A.K., B.J. Willis and J. Quade. 1995. Floodplains and paleosols in the Siwalik Neogene and Wyoming Paleogene: implications for the taphonomy and paleoecology of faunas. Paleo-3. 115:37-60.
Behrensmeyer, A.K., N.E. Todd, R. Potts and G.E. McBrinn. 1997. Late Pliocene faunal turnover in the Turkana Basin, Kenya and Ethiopia. Science, 278:1589-1594.
Isaac, G.Ll. and A.K. Behrensmeyer. 1997. Chapter 2: Geological Context and Paleoenvironments. Pp.12-53. In: Koobi Fora Research Project Volume 5: Plio-Pleistocene Archaeology. Glynn Ll. Isaac and B. Isaac (eds.), Oxford: Clarendon Press.

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