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Charles Marshall

Charles Marshall

"Is a director of the University of California Museum of Paleontology. He is an advocate of collections-based learning and is a leader in geoinformatics, the science and technology that develops and uses information science infrastructure to address the problems of geography, geosciences, and related branches of engineering. His research focuses on the development of new tools for understanding how biodiversity changes on geologic timescales, and on how molecular phylogenetic data.."

Clark Howell

Clark Howell

Francis Clark Howell, one of the giants of paleoanthropology and the first to bring fields such as geology, ecology and primatology to bear on understanding human origins

Judy Scotchmoor

Judy Scotchmoor

"Judy Scotchmoor is the Assistant Director of Education and Public Programs at the University of California Museum of Paleontology. She is an innovative science educator whose contributions include the websites Understanding Evolution, Understanding Science, and PaleoPortal. She also co-founded the Coalition on the Public Understanding of Science (COPUS), a national organization celebrating science. In her quest to stretch the reach of science, Scotchmoor has worked with closely with the Academy

Tim D. White

Tim D. White

"Some of his most significant finds were made in the early 1990s in the middle Awash River valley of northern Ethiopia; in Maka, a town to the west of the archaeological site of Aramis, he uncovered the 3.4-million-year-old remains of Australopithecus afarensis, a hominin species of which specimens (including the famous partial skeleton Lucy) had been discovered earlier in Ethiopia and Tanzania. White’s find helped quell the controversy over the specimens"

Zeresany Alemsged

Zeresany Alemsged

research program focuses on the discovery and interpretation of hominid fossil remains and their environments with emphasis on fieldwork designed to acquire new data on early hominid skeletal biology, environmental context, and behavior. Works in the following areas: Description of new hominin and non-human primates, growth and development in early hominids, application of new techniques, such as CT analysis to investigate internal and external structures of hominin fossils.

Dr. Kimberly Tanner

Dr. Kimberly Tanner

Dr. Kimberly Tanner is an Associate Professor of Biology at San Francisco State University. She developed the Science Education Partnership and Assessment Laboratory (SEPAL), which facilitates and investigates the impact of scientist-teacher partnerships as a mechanism for science education reform, wherein faculty and graduate students partner with K-12 teachers in the classroom and laboratory to augment the science experience pre-college students obtain.

Paleontologists in California

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