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Award (Donath Medal). The Medal is bestowed upon a scientist under the age of 35 for “outstanding achievement in contributing to geologic knowledge through original research that marks a major advance in the Earth sciences.” In the citation by Shuhai Xiao, Sterling’s prolifi c record in vertebrate paleontology is noted as providing insight on the origin and early evolution of after the Permian-Triassic mass extinction. His accomplishments in paleobiology have helped reshaped thinking about macro-evolutionary patterns of diversifi cation, biogeography, Caroline Strömberg in the fi eld; photo courtesy of Caroline Strömberg. Sterling Nesbitt with GSA disparity, morphology, and President Isabel Montanez; photo courtesy of the Geological Society of America. convergent evolution. Schuchert Award. The award honors UCMP Alums a member early in their career UCMP at GSA Honored at GSA whose paleontological work refl ects Current UCMP students, staff, and excellence, quality and promise in faculty were also a very visible the science of paleontology. The presence at the annual GSA Two UCMP alums received high Schuchert award is among the most meeting in Seattle. Members of the honors at the Geological Society of prestigious award an early career Finnegan Lab (Seth Finnegan, Adiël America (GSA) annual meeting in paleontologist can receive. We Klompmaker, Larry Taylor, Emily Seattle in October. congratulate Caroline on the award Orzechowski, Sara Kahanamoku- which recognizes ground-breaking Snelling, and Josh Zimmt) and the Caroline Strömberg (PhD, Integrative work on the origin and evolution of Looy Lab (Cindy Looy, Ivo Duijnstee, Biology, 2003), Estella B. Leopold the grassland biome. and Jeff Benca) presented during Associate Professor in Biology the 4-day conference. Lisa White and Curator of Paleobotany in Sterling Nesbitt (BA, Integrative and her collaborators previewed the Department of Biology at the Biology, 2004), Assistant Professor the Kettleman Hills Virtual Field , received of Geosciences at , Experience (VFE) modules and the Paleontological Society’s Charles received the GSA Young Scientist ...continued on Alumni Honors page 2

Sara ElShafi e holding an Anomalocaris fossil on the Burgess Shale fi eld trip during SVP; photo credit Sara ElShafi e. Clemens Lab mini-reunion at the Gao Mine site on the SVP fi eld trip to the Paleocene of Alberta. Left to right: SVP meeting organizer and fi eld trip leader Jessica Theodor (U. of Calgary), SVP president Dave Polly (U. of Indiana), and Tom Stidham (IVPP); photo credit Pat Holroyd. Lauren Fowler at the SVP Poster Session; photo credit Lisa White.

Newsletter 1 December 2017 paleontologist. Moreover, one of our past Miller postdoctoral candidates, Who is UCMP? David Jablonski was awarded the Director: Charles Marshall Assistant Directors: Paleontological Society Medal. Mark Goodwin Lisa White Director’s Curators: Letter Our graduates have also this year Anthony Barnosky* David Lindberg* published some wonderful books, Roy Caldwell* Jere Lipps* William Clemens* Cindy Looy including: The Giant Spike-Toothed Seth Finnegan Charles Marshall Salmon and Other Extinct Wildlife of Ken Finger Kevin Padian This issue of the UCMP Newsletter Central California by Julia Sankey and Carole Hickman* James Valentine* Leslea Hlusko Tim White is dedicated to our wonderful Jacob Biewer (my daughter loves this Curatorial Associates: graduates. When I moved to Berkeley one); The Rise of Marine Mammals: Walter Alvarez Roger Byrne I knew UCMP was strong, but I did not 50 Million Years of Evolution by Lynn Ingram fully understand just how important Annalisa Berta and James Sumich; Admin. Assistant: Chris Mejia our undergraduate and graduate Collecting Evolution: The Galapagos Museum Scientists: Erica Clites Patricia Holroyd programs have been, and continue to Expedition that Vindicated Darwin Diane Erwin Cristina Robins be, to paleontology. by Matthew James; and Origins Education & Public Outreach: of Darwin’s Evolution by David Jessica Bean Helina Chin Over my now eight years at UCMP, Archibald. And last but not least, Trish Roque Anna Thanukos time and time again I have met or Denali National Park and Preserve Edited by Lisa White learned of paleontologists that I did Geology Road Guide by Capps, Layout & graphics by Helina Chin not know had trained at UCMP. A McLane, and Lucy Chang, our most For the broader UCMP community, remarkable number of scientists in recent PhD. The more I learn, the visit the UCMP website: www.ucmp. programs at all types of institutions prouder I am of the impact everyone berkeley.edu; Understanding Evolution: www.understandingevolution.org; across the country have called UCMP is having, and even more thankful for and Understanding Science: www. home. And so this year, our graduates the privilege of serving as UCMP’s understandingscience.org have been recognized nationally, Director. *Emeritus/a with Sterling Nesbitt receiving the Donath Medal for outstanding young Thank you all for what you do! The Newsletter Team at UCMP provides geologist under the age of 35 from the news in a variety of formats. the Geological Society of America, If you are interested in receiving printed and Caroline Strömberg receiving the newsletters or email only, let us know! Paleontological Society’s Schuchert Sincerely, Please provide your email address to Chris Mejia at [email protected] Award for outstanding young Charles Marshall

...continued on Alumni Honors page 1 with partners from the Howard Holroyd, Ash Poust, Sara ElShafi e, Seth Finnegan, Pat Holroyd and Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). and Lauren Fowler) reported on a Charles Marshall further highlighted Students presenting at GSA, SVP range of topics from radiographic progress in the EPICC project during and other professional conferences and histological examinations of a session on museums in the 21st were partially supported by UCMP how mammals grow to CT studies of century co-chaired by Lisa, Caroline travel grants made possible by the how lizard regrow their tails to new Strömberg, Greg Wilson, and Liz generosity of UCMP donors. isotopic records of climate change. Nesbitt. Project Scientist Jessica Bean On the outreach front, Lisa White impressed audiences with previews UCMP at SVP demonstrated how research in past of the Understanding Global At the 77th Society for Vertebrate animal dispersal could be taught Change conceptual framework and Paleontology (SVP) annual meeting using an Earth-systems approach to integrated instructional approaches in Calgary, UCMP participants (Pat engage diverse audiences. !

From left to right: Katy Estes-Smargiassi (LACM), Rob Ross (PRI) and Lisa White at the GSA poster session; photo credit Lisa White. Lisa with high school students from the Alf Museum of Paleontology/The Webb Schools at their SVP poster; photo credit Gabe Santos. Graduate student Peter Kloess and Triceratops at the Royal Terrell Museum of Paleontology in Drumheller; photo credit Lisa White.

Newsletter 2 December 2017 Eric Holt carefully excavating a bison dentary to be fi eld-jacketed; photo credit Nick Spano. Sara ElShafi e presenting at Science World in Vancouver; photo courtesy of Sara ElShafi e. Isabel Fendley Student Activities and Julia Anderson at the Grand Staircase-Escalante Site; photo courtesy of Julia Anderson. Bottom right: Lillian Pearson and Lauren Fowler tabling at the North Bay Discovery Day in Santa Rosa; photo courtesy of Lillian Pearson.

Dori Contreras received the 2016- on the invited talks in the society’s Management (BLM). The exploration 2017 Claire Englander Award peer-reviewed journal in Spring/ of this unique site yielded fossils of from the UCMP for “mentoring Summer 2018. Pleistocene megafauna with viable undergraduate students in the genetic material that could provide collections, and in undertaking a valuable insight into continental major role in representing UCMP migration patterns, population collections and the work we do with genetics and climate-driven the iDigBio community.” She also community changes. Check out the presented at two conferences in UCMP blog post at http://ucmp. summer 2017. First, at Botany 2017 berkeley.edu/blog/archives/4413 to (Botanical Society of America) Dori learn more about their adventure. co-ran a symposium on Campanian- Maastrichtian fl oras on Laramidia, Undergraduate student assistant presented a talk, and co-authored a Zev Brooks spent the summer at the second paper. Second, she gave an Smithsonian NMNH with Scott Wing invited talk about workfl ows at the (plus some fi eldwork in the Bighorn Inaugural Digital Data in Biodiversity Basin) and he also presented a poster Research Conference, sponsored by at GSA. iDigBio, the University of Michigan Undergraduate student assistant Museum of Zoology, the University Julia Anderson volunteered with the of Michigan Herbarium, and the Natural History Museum of Utah in University of Michigan Museum of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Paleontology in Ann Arbor, MI. We Monument during summer 2017. are also happy to report, Dori and Julia worked on the tyrannosaur, her husband welcomed a baby Teratophoneus, which has gained boy, Andreas Marcel Contreras, on publicity recently due to its October 24, 2017! remarkable completeness. Later in July, she was fi eld assistant to Isabel Sara ElShafi e continues to lead Fendley, a doctoral candidate in Science Through Story workshops Earth and Planetary Sciences, in the developed out of a pilot seminar at Hell Creek Formation of Montana. UCMP with Pixar Animator Austin They took samples for geochemical Madison in March 2016. On June 6, analyses across many coal deposits 2017, Sara was featured in an article as well as the K/Pg boundary itself. Lillian Pearson and Lauren Fowler on the UC Berkeley home page. exhibited at the Bay Area Science She will be the primary organizer Barnosky Lab graduate students Eric Festival North Bay Discovery Day in of a symposium, Science Through Holt and Nick Spano joined Julie Santa Rosa on October 28th. It was a Narrative: Engaging Broad Audiences Mechean (Des Moines Univ) along celebration of science for more than at the Society for Integrative and with Barnosky Lab Alums Susumu 2,000 people affected by the recent Comparative Biology (SICB) Annual Tomiya and Jenny McGuire at the fi res and UCMP was happy to support Meeting in San Francisco on Natural Trap Caves in Wyoming; the community through science. " Friday, January 5, 2018. A series of a deep cave with an 85-foot drop manuscripts will be published based monitored by the Bureau of Land

Newsletter 3 December 2017 Staff Updates

The EPICC TCN had it’s third annual these programs to give us the chance meeting, hosted by The Museum to share our museum’s treasures with of the North at the University of the scientifi c community and the Alaska in Fairbanks in September. public. Progress on these projects UCMP Director Charles Marshall, was made possible by a team of and Museum Scientists Pat Holroyd, student assistants working on the and Erica Clites met with EPICC TCN Bitter Creek project. Although we are partners to discuss collaborative sad to see Saba Saberi, Lydia Linna, research and lay out plans for the and Kathleen Tierney graduate, we coming year. Meanwhile, Assistant wish them well. We are happy to have Director Lisa White was in Southern Adelaide Cahill return this fall and California with EPICC partners will be welcoming new students to photographing marine terraces the project. along the Palos Verdes Peninsula in preparation for a virtual fi eld Additionally, Pat and Lisa moved experience (VFE) module. approximately 9,000 specimens from the San Francisco State Kettleman Erica Clites returned to Glen Canyon Hills collection to the UCMP with National Recreation Area in May support from the NSF Collections in 2017 to help train a new GeoCorps Support of Biological Research grant. of America intern in the long-term Over the summer, undergraduate monitoring of paleontological student Alexis Williams and localities. Before coming to UCMP, graduate student Larry Taylor began Erica spent 2.5 years building a organizing for the rehouse project. fi eld monitoring program at Glen Canyon in cooperation with National Diane Erwin attended the annual Park Service Chief Paleontologist Society for the Preservation of Vince Santucci, the Utah Geological Natural History Collections meeting Survey and scientists at other NPS held in June at the Curtis Hotel in areas. The group, pictured top Denver, Colorado. The meeting Top left photo: Team EPICC at Museum of right, spent a week visiting and theme was, “The Next Generation the North; photo credit Erica Clites. Top documenting previously unknown in Best Practices,” and presented a right photo: (left to right): Andrew Milner (St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site), Maria localities discovered by professional poster entitled, “Enhancing Public Rodriguez (GeoCorps Intern, Glen Canyon photographer Andre Delgalvis along Access to UCMP’s Fossil Insect National Recreation Area), Andre Delgalvis (professional photographer, author of The Lake Powell. Collections Through Digitization and Lost Tracks), Erica Clites (UCMP), John Social Media,” for the session on Spence (Chief Scientist, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area); photo courtesy Pat Holroyd reminds us that with “Public Access to Collections.” Her Maria Rodriguez. Upper middle right photo: grant support from the NSF and coauthors on the poster were Marwa Charles Marshall at the Museum of the North Fairbanks, Alaska; photo credit Pat Holroyd. IMLS, we are now serving data for Ibraheem El-Faramawi, visiting Lower middle right: Austin Hendley, 459,060 specimens from all seven scholar from Egypt and UC Berkeley LACM Collections Manager in Palos Verdes; photo credit Lisa White. Bottom right: Adiël continents and have 29,144 images undergraduates Iyanna Hazzard and Klompmaker and collaborator René Fraaije at in CalPhotos. More are still to come, Lin Wang. a new Miocene outcrop in the central part of and we are grateful for the support of Cyprus; photo credit Adiël Klompmaker.

Newsletter 4 December 2017 Over the summer, Adiël Klompmaker from the site and provide important worked in the Miocene reef deposits paleoenvironmental data on the area. on Cyprus and the Maastrichtian The collection includes vertebrate, limestones in the Netherlands. invertebrate, and plant fossils While in Europe he examined preserved from the Miocene-aged collections at the Oertijdmuseum rocks surrounding the Calaveras Dam and Natuurhistorisch Museum construction site. Maastricht in The Netherlands; and the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, The dust of disuse was traded for in Vienna, Austria. # the dust of active preparation in the prep lab. The main vertebrate What’s New in the fossils being worked on are whale Collections skulls. There are 17 skulls from the Calaveras site, with the largest over 4 feet long (1.2 m). They require many New cases for new fossils Re-opening the Prep Lab hours of meticulous concentration to Thanks to support from two NSF Assistant Director Mark Goodwin painstakingly separate. Luckily, UCMP grants, UCMP was able to purchase and Senior Museum Scientist has funding from SFPUC for graduate much needed casework to house its Cristina Robins received fossils from and undergraduate students to work growing collections. The eight three- the San Francisco Public Utilities in the prep lab. Currently, Graduate foot high cases will house the SFSU Commission (SFPUC) Calaveras student Ash Poust is working in the Kettleman Hills collection and four Damn project. Cristina started as the lab, with undergraduates Xena Ross, four-foot high cases will house Dori UCMP fossil prep lab manager in Peter Dangsangtong, and Sidhant Contreras’ dissertation collection of June 2017 for a two-year position. Idgunji rounding out the workforce. plant fossils from the Turner Ranch UCMP is working in partnership with Xena, Pete, and Sid will be returning in New Mexico, a site now known the SFPUC to accession, prepare, next semester. Graduate student for producing the most diverse and curate the fossils found at the Mackenzie Kirchner-Smith will also Cretaceous fl ora discovered thus far Calaveras Dam site near Sunol. join in Spring 2017. in North America. Many excellent fossils were obtained ...continued on Collections page 7

Pat Holroyd standing watch over Delta Design cases delivered to the Valley Life Sciences Building; photo credit Diane M. Erwin. A jacketed whale skull being lifted by a crane from the Calaveras Dam site; photo courtesy of James Walker. Desmostylus tooth preparation progress by Ash Poust, UCMP prep lab panorama with Xena Ross, Ash Poust, Pat Holroyd and Cristina Robins; photo credit Helina Chin.

Newsletter 5 December 2017 Publications 2017 Barnosky, A. D., E. A. Hadly, P. Gonzalez, J. Head, M.L., Kowalewski, M., Lyons, S.K., McShea, D.W., of evolutionary radiation and decline revealed on P. D. Polly, A. M. Lawing, J. T. Eronen, D. D. Ackerly, K. Novack-Gottshall, P.M., Smith, F.A. and Wang, S.C., the Hawaiian Archipelago. 543: 710–713. Alex, E. Biber, J. Blois, J. Brashares, G. Ceballos, E. 2017, June. Hierarchical complexity and the size doi:10.1038/nature21675. Davis, G. P. Dietl, R. Dirzo, H. Doremus, M. Fortelius, limits of life. In Proc. R. Soc. B (Vol. 284, No. 1857, p. H. W. Greene, J. Hellmann, T. Hickler, S. T. Jackson, M. 20171039). The Royal Society. Forte, G., Kustatscher, E., van Konijnenburg-van Looy, C.V. Kemp, P. L. Koch, C. Kremen, E. L. Lindsey, C. Looy, Cittert, J.H., and Kerp, H., 2017. Conifer Finnegan, S. C. R. Marshall, C. Mendenhall, A. Mulch, A. M. , Rasmussen, C.M. and Harper, D.A., diversity in the Kungurian of Europe—Evidence from Mychajliw, C. Nowak, U. Ramakrishnan, J. Schnitzler, 2017. Identifying the most surprising victims of mass dwarf-shoot morphology. Review of Palaeobotany and K. Das Shrestha, K. Solari, L. Stegner, M. A. Stegner, extinction events: an example using Late Ordovician Palynology. brachiopods. Biology letters, 13(9), p.20170400. N. C. Stenseth, M. H. Wake, and Z. Zhang. 2017. Marshall C.R. 2017. A tip of the hat to evolutionary Merging paleobiology with conservation biology to Kröger, B., Finnegan, S., Franeck, F. and Hopkins, change (News and Views). Nature. doi:10.1038/ guide the future of terrestrial ecosystems. Science M.J., 2017. The Ordovician succession adjacent to d41586-017-07440-0 255: eaah4787 (11 pages). Hinlopenstretet, Ny Friesland, Spitsbergen. American Marshall, C.R. 2017. Five paleobiological laws J.R .Bean Museum Novitates, (3882), pp.1-28. D.S. Swezey, , T.M. Hill, B. Gaylord, needed to understand the evolution of the living A.T. Ninokawa, and E. Sanford. Plastic responses Spalding, C., Finnegan, S. and Fischer, W.W., biota. Nature Ecology and Evolution 1: 0165. of bryozoans to ocean acidification.Journal of 2017. Energetic Costs of Calcification Under Ocean doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0165. Experimental Biology 2017 220: 4399-4409; doi: Acidification.Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 10.1242/jeb.163436. Monson, T.A., and L.J. Hlusko. 2016. The evolution Bergmann, K.D., Finnegan, S., Creel, R., Eiler, J.M., of dental eruption sequence in artiodactyls. Journal Bean, J.R. Swezey, D.S., , Ninokawa, A.T., Hill, T.M., Hughes, N.C., Popov, L.E., Fischer, W.W., A paired of Mammalian Evolution. 1:1-12. Gaylord, B., Sanford, E. (2017). Interactive effects of apatite and calcite clumped isotope thermometry Monson, T. A Brasil, M.F. temperature, food and skeletal mineralogy mediate approach to estimating Cambro-Ordovician seawater ., , Stratford, D.J., L.J. Hlusko. biological responses to ocean acidification in a temperatures and isotopic composition, Geochimica and 2017. Patterns of craniofacial widely distributed bryozoan. Proceedings of the et Cosmochimica Acta (2017), doi: https://doi.org/ variation and taxonomic diversity in the South Royal Society B: Biological Sciences; 284 (1853): 10.1016/j.gca.2017.11.015 African Cercopithecidae fossil record. Palaeontologia 20162349 DOI:10.1098/rspb.2016.2349. Electronica 20.1.7A: 1-20. Wosik M, Goodwin M.B., and Evans D.C. 2017. Caldwell, R.L. Padian, K. Ahyong, S.T., and Erdmann, M.V., A nestling-sized skeleton of Edmontosaurus Andres, B., , Rowe, T.B., Bell, C.J., Brown, 2017. Collecting and processing stomatopods. The (Ornithischia, Hadrosauridae) from the Hell Creek M.A., Sagebiel, J.C., Lehman, T.M. and Cunningham, Quetzalcoatlus northropi Journal of Crustacean Biology, 37(1), pp.109-114. Formation of northeastern Montana, USA, with an J.R., 2017. Case 3728— (Reptilia, Pterosauria): proposed availability and Calado, R., Caldwell, R.L., Chiba, S., Clark, F., analysis of ontogenetic limb allometry. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(6). attribution of authorship to lawson, 1975. The Elofsson, R., Franklin, A.M., Karapanagiotidis, I.T., Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 74, pp.34-37. Lombardo, B., McClure, M.R., Moriyasu, M. and Hickman, C.S. 2017. Nemocataegis, a new genus Padian, K. Naderloo, R., 2017. Crustacean Biology. Journal of and two new species of relictual seguenzioid , 2017. Evolution: Parallel lives. Nature, Crustacean Biology, 37(4), p.518. gastropods (Vetigastropoda: Cataegidae) and a 548(7666), pp.156-157. Clemens, W.A., 2017. (Cimolestidae, Mammalia) geobiological framework for integrating patterns in Padian, K., 2017. Palaeontology: Dividing the from the Latest Cretaceous and Earliest Paleocene of Deep Marine Wallaea. The Nautilus 131(3): 151–162. dinosaurs. Nature, 543(7646), pp.494-495. the Northern Western Interior, USA. PaleoBios, 34. A.A. Klompmaker Diaz-Medina, G., M. Hyzny, and . Sanders, J., Blundy, J., Donaldson, A., Brown, S., Clemens, W.A., 2017. A pantodont (Mammalia) 2017. A lithostratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental Ivison, R., Padgett, M., Padian, K., Rittinger, K., from the latest Puercan North American Land framework for the Late Miocene El Caracolar Rowe, K., Stace, A. and Viding, E., 2017. Transparency Mammal Age (earliest Paleocene) of the Western section (Granada Basin, Betic Cordillera, Spain) and and openness in science. Royal Society open science, Interior, USA. Historical Biology, pp.1-6. description of decapod crustaceans. Geobios, 50: 4(1), p.160979. 173 - 195. Contreras, D.L., I.A.P. Duijnstee, S.L. Ranks, C.R. Padian, K., 2017. Structure and evolution of the Klompmaker, A.A. Marshall, C.V. Looy. The evolution of dispersal , M. Kowalewski, J.W. Huntley, ankle bones in and other ornithodirans. S. Finnegan. strategies in conifers: convergence and divergence and 2017. Increase in predator-prey Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 37(5), in the morphology of diaspores. Perspectives size ratios throughout the Phanerozoic history of p.e1364651 in Plant Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. marine ecosystems. Science, 356: 1168 - 1170. Poust, A.W. and R.W. Boessenecker. 2017. 24:93−117. Klompmaker, A.A. , R.W. Portell, and M.G. Frick. Mandibles of the sea lion Proterozetes ulysses from O’Dell, R.E., D.M. Erwin, P. Holroyd, B.D. Rankin, 2017. Comparative experimental taphonomy of eight the middle Pleistocene Port Orford Formation of and M. Ibraheem El-Faramawi. 2017. Flora and marine arthropods indicates distinct differences in Oregon. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. DOI: Fauna of the Holocene Oil Canyon oil-sands from preservation potential. Palaeontology, 60: 773 - 794. 10.1080/02724634.2017.1317637. the poorly understood San Joaquin Desert Biozone. Luque, J., C.E. Schweitzer, W. Santana, R.W. Portell, Poust, A.W. and R.W. Boessenecker. In Press. In: Reynolds, R.E. (ed.) ECSZ Does It: Revisiting F.J. Vega, and A.A. Klompmaker. 2017. Checklist of the Eastern California Shear Zone, 2017 Desert Expanding the geographic and geochronologic range fossil decapod crustaceans from tropical America, Part Enaliarctos Symposium Volume, pp. 308–314. of early pinnipeds: new specimens of from I: Anomura and Brachyura. Nauplius, 25: e2017025. Northern California and Oregon. Acta Palaeontologica Finnegan, S. Zaffos, A., and Peters, S.E., 2017. Plate Schweitzer, C.E., R.M. Feldmann, H. Karasawa, O.D. Polonica. 2017. tectonic regulation of global marine animal diversity. A.A. Klompmaker Frantescu, and . 2017. Systematic Poust, A.W. 2017. Book Review: “The White River Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Descriptions: Section Etyoida. Treatise Online 95. Part 114(22), pp.5653-5658. Badlands: Geology and Paleontology” by Benton, R, Revised, Volume 1, Chapter 8P, 9 p. R.C., D. O. Terry Jr., E. Evanoff, and H. G. McDonald. Finnegan, S. Heim, N.A., Payne, J.L., , Knope, Lim, J.Y., C.R. Marshall. 2017. The true tempo Priscum. 24(1):15-16. Newsletter 6 December 2017 ...continued from Collections page 5 a love for all fossils. She earned her PhD from Kent State University in 2013, working on fossil squat lobsters (sister group to hermit crabs; Jurassic-Recent). After a short

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Welcome to Winter & Calendar of Events In this issue Happy New year Every 1st Wed. of the Month UCMP Alumni Honored ...... p.1 East Bay Science Cafe Director’s Letter ...... p.2 at Restaurant Valparaiso on Solano Student Activities ...... p.3 Ave. in Albany. Staff Updates ...... p.4 http://scienceatcal.berkeley.edu What’s New in the Collections ...p.5 Publications ...... p.6 February 24, 2018 Collections continued ...... p.7 UCMP Short Course Friends of UCMP...... p.7 Geomicrobiology: The Pollution UCMP 2018 Calendar ...... p.7 Solution Welcome to Winter ...... p.8 Please join us for this short course focusing on the tiny but important world of microbes in the modern Keep up with UCMP News on our and fossil records. website, Facebook, Instagram and UCMP had many highlights over Twitter @ucmpberkeley! the year with our staff and alumni April 21, 2018 winning honors and other awards, CalDay! and we experienced some bittersweet UCMP welcomes the community moments saying goodbye to recent for Cal’s Sesquicentennial - the graduates and retirees. Even so, 2018 150th anniversary of the founding promises to be even more exciting! of UC Berkeley! Join us on Cal Day to learn about our collections and UCMP is working on new projects with University of California partners like the SFPUC and we are research! We’ll have tours, Fun planning to release new educational with Fossils and much more! Museum of Paleontology web resources - so stay tuned! ( Visit: calday.berkeley.edu and www.ucmp.berkeley.edu 150.berkeley.edu