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CURRICULUM VITAE Daniel C. Fisher EDUCATION 1971 A.B CURRICULUM VITAE Daniel C. Fisher EDUCATION 1971 A.B. summa cum laude, Geological Sciences, Harvard University 1972 A.M. Geological Sciences, Harvard University 1975 Ph.D. Geological Sciences, Harvard University PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS 1975 Instructor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Rochester 1975 - 1979 Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Rochester 1976 - date Research Associate, Field Museum of Natural History 1979 - 1984 Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences and Assistant Curator, Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 1982 - 1984 Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Michigan 1984 - 1992 Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, and Associate Curator, Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 1992 - 2001 Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Professor, Department of Biology, and Curator, Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 2001 - 2011 Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Curator, Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 2011 - date Research Associate, Denver Museum of Nature and Science 2011 - date Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Curator/Director, Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan HONORS AND AWARDS 1971 Phi Beta Kappa 1971 - 1972 Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship 1971 - 1974 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship 1981 Honorary Member, Michigan Archaeological Society 1984 Henry Russel Award (achievement in teaching and research), University of Michigan 1984 Schuchert Award (achievement in the field of paleontology), Paleontological Society 1985 - 1986 Guggenheim Fellowship, J. S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 1995 LS&A Excellence in Research Award, University of Michigan 1999 LS&A Excellence in Research Award, University of Michigan 2002 - date LS&A Collegiate Professorship, University of Michigan (Claude W. Hibbard Collegiate Professor of Paleontology) 2003 Outstanding Research Mentor, Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, University of Michigan 2005 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science 2005 Fellow, Paleontological Society 2006 - 2010 Senior Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows, University of Michigan 2011 Governor’s Award for Historic Preservation, State of Michigan EDITORIAL AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY SERVICE 1982 Abstract Review Committee (Paleontology Section) for GSA Annual Meeting 1982 - 1985 Associate Editor, Evolution 1983 - 1985 Paleontological Society Representative to AAAS 1987 - 1995 Patterson Award Committee, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 1988 - 1990 Associate Editor, Paleobiology 1991 Search Committee for Director of R. M. Alf Museum, Claremont, California 2 1993 - 2012 Associate Editor, Current Research in the Pleistocene 1994 - 1999 Schuchert Award Committee, Paleontological Society 1994 - 1997 Editorial Board, Geology 2009 - date Scientific Advisory Board, Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, South Dakota 2010 Scientific Committee, Vth International Mammoth Conference 2011 - 2013 Committee on Fellows, Paleontological Society 2012 - 2014 Scientific Committee, VIth International Mammoth Conference 2014 - date Editorial Board, PaleoAmerica PROPOSAL REVIEW PANELS 1985 - 1991 Systematic Biology Program, National Science Foundation 2010 - 2011 Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology Program, National Science Foundation PROFESSIONAL CONSULTING 1992 - 1994 Maine State Museum (Scarborough mammoth exhibit) 1993 - 1995 Field Museum of Natural History, Life through Time (mammoth tusk exhibit) 1994 - 1995 Michigan Department of Transportation (St. Johns mastodon analysis and exhibit) 1995 - 1997 Cranbrook Institute of Science (Mystery of the Mastodons exhibit) 1996 Hot Springs Mammoth Site, Hot Springs, South Dakota, Visiting Scientist 1996 - 1998 New York State Museum (Cohoes mastodon, restoration, mounting, and analysis) 1997 - 1998 University of Michigan School of Education and School of Information, Collaboratory for Research on Electronic Work (‘whiteboard’ teaching experiment) 1999 - 2000 Development and filming of Discovery Channel’s “Land of the Mammoth” 2000 - 2001 Development and filming of Discovery Channel’s “Mastodon in Your Backyard” 2000 - 2003 Paleontological Research Institution (Hyde Park mastodon) 2004 - 2006 Exhibit Museum, University of Michigan (Buesching mastodon exhibit; Mastodons and the Ice Age Theme Semester) 2005 - 2006 Rochester Museum and Science Center, Rochester, New York (upgrade of Pleistocene exhibits) 2006 - 2007 Science Central, Fort Wayne, Indiana (mastodon skeletal mount) 2006 - 2008 Development and filming of Nebraska Educational Television’s “Mammoth Mystery” 2006 - 2008 Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum, Poughkeepsie, New York (mastodon skeletal mount) 2007 - 2010 Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois (exhibition on mammoths and mastodons) 2007 - 2008 Development and filming of Discovery Channel film, “Baby Mammoth” 2008 - 2009 National Geographic Television, “Waking the Baby Mammoth” 2008 - 2009 State Museum of Pennsylvania (exhibition on Marshall’s Creek mastodon) 2009 - 2014 State Museum of Indiana (exhibition on Buesching and Bothwell mastodons) 2010 - 2014 Advisory Committee, Snowmastodon Project, Denver Museum of Nature & Science 2011 - 2012 Development and filming of National Geographic Television/NOVA’s “Ice Age Death Trap” [“Highest rating for a NOVA broadcast in seven years”] 2011 - 2012 Development and filming of BBC/Discovery Channel’s “Woolly Mammoth: Secrets from the Ice” 2011 - 2012 Development and filming of Giant Screen Films/IMAX-3D documentary [“Titans of the Ice Age”] 2011 - 2014 Development of BBC/Discovery Channel documentary [“Ice Age Giants”] 2012 - 2013 Development of French television documentary on Chilean mastodon [in series “L’Empire des Sciences”] 2012 - 2014 Anatomical consultant, Snowmass mastodon sculpture, Denver Museum of Nature & Science 2013 - 2014 Development of Smithsonian Channel documentary [“How to clone a woolly mammoth”] 2014 Development of German documentary [“Mammuts – Stars-der-Eiszeit”] 3 UNIVERSITY SERVICE 1980 Rackham Fellowship Committee (light) 1982 Michigan Scholars Program (light) 1984 President’s Club Lecture, University of Michigan (light) 1988 Kelsey Museum (exhibit development; light) 1993 - 1995 Systematic Biology at UM, LS&A Dean’s Advisory Committee (heavy) 1994 Office of the Vice President for Research (paleontological fieldwork photos; light) 1994 Exhibit development (Brennan mastodon tracks) for the Exhibit Museum (heavy) 1995 - 1998 School of Education (workshop consultant and lecturer; light) 1997 Legal negotiations regarding the Sexton mastodon site (light) 2002 Planning for a Visible Preparation Laboratory for the Exhibit Museum (light) 2002 - 2003 Chair of search committee for Director of the Museum of Zoology/Herbarium (heavy) 2003 Program development with University Office of Government Relations for 2004 activities at Kalamazoo Valley Museum (light) 2005 Lectures for “Michigan Difference” program, UM Development Office (light) 2006 Participate in “Celebrate Invention” for Office of Technology Transfer (light) 2006 - 2010 Selection of Junior Fellows, Michigan Society of Fellows (heavy) 2009 Lecture for 4th Thursday (UM Development Office), Petoskey, MI (medium) 2014 Lecture for M-Talks (UM Development Office), Ann Arbor, MI (light) 2014 Interview and production support for article (“The Dead Elephant in the Room”) in LSA Magazine DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE Department of Geological Sciences, Earth and Environmental Sciences 1981 - 1982 Internal Review Committee (heavy) 1981 - 1984 Scott Turner Award Committee, chair (heavy) 1982 - 1984 Executive Committee (heavy) 1982 - 1984 Paleontology Search Committee, chair (heavy) 1984 Scott Turner Award Committee, transition to new account manager (light) 1984 Turner Lecture Organizer (medium) 1984 Graduate Student Support Committee (light) 1986 - 1987 Ph.D. Examination Committee, chair (medium) 1987 - 1989 Executive Committee (heavy) 1989 - 1990 Paleontology Search Committee, chair (heavy) 1991 - 1994 Ph.D. Examination Committee (medium) 1992 - 1994 Museum tours for Geo 135 (light) 1992 Field trip for Geo 275 (light) 1994 Guest lecture for Geo 411 (light) 1994 - 1995 Curriculum Committee (light) 1994 - 1995 Paleontology Search Committee, chair (heavy) 1995 - 1997 Executive Committee (heavy) 1998 - 1999 Ph.D. Examination Committee (light) 2000 Guest lectures for Geo 135 and 411 (light) 2000 Assembled award dossier for a senior faculty colleague (medium) 2000 - 2002 Executive Committee (heavy) 2002 - 2004 Ph.D. Examination Committee (light-medium) 2003 Turner Postdoctoral selection committee (light) 2004 Ad hoc Promotion Committee in Paleontology (medium) 2004 - 2006 Graduate Admissions Committee (light FA; medium WN) 2006 - 2008 Executive Committee (heavy) 2008 - 2009 Ad hoc Promotion Committee in Oceanography (heavy in 2009) 2008 - 2010 Turner Postdoctoral selection committee (medium) 2010 - 2011 Ph.D. Examination Committee (light FA; medium WN) 4 2010 - 2011 Graduate Admissions Committee (light FA; medium WN) 2010 - date Lab tours for Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, Univ. Michigan 2011 Lecture for “Lunch with Honors”, Univ. Michigan 2012 Ad hoc Promotion Committee (medium) 2012 Lab tours for Earth 151, English 225, History 238, Univ. Michigan 2013 - 2014 Lab tours for History 238
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