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Mark Goodwin Retires! Mccone Hall News Newsletter of the University of California Museum of Paleontology May 2019 Left: Mark Goodwin circa 1979, preparing the icthyosaur reconstruction, then on display in Mark Goodwin retires! McCone Hall. Center: Mark in Ethiopia collecting a sauropod fossil, 2016. Right: From left to right: Dave Evans, Greg Wilson, Bill Clemens, and Mark Goodwin at the Hell Creek Formation in Montana, summer 2018. All photos courtesy of Mark Goodwin. In the summer of 2018, after a after one more semester at UMass River Formation in Montana, but still UCMP career spanning 40 years, Amherst, Farish Jenkins offered Mark under Bill’s guiding hand. Mark Goodwin officially hung up his a job in the Museum of Comparative hammer. Growing up in Worcester Zoology at Harvard University, where Mark would soon complete his (‘Wusta’), Massachusetts, a life-long he worked in the fossil prep lab with Master’s degree on the geology career all the way out in Berkeley, Bill Amaral, and in the vertebrate and paleontology of the Campanian California, must have seemed collections with Chuck Schaff. All Judith River Formation exposed near inconceivable to the young Mark. But three would end up as mentors, Rudyard, Montana, with Bill as his with serendipity and perseverance, it lifelong friends, and colleagues, also thesis advisor. Back at UCMP, Mark nonetheless came to pass. introducing Mark to fieldwork in supervised the UCMP preparation Montana and Wyoming. lab, becoming an expert in molding Mark began his formal preparation and casting fossils. His interest as a vertebrate paleontologist as an On the weight of this experience, in dinosaur growth and behavior undergraduate at UMass Amherst, Mark was hired by UCMP in the fall of deepened after discovering a majoring in geology and zoology. 1978 as a Senior Museum Preparator pachycephalosaur skull in the Judith His museum experience also began (although Mark suspects he was River Formation, and he is now a at that time, volunteering in Amherst really hired by fellow New Englander world authority on the group. Mark, College’s Pratt Museum with Margery and Director, Bill Berry, on the basis in collaboration with Bill and Jack (UMass) and Walter Coombs of his thick Massachusetts accent). Horner, also became interested (Springfield College). This was Mark was supervised by Howard in Triceratops bone preservation. followed by an internship in 1976 Hutchison, completing his B.A. in the With the encouragement of UCMP in the Smithsonian’s Department then Department of Paleontology. Director David Lindberg, these of Paleobiology, rotating through Bill Clemens invited Mark to join interests led to a Ph.D. from UC the labs of Erle Kauffman, Frank his field crew in the late Cretaceous Davis. The kid from ‘Wusta’ was now Wetmore, Clayton Ray, Bob Emry, Hell Creek Formation, and so began Dr. Goodwin! and Nick Hotton, and spending many his long career in the field. In the hours in the fossil prep lab under following summers Mark would lead When the UCMP moved from... Arnie Lewis. The following year, UCMP students and staff in the Judith ...continued on Mark Goodwin retires page 3 Newsletter 1 May 2019 Hoc Fossil Repositories Committee and Collections Guidelines that Who is UCMP? Charles Marshall played a major role in establishing Director: Assistant Director: Lisa White Federal guidelines for fossil collecting Mark Goodwin* in the United States. He brought Curators: stature to the collections and to UCMP, Anthony Barnosky* Dave Lindberg* Roy Caldwell* Jere Lipps* and we will miss him. However, we William Clemens* Cindy Looy do expect to see Mark in and around Ivo Duijnstee** Charles Marshall UCMP for many years to come, so all is Seth Finnegan Kevin Padian Carole Hickman* Tim White not yet lost. Leslea Hlusko James Valentine* Curatorial Associates: Director's Letter We also celebrate the contributions Walter Alvarez Lynn Ingram of invertebrate paleontology Senior Admin. Assistant: Chris Mejia Museum Scientist, Erica Clites, who Museum Scientists: At the heart of the UCMP collections came to UCMP over six years ago, Ashley Dineen Patricia Holroyd are the career scientists who live initially hired on a two-year NSF grant Diane Erwin Cristina Robins Education & Public Outreach: amongst them, making them living to rehouse the remainder of the Jessica Bean Helina Chin entities. In this Newsletter we former USGS Menlo Park invertebrate Trish Roque Anna Thanukos celebrate the retirement of 40-year fossil collection. Her ability to plan Edited by Lisa White veteran, Mark Goodwin (pronounced simultaneously on timescales of Layout & graphics by Helina Chin Maak), the departure of Erica Clites, days, weeks, months, and years, as and welcome her replacement Ashley well as her ability to manage people, *Emeritus/a, **Adjunct Dineen (see pg. 4). Mark’s career from undergraduates to volunteers, exemplified what it means to work up to the Director, made her an Finally, I just want to call out Pat in and among the collections. He invaluable colleague. Sadly for us, in Holroyd, who really stepped up to understood fossils, the sediment they late 2018, to be closer to her growing the plate with Mark’s retirement, were preserved in, fossil preparation, family, she moved back to Michigan and into the gap between Erica’s the management of large complex where she is the Cooperative departure and Ashley’s arrival. She collections, the art of negotiation Invasive Species Management Area and Diane Erwin have been the both on and off campus, field work, coordinator at the Six Rivers Land anchors of our collections-based and cutting edge research. He is also Conservancy. We were very excited mission, and so raise a glass to them, deeply embedded in SVP, serving for to hire Ashley to replace Erica. She indeed, to all who work among our 25 years on SVP committees, including comes to us from a postdoctoral community’s collections. m 21 years on the Government Affairs position with Peter Roopnarine at the Committee, and as Chair of the Ad California Academy of Sciences. — Charles Marshall intact, many more molluscs, and and the recently published new thousands of shark teeth, including species Pacific Mastodon (Mammut one Megalodon tooth. In the pacificus) that resides in the UCMP, courtyard of the Valley Life Sciences and other large mammals from the Building with the Berkeley Natural Pleistocene, picked by Pat Holroyd. History Museums, UCMP showcased With another Cal Day in the books, several interesting fossils to explain we hope to see you next year! H taphonomy, the process of how organisms decay and subsequently fossilize. Our lecture series featured CalDay 2019 Professor Kevin Padian giving a talk connecting evolutionary biology The UCMP had a whale of a time on and menswear, Sara ElShafie talking Cal Day this past April 13th, 2019. about more Fantastic Beasts and The UCMP Prep Lab led by Cristina where to find them, andCristina Robins shared some new discoveries Robins sharing more from the unburied from the Calaveras dam site Calaveras site. project with the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. The prep lab The behind the scenes tours of the undergraduate students put together collections were as popular as ever, displays showcasing whale skulls with showcasing some beautiful plant Left: Mastodon toy next to lower jaw of Mastodon. Right: Ash Poust explains baleen. a portion of the vertebral column fossils hand-picked by Diane Erwin Photos by Ashley Dineen, Pat Holroyd. Newsletter 2 May 2019 associates, and students. He received NSF funding for digital investigations of pachycephalosaurs and international collaborative fieldwork in Ethiopia, which led to the discovery of Ethiopia’s first dinosaurs. Mark’s field studies also included participation on UCMP expeditions led by Bill Clemens to the North Slope of Alaska to prospect for late Cretaceous dinosaurs and mammals, as well as to the northern Negev desert of Israel with then-Director Jere Lipps. Mark is a Research Associate of the Museum of the Rockies and the Royal Ontario Museum where his long-term collaborations with colleagues Jack Mark Goodwin, C.B. Wood, J. Howard Hutchison, and Chuck Schaff in Abi Adi Ethiopia, 1998. Horner and David Evans continue. He is a Graduate Faculty Scholar at ...continued from Mark Goodwin retires, page 1 and overseeing the growth Northern Illinois University, and has McCone Hall to the Valley Life and management of the UCMP two dinosaurs named after him. Sciences Building (VLSB) in 1995, collections in VLSB, Sather Tower, and Mark proposed the “Own a Piece of the off-campus Dwight-Derby and As Mark transitions from a full time the Rex” campaign to then-Director Marchant sites, later replaced by the presence in the UCMP, UC Berkeley Jere Lipps and worked with the Regatta Building collections facility. bestowed on him the title emeritus, a Museum of the Rockies (MOR) staff Mark also created opportunities rare honor for a retired staff member, to obtain a copy of MOR 555, the for undergraduate and graduate well deserved after 40 years of same specimen that will be displayed students in fossil preparation and service under six UCMP directors. in the Smithsonian’s renovated curation through extramurally funded He knows where all the skeletons dinosaur hall as our Nation’s T. rex. projects, including a CalTrans grant are buried in the UCMP and Mark led the design and installation to deal with fossils from the fourth enthusiastically shares that history, of the T. rex and pterosaur skeletons, bore of the Caldecott Tunnel, and a as exemplified by his leadership of supervising artists and model grant from the San Francisco Public the Bill Clemens Oral History project. makers, undergrads and graduate Utilities Commission (SFPUC) to In retirement Mark, paleontologist, students, and enjoying Chancellor manage fossils recovered at the new social activist, sports fan, and father Tien’s opening of the exhibits.
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