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 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. Calaveras Dam site. of three children, (Ross, 32; Beth, 28; Graham, 27), all of whom “grew up” Mark’s responsibilities expanded During Mark’s career in UCMP in the UCMP and in the field, plans to when he was appointed Assistant he worked nearly every summer stay active in UCMP, and travel more Director of Research and Collections, in Montana with Bill Clemens with his wife Paula. : supervising the collections staff and UCMP alums, staff, research

Left to right: Dave Evans, Pat Holroyd and Mark at the March for Science 2017, Mark circa 1986 molding a phytosaur skull in the prep lab, Mark at the 2001 SVP meeting at the Museum of the Rockies, Lila Redding, Mark and Beth Goodwin on Dan and Lila Redding's farm in Montana, 2016.

Newsletter 3 May 2019 What’s New in the Collections

Left: Julia Anderson, Cristina Robins, Mackenzie Kirchner-Smith, and Laura Mackenzie applying a plaster jacket to fossil whale skull. Photo by Helina Chin. Right: Ashley Dineen with Megalodon tooth. Photo courtesy of Ashley Dineen.

Calaveras Dam Update (i.e., Permo- and end-Triassic After two years of hard work, the mass extinctions), as well as episodes Calaveras Dam Salvage Paleontology of rapid diversification, changed the Project is coming to a close. Although structure and function of ecosystems the active preparation may be in the Mesozoic. Ashley received completed, the thousands of fossils her BS, MS, and PhD in Geosciences recovered will provide researchers from the University of Wisconsin- visiting the UC collections with Milwaukee, and her broad research decades of work. interests focus on paleocommunity Kasapligil fossil fern, photo by Diane Erwin. structure and functional diversity The NSF-sponsored Pteridological A few highlights: dynamics during and after major Collections Consortium (PCC) project • 10 semester-long GSR stipends environmental disturbance (e.g., to digitize nearly two million fossil • 8 undergraduate students, 3 climate regime transitions, mass and extant pteridophyte specimens, volunteers extinction). She has completed lead by Carl Rothfels, Diane Erwin, • 3,000 undergraduate hours in the fieldwork in numerous international and Cindy Looy, is racing ahead. prep lab localities, including China, Italy, Project Manager Amy Kasameyer and • 3,000 graduate hours in the prep Argentina, and the Caribbean. Ashley Portal Manager Joyce Gross have lab was recently awarded a PS Norman been instrumental in the creation • 4,000 staff hours in the prep lab Newell Early Career Grant, and is of the PCC website and the PCC • 20+ whale skulls prepared passionate about STEM education for portal. Over half a million records are • 4,000+ shark teeth identified girls and under served youth, serving already available in the portal, where • well over 10,000 invertebrate as a volunteer mentor and project they can be viewed via interactive fossils leader at a Bay Area non-profit called maps, specimen images can be • several broken sledgehammers Scientific Adventures for Girls since downloaded, and regional checklists and quite a bit of glue. J early 2017. C produced, among a wide variety of other features. Portal link http:// pteridoportal.org/ and website link Staff Updates Curators in the Spotlight https://pteridophytes.berkeley.edu/ university-of-california-berkeley. Carole Hickman reports on fieldwork

Pat Holroyd reports what a banner Welcome to Ashley Dineen! in 2018 along the southern Oregon year 2018 was for publications The UCMP is happy to welcome coast as a participant in the Coaledo featuring UCMP specimens! UCMP Ashley Dineen to the position of Project: An Integrated Study. In her specimens appeared in more than Senior Museum Scientist overseeing role as molluscan paleontologist, 130 scholarly publications and on the invertebrate collection. Ashley she is part of a team of twelve resources hosted on our site (e.g., was most recently a post doc at geologists and geobiologists Miomap and Faunmap). Those California Academy of Sciences with organized by John Armentrout in a papers were found in more than Peter Roopnarine where she created groundbreaking restudy and analysis 60 different journals, especially and modeled several high-resolution of Eocene rocks that are now part PeerJ, Historical Biology, Journal marine food webs spanning the of the ancient accreted terrane of Vertebrate Paleontology, Triassic, , and Cretaceous of Siletzia. Preserved in a tropical Cretaceous Research, Journal of of Europe. This project was focused deltaic setting, fossil molluscs, Human Evolution, and Journal of on examining how the abrupt biotic benthic Foraminifera, shark remains, Paleontology. reorganizations of the marine realm and pollen contribute to testing a

Newsletter 4 May 2019 Student and Postdoc Updates

Newly-minted PhD Dori Contreras started a postdoctoral position in the Looy Lab on a multidimensional NSF sponsored project Inferring a total- evidence timeline of vascular plant evolution awarded to UC Herbarium curator Carl Rothfels and UCMP curator Cindy Looy.

Recent graduate Jeff Benca accepted a horticulturist position for the Amazon Spheres in Seattle, Carole Hickman points to fine-scale Washington. His work focuses on deformation structures in the Coaledo Formation where dense muddy sediment helping cultivate and maintain was squeezed under pressure into overlying a diverse collection of tropical coarser sediment. Photo by Dave Blackwell. plants for Amazon’s headquarters Sara ElShafie accepting the Mary Dawson new model of sedimentary cycles conservatory. He is continuing Predoctoral Fellowship Award at SVP 2018. and depositional environments. research in paleobotany and Photo courtesy of Sara ElShafie. Results are being assembled in developing cultivation techniques conjunction with detailed drone for early-diverging seed-free plant with undergraduate students on photos of inaccessible but extensive lineages to aid in their ex situ remarkable trends in crab size and well-exposed seacliff sections of the conservation. shape through time at the GSA Coaledo Formation. Collections of meeting in Indianapolis. See https:// fossil molluscs from important new Postdoctoral scholar Adiël ucmp.berkeley.edu/2018/12/extreme- localities now have UCMP locality Klompmaker traveled to the competition-species-ocean-floor/ for a numbers and descriptions. They will Netherlands for a keynote talk popular article on Adiël’s research. be integrated with the historic UCMP at the international symposium collections and type specimens of Crustacea Through Time. After Sara Elshafie continues to be species described by F. E. Turner. receiving a Lerner-Gray grant, he recognized nationally for her Turner’s field work (1929–1935) was examined evidence of crustaceans science communication work, and funded by UCMP benefactor Annie in Cretaceous cold seeps from she was awarded the Mary Dawson Alexander and published in 1938 by South Dakota using collections in Predoctoral Fellowship Award the Geological Society of America as the American Museum of Natural from the Society of Vertebrate a UCMP contribution. History in New York City. He also Paleontology. Sara organized a presented research in collaboration ...continued on Students page 7 Another UCMP connection to the project also includes the participation of Bruce Welton (PhD, UCMP 1979, Cretaeous and Cenozoic sharks of the NE Pacific). Collections from two new mollusc localities are significant to paleobathymetric interpretation, indicating deeper biofacies than previously reported.

Cindy Looy was also appointed to a 2-month visiting chair position at the department of Physical Geography at the Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, where she joined the palaeoecology research group of Professor Rike Wagner. L Glen McIntosh of Industrial Light & Magic explains the making of Indominus rex to Josh Zimmt and Helina Chin. Photo by Sara ElShaife.

Newsletter 5 May 2019 Cullen, T.M., F.J. Longstaffe, U.G. Wortmann, M.B. Klompmaker, A. A., Robins, C. M., Portell, R. W., & Publications Goodwin Bean, J. R., Lo, A., Oshry, A., & Marshall, C. R. , L. Huang, and D.C. Evans. 2019. Stable De Angeli, A. (2018). Crustaceans as hosts of parasites Designing interdisciplinary climate change units isotope characterization of a coastal floodplain forest throughout the Phanerozoic. bioRxiv, 505495 using the Understanding Global Change resources community: a case study for isotopic reconstruction of Lipps, J.H. 2018. Natural History Museums: and the NGSS Storyline Approach. 2018 AGU Fall Mesozoic vertebrate assemblages. Royal Society Open Facilitating science literacy across the globe. in Meeting Abstracts. Science. 6: 181210. 2018 Rosenberg, G.D., and Clary, R.M., eds., Museums at the M. B. Goodwin Benca, J.P., Duijnstee, I.A.P., and Looy, C.V. 2018. Wosik, M., , and D. C. Evans. Forefront of the History and Philosophy of Geology: UV-B-induced forest sterility: implications of ozone 2018. A nestling-sized skeleton of Edmontosaurus History Made, History in the Making: Geological Society shield failure in Earth's largest extinction. Science (Ornithischia, Hadrosauridae) from the Hell Creek of America Special Paper 535, p. 9–33. Advances 4. e1700618 Formation of northeastern Montana, U.S.A., with an analysis of ontogenetic limb allometry. Journal of DiMichele W.A., Hook R.W., Kerp H., Hotton C.L., Looy C.V. Smith, S.M., C.J. Sprain, W.A. Clemens, D.L. Vertebrate Paleontology. 37(6). e1398168. , Chaney D.S., 2018. The lower flora Lofgren, P.R. Renne, and G.P. Wilson, 2018. Early of the Sanzenbacher Ranch, Clay County, Texas. Pp. Hickman, C.S. mammalian recovery after the end-Cretaceous mass 2018. A new Calliovarica species 95-126 in M. Krings M, C.J. Harper, N.R. Cuneo, G.W. extinction: A high-resolution view from McGuire Creek (Seguenzioidea: Chilodonntidae) from the Eocene Rothwell GW (eds.), Transformative Paleobotany. area, Montana, USA. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Oregon, USA: Persistence of a relict Mesozoic DiMichele, W.A., S.G. Lucas, D.S. Chaney, M.P. of America. gastropod group in a unique forearc tectonic setting. PaleoBios 35. ump_paleobios_38726 Donovan, H. Kerp, R.A. Koll and C.V. Looy. 2018. Early Sprain, C.J., P. R. Renne, W. A. Clemens, and G. Permian flora, Doña Ana Mountains, Southern New Hlusko, L.J. P. Wilson. Calibration of chron C29r: New high- , Carlson, J.P., Chaplin, G., Elias, Mexico, with special consideration of taxonomic issues precision geochronologic and paleomagnetic S.A., Hoffecker, J.F., Huffman, M., Jablonski, N.G., and arthropod damage. New Mexico Museum of Monson, T.A. constraints from the Hell Creek region, Montana , O’Rourke, D.H., Pilloud, M.A. and Scott, Natural History and Science Bulletin. 79: 165-205. and their implications for the Cretaceous-Paleocene G.R. 2018. Environmental selection during the last ice Manafzadeh, A.R. and K. Padian. 2018. ROM boundary mass extinction. Bulletin of the Geological age on the mother-to-infant transmission of vitamin D mapping of ligamentous constraints on avian hip Society of America and fatty acids through breast milk. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, p.201711788. mobility: implications for extinct ornithodirans. Proc. Contreras, D.L. 2018. A workflow and protocol R. Soc. B 285: 20180727. Holroyd, P.A. describing the field to digitization process for new Boyer, D.M., Maiolino, S.A., , Morse, P.E. Marshall, C.R., Finnegan, S., Clites, E.C., project-based fossil leaf collections. Applications in and Bloch, J.I., 2018. Oldest evidence for grooming Holroyd, P.A., Bonuso, N., Cortez, C., Davis, E., Dietl, Plant Sciences. 6: e1025. claws in euprimates. Journal of Human Evolution 122: 1-22 G.P., Druckenmiller, P.S., Eng, R.C. and Garcia, C., Estes- Dineen, A.A., Roopnarine, P.D., and Fraiser, M.F., Smargissi, K., Hendy, A., Hollis, K.A., Little, H., Nesbitt, Holroyd, P.A. LD. 2019. Ecological continuity and transformation after López-Torres, S., Silcox, M.T. and , E. A.. Roopnarine, P., Skibinski, Vendetti, J., and White the Permo-Triassic mass extinction in northeastern 2018. New omomyoids (Euprimates, Mammalia) , 2018. Quantifying the dark data in museum Panthalassa. Biology Letters v.15 (3), p. 20180902. from the late Uintan of southern California, USA, and fossil collections as palaeontology undergoes a second the question of the extinction of the Paromomyidae digital revolution. Biology letters, 14(9), p.20180431. Roopnarine, P.D., Weik, A.S., Angielczyk, K.D., (Plesiadapiformes, Primates). Palaeontologia Marshall, C. R. and Dineen, A.A., 2018. Ecological persistence, Electronica, 21(3), pp.1-28. Vermeij, G. J., Grosberg, R. K., , & Motani, R incumbency and reorganization in the Karoo Basin . (2018). The sea as deathtrap: comment Atterholt, J. Hutchison, J.H during the Permian-Triassic transition. Earth-Science , . and O’Connor, on a paper by Miller and Wiens. Ecology letters, 21(6), Review v. 189, p. 244-263. J.K., 2018. The most complete enantiornithine from 938-939. North America and a phylogenetic analysis of the Marshall, C.R. Roopnarine, P.D., and Dineen, A.A., 2018. Coral Avisauridae. PeerJ, 6, p.e5910: 1-45 Getz, W.M., , Carlson, C.J., reefs in crisis: The reliability of deep time food web Giuggioli, L., Ryan, S.J., Romañach, S.S., Boettiger, J. H. Hutchison reconstructions as analogs for the present, in Tyler, Lichtig, A., , and S. G. Lucas. 2018. C., Chamberlain, S.D., Larsen, L., D’Odorico, P. and C. and Schneider, C. (eds.) Marine Conservation Additional records of turtles from the Eocene San O’Sullivan, D., 2018. Making ecological models Paleobiology. p. 105-141. Jose Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico. Fossil adequate. Ecology letters, 21(2), pp.153-166. Record 6. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Monson, T.A. Hlusko, L.J. ElShafie, S. & S. Sumida. 2018. Science through Science Bulletin 79:319-322 , Armitage, D.W., and Narrative: Engaging Broad Audiences - An 2018. Using machine learning to classify extant Kahanamoku, S.S. D.R. Lindberg Introduction to the Symposium. Integrative and , P.M. Hull, , apes and interpret the dental morphology of the E.C. Clites S. Finnegan Comparative Biology. 58(6): 1204-1212. A.Y. Hsiang, and . 2018. chimpanzee-human last common ancestor. PaleoBios. Twelve thousand recent patellogastropods from a 35:1-20. ElShafie, S. 2018. Making Science Meaningful for northeastern Pacific latitudinal gradient. Scientific Monson, T.A. Brasil, M.F. Hlusko, L.J. 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Newsletter 6 May 2019 Monson, T.A., and Hlusko, L.J. 2018. Breaking Okamura, B., Padian, K., Wheeler, Friends of UCMP the rules: phylogeny, not life history, explains dental Q., Winston, J., & Yeung, N. 2018. Measuring We would like to welcome the following new or eruption sequence in primates. American Journal of Biodiversity and Extinction – Present and Past. renewing members to our Friends of the UCMP! Physical Anthropology. 167(2):217-233. Integrative and Comparative Biology. Benefactor Padian, K. 2018. Evolutionary insights from an Souto C., and L. Martins.2018. Synchrotron micro-CT Suzanne F.S. Berry Marc Carrasco * ancient bird. Nature 557:36-37 scanning leads to the discovery of a new genus of William A.Clemens* morphologically conserved echinoid (Echinodermata: Maria Cranor * Padian, K. 2018. Measuring and comparing Cassiduloida). Zootaxa. 4457(1):70–092. Ellen Essigman extinction events: Reconsidering diversity crises and Zhe-Xi Luo* & Sharon Feng concepts. Integrative and Comparative Biology. Souto C. and L. Martins. 2017 (online first). Giving Stephen & Barbara Morris up on elaborate dermal ossicles: a new genus of Padian, K. 2018. Narrative and "Anti-Narrative" Sponsor ossicleless Apodida (Holothuroidea). Journal of the Peter & Amanda Docter in Science: How Scientists Tell Stories, and Don't. Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. Sterling Nesbitt Integrative and Comparative Biology. 58(6):1224-1234 Donald J. Pecko Pires, M.M., Rankin, B.D., Silvestro, D. and Quental, Barry Roth* Padian, K. 2018. Review of Darwin’s Evolving T.B., 2018. Diversification dynamics of mammalian Dr. Thomas J. White* Identity: Adventure, ambition, and the sin of clades during the K–Pg mass extinction. Biology speculation, by Alistair Sponsel. BioScience. Patron letters, 14(9), p.20180458. Douglas Clarke Padian, K. Werning, S. Ladd Coates* , , & Horner, J.R. 2016. A White, L.D. and Holroyd, P.A. Transfer of the San Robert Glass hypothesis of differential secondary bone formation Francisco State University collection to the University Marian Gonzalez in dinosaurs. Comptes Rendus Palevol 15: 41-49. of California Museum of Paleontology. 2018. doi: Mark Goodwin* 10.1017/jpa.2018.48 Stephen Hoffman Sigwart, J.D., Bennett, K.D., Edie, S.M., Mander, L., Rebecca Jabbour* Jere Lipps Jenny McGuire* Mehdi Mohtashemi* ...continued from Students page 5 Carol J. Munson* symposium at the 2018 Society for Joan H. Pennell Suzanne Rudnicki Integrative & Comparative Biology Lisa D. White called "Science Through Narrative: Engaging Broad Audiences" that Sustaining Monica Albe produced a volume of manuscripts Pam & Ted Davalos for the peer-reviewed journal John & June Hopkirk Integrative and Comparative Biology. David K. Johnson The volume includes papers written Cecile T. Weaver* by both scientists and artists from Donor multiple disciplines. Sara organized Dede Dewey Jack*& Mary Stirton two talks with Glen McIntosh, Director of Susumu Tomiya* Animation for Industrial Light & Magic, *alumni/alumnae who spoke about creating the dinosaurs T. rex on Cal Day with volunteer Danny for the Jurassic World films.X Anduza. Photo by Pat Holroyd ✄ Become a Friend of UCMP! Your gift to the University of California Museum of Paleontology will help support All membership fees and donations research, education, and public outreach at the largest, most interactive university are tax-deductible to the limit paleontology program in the United States. To become a Friend of UCMP, please allowed by law. return the form below or go to https://give.berkeley.edu/browse/?u=273. Please make checks payable to: If you would like your gift to help build our programs, please choose from the UC Berkeley Foundation. options below: Mail your check and form to: UCMP Friends Fund (FU0961000) University of California Berkeley, UCMP Education and Outreach Fund (FW4101000) Museum of Paleontology, Anthony Barnosky Graduate Student Support Endowment 1101 VLSB #4780, Berkeley CA 94720-4780 (FW8044000) Name Benefactor $1000 Sponsor $500 Address Patron (annual) $100

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July 8-10, 2019 NCSE Teacher Ambassador Summit at UCMP University of California A workshop for professional Museum of Paleontology development leaders hosted by www.ucmp.berkeley.edu the National Center for Science Education In this issue https://ncse.com Mark Goodwin retires...... p.1 July 22-24, 2019 Director's Letter...... p.2 As spring is a time of change and From Earth’s History to Biodiversity: Cal Day 2019...... p.2 renewal, the UCMP sends off Mark Tools for teaching with open Collections...... p.4 Goodwin and Erica Clites, while science workshop at UCMP Staff Updates ...... p.4 welcoming Ashley Dineen and the A 3-day workshop for educators Curator Updates...... p.5 relaunch of our homepage. on evolution, fossil distribution, Students...... p.5 and ecosystems We redesigned the UCMP website Publications 2018...... p.6 in honor of the 25th anniversary of https://www.esciencetools.org Friends of UCMP...... p.7 UCMP's online presence! When the Website Redesign...... p.8 UCMP entered the World Wide Web in 1993, only 100 websites existed Keep up with us on our website, The Newsletter Team at UCMP provides and UCMP was one of only 2 museum Facebook, Instagram & Twitter! the news in a variety of formats. websites. We thank Trish Roque, the If you are interested in receiving printed UCMP web manager, for her time newsletters or email only, let us know! and effort spending more than a year @ucmpberkeley Please provide your email address to Chris Mejia at [email protected] planning and redesigning the website. ucmp.berkeley.edu