Newsletter of the University of California Museum of Paleontology UCMP NEWS FEB 2015

UCMP well represented at the 2014 SVP and GSA meetings

In the fall of 2014, UCMP was a major presence at the annual meetings of two pro- fessional societies, the Geological Society of America (GSA) and the Society of Ver- tebrate Paleontology (SVP). Student atten- dance at the conferences was close to an all time high, thanks in part to the generosity of UCMP donors whose support helps to fund travel grants and awards earned by students. Eighteen UCMPers presented at the GSA th

Sarah Tulga meeting—the Society’s 126 —in Vancou- Melissa Mast, one of UCMP’s undergraduate curatorial assistants, with a selection of McKittrick ver, British Columbia, Canada, on October fossils taken from the Campanile for cleaning and curation. 19–22. Members of four different labs at- tended the meeting including the Padian Labs’ Ashley Poust, Sara ElShafie, Liz Fer- UCMP joins Campanile centennial rer, and recent graduate Sarah Tulga (talk). Undergraduate student Eric Holt from the celebration with a spotlight on Barnosky Lab presented a poster. From the Finnegan Lab were Seth McKittrick tar seep fossils Finnegan (talk and co-author on two others) The Campanile will celebrate an important from the Institute of Museum and Library and grad students Emily Orzechowski (talk milestone in 2015—the 100th anniversary Services (IMLS) will help shine new light on and co-author on a poster) and Caitlin Boas of the bell tower (formally know as Sather fossils from a lesser known but stratigraphi- (poster and co-author on two others). Cindy Tower)—and the UCMP figures prominent- cally significant tar seep in the San Joaquin Looy (talk and co-author on three others) ly in the rich and colorful history of this Bay Valley: the Pleistocene-Holocene McKittrick came with Adjunct Curator/Adjunct Assis- Area landmark. For many decades, five levels seep from Kern County, CA. Excavations tant Professor Ivo Duijnstee (talk) and Looy of the tower have been home to fossils col- at McKittrick by UCMP scientists in the see MEETINGS on page 5 lected in the early 1900s, many of which are 1930s yielded thousands of bones of extinct from Pleistocene tar pit and seep localities in and extant mammals, birds, and reptiles. California. These collections contain well- Due to the importance of these finds, the known and charismatic fossils of saber-tooth area was eventually designated a California IN THIS ISSUE cats, ground sloths, dire wolves, and camels, State Historical Landmark. These fossils among others. These fossils are highlighted span a key climatic transition and extinction UCMP publications...... p. 2 in a UC Berkeley Media Relations video fea- event near the Pleistocene-Holocene yet the Tidbits...... p. 3 turing Assistant Director for Collections and collection has never been properly curated. Research Mark Goodwin, where he dispels Work is already underway by undergradu- Clemens Oral History...... p. 4 the myth that the floors are “just dusty old ates Elyanah Posner, Eric Holt, Melissa Friends of UCMP...... p. 6 Mast, and Michael Tom under the direction rooms.” A new UCMP grant focused on the Director’s letter...... p. 7 Campanile fossils comes with renewed inter- of Senior Museum Scientist Pat Holroyd, est in their history. Next short course...... p. 8 Funds recently awarded to the UCMP see CAMPANILE on page 4 2014 UCMP publications Communicating science to both col- the Spheroolithidae from the Cretaceous Lang, H. Kerp, C.V. Looy, S.G. Lucas, K. leagues and the general public is an es- Tiantai basin, Zhejiang Province, China. Krainer, and S. Voigt. 2014. A compositionally sential ingredient of the UCMP mission. Historical Biology 26(2):183–194. doi: unique voltzian conifer-callipterid flora from 10.1080/08912963.2013.792811 Through journals, presentations at pro- a carbonate-filled channel, Early Permian age, Robledo Mountains, New Mexico, and its fessional meetings, articles in the popular Benca, J.P. 2014. Cultivation techniques for terrestrial clubmosses (Lycopodiaceae): broader significance.In S.G. Lucas and W.A. press, interviews, workshops, lectures, DiMichele (eds.), Carboniferous-Permian and even science cafés, members of the Conservation, research, and horticultural op- portunities for an early-diverging plant lineage. Transition in the Robledo Mountains, South- UCMP community share their research American Fern Journal 104(2):25–48. doi: ern New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of that ultimately contributes to a greater 10.1640/0002-8444-104.2.25 Natural History and Science Bulletin 65. 7 pp. understanding of the history of life. This (delayed in appearing online) Benca, J.P., M.H. Carlisle, S. Bergen, and list of 2014 peer-reviewed articles rep- C.A.E. Strömberg.* 2014. Applying mor- DiMichele, W.A., S.G. Lucas, C.V. Looy, C.S. resents a portion of that effort. UCMP phometrics to early land plant systematics: Chaney, and S. Voight. 2014. Early Permian alums are indicated by asterisks. A new species of Leclercqia (Lycopsida) from fossil floras from the red beds of Prehistoric Washington State. American Journal of Botany Trackways National Monument, southern New Alupay, J.S.,* S.P. Hadjisolomou, and R.J. 101(3):510–520. doi: 10.3732/ajb.1300271 Mexico. In S.G. Lucas and W.A. DiMichele Crook. 2014. Arm injury produces long-term (eds.), Carboniferous-Permian Transition behavioral and neural hypersensitivity in oc- Berke, S.K., D. Jablonski, A.Z. Krug, and J.W. in the Robledo Mountains, Southern New topus. Neuroscience letters 558:137–142. doi: Valentine. 2014. Origination and immigration Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural His- 10.1016/j.neulet.2013.11.002 (published on- drive latitudinal gradients in marine func- tory and Science Bulletin 65. 11 pp. (delayed in line November 2013) tional diversity. PLoS ONE 9(7):e101494. doi: appearing online) 10.1371/journal.pone.0101494 Barnosky, A.D. 2014. Dodging Extinction: Dougherty, L.F., S. Johnsen, R.L. Caldwell, Power, Food, Money, and the Future of Life on Blois, J.L., N.J. Gotelli, A.K. Behrensmeyer, N.J. Marshall. 2014. A dynamic broadband Earth. UC Press. 240 pp. J.T. Faith, S.K. Lyons, S.J.W. William, K.L. reflector built from microscopic silica spheres Amatangelo, A. Bercovici, A. Du, J.T. Eronen, Barnosky, A.D., and E.A. Hadly. 2014. in the ‘disco’ clam Ctenoides ales. Journal of the G.R. Graves, N. Jud, C.C. Labandeira, C.V. Problem solving in the . Royal Society, Interface 11(98). doi: 10.1098/ Looy, B. McGill, D. Patterson, R. Potts, B. 1(1):76–77. doi: rsif.2014.0407 The Anthropocene Review Riddle, R. Terry, A. Tóth, A. Villaseñor, and 10.1177/2053019613516935 S.L. Wing. 2014. A framework for evaluating Encinas, A., F. Perez, S.N. Nielsen, K.L. Barnosky, A.D., E.A. Hadly, R. Dirzo, the influence of climate, dispersal limitation, Finger, V. Valencia, and P. Duhart. 2014. M. Fortelius, and N.C. Stenseth. 2014. and biotic interactions using fossil pollen as- Geochronologic and paleontologic evidence for Translating science for decision makers sociations across the late Quaternary. Ecography a Pacific-Atlantic connection during the late to help navigate the Anthropocene. The 37(11):1095–1108. doi: 10.1111/ecog.00779 Oligocene-early Miocene in the Patagonian Andes (43–44º S). Journal of South American Anthropocene Review 1(2):160–170. doi: Clemens, W.A., and J.H. Hartman. 2014. 10.1177/2053019614533670 Earth Sciences 55 (November 2014):1–18. doi: From Tyrannosaurus rex to asteroid impact: 10.1016/j.jsames.2014.06.008 Barnosky, A.D., M. Holmes, R. Kirchholtes, Early studies (1901–1980) of the Hell Creek E.L. Lindsey,* K.C. Maguire,* A.W. Poust, Formation in its type area. Pp. 1–87 in G.P. Finnegan, N.J., R. Schumer, and S. Finnegan. M.A. Stegner, J. Sunseri, B. Swartz,* J. Swift, Wilson, W.A. Clemens, J.R. Horner, and J.H. 2014. A signature of transience in bedrock 4 7 N.A. Villavicencio, and G.O.U. Wogan. 2014. Hartman, (eds.), Through the End of the Cre- river incision rates over timescales of 10 –10 Prelude to the Anthropocene: Two newly- taceous in the Type Locality of the Hell Creek years. 505:391–394. doi: 10.1038/ defined North American Land-Mammal Ages Formation in Montana and Adjacent Areas. nature12913 (NALMAs). The Anthropocene Review 1(3):225– Geological Society of America Special Paper 503. Goodwin, M.B., and J.R. Horner. 2014. doi: 10.1130/2014.2503(01) 242. doi: 10.1177/2053019614547433 Cranial morphology of a juvenile Triceratops Barnosky, A.D., J.H. Brown, G.C. Daily, R. Clemens, W.A., and T. Martin. 2014. Review skull from the Hell Creek Formation, McCone Dirzo, A.H. Ehrlich, P.R. Ehrlich, J.T. Eronen, of the non-tritylodontid synapsids from bone County Montana, with comments on the fossil M. Fortelius, E.A. Hadly, E.B. Leopold, H.A. beds in the Rhaetic Sandstone, southern Ger- record of ontogenetically younger skulls. Pp. Mooney, J.P. Myers, R.L Naylor, S. Palumbi, many. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 88(4):461– 333–347 in G.P. Wilson, W.A. Clemens, J.R. N.C. Stenseth, and M.H. Wake. 2014. Intro- 479. doi: 10.1007/s12542-013-0201-5 Horner, J.H. Hartman, (eds.), Through the ducing the scientific consensus on maintain- Cronin, T.W., M.J. Bok, N.J. Marshall, and End of the Cretaceous in the Type Locality of ing humanity’s life support systems in the R.L. Caldwell. 2014. Filtering and polychro- the Hell Creek Formation in Montana and Ad- 21st century: Information for policy makers. matic vision in mantis shrimps: Themes in jacent Areas. Geological Society of America Spe- The Anthropocene Review 1(1): 78–109. doi: visible and ultraviolet vision. Philosophical cial Paper 503. doi: 10.1130/2014.2503(13) 10.1177/2053019613516290 Transactions of the Royal Society B 2014369 Hickman, C.S. 2014. Paleogene marine bi- Barta, D.E., K.M. Brundridge, J.A. Croghan, 20130032. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0032 (pub- valves of the deep-water Keasey Formation F.D. Jackson, D.J. Varricchio, X. Jin, and lished online January 2014) A.W. Poust. 2014. Eggs and clutches of DiMichele, W.A., D.S. Chaney, H. Falcon- see PUBLICATIONS on page 6 2 T.A., et al. 2014. New hadrosaurid specimens from the lower-middle Cam- panian Wahweap Formation of Utah. Pp. 156–173 in D.A. Eberth and D.C. Evans (eds). Hadrosaurs: Proceedings of the International Hadrosaur Symposium. Indiana University Press. Congratulations! To Tony Barnosky for launching his Other news new book Dodging Extinction: Power, Dori Contreras spent six weeks in Food, Money and the Future of Life Argentina in fall 2014, at the Museo Pa- Courtesy of Jenna Judge on Earth (UC Press, 2014). The book leontológico Egidio Feruglio in Trelew Grad student Jenna Judge was a grad release was accompanied by a series of (Chubut province, Patagonia). Funded student instructor for a class in Moorea, lectures in Washington, DC, Boston, by the Evolving Earth Foundation, she French Polynesia, this past fall. and of course here in Berkeley. NPR’s worked on Jurassic conifers with collabo- Myers talked about the late Miocene Science Friday featured the book as one rators Dr. Ignacio Escapa and Dr. Ruben Anaverde flora—an assemblage of plants of 2014’s best science reads. Tony was Cuneo. Although most of her time was that document the history of southern one of the Howard Hughes Medical In- at the Museo, she spent a couple days in California coastal vegetation. stitute’s (HHMI) annual Holiday Lectur- the field collecting at a Jurassic locality. Jenny Hofmeister attended the West- ers, and with UCMP Research Associate Kicking off the new year with a con- ern Society of Naturalists Conference Elizabeth Hadly and Curatorial Associate ference, Lindsey Dougherty attended in Tacoma, WA, in November 2014 Walter Alvarez, also appeared in the the Society for Integrative and Com- and gave an invited talk at the Long filmMass Extinction: Life at the Brink parative Biology (SICB) meeting in Beach Aquarium, also in November. Her (Tangled Bank Films) which premiered West Palm Beach, FL, January 3–7, 2015, octopus research was featured on a TV on the Smithsonian Channel in Novem- along with her undergraduate researcher show: Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin ber 2014. Tony and UCMP alum Kait- Alex Niebergall. Lindsey gave a talk and (Episode 7). lin Maguire (now a Postdoctoral Fellow Alex presented a poster. Alex was sup- Jenna Judge reports that 2014 at UC Merced) were featured in a short ported by a UCMP travel grant and she marked the 24th year that UC Berkeley film documentary made by Spine Films is one of the members of Lindsey’s “disco offered a class in Tropical Biology and with staff at John Day National Monu- clam team.” Geomorphology of Islands on the island ment and HHMI. Earlier in 2014 Diane Erwin attended of Moorea, French Polynesia. Jenna was the annual Botanical Society of America A new genus and new one of three Graduate Student Instruc- meeting held in Boise, ID. Along with tors involved in the fall course. Twenty species named for UCMP her co-author Jeffrey Myers (Western students designed and carried out inde- researchers Oregon University), they presented two pendent research projects over a nine- A new gastropod genus was named in papers as invited speakers in the sympo- week period while living and working at honor of Carole Hickman: Carolesia. sium entitled “The Miocene vegetation the Gump Research Station, Cook’s Bay. Named by Diego Zelaya and Marine and environment of western North Jenna states “it was a rigorous research Güller in a 2014 paper published in Mal- America.” Diane highlighted the mid- experience for the students and a reward- acologia 57(2):309–317, 2014. Carole Miocene Stewart Valley flora and its im- ing mentoring experience for the gradu- says, “I have had seven species named in portance in understanding the landscape ate student instructors!” my honor, so I guess a genus patronym is and vegetation history of the Great Basin. Jere Lipps and his crew at the Cooper an honorific step up.” Center in Orange County (OC) con- A new dinosaur holotype based on a tinue to reach broad audiences with a UCMP specimen (UCMP 152028) is variety of paleontology and archaeology- named for Howard Hutchison: Adelo- themed events throughout the year. lophus hutchisoni. While Howard was a These include outdoor festivals, lecture Museum Scientist at the UCMP, he col- series, exhibits, and increasing more sets lected the specimen from the Wahweap of activities for K–12 teachers. Jere says Formation during his work in Grand the news coverage on many of their ac- Staircase-Escalante National Monument. tivities is growing and the Cooper Cen-

Loaned to the Utah Museum of Natural Nick ter’s large events (festivals and exhibits) History, the new holotype is described Grad student Dori Conteras with a flight- reach nearly 7000 attendees (many of by Bucky Gates in a new volume: Gates, less friend in Patagonia. them kids). @ 3 Kevin Ho Nguyen Kevin Ho Nguyen Sarah Tulga Top: Undergrad curatorial assistants Eric Holt and Elyanah Posner examine cleaned- up McKittrick fossils from the Campanile. Bottom: A drawer full of Canis dirus jaws from the Campanile.

From the UCMP archives; Eustace Furlong The Clemens Oral Top: Mark Goodwin shows staff and guests around one of the five floors devoted to fossil History Project storage in the Campanile. Bottom: Chester Stock (right) and a colleague look for fossils in Thanks to the generosity of the UCMP a roadcut at the McKittrick locality, circa 1921, on Midway Royal Oil Company property. community and many friends of Bill (FOBs), UCMP reached its goal for fully CAMPANILE from page 1 funding the Bill Clemens Oral History to curate, rehouse, and capture digital images of McKittrick fossils are uploaded Project. At this time, total contribu- images of the specimens. To date, more on Calphotos, on the UCMP blog, and tions are $29,075! This will enable the than 2500 specimens have been cleaned to the UCMP Twitter (@ucmpberkeley) Oral History Center of the Bancroft and cataloged, and more than 500 images page. Keep track of the campus-wide Library to complete the entire project as of 273 specimens have been added to celebrations on the Campanile 100th planned. Interviews with Bill are already CalPhotos. Lisa White and the UCMP website and enjoy images and historical underway. Additionally, the funds raised education and outreach team will develop highlights. will enable us to bring some of Bill’s for- additional web content and digital learn- We plan to make the McKittrick col- mer students to UCMP for interviews, ing materials, providing K–12 audiences lection and other fossils in the Campa- to transcribe those interviews, and as an with activities to better understand the nile a central focus of the UCMP 2015 added bonus, to spend some time remi- significance of these key fossils. CalDay theme and we invite you to join niscing and visiting with many UCMP The UCMP is proud to take part in us on Saturday, April 18th. @ alums and FOBs. On behalf of UCMP, the year-long Campanile celebration. we thank you for your most generous Please watch our progress online as new and thoughtful contributions. @

4 MEETINGS from page 1 Lab grad students Shih-Yi (Winnie) Hsiung (talk) and Renske Kirchholtes (talk). The lone representative from the Marshall Lab was Lucy Chang. UCMP staff Mark Goodwin (talk and co-author on another), Pat Holroyd (talk, co-author on two others, and co-au- thor on a poster), and Lisa White (poster and co-author on a talk) presented at the Vancouver meeting, and Museum Scien- tist Erica Clites (talk) and Postdoctoral Scholar Jessica Bean (talk and co-author on two posters) were also present. The Society of Vertebrate Paleontol- ogy has met annually for 74 years and 2014 marked the first time that the an- nual meeting was held in continental Europe. Berlin, Germany, was the host city and the meeting (November 5–8) included field trips to classic localities such as the Solenhofen limestone, where Archaeopteryx lithographica was discov- ered. Attendees enjoyed a reception at GSA photo by Lisa White SVP photos by Sarah Tulga; Top: Grad student Liz Ferrer with her poster at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology an- the Museum für Naturkunde where nual meeting in Berlin, Germany, this past November. Bottom, from left: Grad students the Archaeopteryx Berlin specimen is on Ash Poust and Sara ElShafie with their SVP posters and Postdoc Jessica Bean with a joint display in the grand Jurassic Hall, along UCMP/NCSE poster at the GSA meeting in Vancouver. with some of the largest mounted dino- saur skeletons in the world. Representing the Barnosky Lab at SVP were Tony Barnosky himself, giving a talk entitled “Fossil evidence for lasting ecological transformation as a result of defaunation,” and his grad students Al- lison Stegner (talk) and Zixiang Zhang (poster). There was a good crowd from the Padian Lab: Kevin Padian (talk); grad students Ashley Poust (poster), Sara ElShafie (poster), and Liz Ferrer (post- er); and Sarah Tulga (poster). UCMP collections staff were also in attendance: Mark Goodwin (co-author on two post- ers) and Pat Holroyd (principal author

on one poster, co-author on another, and Courtesy of Lisa White co-author on two talks). Other members At the SVP meeting, Pat Holroyd and Lisa of the UCMP community in attendance White visit the Berlin Wall. were Lisa White (presenting a poster in

the education and outreach session), un- will be in Dallas, Texas, in mid-October, Courtesy of Lisa White dergrad Savannah Blake, and Research and the GSA is in Baltimore, Maryland, Lisa White, UCMP’s Assistant Director Associate Ralph Molnar. in early November. of Education and Public Programs, at the UCMP’s attendance at these meetings UCMP participation at other confer- SVP meeting with the Berlin Specimen of was impressive; can the museum do even ences in fall 2014 is highlighted in the Archaeopteryx lithographica, discovered in better in 2015? The next SVP meeting Tidbits section. @ the Solnhofen limestone around 1864. 5 PUBLICATIONS from page 2 in Oregon, part IV: The anomalodesmatans. the interplay between the developmental and friendsfriends ofof ucmpucmp PaleoBios 31(3):1–14. http://escholarship.org/ ecological drivers of morphological innovation. uc/item/6vf3t60q Australian Journal of Zoology 62(1):3­–17. doi: We would like to welcome the following 10.1071/ZO13052 Holden, A.R., J.B. Koch, T. Griswold, D.M. new or renewing members to our Friends Erwin, and J. Hall. 2014. Leafcutter bee nests Monson, T.A., and L.J. Hlusko. 2014. of the UCMP, and thank contributors to and pupae from the Rancho La Brea tar pits Identification of a derived dental trait in the the Bill Clemens Oral History Fund: of southern California: Implications for un- papionini relative to other old world monkeys. Benefactor derstanding the paleoenvironment of the Late American Journal of Physical Anthropology Suzanne Berry1 Pleistocene. PLoS ONE 9(4): e94724. doi: 155(3):422–429. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.22586 Dorthy and Bill Clemens 10.1371/journal.pone.0094724 Moritsch, M.M., M.J. Pakes,* and D.R. Thomas Debley How, M.J., M.L. Porter, A. Radford, K. Feller, Lindberg. 2014. How might sea level change Robert Isen S. Temple, R.L. Caldwell, J. Marshall, T.W. affect arthropod biodiversity in anchialine Stephen and Barbara Morris Cronin, and N.W. Roberts. 2014. Out of the caves: A comparison of Remipedia and Atyidae Richard H. Morrison blue: The of horizontally polarized taxa (Arthropoda: Altocrustacea)? Organism Todd Olsen signals in Haptosquilla (Crustacea, Stomatop- Diversity and Evolution 14: 225-235. doi: Judy Scotchmoor and Roland Gangloff oda, Protosquillidae). Journal of Experimen- 10.1007/s13127-014-0167-5 Martynas Ynas tal Biology 217:3425-3431. doi: 10.1242/​ Morrish, K.R., and L.J. Hlusko. 2014. jeb.107581 Sponsor Modularity and sexual dimorphism in human Mehdi Mohtashemi Judge, J., and G. Haszprunar. 2014. The metacarpals. PaleoBios 31(2):1–20. http://es- Donald Pecko anatomy of Lepetella sierrai (Vetigastropoda, cholarship.org/uc/item/7xc156c2 Barry Roth Lepetelloidea): Implications for reproduction, feeding, and symbiosis in lepetellid limpets. Padian, K., and J.R. Horner. 2014. The spe- Patron Invertebrate Biology 133(4):324–339. doi: cies recognition hypothesis explains exagger- Harry and Arline Fierstine 10.1111/ivb.12064 ated structures in non-avialan dinosaurs better Stephen Hoffman than sexual selection does. Comptes Rendus J.H. Hutchison Lindsey, E.L.,* and E.X. Lopez R. 2014. Palevol 13(2):97–107. Tanque Loma, a new late-Pleistocene mega- Randy Irmis faunal tar seep locality from southwest Ecua- Price, R.M., T.C. Andrews, T.L. McElhinny, Rebecca Jabbour dor. Journal of South American Earth Sciences L.S. Mead, J.K. Abraham, A. Thanukos, and Robert Kirby (2014). doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2014.11.003 K.E. Perez. 2014. The genetic drift inventory: Carol J. Munson A tool for measuring what advanced under- Joan Pennell1 Looy, C.V., and C.L. Hotton. 2014. Spa- graduates have mastered about genetic drift. Dorothy Tregea tiotemporal relationships among Late Penn- CBE-Life Sciences Education 13(1):65–75. doi: sylvanian plant assemblages: Paleobotanical 10.1187/cbe.13-08-0159 Sustaining evidence from the Markley Formation, John and June Hopkirk West Texas, USA. Review of Paleobotany and Reiner, W.B., C. Petzinger, M.L. Power, D. Lisa Krain and Michael Goldberg Palynology 211:10–27. doi: 10.1016/j.rev- Hyeroba, and J.M. Rothman. 2014. Fatty ac- John Mawby palbo.2014.09.007 ids in mountain gorilla diets: Implications for Doris Sloan1 primate nutrition and health. American Journal Bruce Townley Looy, C.V., and R. Stevenson. 2014. Earliest of Primatology 76(3):281–288. doi: 10.1002/ Kathleen Zoehfeld occurrence of autorotating seeds in conifers: ajp.22232 The mid-Permian (Kungurian-Roadian) Donor Manifera talaris gen. et sp. nov. International Roberts, N.W., M.J. How, M.S. Porter, S.E. Jim Bonsey and Carolyn Kiesling Temple, R.L. Caldwell, S.B. Powell, V. Journal of Plant Sciences 175(7):841–854. doi: Dennis Fenwick Gruev, N.J. Marshall, and T.W. Cronin. 2014. 10.1086/676973 Joseph Huston Animal polarization imaging and implica- Looy, C.V., H. Kerp, I.A.P. Duijnstee, and tions for optical processing. Proceedings of the Brian Swartz W.A. DiMichele. 2014. The late Paleozoic IEEE 102(10):1427–1434. doi: 10.1109/ Judith Tate ecological-evolutionary laboratory, a land-plant JPROC.2014.2341692 Bill Clemens Oral History Fund fossil record perspective. The Sedimentary Marc and Linda Carrasco Record 12 (4):4–10. http://www.sepm.org/ Schweitzer, M.H., W. Zheng, T.P. Cleland, Dorothy Thelen Clemens CM_Files/SedimentaryRecord/SedRecord12- M.B. Goodwin, E. Boatman, E. Theil, M.A. Carl and Faye Gregory/Gregory Family 4-No-6.pdf Marcus, and S.C. Fakra. 2014. A role for iron and oxygen chemistry in preserving soft tissues, Charitable Fund Looy, C.V., R.A. Stevenson, T.B. van Hoof, cells and molecules from deep time. Proceedings Todd Olson and L. Mander. 2014. Evidence for coal for- of the Royal Society B 281(1775): 20132741. Doris Sloan est refugia in the seasonally dry Pennsylvanian doi: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2741 (published on- Gregory Wilson tropical lowlands of the Illinois Basin, USA. line November 2013) PeerJ 2:e630. doi: 10.7717/peerj.630 1Designates a donation to the William Sprain, C.J., P.R. Renne, G.P. Wilson,* and B.N. Berry Memorial Research Fund Marshall, C.R. 2014. The evolution of mor- phogenetic fitness landscapes: Conceptualising see PUBLICATIONS on next page 6 PUBLICATIONS from page 6 W.A. Clemens. 2014. High-resolution chro- nostratigraphy of the terrestrial Cretaceous- Paleogene transition and recovery interval in the Hell Creek region, Montana. Bulletin of Letter from the Director the Geological Society of America. doi: 10.1130/ B31076.1 (published online 16 September Happy New Year! And as I write this the Berkeley Natural History Museums). 2014) letter I realize that this is my fifth year It is a rare privilege to be in an institu- Tomašových, A., D. Jablonski, S. Berke, A.Z. as Director of UCMP and as a faculty tion where we both have substantial nat- Krug, and J.W. Valentine. 2014. Non-linear member at Berkeley. Hard to believe how ural history collections, and where they thermal gradients shape broad-scale patterns fast the time has flown by! As I reflect are viewed as a strength to boast about! in geographic range size and can reverse Rapo- upon the last five years, I am very proud Wishing you all the best for 2015, and port’s Rule. Global and Biogeography of what we have achieved—a great new thank you for your continued support 24(2):157–167. doi: 10.1111/geb.12242 (pub- generation of undergraduate and gradu- of UCMP, including your overwhelming lished online October 2014) ate students; several major grants from response to our call for the Bill Clemens Varela, S., J. González-Hernández, L.F. Sgarbi, NSF, IMLS, the Moore Foundation, Cal- Oral History Project. C. Marshall, M.D. Uhen, S. Peters, and M. McClennen. 2014. paleobioDB: An R package Trans, as well as several smaller awards, Sincerely, all of which have funded students in for downloading, visualizing and processing Charles Marshall data from the Paleobiology Database. the collections, and strengthened our Ecog- raphy. doi: 10.1111/ecog.01154 (published already strong education and outreach online 2 December 2014) program; a new Assistant Professor (Seth Finnegan); a new Museum Scientist Want to receive UCMP Wilson, G.P.,* W.A. Clemens, J.R. Horner, and J.H. Hartman (eds.). 2014. Through the (Erica Clites); a new Director of Educa- News electronically? If you would like to receive the UCMP End of the Cretaceous in the Type Locality tion and Public Programs (Lisa White); of the Hell Creek Formation in Montana and a new webmaster (Trish Roque); and a News as a color pdf attachment, please let Adjacent Areas. Geological Society of America tremendous group of volunteers. I am us know. Just send your email address to Special Paper 503. 392 pp. also very pleased to report that UCMP is Chris Mejia at [email protected]. We are trying to go green wherever possible Zalasiewicz, J., M. Williams, C.N. Wa- held in high esteem on campus, especial- ters, A.D. Barnosky, and P. Haff. 2014. ly by the Vice Chancellor for Research’s and reduce costs, but we also understand The technofossil record of humans. The Office, the office I report to as Director if you prefer the usual hard copy. 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Who is UCMP? Director: Charles Marshall Assistant Directors: Coming Saturday, Cosponsored by the Mark Goodwin Lisa White March 7, 2015! Berkeley Natural Curators: History Museums Anthony Barnosky Jere Lipps* and Science@Cal Roy Caldwell Cindy Looy William Clemens* Charles Marshall Seth Finnegan Kevin Padian Carole Hickman* James Valentine* Leslea Hlusko Tim White David Lindberg* 10 Evans Hall Curatorial Associates: UC Berkeley Walter Alvarez Roger Byrne Lynn Ingram am pm Admin. Assistant: Chris Mejia 9:00 –3:30 Museum Scientists: Erica Clites Ken Finger New scientific research is unveiling a multitude of ways that global change processes have Diane Erwin Patricia Holroyd shaped Darwin’s “great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust Education & Public Outreach: Josh Frankel David K. Smith of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever-branching and beautiful ramifications.” Trish Roque Anna Thanukos From the movement of the tectonic plates that form that crust, to the shifts in climate that Edited by Lisa White; layout & graphics by have occurred throughout Earth’s history, these sweeping changes have interacted with one David K. Smith another and broadly impacted the course of life on Earth. Today, of course, human activity For the broader UCMP community, visit the represents an additional mechanism of global change that is poised to shape the Tree of Life. UCMP website: www.ucmp.berkeley.edu; Understanding Evolution: evolution.berkeley. Join us to explore the deep connections that tie Earth systems to changes in biodiversity edu; and Understanding Science: www.under- throughout Earth’s history. standingscience.org *emeritus For more information and to register, see: http://ucmp.berkeley.edu/about/shortcourses/shortcourse15.php