Kimmig
Julien Karl Franck Kimmig Curriculum vitae
Collections Manager Division of Invertebrate Paleontology Biodiversity Institute University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045 Phone: 785-864-2747 Email: [email protected]
Education
Ph.D. in “Geology” 2014 University of Saskatchewan (Canada) Thesis title: Taxonomy, taphonomy and paleocology of a new Burgess Shale-type Lagerstätte from the Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada.
M.Sc. in “Biology” 2009 Topic: Advanced Methods in Taxonomy and Biodiversity Imperial College London & Natural History Museum London (United Kingdom)
B.Sc. in “Geosciences” 2008 Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Germany)
Professional experience
Collections Manager (Assistant Researcher) since June 2016 Division of Invertebrate Paleontology University of Kansas
Research Associate since July 2015 Supervisor: Brian Pratt University of Saskatchewan
Postdoctoral Researcher October 2014–June 2015 Supervisor: Brian Pratt University of Saskatchewan
Teaching Assistant September 2011–September 2014 University of Saskatchewan
Adjunct Researcher September 2009 – May 2011 Supervisor: Alison Longbottom The Natural History Museum London
Museum and Research Assistant December 2007 – September 2008 Supervisor: Mike Reich Geowissenschaftliches Museum Göttingen
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Selected fieldwork (Total ~ 150 days)
Spence Shale, Wellsville Mountains, Utah, 2018 5 days
Spence Shale, Wellsville Mountains, Utah, 2017 15 days
Ravens Throat River, Mackenzie Mountains, Canada, 2012 28 days PhD fieldwork
Geology and Biology of the Great Barrier Reef, 2008 15 days Organised by Gert Wörheide (Munich) and Mike Reich (Göttingen)
Selected outreach activities
Lawrence South Middle School fossil collecting day May 2018
Biodiversity Institute, Stand up for Science April 2018
Kansas City Gem and Mineral Show March 2018
Invertebrate Paleontology Collections Tour for the Kansas November 2017 and Missouri Paleontological Society
University of Kansas National Fossil Day October 2017
Kansas City Gem and Mineral Show March 2017
University of Kansas Party in the Panorama October 2016
Recent grants and honors
National Science Foundation, Digitization TCN: Collaborative Pending Research: The Mass Extinctions TCN Value: 412051$
Emerging Scholars Program, University of Kansas, Research Grant July 2018 Value: 2500 $
Jeanette Johnson Professional Development Award May 2018 Value: 300 $
The Association of Earth Science Clubs of Greater Kansas City, Inc. March 2018 Research Grant Value: 500 $
Emerging Scholars Program, University of Kansas, Research Grant August 2017
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Value: 2500 $
Paleontological Society Arthur James Boucot Research Grant April 2017 Value: 3500 $ Undergraduate students advised
Nick Rose since August 2016 Wade Leibach since August 2016 Cortney Langley August 2016 – May 2018 Jennifer Rick August – October 2017 Joey Tierney since August 2018 Kristopher Super since August 2018
Graduate students advised
Steven Byrum (Masters, co-advised) since August 2017 Anna Whitaker (Masters) since August 2018 Julie Taylor (Masters, co-advised) since August 2018
Teaching experience
University of Kansas October 2016 Biol 225: Extinction events
University of Saskatchewan September 2011–September 2014 Field school in Zortman Montana, Geol 308; Paleontology, Geol 247; Sedimentology, Geol 245; 5x Introduction to Geology, Geol 121)
Languages
German – fluent Spanish – basic competency French – fluent Italian – basic competency English – fluent
Computer skills
Microsoft Office Specify IWork EndNote Adobe Photoshop KE Emu – working knowledge Adobe Illustrator ArcGIS R Beast – basic competency PAUP TNT – basic competency
Memberships in professional associations
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Geological Society of America Society for Sedimentary Geology Paleontological Society Palaeontological Association
Peer reviewed publications (16)
Kimmig, Julien, Sara R. Kimmig, Sven O. Egenhoff, Luke C. Strotz & Bruce S. Lieberman (2019) The Spence Shale Lagerstätte: an Important Window into Cambrian Biodiversity. Journal of the Geological Society of London. Invited submission.
Pratt, Brian. R. & Julien Kimmig (2019) Extensive burrowing in a middle Cambrian Burgess Shale-type fossil Lagerstätte in northwestern Canada. Geology 47: 231–234.
Kimmig, Julien, Ronald C. Meyer & Bruce S. Lieberman (2019) Herpetogaster from the early Cambrian of Nevada (Series 2, Stage 4) and its implications for the evolution of deuterostomes. Geological Magazine 156: 172–178.
Seltmann, Katja, … Julien Kimmig et al. (2018) Georeferencing for Research Use (GRU): An integrated geospatial training paradigm for biocollections researchers and data providers. Research Ideas and Outcomes 4: e32449.
Strotz, Luke C., Erin E. Saupe, Julien Kimmig & Bruce Lieberman (2018) Metabolic rates, climate and macroevolution: A case study using Neogene molluscs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285: 20181292.
Lieberman, Bruce S. & Julien Kimmig (2018) Museums, Paleontology, and a Biodiversity Science Based Approach. In G. D. Rosenberg, & R. M. Clary (Eds.), Museums at the Forefront of the History and Philosophy of Geology: History Made, History in the Making. Geological Society of America Special Paper 535: 335–348.
Strotz, Luke C., Marianna Simões, Matthew Girard, Laura Breitkreuz, Julien Kimmig & Bruce S. Lieberman (2018) Getting somewhere with the Red Queen: Chasing a biologically modern definition of the hypothesis. Biology Letters 14: 20170734.
Kimmig, Julien & Brian R. Pratt (2018) Coprolites in the Ravens Throat River Lagerstätte of northwestern Canada: implications for the middle Cambrian food web. Palaios 33: 125–140. Cover article Article featured in news.
Kimmig, Julien, Luke C. Strotz & Bruce S. Lieberman (2017) The stalked filter feeder Siphusauctum lloydguntheri n. sp. from the middle Cambrian (Series 3: Stage 5) Spence Shale of Utah: Its biological affinities and taphonomy. Journal of Paleontology 91: 902–910. Article featured in news.
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Kimmig, Julien & Luke C. Strotz (2017) Coprolites in middle Cambrian (Series 2-3) Burgess Shale-type deposits of Nevada and Utah and their ecological implications. Bulletin of Geosciences 92: 297–309.
Lieberman, Bruce S., Richard Kurkewicz, Heather Shinogle, Julien Kimmig & Breandán A. MacGabhann (2017) Disc-shaped fossils resembling porpitids or eldonids from the early Cambrian (Series 2: Stage 4) of western U.S.A. PeerJ 5: e3312.
Kimmig, Julien & Brian R. Pratt (2016) Taphonomy of the middle Cambrian (Series 3, Drumian) Ravens Throat River Lagerstätte, Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada. Lethaia 49: 150–169.
Kimmig, Julien & Brian R. Pratt (2015) Soft-bodied biota from the middle Cambrian (Drumian) Rockslide Formation, Mackenzie Mountains, northwestern Canada. Journal of Paleontology 89: 51–71.
Kimmig, Julien (2013) Possible secondarily terrestrial lifestyle in the European phytosaur Nicrosaurus kapffi (Late Triassic, Norian) – A preliminary study. In: Triassic Geology and Paleontology: Tanner et al. (Eds.). New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Bulletin 61: 306–312.
Kimmig, Julien & Justin Spielmann (2011) Biological factors influencing phytosaur (Archosauria: Phytosauridae) taxonomy: A Prospectus. In: Fossil Record 3: Sullivan et al. (Eds.). New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Bulletin 53: 289– 294.
Kimmig, Julien & Gernot Arp (2010) Phytosaur remains from the Norian Arnstadt Formation (Leine Valley, Germany), with reference to European phytosaur habitats. Palaeodiversity 3: 215–224.
Book chapters
Kimmig, Julien (accepted) Burgess Shale fauna. The Encyclopedia of Geology, 2nd Edition. Invited submission.
Publications in review
Kimmig, Julien, Helena Couto, *Wade W. Leibach & Bruce S. Lieberman (in review) Non-biomineralized fossils from the upper Valongo Formation (Middle Ordovician: Dapingian-Darriwilian) of northern Portugal.
Publications in preparation (*Supervised Undergraduate Student; **Supervised Master’s Student)
Kimmig, Julien & Brian R. Pratt (in prep) Silver in organic films of a middle Cambrian Lagerstätte, Mackenzie Mountains northwestern Canada.
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Kimmig, Julien & Brian R. Pratt (in prep) Great Canadian Lagerstätten. The middle Cambrian Ravents Throat River Lagerstätte.
Kimmig, Julien et al. (in prep) Sequence stratigraphy and paleoecology of the Mississippian Lodgepole Formation.
Kimmig, Julien (in prep) A new phytosaur genus from the Triassic of Morocco.
*Rose, Nick J., Julien Kimmig, David A. Legg, Luke C. Strotz, *Cortney B. Langley & Kenneth S. Bader (in prep) Ontogeny of the horseshoe crab Paleolimulus signatus from the Pennsylvanian Pony Creek Lagerstätte.
*Leibach, Wade. W, Julien Kimmig & Kenneth S. Bader (in prep) Horseshoe crab trace fossils from the Pony Creek Shale Lagerstätte, Upper Pennsylvanian, Kansas.
**Whitaker, Anna, Paul Jamison & Julien Kimmig (in prep) Re-description of Palaeoscolex ratcliffei (Robison, 1969) in light of new morphological features with comments on Palaescolecid taxonomy.
Lerosey-Aubril, R., Julien Kimmig, Javier Ortega-Hernandez, Stephen Pates, Jacob Skabelund & Andries Weug (in prep) Exceptionally-preserved arthropods from the Drumian (Miaolingian) Wheeler Formation in the House Range of Utah, USA.
Non-peer reviewed publications
Kimmig, Julien (2017) Book Review: Suttner, T.J. et al. 2016. Planet Earth—In Deep Time. Palaeozoic Series: Devonian and Carboniferous. The Quarterly Review of Biology 92 (3): 306–307.
Kimmig, Julien (2016) Book Review: Gass, K. 2015. Solving the Mystery of the First Animals on Land: The Fossils of Blackberry Hill. Fossil News: Fall 2016: 51.
Kimmig, Julien (2016) Book Review: Penney, D. and J.E. Jepson. 2014. Fossil Insects: An introduction to palaeoentomology. Priscum: Newsletter of the Paleontological Society: Winter 2016: 42–43.
Invited presentations
Kimmig, Julien, Luke Strotz, Sara Kimmig, Sven Egenhoff & Bruce Lieberman (2019) The middle Cambrian Spence Shale (Miaolingian: Wuliuan) Lagerstätte: Improving our understanding of a key Cambrian ecosystem. North American Paleontological Convention, Riverside.
Kimmig, Julien (2018) The Cambrian: More than just trilobites. The 57th Annual Kansas City Gem and Mineral Show, March 11th, 2018.
Kimmig, Julien (2018) The Cambrian: More than just trilobites. Science on Tap, January 24th, 2018.
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Kimmig, Julien (2017) Cambrian Soft-bodied biotas. Kansas and Missouri Paleontological Society, May 28th, 2017.
Kimmig, Julien (2016) Burgess Shale-type deposits: A window into Cambrian paleoecology. Arkansas Tech University, February 9th, 2016.
Conference sessions chaired
Kimmig, Julien & Amy Singer (2016) Lagerstätten through Time and Space. Geological Society of America, Rocky Mountain Section Meeting, Moscow, ID.
Conference presentations (*Supervised undergraduate student)
*Rose, Nick J. & Julien Kimmig (2018) Morphology and ontogeny of the Pennsylvanian horseshoe crab Paleolimulus signatus. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Indianapolis. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 50 (6): DOI:// 10.1130/abs/2018AM-318313. (Talk)
*Leibach, Wade W. & Julien Kimmig (2018) Horseshoe crab trace fossils and associated ichnofauna of the Pony Creek Shale Lagerstätte, Upper Pennsylvanian, Kansas. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Indianapolis. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 50 (6): DOI:// 10.1130/abs/2018AM- 318311. (Poster)
Kimmig, Julien, Luke Strotz, Sara Kimmig, Sven Egenhoff & Bruce Lieberman (2018) The middle Cambrian Spence Shale (Series 3: Stage 5) Lagerstätte: a new look at an old ecosystem. International Conference on Ediacaran and Cambrian Sciences, Xi’an. (Talk)
Kimmig, Julien, Luke Strotz, Sara Kimmig, Sven Egenhoff & Bruce Lieberman (2018) The middle Cambrian Spence Shale (Series 3: Stage 5) Lagerstätte: a key Cambrian ecosystem. 5th International Palaeontological Congress, Paris. (Talk)
Lieberman, Bruce & Julien Kimmig (2018) Keynote: Digitizing fossils to advance macroevolutionary research. 5th International Palaeontological Congress, Paris. (Talk)
Strotz, Luke, Erin Saupe, Julien Kimmig & Bruce Lieberman (2018) Metabolic rates, climate and macroevolution: A case study using Neogene molluscs. 5th International Palaeontological Congress, Paris. (Talk)
Pratt, Brian R. & Julien Kimmig (2017) Middle Cambrian coprolites from northwestern Canada: novel insight on benthic paleobiology and paleoecology. Canadian Paleontological Conference, Calgary, Proceedings No. 14: 27. (Talk)
*Langley, Cortney B., Julien Kimmig, David A. Legg & Kenneth S. Bader (2017)
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Ontogeny of the Pennsylvanian horseshoe crab Paleolimulus signatus (Beecher) from the Pony Creek Konservat-Lagerstätte, eastern Kansas. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 49 (6): DOI:// 10.1130/abs/2017AM-298469. (Poster)
Strotz, Luke C., Julien Kimmig & Bruce S. Lieberman (2017) Relating ecology to macroevolution using metabolic rates of Neogene mollusc communities. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 49 (6): DOI:// 10.1130/abs/2017AM-301246. (Talk)
Lieberman, Bruce S., Julien Kimmig & Erin E. Saupe (2017) Digitizing fossils to enhance macroevolutionary research: The Paleoniches and Cretaceous Worls thematic collections networks. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 49 (6): DOI:// 10.1130/abs/2017AM-298736. (Talk)
Pratt, Brian R. & Julien Kimmig (2017) Middle Cambrian coprolites from northwestern Canada: The poop on benthic paleobiology and paleoecology. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Seattle. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 49 (6): DOI:// 10.1130/abs/2017AM-298596. (Talk)
Pratt, Brian. R. & Julien Kimmig (2017) Middle Cambrian coprolites from northwestern Canada, and their implications for the food chain and ecology of trilobites and hyoliths in deeper water. 6th International Conference on Trilobites and their Relatives, Tallinn, Estonia. (Talk)
Kimmig, Julien & Brian R. Pratt (2016) Coprolites of the Ravens Throat River Lagerstätte: Understanding the middle Cambrian food chain and environment. Geological Society of America, Rocky Mountain Section, Annual Meeting, Moscow, ID. (Talk)
Kimmig, Julien & Brian R. Pratt (2014) Silver in microbial mats of the middle Cambrian Ravens Throat River deposit: An environmental and preservation factor? Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Vancouver. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 46 (6): 684. (Talk)
Loughney, Katharine M., Emilia Jarochoeska, Allison L. Keller, Julien Kimmig, et al. (2014) Sequence stratigraphic architecture drives biofacies distribution of the Mississippian Lodgepole Formation in south-central Montana. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Vancouver. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 46 (6) 754. (Poster)
Kimmig, Julien & Brian R. Pratt (2013) Taphonomy of a new middle Cambrian (Series 3) fossil Lagerstätte from the Mackenzie Mountains, northwestern Canada. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 45 (7): 307. (Talk)
Kimmig, Julien & Brian R. Pratt (2013) A new middle Cambrian Burgess Shale-type Lagerstätte from the Middle Cambrian of the Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest
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Territories, Canada. Geological Association of Canada–Mineralogical Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting, Winnipeg. Program with Abstracts, 36: 121. (Talk)
Kimmig, Julien & Brian Pratt (2012) The Burgess Shale’s little brother: A new Lagerstätte from the Middle Cambrian of the Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada. Annual meeting of the Palaeontological Association, Dublin. The Palaeontological Association Newsletter, 81 Suppl.: 74. (Poster)
Kimmig, Julien (2009) Sexual dimorphism in phytosaurs and its phylogenetic influence. 7th annual LERN Conference, London. (Talk)
Kimmig, Julien & Gernot Arp (2008) First phytosaur remains (Triassic: Norian) from northern Germany. Annual meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft, Erlangen. Erlanger geologische Abhandlungen, Sonderband 6. (Poster)
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Professional references
Dr. Brian Pratt Department of Geological Sciences University of Saskatchewan Phone: 306-966-5725 Email: [email protected]
Dr. Gabriela Mángano Department of Geological Sciences University of Saskatchewan Phone: 306-966-5730 Email: [email protected]
Dr. Sven Egenhoff Department of Geosciences Colorado State University Phone: 970-491-0749 Email: [email protected]
Dr. Bruce Lieberman Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Kansas Phone: 785-864-2741 Email: [email protected]
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