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Staff

Elizabeth A. Nesbitt, Ph.D.
Chair of the Division, Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology and Micropaleontology
lnesbitt@
543-5949

Christian Sidor, Ph.D.
Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology
casidor@
221-4181

Caroline A.E. Strömberg, Ph.D.
Curator of Paleobotany
(arrives fall 2007)

Alan Kohn, Ph.D.
Adjunct Curator of Recent Mollusk Collection
kohn@
616-4383

Rebecca Price, Ph.D.
Adjunct Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology
becca.price@uwb.edu

Ronald C. Eng, M.S.
Collections Manager
rceng@
543-6776

Bruce Crowley, M.S.
Fossils Preparator
bcrowley@
543-1856

James Goedert
Affiliate Curator of Fossil Marine Vertebrates
jgoedert@

Courtney Richards
Curatorial Assistant
cdr8@
543-1856

Jude Swales
Scientific Illustrator
jswales@
543-7036

Students

Read about the undergraduate and graduate programs in Paleontology at UW's Department of Earth and Space Sciences and Department of Biology.

Ruth Martin
Graduate Student, Micropaleontology

Matthew van der Ahe
Graduate Student, Oxygen and carbon isotope analysis of mid-Tertiary bivalves. Current research focuses on determining Eocene–Oligocene climate change using stable isotope analysis.

Holly Olson
Undergraduate Student

Tara Smiley
Undergraduate Student






Museum Associates

Thomas DeVries, Ph.D.
Invertebrate Paleontology — Cenozoic marine molluscan taxonomy, biogeography and biostratigraphy of Peru, Chile and Ecuador. See website on Pisco Basin, Peru, fossils and field work photos.

Kathryn Hoppe, Ph.D.
Vertebrate paleontology

Bax R. Barton, M.S.
Quaternary Paleoecology
baxqrc@

John P. Alexander, M.S.
Fossil Primates and Paleoecology

Tad Dillhoff
Tertiary Paleobotany of the Pacific Northwest with emphasis on the Okanogan Highlands floras and the fossil wood deposits associated with the Columbia River basalts.

Rick Dillhoff
Cenozoic Paleobotany of the Northwest

Beverly Witte
Museum Curatorial Associate

Ross and Marion Berglund
Invertebrate Paleontology—Tertiary fossil Crustacea from the Pacific Northwest

Ed East, M.S.
Invertebrate paleontology, especially trilobites, shrimps, and Tisoa

Paleobotany Lab
paleobot@
543-0495

Volunteers

To learn how you can volunteer at the Burke Geology Division, e-mail Ron Eng.

Bret Buskirk
Invertebrate Paleontology

Maureen Carlisle
Invertebrate paleontology, especially unusual late Paleozoic fossils from accreted terrains

Don Hopkins
Paleobotany

Jeff Grieff
Invertebrate paleontology especially Cenozoic mollusks and benthic foraminifera

Jim Schneider
Minerals, but usually on loan to Exhibits

Larry Friedman
Vertebrate paleontology

Steve Hunter
Vertebrate paleontology








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