Patricia Vickers-Rich

Patricia Vickers - Rich ( also: Pat Vickers - Rich, born July 11, 1944 in Exter, California ) is an Australian paleontologist.

Life

Vickers - Rich is originally U.S. citizen. She studied at the University of California, Berkeley (Bachelor 1966), made in 1969 a master's degree at Columbia University, where he became a PhD in 1973 while she was employed at the American Museum of Natural History ( 1972), where fossil birds from Australia studied. During her studies she was 1963-1965 zoologist at the Nevada State Museum in Reno. 1973-1976 she was Associate Curator and Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University and its museum. In 1976 she came with her husband Thomas H. Rich (now curator at the Melbourne Museum ( Museum of Victoria) in Melbourne ) to Australia, where they fossil birds examined as a post- doctoral student. It was 1976 Lecturer, Senior Lecturer in 1977 and 1989 Reader in Palaeontology at Monash University, where he managed 1992/3 the Faculty of Geosciences, there was 1995 Professor with a personal chair and there is founder (1993 ) of the Monash Science Center. In 1979, she was from exchange scholar in China and it also has good contacts with Russia, since she helped organize in 1993 an exhibition of Russian dinosaurs.

Since 1984 she dug with her husband regularly by dinosaurs and other fossils in the coastal cliffs of Victoria, especially in Dinosaur Cove in the Great Otway National Park at the southern tip of Australia. In this case, an entire previously unknown fauna fossil dinosaurs and mammals came to light. Some called the couple after their children ( Leaellynasaura, Timimus ). Vickers - Rich is concerned except the vertebrate history in Gondwana, especially in the Mesozoic with Precambrian life (since 2004 she has been with the Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences joined in Moscow in this area ), climate change and ecosystems at the end of the Mesozoic, history paleontology (especially in Russia, China, Argentina and Australia). Its original area is the paleontology of birds and their systematics. They also dealt with the development of automatic translation of Chinese scientific literature and the use of bird bones in archeology.

With Fernando Novas, the couple erstbeschrieb also Tyrannotitan from Argentina.

In 2010 she received with her husband the Committee for Research and Exploration Chairman's Award from the National Geographic Society. 1992 to 1994 she was Vice President of the Australian Association of Paleontologists and 1994/95 President.

Writings

  • Thomas H. Rich Dinosaurs of the Antarctic, Scientific American Special Edition: Dinosaurs and other monsters, 2004, pp. 40-47
  • Thomas H. Rich A century of Australian Dinosaurs, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania, 2003
  • Thomas H. Rich, Peter Trusler The Artist and the Scientists: Bringing Prehistory to Life, Cambridge University Press 2010
  • Thomas H. Rich, CL Fenton, Fenton MA The Rock Book, Dover, 2003
  • Thomas H. Rich Dinosaurs of Darkness, Indiana University Press 2000 (the book was awarded the 2000 Eureka Price )
  • Thomas H. Rich Wildlife of Gondwana, Indiana University Press, 1991 ( the book was awarded the 1993 Eureka Price )
  • With Mikhail Alexandrovich Fedonkin, JG Gehling, K. Grey, GM Narbonne, The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2007
  • With GF Van Tets (Editor) Kadimakara: Extinct Vertebrates of Australia, Pioneer Design Studio, Lilydale, 1985
  • Editor with P. Komarower The Rise and Fall of the Vendian Biota ( symposium volume for two meetings, Prato (Italy) and Kyoto (Japan) organized by P. Vickers - Rich), London Geological Society Special Publications No.286, 2007
  • Thomas H. Rich, J. M. Monaghan, R. F. Baird (Editor) Vertebrate Palaeontology of Australasia, Pioneer Design Studio and Monash University Publications Committee, Melbourne, 1991
  • With P. Murray Magnificent Mihirungs. The Colossal Flightless Birds of the Australian Dreamtime. Indiana University Press, 2004 ( received the Whitley Medal of the Royal Society of New South Wales)
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