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

Since 1984 she and her husband have been digging regularly for dinosaurs and other fossils in the coastal cliffs of Victoria, especially in Dinosaur Cove near Great Otway National Park on the southern tip of Australia. A whole previously unknown fauna of fossil dinosaurs and mammals came to light. Some named the couple after their children ( Leaellynasaura , Timimus ). In addition to the history of vertebrate animals in Gondwana, Vickers-Rich also deals with Precambrian life (since 2004 she has been associated with the Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow in this area), climate change and ecosystems at the end of the Mesozoic , history of paleontology (especially in Russia, China, Argentina and Australia). Their original field is the paleontology of birds and their systematics. She was also engaged in the development of automatic translation of Chinese scientific literature and the use of bird bones in archeology.

With Fernando Novas, the couple also first described Tyrannotitan from Argentina. The Stirton thunderbird is one of their first descriptions .

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

Fonts

with Thomas H. Rich Dinosaurs of the Antarctic , Scientific American Special Edition: Dinosaurs and other monsters , 2004, pp. 40-47
with Thomas H. Rich A century of Australian Dinosaurs , Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania, 2003
with Thomas H. Rich, Peter Trusler The Artist and the Scientists: Bringing Prehistory to Life , Cambridge University Press 2010
with Thomas H. Rich, CL Fenton, MA Fenton The Rock Book , Dover, 2003
with Thomas H. Rich Dinosaurs of Darkness , Indiana University Press 2000 (the book received the Eureka Prize in 2000)
with Thomas H. Rich Wildlife of Gondwana , Indiana University Press 1991 (the book received the Eureka Prize in 1993)
with Michail Alexandrowitsch Fedonkin , JG Gehling, K. Gray, 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 Studios, 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
with Thomas H. Rich, JM Monaghan, RF Baird (Editor) Vertebrate Palaeontology of Australasia , Pioneer Design Studios 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 from the Royal Society of New South Wales)

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Individual evidence

↑ Life data see American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004

personal data
SURNAME	Vickers-Rich, Patricia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Vickers-Rich, Pat
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Australian paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 11, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Exter (California)

[1] Life data see American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004