Allison R. Palmer

Allison Ralph Palmer (born January 9, 1927 in Bound Brook , New Jersey ) is an American paleontologist and geologist . He is considered a leading expert on the Cambrian and trilobite expert .

Palmer studied at Pennsylvania State University (Bachelor 1946) and the University of Minnesota , where he received his doctorate in geology in 1950. He was then until 1966 at the United States Geological Survey , where he dealt with stratigraphy and paleontology of the Cambrian. From 1966 to 1980 he was Professor of Paleontology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY). From 1974 to 1977 he was head of the Faculty of Geosciences. From 1983 to 1986 he served on the US National Geology Committee and from 1980 to 1993 coordinator of the Centennial Science Program of the Geological Society of America ; from 1993 he was Adjunct Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder .

Palmer was editor of the monumental Decade of North American Geology (D-NAG) series, which was launched by the Geological Society of America on the occasion of its 100th anniversary in 1988 and presents the geology of North America in 30 volumes.

He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was President of the Paleontological Society in 1983 . From 1972 to 1984 he was President of the Committee of the International Stratigraphic Commission for the Cambrian. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and received its Distinguished Service Medal in 1992. From 1988 to 1991 he headed their Education Program.

In 1967 he received the Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ life. and career data from American Men and Woman of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
2. ^ Website on Decade of North American Geology at the library of the Univ. of Texas

Web links

• Biography at the University of Minnesota