Emily H. Vokes

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Emily Hoskins Vokes (born May 21, 1930 in Monroe , Louisiana ) is an American malacologist and paleontologist . She is a specialist in spiny snails (Muricidae).

Life

Emily Vokes collected conchylia as a teenager and studied geology and paleontology at Tulane University , where she also heard lectures from Harold Ernest Vokes , whom she married in 1959. In 1960 she received her bachelor's degree. Her master's thesis from 1962 was dedicated to Murex and in it she first described, among other things, Murex bellegladeensis from the Pleistocene of Florida, which was later found as a living specimen in Florida. In 1967 she received her doctorate in paleontology. From 1957 to 1974 she was curator for paleontology at Tulane University and from 1969 lecturer in geology. In 1973 she became an associate professor and in 1981 a professor. From 1974 to 1982 she was the Faculty of Geology and in 1987/88 she was Acting Dean at Newcomb College, Tulane University.

In 1971 she was visiting professor at the University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil and in 1980 she was visiting curator at the Australian Museum.

She worked with her husband Harold Ernest Vokes (1908-1998), who specializes in mussels (bivalvia). Together they explored the mollusc fauna on the Atlantic coast of North and South America and fossil sites in Florida, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama and the Dominican Republic. The couple has four children.

Fonts

  • with Winston F. Ponder: A Revision of the Indo-West Pacific Fossil and Recent Species of Murex SS and Haustellum (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae). Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 8, pp. 1-160.

literature

References and comments

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Vokes, Emily H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vokes, Emily Hoskins (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American malacologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Monroe , Louisiana