Hanneke Johanna Maria Meijer

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Hanneke Johanna Maria Meijer (* in Beek en Donk (now Laarbeek )) is a Dutch paleontologist .

Life

From 1998 to 2003 Meijer completed a biology degree at the University of Leiden , which she completed with a master ’s degree. In 2007 she was awarded the dissertation Aspecten van epimusculaire myofasciale krachttransmissie; een physiological, pathological en vergelijkend-zoologische benadering at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam for Ph.D. PhD. Since October 2006 she has been a research assistant at the geological department of the Naturalis Biodiversity Center . From 2010 to 2012 she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the vertebrate zoology and anthropology departments of the Smithsonian Institution . She has been a research fellow at the Smithsonian Institution since December 2012. From January 2013 to January 2015 she worked on a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont in Barcelona , where she studied the fauna of the Neogene and Quaternary . From January 2015 to September 2015 she did research at the Senckenberg Research Institute . Since October 2015 she has been visiting professor and curator for osteology at the Museum of the University of Bergen in Norway. Since February 2016, she has been the author of the Lost Worlds Revisited blog of the British daily The Guardian .

Meijer's research interests include vertebrate paleontology with a focus on functional anatomy , island evolution, biogeography , paleoecology, and island extinction .

In 2004 she was involved in a research project by the Smithsonian Institution in Liang Bua Cave on Flores , where the hominid species Homo floresiensis was discovered a year earlier . In this cave, birds form the most diverse fossil fauna group to date. Meijer and the Indonesian palaeontologist Rokus Awe Due found the remains of the stork species Leptoptilos robustus , a relative of the Great Adjutant ( Leptoptilos dubius ), with an estimated height of 1.80 m and an estimated weight of 16 kg. Based on the reconstruction of the paleoenvironment, Meijer and Due suspect that Leptoptilos robustus was able to hunt juvenile members of Homo floresiensis .

In 2009, Meijer was next to Julian Pender Hume on Dodo -Forschungsprogramm in Mauritius involved were identified numerous new bone. In 2015, in collaboration with Hume and Leon PAM Claessens, she created the first 3D anatomical atlas of a dodo skeleton, based on material from the Durban Natural Science Museum in South Africa , which Louis Étienne Thirioux had collected in 1904.

In 2014, Meijer described the fossil goose bird species Garganornis ballmanni .

In 2017, she and Marco Pavia described the fossil owl species Bubo ibericus from Spain.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Posts by Hanneke Meijer on the blog Lost Worlds Revisited
  2. ↑ Hanneke JM Meijer, Rokus Awe Due: A new species of giant marabou stork (Aves: Ciconiiformes) from the Pleistocene of Liang Bua, Flores (Indonesia) Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 160, Issue 4, 1 December 2010, Pages 707-724, doi: 10.1111 / j.1096-3642.2010.00616.x
  3. ↑ Emma Brennand BBC Earth News: Giant fossil bird found on 'hobbit' island of Flores on December 7, 2010
  4. ↑ Mission accomplished - Hanneke Meijer ( Memento of the original dated February 4, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Dutch) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.naturalis.nl
  5. ^ Leon PAM Claessens, Hanneke JM Meijer, Julian P. Hume, Kenneth F. Rijsdijk: Anatomy of the Dodo (Raphus cucullatus L., 1758): An Osteological Study of the Thirioux Specimens Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 35, suppl. 1. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 15, 2016
  6. ^ The first 3-D atlas of the extinct dodo
  7. ^ Hanneke JM Meijer: A peculiar anseriform (Aves: Anseriformes) from the Miocene of Gargano (Italy). CR Palevol. 13, 2014, pp. 19-26. doi: 10.1016 / j.crpv.2013.08.001
  8. ↑ Marco Pavia, Hanneke JM Meijer, Maria Adelaide Rossi, Ursula B Göhlich: The extreme insular adaptation of Garganornis ballmanni Meijer, 2014: a giant Anseriformes of the Neogene of the Mediterranean Basin Royal Society Open Science, 2017
  9. ↑ Hanneke JM Meijer, Marco Pavia, Joan Madurell-Malapeira, David M Alba: A revision of fossil eagle owls (Aves: Strigiformes: Bubo) from Europe and the description of a new species, Bubo ibericus, from Cal Guardiola (NE Iberian Peninsula ) Historical Biology 29 (6), Taylor & Francis, 2017, pp. 822-832
personal data
SURNAME Meijer, Hanneke Johanna Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Beek en Donk