Jere H. Lipps

Jere Henry Lipps (born August 28, 1939 in Los Angeles ) is an American paleontologist . He is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley and since 1988 curator at the University of California Museum of Paleontology , of which he was director from 1989 to 1997.

Lipps studied at the University of California at Los Angeles with a bachelor's degree in 1962 and a doctorate in 1966. At that time he was engaged in paleontological research in the Channel Islands of California and biostratigraphy in California, evolution of foraminifera , paleoecology of whales in the Miocene and that Pleistocene of California. At the University of California, Davis , he dealt with evolutionary biology and ecology, especially of marine protists (including the earliest protists with shells from the Cambrian and Precambrian). He also researches recent coral reefs around the world, the Ediacara fossils and paleontology of the Galapagos Islands. From 1971 to 1981 he headed marine biology research in the US Antarctic program and a drilling through the Ross Ice Shelf . A small island in Antarctica was named after him.

Together with Philip W. Signor, he formulated the Signor-Lipps effect via the ever-present gaps in the fossil record (neither the first nor the last type of taxon has been handed down afterwards).

In 1997 he was President of the Paleontological Society . In 2010 he received the Raymond C. Moore Medal for Paleontology . Lipps Island , a small island in the Palmer Archipelago in Antarctica, has been named after Lipps Island since 1975

Web links

• His old homepage in Berkeley, Wayback Machine ( Memento from August 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Signor, Lipps, Sampling bias, gradual extinction patterns, and catastrophes in the fossil record, in: LT Silver, PH Schultz, Geological implications of impacts of large asteroids and comets on the Earth, Geological Society of America Special Publication, Volume 190, 1982, pp. 291-296