Karl W. Flessa

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Karl Walter Flessa (born August 3, 1946 in Nuremberg ) is a German-American geologist , zoologist and paleontologist .

Flessa studied geology at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree in 1968 and received her PhD in geology from Brown University in 1973 . In 1972 he became an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and from 1977 assistant professor, 1981 associate professor and 1987 professor of geosciences and from 1997 professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona .

He studies the ecology and conservation biology of the Colorado River Delta, biogeography of recent bivalve molluscs, taphonomy, and paleoecology of invertebrates from the Pleistocene to the present day in the Gulf of California.

From 1988 to 1991 he was a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Institution . In 1983/84 he was awarded a Humboldt Research Prize in Tübingen and then in Birmingham.

In 1998 he was President of the Paleontological Society . In 2018 Flessa was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

He has been a US citizen since 1950.

Fonts (selection)

  • with FT Fürsich (editor): Ecology, taphonomy, and paleoecology of Recent and Pleistocene molluscan fauna of Bahia la Choya, northern Gulf of California. Zitteliana, Volume 18, 1991, pp. 1-180 (therein with Fürsich, Aberhan, Feige, Schödelbauer: Sedimentary habitats and molluscan faunas of Bahia la Choya (Gulf of California, Sonora, Mexico), 5-51).
  • Editor: Paleoecology and taphonomy of Recent to Pleistocene intertidal deposits, Gulf of California. Paleontological Society Special Publication 2, 1987
  • Conservation paleobiology, American Paleontologist, Vol. 10, 2002, pp. 2-5
  • with EP Glenn u. a .: Ecology and conservation biology of the Colorado River delta, Mexico, Journal of Arid Environments, Volume 49, 2001, pp. 5-15.
  • Time-averaging, in: D. Briggs, P. Crowther, Paleobiology II, Blackwells 2001, 292-296
  • Well-traveled cockles: Shell transport during the Holocene transgression of the southern North Sea, Geology 26, 1998, pp. 187-190.
  • with SM Kidwell: The quality of the fossil record: Populations, species, and communities, Annual Reviews of Ecology and Systematics 26, 1995, pp. 269-299
  • Extinction, McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology 1991
  • with David Jablonski , James Valentine : Biogeography and paleobiology, Paleobiology, Volume 11, 1985, pp. 75-90.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2018 Fellows. American Association for the Advancement of Science, accessed May 14, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Flessa, Karl W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flessa, Karl Walter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American geologist, zoologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg