Paul E. Olsen

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Paul E. Olsen

Paul Eric Olsen (born August 4, 1953 in New York City ) is an American paleontologist and geologist .

Life

Olsen studied geology at Yale University with a bachelor's degree in 1978 and received his doctorate there in 1984 with a dissertation on the fossil ecosystems of the Newark supergroup (layer sequence from the Middle Triassic to the Lower Jurassic in eastern North America ). He was a post-doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley . In 1984 he became Assistant Professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University , in 1991 Associate Professor and in 1995 Professor (Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences). He has also been Research Associate of the American Museum of Natural History since 1985 and of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History since 2003 and of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh since 2007 .

Already as a teenager he dealt with paleontology and in 1971 ensured the recognition of a quarry ( Riker Hill Fossil Site ) near his hometown Livingston (New Jersey) as the National Natural Landmark of the USA, in which they found dinosaur tracks from the Newark Supergroup of the US To President Richard Nixon . He is also working on a book on dinosaur tracks in eastern North America and doing research on Jurassic and Triassic terrestrial ecosystems. Together with colleagues, he examined numerous sediment cores from sea deposits of the Triassic ( Newark Basin Coring Project ) in order to reconstruct the climatic fluctuations at that time and to obtain information about the great mass extinction at the turn of the Permian / Triassic. The investigation of such lake sediments by the Newark Group was already the subject of his dissertation. He examines interdisciplinary evolutionary and astronomical influences on global bio-geochemical cycles (in which he also worked with Jacques Laskar in 2014 ).

In addition to the east of North America, he also excavated in Morocco.

From 1986 to 1988 he was a Sloan Fellow . From 1987 to 1990 he was co-editor of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . From 1999 to 2001 he was a Distinguished Lecturer of the Paleontological Society . In 2008, Olsen was elected to the National Academy of Sciences .

Fonts

  • Editor with Peter LeTourneau: The Great Rift Valleys of Pangea in Eastern North America, 2 volumes, Columbia University Press 2003
  • with JH Whiteside, TL Eglinton, B. Cornet, NG McDonald, P. Huber: Pangean great lake paleoecology on the cusp of the end-Triassic extinction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, and Palaeoecology, Volume 301, 2011, pp. 1-17.
  • with NC Fraser, DA Grimaldi, B. Axsmith: A Triassic Deposit from Eastern North America. Nature, Vol. 380, 1996, pp. 615-619
  • with NH Shubin, PE Anders: New Early Jurassic tetrapod assemblages constrain Triassic-Jurassic tetrapod extinction event. Science, Volume 237, 1987, pp. 1025-1029 (and also: Triassic-Jurassic extinctions (reply to comment by Padian). Science, 241, 1988, pp. 1359-1360).
  • A 40-million-year lake record of early Mesozoic climatic forcing. Science, Vol. 234, 1986, pp. 842-848
  • with Hans-Dieter Sues : Correlation of the continental Late Triassic and Early Jurassic sediments, and patterns of the Triassic-Jurassic tetrapod transition: In Kevin Padian (Ed.), The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs, Faunal Change Across the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1986, pp. 321-335 (including with Donald Baird : The ichnogenus Atreipus and its significance for Triassic Biostratigraphy, and with K. Padian: Earliest records of Batrachopus from the Southwest US, and a revision of some Early Mesozoic crocodilomorph ichnogenera)
  • with CL Remington, B. Cornet, B., KS Thomson: Cyclic change in Late Triassic lacustrine communities: Science, Volume 201, 1978, pp. 729-733
  • with Peter Galton : Triassic-Jurassic tetrapod extinctions: are they real? Science, Volume 197, 1977, pp. 983-986

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References and comments

  1. ^ Paul E. Olsen: Comparative paleolimnology of the Newark Supergroup: A study of ecosystem evolution. PhD Thesis, Yale University, New Haven (CT)
personal data
SURNAME Olsen, Paul E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Olsen, Paul Eric (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American paleontologist and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City