Stig Bergström

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Stig Magnus Bergström , also Sig Bergstrom, (born June 12, 1935 in Skövde ) is a Swedish-American paleontologist .

Life

Bergström studied at Lund University with a candidate degree in 1959 and a doctorate in 1961. From 1960 he was on a Fulbright scholarship at Ohio State University . 1962 to 1968 he was a lecturer in Lund and then first assistant professor and curator and from 1972 professor at Ohio State University.

He is known for his work on the biostratigraphy of conodonts (and graptolites ) in the Paleozoic (in addition to North America, for example, China and Scandinavia / Baltic States). He worked with Walter C. Sweet . At his suggestion in 2006, Katium and Sandbium were introduced as levels of the Ordovician, and so was Floium . He also deals with chemostratigraphy, for example with the help of the relative abundance of carbon isotopes for Ordovician and Silurian, and investigates how the oxygen isotope composition of the apatite of conodont fossils can be used as a thermometer for the sea temperatures of the time.

In 2011 he received the Paleontological Society Medal . In 1999 he received the Raymond C. Moore Medal and the Gold Medal from Charles University in Prague. He also received the Swedish Hadding Prize and the Gold Medal from the Pander Society. He is an honorary doctorate from Lund University. In 2012 he received the Digby McLaren Medal from the International Commission on Stratigraphy and he received the IUGS Medal for Excellence.

literature

  • Simon J. Knell: The Great Fossil Enigma: The Search for the Conodont Animal, Indiana University Press, 2012

Fonts

  • with Walter Sweet (editor): Symposium on Conodont Biostratigraphy, Geological Society of America Memoir 127, 1971
  • with Walter Sweet: The generic concept in conodont taxonomy. Proceedings North American Paleontological Convention, 1, 1969, pp. 29-42.
  • with Walter Sweet: Conodont provinces and biofacies of the Late Ordovician, Geological Society of America Special Papers 196, 1984, pp. 69-88
  • with Walter Sweet: Conodonts and Biostratigraphic Correlation, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 14, 1986, 85-112
  • with Stanley C. Finney, Chen Xu, Daniel Goldman and Stephen A. Leslie: Three new Ordovician global stage names. Lethaia, 39: 287-288, Oslo 2006

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Digby McLaren Medal 2012 to Bergström
personal data
SURNAME Bergström, Stig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bergström, Stig Magnus (full name); Bergstrom, Sig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish-American paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Skovde