William BN Berry

William Benjamin Newell Berry (born September 1, 1931 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American paleontologist .

William Berry studied geology at Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1953 and a master's degree in 1955 and received his doctorate in 1957 from Yale University . He then spent a year at the University of Houston and taught from 1958 at the University of California at Berkeley . From 1960 he was curator there for Mesozoic and Paleozoic invertebrates at the University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP), of which he was director from 1976 to 1987. From 1975 to 1987 he was the Department of Paleontology at Berkeley; from 1979 to 1993 he was director of the environmental science program.

He is an expert on graptolites (especially in the Appalachians such as the Taconic Mountains in New York and from the Ordovician to the Devonian ) and the biostratigraphy of the Silurian (worldwide correlation with Arthur Boucot). This also gave rise to an interest in paleoecology and paleoclimatology.

In 1967 he was a Guggenheim Fellow . From 1986 to 1992 he was Associate Editor of Paleoceanography .

Publications (excerpt)

• with Harry Blatt, Scott Brande: Principles of Stratigraphic Analysis , Blackwell 1990
• Correlation of the Southeast Asian and Near Eastern Silurian rocks , Boulder, Colorado: Geological Society of America, 1972
• Correlation of the North American Silurian rocks, Boulder, Colorado: Geological Society of America, 1970
• with Reuben James Ross: Ordovician graptolites of the Basin Ranges in California, Nevada, Utah, and Idaho , Washington, DC: Government Printing Office 1963
• Growth of a prehistoric time scale based on organizational evolution , Freeman 1968

literature

• Alexander E. Gates: Earth Scientists from A to Z, Facts on File, 2003

Web links

• Biography, accessed July 14, 2016 , UCMP
• Literature by and about William BN Berry in the WorldCat bibliographic database