Blaire Van Valkenburgh

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Blaire Van Valkenburgh
Born (1952-10-13) October 13, 1952 (age 71)
Robert Bakker[3]
Websitehttp://www.eeb.ucla.edu/indivfaculty.php?FacultyKey=1620

Blaire Van Valkenburgh is an American

University of California Los Angeles. She is a former president of Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
.

Early life and education

Van Valkenburgh was born in

Van Valkenburgh received a bachelor's degree from Stockton State College in New Jersey in 1974,

Robert Bakker,[4] after which she worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Alan Walker at Johns Hopkins[7] before moving to UCLA in 1986.[3]

Career

Van Valkenburgh is a

University of California Los Angeles.[8][9] She has served as chair of the department and as associate dean of academic programs in the life sciences at UCLA.The focus of her research is the paleobiology and paleoecology of Carnivora.[10][11] Her contributions include quantification of guild structure in fossil carnivore communities and the study of iterative evolution in carnivore feeding adaptations.[12][13]

Van Valkenburgh served as president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology from 2008 to 2010[14] and as associate editor of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology from 2011 to 2017.[3]

References

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  5. ^ Van Valkenburgh, Blaire. "Public Comments for Virtual School Board Meetings #120" (PDF).
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  8. ^ "Van Valkenburgh, Blaire". UCLA. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
  9. ^ Hoffman, Haley (23 September 2015). "Blaire Van Valkenburgh to deliver lecture as part of Phi Beta Kappa's Visiting Scholars program". Center College, Danville, Kentucky. Archived from the original on 6 August 2020. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
  10. ^ Bates-Duke, Karl (28 October 2015). "Math proves ancient cats could hunt mammoths". Futurity. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
  11. ^ "Blaire Van Valkenburgh: Staring down the saber-tooths". TrowelBlazers. TrowelBlazers. Retrieved 23 Jul 2018.
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  14. ^ "Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Past Presidents". Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Archived from the original on 7 June 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2018.