Elaine Anderson
Elaine Anderson | |
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Denver Museum of Nature & Science | |
Doctoral advisor | Björn Kurtén |
Elaine Anderson (January 8, 1936 – March 26, 2002) was an American
paleontologist. She is best known for her work on vertebrate paleontology
.
Biography
Elaine Anderson was born in Salida, Colorado, on January 8, 1936.[1] She was the only child of John and Edith Anderson. She was raised in Denver, Colorado.[2]
Anderson graduated from the
Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. She also worked briefly at the Idaho Museum of Natural History (then known as the Idaho State University Museum of Natural History) and the Maryland Academy of Sciences. She had to leave her latter job in order to return to Denver and care for her ailing mother.[2]
After her mother's death, she stayed in her childhood home, often being visited by other paleontologists,
Denver Museum of Nature & Science (formerly known as the Denver Museum of Natural History), she formally became a member of the staff in 1984. She was elected a Research Associate in 1994. She was also an adjunct professor of Biology at the Colorado State University.[2]
She died on March 26, 2002, in Denver.[1][2]
Contributions to science
Anderson specialized in
zooarcheology, long before the term was even coined. She was also active in the conservation efforts on North American mammalian fauna.[2]
She was a member of the American Quaternary Association and was elected an Honorary Member of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in 2000.[2]
She is best known for her work Pleistocene Mammals of North America, written in collaboration with Björn Kurtén in 1980.[3]
See also
- Prehistoric mammal
- Ice age
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-253-34268-3.
- ^ ISSN 8755-6898. Retrieved May 18, 2011.
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