Annalisa Berta

Annalisa Berta is an American paleontologist and professor emerita in the Department of Biology at San Diego State University.[1][2]

Annalisa Berta
CitizenshipUnited States
EducationPh.D.
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Known forcontributions to the fossil history of pinnipeds and cetaceans
Awards
  • President, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 2004-2006
  • Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) 2015
Scientific career
FieldsVertebrate Paleontology, Evolution, Systematics
InstitutionsSan Diego State University (1989-Present)
Thesis (1979)
Doctoral advisorsWilliam A. Clemens, Jr.
Websitewww.bio.sdsu.edu/faculty/berta.html

The focus of her research is the evolution and fossil history of whales and other marine mammals, and among her contributions is the description of the early pinniped Enaliarctos.[3][4]

Berta received her Ph.D. from the Department of Paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1979, after which she was a postdoctoral researcher at University of Florida before starting as a faculty member at San Diego State University in 1989.[5] Berta served as president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in 2004-2006[6] and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2015.[7]

References
  1. "Berta, Annalisa". San Diego State University. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
  2. "Annalisa Berta, Fellow of AAAS". American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
  3. Berta, Annalisa; Sumich, James; Kovacs, Kit (2015). Marine Mammals: Evolutionary Biology. Academic Press. pp. 1–738. ISBN 9780123970022.
  4. Berta, Annalisa (1989). "Skeleton of the oldest known pinniped, Enaliarctos mealsi". Science. 244 (4900): 60–62. Bibcode:1989Sci...244...60B. doi:10.1126/science.244.4900.60. PMID 17818847. S2CID 29596040.
  5. Berta, Annalisa (1988). "Quaternary Evolution and Biogeography of the Large South American Canidae (Mammalia, Carnivora)". University of California Publications in Geosciences. 132: 1–151. ISBN 9780520099609.
  6. "Past Presidents of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology". Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
  7. "AAAS Members Elected as Fellows". Science. 350 (6264): 1047–1049. 27 Nov 2015. doi:10.1126/science.350.6264.1047.


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