Newsletter of theUniversity of CaliforniaMuseum of PaleontologyUCMP NEWS

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UCMP joins Campanile centennial celebration with a spotlight on McKittrick tar seep fossilsThe Campanile will celebrate an important milestone in 2015—the 100th anniversary of the bell tower (formally know as Sather Tower)—and the UCMP figures prominent-ly in the rich and colorful history of this Bay Area landmark. For many decades, five levels of the tower have been home to fossils col-lected in the early 1900s, many of which are from Pleistocene tar pit and seep localities in California. These collections contain well-known and charismatic fossils of saber-tooth cats, ground sloths, dire wolves, and camels, among others. These fossils are highlighted in a UC Berkeley Media Relations video fea-turing Assistant Director for Collections and Research Mark Goodwin, where he dispels the myth that the floors are “just dusty old rooms.” A new UCMP grant focused on the Campanile fossils comes with renewed inter-est in their history.

Funds recently awarded to the UCMP

from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) will help shine new light on fossils from a lesser known but stratigraphi-cally significant tar seep in the San Joaquin Valley: the Pleistocene-Holocene McKittrick seep from Kern County, CA. Excavations at McKittrick by UCMP scientists in the 1930s yielded thousands of bones of extinct and extant mammals, birds, and reptiles. Due to the importance of these finds, the area was eventually designated a California State Historical Landmark. These fossils span a key climatic transition and extinction event near the Pleistocene-Holocene yet the collection has never been properly curated.

Work is already underway by undergradu-ates Elyanah Posner, Eric Holt, Melissa Mast, and Michael Tom under the direction of Senior Museum Scientist Pat Holroyd,

Melissa Mast, one of UCMP’s undergraduate curatorial assistants, with a selection of McKittrick fossils taken from the Campanile for cleaning and curation.

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UCMP well represented at the 2014 SVP and

GSA meetings

In the fall of 2014, UCMP was a major presence at the annual meetings of two pro-fessional societies, the Geological Society of America (GSA) and the Society of Ver-tebrate Paleontology (SVP). Student atten-dance at the conferences was close to an all time high, thanks in part to the generosity of UCMP donors whose support helps to fund travel grants and awards earned by students.

Eighteen UCMPers presented at the GSA meeting—the Society’s 126th—in Vancou-ver, British Columbia, Canada, on October 19–22. Members of four different labs at-tended the meeting including the Padian Labs’ Ashley Poust, Sara ElShafie, Liz Fer-rer, and recent graduate Sarah Tulga (talk). Undergraduate student Eric Holt from the Barnosky Lab presented a poster.

From the Finnegan Lab were Seth Finnegan (talk and co-author on two others) and grad students Emily Orzechowski (talk and co-author on a poster) and Caitlin Boas (poster and co-author on two others). Cindy Looy (talk and co-author on three others) came with Adjunct Curator/Adjunct Assis-tant Professor Ivo Duijnstee (talk) and Looy

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2014 UCMP publicationsCommunicating science to both col-leagues and the general public is an es-sential ingredient of the UCMP mission. Through journals, presentations at pro-fessional meetings, articles in the popular press, interviews, workshops, lectures, and even science cafés, members of the UCMP community share their research that ultimately contributes to a greater understanding of the history of life. This list of 2014 peer-reviewed articles rep-resents a portion of that effort. UCMP alums are indicated by asterisks.

Alupay, J.S.,* S.P. Hadjisolomou, and R.J. Crook. 2014. Arm injury produces long-term behavioral and neural hypersensitivity in oc-topus. Neuroscience letters 558:137–142. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2013.11.002 (published on-line November 2013)

Barnosky, A.D. 2014. Dodging Extinction: Power, Food, Money, and the Future of Life on Earth. UC Press. 240 pp.

Barnosky, A.D., and E.A. Hadly. 2014. Problem solving in the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene Review 1(1):76–77. doi: 10.1177/2053019613516935

Barnosky, A.D., E.A. Hadly, R. Dirzo, M. Fortelius, and N.C. Stenseth. 2014. Translating science for decision makers to help navigate the Anthropocene. The Anthropocene Review 1(2):160–170. doi: 10.1177/2053019614533670

Barnosky, A.D., M. Holmes, R. Kirchholtes, E.L. Lindsey,* K.C. Maguire,* A.W. Poust, M.A. Stegner, J. Sunseri, B. Swartz,* J. Swift, N.A. Villavicencio, and G.O.U. Wogan. 2014. Prelude to the Anthropocene: Two newly-defined North American Land-Mammal Ages (NALMAs). The Anthropocene Review 1(3):225–242. doi: 10.1177/2053019614547433

Barnosky, A.D., J.H. Brown, G.C. Daily, R. Dirzo, A.H. Ehrlich, P.R. Ehrlich, J.T. Eronen, M. Fortelius, E.A. Hadly, E.B. Leopold, H.A. Mooney, J.P. Myers, R.L Naylor, S. Palumbi, N.C. Stenseth, and M.H. Wake. 2014. Intro-ducing the scientific consensus on maintain-ing humanity’s life support systems in the 21st century: Information for policy makers. The Anthropocene Review 1(1): 78–109. doi: 10.1177/2053019613516290

Barta, D.E., K.M. Brundridge, J.A. Croghan, F.D. Jackson, D.J. Varricchio, X. Jin, and A.W. Poust. 2014. Eggs and clutches of

the Spheroolithidae from the Cretaceous Tiantai basin, Zhejiang Province, China. Historical Biology 26(2):183–194. doi: 10.1080/08912963.2013.792811

Benca, J.P. 2014. Cultivation techniques for terrestrial clubmosses (Lycopodiaceae): Conservation, research, and horticultural op-portunities for an early-diverging plant lineage. American Fern Journal 104(2):25–48. doi: 10.1640/0002-8444-104.2.25

Benca, J.P., M.H. Carlisle, S. Bergen, and C.A.E. Strömberg.* 2014. Applying mor-phometrics to early land plant systematics: A new species of Leclercqia (Lycopsida) from Washington State. American Journal of Botany 101(3):510–520. doi: 10.3732/ajb.1300271

Berke, S.K., D. Jablonski, A.Z. Krug, and J.W. Valentine. 2014. Origination and immigration drive latitudinal gradients in marine func-tional diversity. PLoS ONE 9(7):e101494. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101494

Blois, J.L., N.J. Gotelli, A.K. Behrensmeyer, J.T. Faith, S.K. Lyons, S.J.W. William, K.L. Amatangelo, A. Bercovici, A. Du, J.T. Eronen, G.R. Graves, N. Jud, C.C. Labandeira, C.V. Looy, B. McGill, D. Patterson, R. Potts, B. Riddle, R. Terry, A. Tóth, A. Villaseñor, and S.L. Wing. 2014. A framework for evaluating the influence of climate, dispersal limitation, and biotic interactions using fossil pollen as-sociations across the late Quaternary. Ecography 37(11):1095–1108. doi: 10.1111/ecog.00779

Clemens, W.A., and J.H. Hartman. 2014. From Tyrannosaurus rex to asteroid impact: Early studies (1901–1980) of the Hell Creek Formation in its type area. Pp. 1–87 in G.P. Wilson, W.A. Clemens, J.R. Horner, and J.H. Hartman, (eds.), Through the End of the Cre-taceous in the Type Locality of the Hell Creek Formation in Montana and Adjacent Areas. Geological Society of America Special Paper 503. doi: 10.1130/2014.2503(01)

Clemens, W.A., and T. Martin. 2014. Review of the non-tritylodontid synapsids from bone beds in the Rhaetic Sandstone, southern Ger-many. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 88(4):461–479. doi: 10.1007/s12542-013-0201-5

Cronin, T.W., M.J. Bok, N.J. Marshall, and R.L. Caldwell. 2014. Filtering and polychro-matic vision in mantis shrimps: Themes in visible and ultraviolet vision. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 2014369 20130032. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0032 (pub-lished online January 2014)

DiMichele, W.A., D.S. Chaney, H. Falcon-

Lang, H. Kerp, C.V. Looy, S.G. Lucas, K. Krainer, and S. Voigt. 2014. A compositionally unique voltzian conifer-callipterid flora from a carbonate-filled channel, Early Permian age, Robledo Mountains, New Mexico, and its broader significance. In S.G. Lucas and W.A. DiMichele (eds.), Carboniferous-Permian Transition in the Robledo Mountains, South-ern New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 65. 7 pp. (delayed in appearing online)

DiMichele, W.A., S.G. Lucas, C.V. Looy, C.S. Chaney, and S. Voight. 2014. Early Permian fossil floras from the red beds of Prehistoric Trackways National Monument, southern New Mexico. In S.G. Lucas and W.A. DiMichele (eds.), Carboniferous-Permian Transition in the Robledo Mountains, Southern New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural His-tory and Science Bulletin 65. 11 pp. (delayed in appearing online)

Dougherty, L.F., S. Johnsen, R.L. Caldwell, N.J. Marshall. 2014. A dynamic broadband reflector built from microscopic silica spheres in the ‘disco’ clam Ctenoides ales. Journal of the Royal Society, Interface 11(98). doi: 10.1098/rsif.2014.0407

Encinas, A., F. Perez, S.N. Nielsen, K.L. Finger, V. Valencia, and P. Duhart. 2014. Geochronologic and paleontologic evidence for a Pacific-Atlantic connection during the late Oligocene-early Miocene in the Patagonian Andes (43–44º S). Journal of South American Earth Sciences 55 (November 2014):1–18. doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2014.06.008

Finnegan, N.J., R. Schumer, and S. Finnegan. 2014. A signature of transience in bedrock river incision rates over timescales of 104–107 years. Nature 505:391–394. doi: 10.1038/nature12913

Goodwin, M.B., and J.R. Horner. 2014. Cranial morphology of a juvenile Triceratops skull from the Hell Creek Formation, McCone County Montana, with comments on the fossil record of ontogenetically younger skulls. Pp. 333–347 in G.P. Wilson, W.A. Clemens, J.R. Horner, J.H. Hartman, (eds.), Through the End of the Cretaceous in the Type Locality of the Hell Creek Formation in Montana and Ad-jacent Areas. Geological Society of America Spe-cial Paper 503. doi: 10.1130/2014.2503(13)

Hickman, C.S. 2014. Paleogene marine bi-valves of the deep-water Keasey Formation

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Congratulations!To Tony Barnosky for launching his new book Dodging Extinction: Power, Food, Money and the Future of Life on Earth (UC Press, 2014). The book release was accompanied by a series of lectures in Washington, DC, Boston, and of course here in Berkeley. NPR’s Science Friday featured the book as one of 2014’s best science reads. Tony was one of the Howard Hughes Medical In-stitute’s (HHMI) annual Holiday Lectur-ers, and with UCMP Research Associate Elizabeth Hadly and Curatorial Associate Walter Alvarez, also appeared in the film Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink (Tangled Bank Films) which premiered on the Smithsonian Channel in Novem-ber 2014. Tony and UCMP alum Kait-lin Maguire (now a Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Merced) were featured in a short film documentary made by Spine Films with staff at John Day National Monu-ment and HHMI.

A new genus and new species named for UCMP researchersA new gastropod genus was named in honor of Carole Hickman: Carolesia. Named by Diego Zelaya and Marine Güller in a 2014 paper published in Mal-acologia 57(2):309–317, 2014. Carole says, “I have had seven species named in my honor, so I guess a genus patronym is an honorific step up.”

A new dinosaur holotype based on a UCMP specimen (UCMP 152028) is named for Howard Hutchison: Adelo-lophus hutchisoni. While Howard was a Museum Scientist at the UCMP, he col-lected the specimen from the Wahweap Formation during his work in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Loaned to the Utah Museum of Natural History, the new holotype is described by Bucky Gates in a new volume: Gates,

T.A., et al. 2014. New hadrosaurid specimens from the lower-middle Cam-panian Wahweap Formation of Utah. Pp. 156–173 in D.A. Eberth and D.C. Evans (eds). Hadrosaurs: Proceedings of the International Hadrosaur Symposium. Indiana University Press.

Other newsDori Contreras spent six weeks in

Argentina in fall 2014, at the Museo Pa-leontológico Egidio Feruglio in Trelew (Chubut province, Patagonia). Funded by the Evolving Earth Foundation, she worked on Jurassic conifers with collabo-rators Dr. Ignacio Escapa and Dr. Ruben Cuneo. Although most of her time was at the Museo, she spent a couple days in the field collecting at a Jurassic locality.

Kicking off the new year with a con-ference, Lindsey Dougherty attended the Society for Integrative and Com-parative Biology (SICB) meeting in West Palm Beach, FL, January 3–7, 2015, along with her undergraduate researcher Alex Niebergall. Lindsey gave a talk and Alex presented a poster. Alex was sup-ported by a UCMP travel grant and she is one of the members of Lindsey’s “disco clam team.”

Earlier in 2014 Diane Erwin attended the annual Botanical Society of America meeting held in Boise, ID. Along with her co-author Jeffrey Myers (Western Oregon University), they presented two papers as invited speakers in the sympo-sium entitled “The Miocene vegetation and environment of western North America.” Diane highlighted the mid-Miocene Stewart Valley flora and its im-portance in understanding the landscape and vegetation history of the Great Basin.

Myers talked about the late Miocene Anaverde flora—an assemblage of plants that document the history of southern California coastal vegetation.

Jenny Hofmeister attended the West-ern Society of Naturalists Conference in Tacoma, WA, in November 2014 and gave an invited talk at the Long Beach Aquarium, also in November. Her octopus research was featured on a TV show: Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin (Episode 7).

Jenna Judge reports that 2014 marked the 24th year that UC Berkeley offered a class in Tropical Biology and Geomorphology of Islands on the island of Moorea, French Polynesia. Jenna was one of three Graduate Student Instruc-tors involved in the fall course. Twenty students designed and carried out inde-pendent research projects over a nine-week period while living and working at the Gump Research Station, Cook’s Bay. Jenna states “it was a rigorous research experience for the students and a reward-ing mentoring experience for the gradu-ate student instructors!”

Jere Lipps and his crew at the Cooper Center in Orange County (OC) con-tinue to reach broad audiences with a variety of paleontology and archaeology-themed events throughout the year. These include outdoor festivals, lecture series, exhibits, and increasing more sets of activities for K–12 teachers. Jere says the news coverage on many of their ac-tivities is growing and the Cooper Cen-ter’s large events (festivals and exhibits) reach nearly 7000 attendees (many of them kids). @

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to curate, rehouse, and capture digital images of the specimens. To date, more than 2500 specimens have been cleaned and cataloged, and more than 500 images of 273 specimens have been added to CalPhotos. Lisa White and the UCMP education and outreach team will develop additional web content and digital learn-ing materials, providing K–12 audiences with activities to better understand the significance of these key fossils.

The UCMP is proud to take part in the year-long Campanile celebration. Please watch our progress online as new

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Top: Mark Goodwin shows staff and guests around one of the five floors devoted to fossil storage in the Campanile. Bottom: Chester Stock (right) and a colleague look for fossils in a roadcut at the McKittrick locality, circa 1921, on Midway Royal Oil Company property.

Top: Undergrad curatorial assistants Eric Holt and Elyanah Posner examine cleaned-up McKittrick fossils from the Campanile. Bottom: A drawer full of Canis dirus jaws from the Campanile.

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At the SVP meeting, Pat Holroyd and Lisa White visit the Berlin Wall.

Lab grad students Shih-Yi (Winnie) Hsiung (talk) and Renske Kirchholtes (talk). The lone representative from the Marshall Lab was Lucy Chang.

UCMP staff Mark Goodwin (talk and co-author on another), Pat Holroyd (talk, co-author on two others, and co-au-thor on a poster), and Lisa White (poster and co-author on a talk) presented at the Vancouver meeting, and Museum Scien-tist Erica Clites (talk) and Postdoctoral Scholar Jessica Bean (talk and co-author on two posters) were also present.

The Society of Vertebrate Paleontol-ogy has met annually for 74 years and 2014 marked the first time that the an-nual meeting was held in continental Europe. Berlin, Germany, was the host city and the meeting (November 5–8) included field trips to classic localities such as the Solenhofen limestone, where Archaeopteryx lithographica was discov-ered. Attendees enjoyed a reception at the Museum für Naturkunde where the Archaeopteryx Berlin specimen is on display in the grand Jurassic Hall, along with some of the largest mounted dino-saur skeletons in the world.

Representing the Barnosky Lab at SVP were Tony Barnosky himself, giving a talk entitled “Fossil evidence for lasting ecological transformation as a result of defaunation,” and his grad students Al-lison Stegner (talk) and Zixiang Zhang (poster). There was a good crowd from the Padian Lab: Kevin Padian (talk); grad students Ashley Poust (poster), Sara ElShafie (poster), and Liz Ferrer (post-er); and Sarah Tulga (poster). UCMP collections staff were also in attendance: Mark Goodwin (co-author on two post-ers) and Pat Holroyd (principal author on one poster, co-author on another, and co-author on two talks). Other members of the UCMP community in attendance were Lisa White (presenting a poster in the education and outreach session), un-dergrad Savannah Blake, and Research Associate Ralph Molnar.

UCMP’s attendance at these meetings was impressive; can the museum do even better in 2015? The next SVP meeting

will be in Dallas, Texas, in mid-October, and the GSA is in Baltimore, Maryland, in early November.

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Top: Grad student Liz Ferrer with her poster at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology an-nual meeting in Berlin, Germany, this past November. Bottom, from left: Grad students Ash Poust and Sara ElShafie with their SVP posters and Postdoc Jessica Bean with a joint UCMP/NCSE poster at the GSA meeting in Vancouver.

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We would like to welcome the following new or renewing members to our Friends of the UCMP, and thank contributors to

the Bill Clemens Oral History Fund:

BenefactorSuzanne Berry1

Dorthy and Bill ClemensThomas DebleyRobert IsenStephen and Barbara MorrisRichard H. MorrisonTodd OlsenJudy Scotchmoor and Roland GangloffMartynas Ynas

SponsorMehdi MohtashemiDonald PeckoBarry Roth

PatronHarry and Arline FierstineStephen HoffmanJ.H. HutchisonRandy IrmisRebecca JabbourRobert KirbyCarol J. MunsonJoan Pennell1

Dorothy Tregea

SustainingJohn and June HopkirkLisa Krain and Michael GoldbergJohn MawbyDoris Sloan1

Bruce TownleyKathleen Zoehfeld

DonorJim Bonsey and Carolyn KieslingDennis FenwickJoseph HustonBrian SwartzJudith Tate

Bill Clemens Oral History FundMarc and Linda CarrascoDorothy Thelen ClemensCarl and Faye Gregory/Gregory Family

Charitable FundTodd OlsonDoris SloanGregory Wilson

1Designates a donation to the William B.N. Berry Memorial Research Fund

in Oregon, part IV: The anomalodesmatans. PaleoBios 31(3):1–14. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/6vf3t60q

Holden, A.R., J.B. Koch, T. Griswold, D.M. Erwin, and J. Hall. 2014. Leafcutter bee nests and pupae from the Rancho La Brea tar pits of southern California: Implications for un-derstanding the paleoenvironment of the Late Pleistocene. PLoS ONE 9(4): e94724. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094724

How, M.J., M.L. Porter, A. Radford, K. Feller, S. Temple, R.L. Caldwell, J. Marshall, T.W. Cronin, and N.W. Roberts. 2014. Out of the blue: The evolution of horizontally polarized signals in Haptosquilla (Crustacea, Stomatop-oda, Protosquillidae). Journal of Experimen-tal Biology 217:3425-3431. doi: 10.1242/ jeb.107581

Judge, J., and G. Haszprunar. 2014. The anatomy of Lepetella sierrai (Vetigastropoda, Lepetelloidea): Implications for reproduction, feeding, and symbiosis in lepetellid limpets. Invertebrate Biology 133(4):324–339. doi: 10.1111/ivb.12064

Lindsey, E.L.,* and E.X. Lopez R. 2014. Tanque Loma, a new late-Pleistocene mega-faunal tar seep locality from southwest Ecua-dor. Journal of South American Earth Sciences (2014). doi: 10.1016/j.jsames.2014.11.003

Looy, C.V., and C.L. Hotton. 2014. Spa-tiotemporal relationships among Late Penn-sylvanian plant assemblages: Paleobotanical evidence from the Markley Formation, West Texas, USA. Review of Paleobotany and Palynology 211:10–27. doi: 10.1016/j.rev-palbo.2014.09.007

Looy, C.V., and R. Stevenson. 2014. Earliest occurrence of autorotating seeds in conifers: The mid-Permian (Kungurian-Roadian) Manifera talaris gen. et sp. nov. International Journal of Plant Sciences 175(7):841–854. doi: 10.1086/676973

Looy, C.V., H. Kerp, I.A.P. Duijnstee, and W.A. DiMichele. 2014. The late Paleozoic ecological-evolutionary laboratory, a land-plant fossil record perspective. The Sedimentary Record 12 (4):4–10. http://www.sepm.org/CM_Files/SedimentaryRecord/SedRecord12-4-No-6.pdf

Looy, C.V., R.A. Stevenson, T.B. van Hoof, and L. Mander. 2014. Evidence for coal for-est refugia in the seasonally dry Pennsylvanian tropical lowlands of the Illinois Basin, USA. PeerJ 2:e630. doi: 10.7717/peerj.630

Marshall, C.R. 2014. The evolution of mor-phogenetic fitness landscapes: Conceptualising

the interplay between the developmental and ecological drivers of morphological innovation. Australian Journal of Zoology 62(1):3 –17. doi: 10.1071/ZO13052

Monson, T.A., and L.J. Hlusko. 2014. Identification of a derived dental trait in the papionini relative to other old world monkeys. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 155(3):422–429. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.22586

Moritsch, M.M., M.J. Pakes,* and D.R. Lindberg. 2014. How might sea level change affect arthropod biodiversity in anchialine caves: A comparison of Remipedia and Atyidae taxa (Arthropoda: Altocrustacea)? Organism Diversity and Evolution 14: 225-235. doi: 10.1007/s13127-014-0167-5

Morrish, K.R., and L.J. Hlusko. 2014. Modularity and sexual dimorphism in human metacarpals. PaleoBios 31(2):1–20. http://es-cholarship.org/uc/item/7xc156c2

Padian, K., and J.R. Horner. 2014. The spe-cies recognition hypothesis explains exagger-ated structures in non-avialan dinosaurs better than sexual selection does. Comptes Rendus Palevol 13(2):97–107.

Price, R.M., T.C. Andrews, T.L. McElhinny, L.S. Mead, J.K. Abraham, A. Thanukos, and K.E. Perez. 2014. The genetic drift inventory: A tool for measuring what advanced under-graduates have mastered about genetic drift. CBE-Life Sciences Education 13(1):65–75. doi: 10.1187/cbe.13-08-0159

Reiner, W.B., C. Petzinger, M.L. Power, D. Hyeroba, and J.M. Rothman. 2014. Fatty ac-ids in mountain gorilla diets: Implications for primate nutrition and health. American Journal of Primatology 76(3):281–288. doi: 10.1002/ajp.22232

Roberts, N.W., M.J. How, M.S. Porter, S.E. Temple, R.L. Caldwell, S.B. Powell, V. Gruev, N.J. Marshall, and T.W. Cronin. 2014. Animal polarization imaging and implica-tions for optical processing. Proceedings of the IEEE 102(10):1427–1434. doi: 10.1109/JPROC.2014.2341692

Schweitzer, M.H., W. Zheng, T.P. Cleland, M.B. Goodwin, E. Boatman, E. Theil, M.A. Marcus, and S.C. Fakra. 2014. A role for iron and oxygen chemistry in preserving soft tissues, cells and molecules from deep time. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281(1775): 20132741. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2741 (published on-line November 2013)

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Happy New Year! And as I write this letter I realize that this is my fifth year as Director of UCMP and as a faculty member at Berkeley. Hard to believe how fast the time has flown by! As I reflect upon the last five years, I am very proud of what we have achieved—a great new generation of undergraduate and gradu-ate students; several major grants from NSF, IMLS, the Moore Foundation, Cal-Trans, as well as several smaller awards, all of which have funded students in the collections, and strengthened our already strong education and outreach program; a new Assistant Professor (Seth Finnegan); a new Museum Scientist (Erica Clites); a new Director of Educa-tion and Public Programs (Lisa White); a new webmaster (Trish Roque); and a tremendous group of volunteers. I am also very pleased to report that UCMP is held in high esteem on campus, especial-ly by the Vice Chancellor for Research’s Office, the office I report to as Director of UCMP (and as the current Chair of

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W.A. Clemens. 2014. High-resolution chro-nostratigraphy of the terrestrial Cretaceous-Paleogene transition and recovery interval in the Hell Creek region, Montana. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America. doi: 10.1130/B31076.1 (published online 16 September 2014)

Tomašových, A., D. Jablonski, S. Berke, A.Z. Krug, and J.W. Valentine. 2014. Non-linear thermal gradients shape broad-scale patterns in geographic range size and can reverse Rapo-port’s Rule. Global Ecology and Biogeography 24(2):157–167. doi: 10.1111/geb.12242 (pub-lished online October 2014)

Varela, S., J. González-Hernández, L.F. Sgarbi, C. Marshall, M.D. Uhen, S. Peters, and M. McClennen. 2014. paleobioDB: An R package for downloading, visualizing and processing data from the Paleobiology Database. Ecog-raphy. doi: 10.1111/ecog.01154 (published online 2 December 2014)

Wilson, G.P.,* W.A. Clemens, J.R. Horner, and J.H. Hartman (eds.). 2014. Through the End of the Cretaceous in the Type Locality of the Hell Creek Formation in Montana and Adjacent Areas. Geological Society of America Special Paper 503. 392 pp.

Zalasiewicz, J., M. Williams, C.N. Wa-ters, A.D. Barnosky, and P. Haff. 2014. The technofossil record of humans. The Anthropocene Review 1(1):34–43. doi: 10.1177/2053019613514953 @

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