Philip D. Gingerich

Curriculum Vitae

E. C. Case Collegiate Professor of Paleontology
Professor, Department of Geological Sciences
Director, Museum of Paleontology
The University of Michigan
1109 Geddes Avenue
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1079
gingeric@umich.edu : 734-764-0490 (phone): 734-936-1380 (fax)

 

 

 

 

Education

A.B. 1968 Princeton University (Geology summa cum laude)
M. Phil. 1972 Yale University (Geology)
Ph.D. 1974 Yale University (Geology)

Research interests
Vertebrate paleontology, especially the Paleocene-Eocene transition and early Cenozoic mammals; origin of modern orders of mammals, especially primates and whales ; quantitative approaches to paleobiology and evolution, including temporal scaling and rates of evolution

Web site
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~gingeric/index.htm

Professional positions

1968-1970

Mathematics and Biology teacher, Kongwe Secondary School, P.O. Dowa, Malawi (Central Africa) [under contract to the Government of Malawi]

1973,1974

Teaching Assistant, Yale University

1974-1979

Assistant Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan

1979-1983

Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan

1981-1983

Associate Professor, Departments of Biology and Anthropology, University of Michigan

1983-pres.

Professor, Departments of Geological Sciences, Biology, and Anthropology, University of Michigan, 1983-present

Honors and awards

1964-1968

Princeton University Scholarship

1970-1974

James D. Dana Fellowship, Yale University

1973-1974

Shadle Fellowship of the American Society of Mammalogists

1975

NATO Postdoctoral Fellow, Université de Montpellier (France)

1980

Henry Russel Award for scholarly achievement, University of Michigan

1981

Schuchert Award, Paleontological Society

1983-1984

Guggenheim Fellowship, J. S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

1983-1987

Senior Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows

1990-pres.

Fellow, Geological Society of America

1992-pres.

Fellow, American Association for Advancement of Science

1997

Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award, University of Michigan

2000-pres.

Ermine Cowles Case Collegiate Professor of Paleontology

2001-pres.

Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2005

André Dumont Medal of the Belgian Geological Society, Louvain-la-Neuve

2005-pres.

Fellow, Paleontological Society

2005-2006

Alexander von Humboldt Forschungspreisträger (Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Germany): research award for senior scientists

Professional service

1979-1981

Councilor, Paleontological Society

1983-1985

Councilor, Society of Systematic Zoology

1987-1991

National Research Council, NSF Graduate Fellowship Panel, Earth Sciences (1987, 1989, 1990, 1991)

1996-pres.

Board of Governors, Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (Vice-Chair 2000-present)

1999

National Science Foundation advisory committee for Human Origins Initiative

1999

Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Program review panel

1999-2001

International Subcommission Paleogene Stratigraphy (ISPS) working group on Paleocene-Eocene boundary, with meetings in Paris (France, 1999); Powell, Wyoming (U.S.A., 2001); Luxor (Egypt, 2002)

2001

Co-organizer with Scott Wing and others of international conference on “Climate and Biota of the Early Paleogene”, July 3-8, Powell, Wyoming (ca. 120 participants from six continents)

2002-2005

Paleontological Society Medal Committee, Paleontological Society

2004-pres.

Romer-Simpson Medal Committee, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (Chair, 2004-2006 )

2004-pres.

Voting member, International Subcommission on Paleogene Stratigraphy (ISPS) of the International Commission on Stratigraphy ( ICS ) and International Union of Geological Sciences ( IUGS )

2006-pres.

National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration

2008-2009

Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program (nine campus visits)

2008-2010

President-elect Paleontological Society

Editorial service

1980

Editor of symposium on Adaptive Grades in the Evolution of Primates published in Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Anthropologie, 71: 113-186 (l980).

1980

Editor of Early Cenozoic Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, 100th anniversary commemorative volume published in University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology, 24: 1-146.

1981-pres.

Associate editor, American Journal of Science

1983-1985

Associate editor, Paleobiology

1984

Co-editor and organizer (with Catherine Badgley) of Mammals:  Notes for a Short Course, published as Paleontological Society Short Course, pp. 1-234 (1984).

1986-1989

Associate editor, Journal of Human Evolution

1989-1995

Associate editor, Human Evolution (Angelo Pontecorboli, Florence)

1987-1991

Associate editor, Paleovertebrata (Université de Montpellier)

1989-1991

Associate editor, Paleobiology

1989-pres.

Editor of Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, and University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology

1990-1991

Associate editor, International Journal of Primatology

1991-2008

Associate editor, Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France

1991-2000

Board of Editors, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

1992-2003

Board of Editors, Journal of Mammalian Evolution

1993

Co-editor (Peter Dodson and Philip Gingerich) of Functional Morphology and Evolution (Ostrom Volume) published as American Journal of Science, volume 293A, pages 1-478 (1993).

1996

Co-editor (Marc Godinot and Philip Gingerich) of Paléobiologie et Evolution des Mammifères Paléogènes: Volume Jubilaire en Hommage à Donald E. Russell, published as Palaeovertebrata, volume 25, pages 59-426 (1996).

2001

Co-organizer with Scott Wing and others of international conference on “Climate and Biota of the Early Paleogene”, July 3-8, Powell, Wyoming (ca. 120 participants from six continents).

2002

Co-editor (Scott Wing, Philip Gingerich, Birger Schmitz, and Ellen Thomas) of Causes and Consequences of Globally Warm Climates in the Early Paleogene, Geological Society of America Special Paper, 369: 1-614.

2004-2007

Co-editor (Tomasz Baumiller, Robyn Burnham, Philip Gingerich), Paleobiology

University service

1983-1987

Senior Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows

1985,1986

College of LS&A, Advisory Committee on Promotions, Natural Sciences

1985-1987

Henry Russell Award Committee

1994

Faculty Awards Committee, Rackham School of Graduate Studies

2002-2003

University of Michigan Exhibit Museum of Natural History, Strategic Planning Team

2004-2006

Evolution Theme Semester, LSA, Organizing Committee

Departmental-level service

1974-1979

Assistant Curator, Museum of Paleontology

1979-1983

Associate Curator, Museum of Paleontology

1981-1987

Director, Museum of Paleontology

1983-pres.

Curator, Museum of Paleontology

1989-pres.

Director, Museum of Paleontology

Invited lectures (1995-present)

1995

American Museum of Natural History public lecture, New York

1996

Turner Lecture, University of Michigan, Department of Geological Sciences, Ann Arbor

1996

Kent State University, Department of Geology, Kent, Ohio

1996

Wilbert Lecture, Louisiana State University, Department of Geology, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

1996

Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1997

Special Lecture, 3rd GEOSAS workshop on Siwaliks of South Asia, Islamabad, Pakistan

1997

Department of Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

1997

Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge

1997

Geological Society of America Penrose Conference on Paleocene-Eocene boundary, Albuquerque

1997

Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution, Université de Montpellier, France

1998

Michigan Alumni Association, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

1998

Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside

1998

Conferences Jacques Monod-- Evolution, CNRS, Roscoff, France

1999

Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago

1999

Early Paleogene Warm Climates, University of Göteborg, Sweden

1999

Geological Survey of Pakistan, Quetta

2000

Department of Geology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas

2001

Department of Biology, Ohio University, Athens

2002

Earth History and Paleobiology seminar, Harvard University, Cambridge

2002

Maple Scholars program, Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana

2002

Georgia Southern Museum and Department of Geology and Geography, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro

2002

Department of Geology, Yarmouk University, Irbid (Jordan)

2002

Department of Biology, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti

2002

Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

2003

Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago (Feb. 20)

2003

Literature, Science, and Arts Collegiate Lecture, University of Michigan (Mar. 4)

2003

Geology Lecture Series, Spokane Community College, Spokane (Mar. 5)

2003

Science Speakers Series, Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana (Mar. 19)

2003

Plenary lecture Symposium on Paleogene, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium, Aug. 27)

2003

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette (Sept. 18)

2003

Department of Geology, University of South Dakota, Vermillion (Oct. 6)

2004

Northwestern University Medical School Integrated Graduate Program, Chicago (Feb. 24)

2004

Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington (May 27)

2005

André Dumont Lecture, Belgian Geological Society, Université Catholique, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium; Mar. 1)

2005

National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration, Washington, D.C. (Mar. 7)

2005

Department of Anatomical Sciences, State University of New York, Stony Brook (May 19)

2005

Simons Fest, Duke University (Sept. 16)

2006

Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas (Mar. 30-31)

2006

Global Change seminar, Yale University, New Haven (Apr. 3)

2006

Geowissenschaftliche Kolloquium, Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn (June 29)

2006

AIBS Evolution Symposium, National Association of Biology Teachers, Albuquerque (Oct. 14)

2006

Koenigswald retirement lecture, Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn (Oct. 27)

2006

MARUM-RCOM Seminar, Universität Bremen, Bremen (Nov. 1)

2006

Geosciences Colloquium, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich (Nov. 10)

2006

Humboldt-Forschungspreisträgers Vortrag, Bonn (Nov. 30)

2006

Paleobiologische Kring, Senckenbergmuseum, Frankfurt (Dec. 8)

2007

Plenary lecture 2nd International Conference on Geology of Tethys, Cairo University, Egypt (March 20)

2007

Alabama Lectures on Life's Evolution , University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, (April 19)

2007

Bighorn Basin Coring Project workshop, Powell, Wyoming (June 24)

2008

University of Michigan Society of Biology Students, Ann Arbor (Feb. 21)

2008

Department of Geology, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio (March 4)

2008

Hope College, Holland, Michigan (Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar; Sept. 18-19)

2008

Measuring Evolution workshop, Oslo, Norway (Oct. 2-3)

2008

Pardee Symposium, Geological Society of America, Houston (Oct. 6)

2008

Paleocene Ecological and Climate Change symposium, GSA, Houston (Oct. 7)

2008

Centre College, Danville, Kentucky (Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar; Oct. 20-21)

2008

Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York (Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar; Oct. 30-31)

2008

Department of Geology, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt (Nov. 22)

2009

Department of Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York (Feb.11)

2009

Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, Austin College, Sherman, Texas (Mar. 5-6)

2009

Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, Illinois College, Jacksonville, Illinois (Mar. 9-10)

2009

Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York (Mar. 26-27)

2009

Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, Denison University, Granville, Ohio (Mar. 30-31)

2009

Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle (Apr. 7)

2009

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey (Apr. 15)

2009

Department of Biology, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan (Apr. 17)

2009

Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia (Apr. 23-24)

2009

Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, University of Oregon, Eugene (Apr. 30-May 1)

Community outreach

2000

PBS documentary on evolution (filming in laboratory in Ann Arbor and field in Egypt)

2001

British television Channel 4 documentary on Paleocene-Eocene boundary (filming in field in Wyoming)

2002

National Geographic television program in connection with Scientific American article on early evolution of whales

2002

Annenberg-sponsored Oregon Public Broadcasting television program on whales and evolution, target audience:  national program for high school teachers (filming in Ann Arbor)

2003-2006

Contributor to National Science Foundation Informal Science Education Explore Evolution project (J. Diamond, PI)

2005

ARD German Television documentary on Wadi Hitan (filming in Wadi Hitan, Egypt)

2006

National Geographic special on hippos and their relatives (filming in Ann Arbor, Michigan)

2006

National Geographic Wild Chronicles (filming in Wadi Hitan, Egypt)

2007

Whale evolution for Fukui Prefectural Museum (filming in Ann Arbor, Michigan)

2008

‘Morphed’ Whale Evolution, National Geographic Television (filming in Wadi Hitan, Egypt, and Ann Arbor, Michigan)

2008

Primate evolution for Atlantic Productions/History Channel television (filming in Oslo, Norway)

2008

Whale evolution for University of Michigan ‘Out of the Blue’ series, Big 10 Television

Research grants

1977-1982

Principal Investigator of Smithsonian Foreign Currency Program grants entitled “Fossil mammals in Paleocene and Eocene sediments of Pakistan”, 10/1/77 - 12/31/82.

1977-1988

Principal Investigator of NSF grant DEB 77-13465 entitled “Evolution of North American Mammal Fauna across the Paleocene - Eocene Boundary”, 9/1/77 - 9/31/78; 10/1/78 - 9/30/80; DEB 80-10846, 10/1/80 - 9/30/82; DEB 82-06242, 10/1/82 - 9/30/84; EAR 84-08647, 10/1/84 - 9/30/86; BSR 86-07481, 10/1/86- 9/30/88.

1980-1984

Principal Investigator of NSF grant BNS 80-16742 entitled “Variability and History of Primates”, 10/1/80 - 9/30/84.

1982-1983

Principal Investigator of NSF grant EAR 82-07256 entitled “Geology of Eocene whale-bearing sediments of Pakistan,” 12/1/82 - 11/30/83.

1986-1988

Principal Investigator of NSF grant BSR 86-11690 entitled “Reorganization and computerization of fossil vertebrate collection,” 1/1/87 - 12/31/88.

1986-1994

Co-Principal Investigator (with Elwyn Simons) of National Geographic Society grant “Eocene archaeocete whales of Fayum Province, Egypt,” 10/1/86 - 9/30/87; 10/1/89-9/30/90; 10/1/91-9/30/92; 10/1/93-9/30/94.

1990-1991

Co-Principal Investigator (with C. E. Badgley and D. C. Fisher) of NSF grant BSR 86-05310 (amended) entitled “Coevolution on ecological and evolutionary time scales,” 1/31/90 - 1/31/91.

1990-1992

Principal Investigator of NSF grant EAR 89-18023 entitled “Biodiversity at an epoch boundary: Paleocene-Eocene mammals and continental paleoclimates,” 9/1/90-8/31/92.

1991-1993

Co-Principal Investigator (with J. Zachos) of NSF grant EAR 91-05147 entitled “Collaborative research on chronostratigraphy and paleoclimate of the Paleocene-Eocene boundary in the Bighorn Basin:  an isotopic approach,” 4/1/91-4/1/93.

1995-1997

Principal Investigator of National Geographic Society grant 5537-95 entitled “Eocene Archaeocete Whales of Sulaiman Range, Punjab, Pakistan” 11/1/95-10/30/97.

1998-2001

Principal Investigator of NSF grant EAR 9714923 entitled “Archaeocete whales of Eocene Tethys:  geochronology, paleobiology, and evolution,” 6/15/98-6/14/01.

2001-2003

Principal Investigator of American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund grant PRF 36318-AC8 entitled “Mammalian immigration, faunal turnover, and climate change through the middle and late Paleocene of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming,” 5/1/01-8/31/03.

2001-2001

Principal Investigator of UM Turner Fund grant entitled “Excavation of first dinosaur locality in Pakistan” 9/1/01-12/31/01 (extended).

2001-2001

Principal Investigator of Jurassic Foundation grant entitled “Excavation of first dinosaur locality in Pakistan” 9/1/01-12/31/01 (extended).

2002-2004

Principal Investigator of NSF grant EAR-0125502 entitled “High-resolution mammal biostratigraphy and response to transient climate change at the Paleocene-Eocene carbon isotope excursion,” 1/15/02-1/15/05.

2002-2003

Co-Principal Investigator with G. F. Gunnell of NSF grant BCS-0129601 entitled “Paleocene-Eocene Plesiadapiform primate skeletons in freshwater limestones” 3/1/02-2/28/03.

2002-2005

Principal Investigator of NSF grant EAR-0125502 “High-resolution mammal biostratigraphy and response to transient climate change at the Paleocene-Eocene carbon isotope excursion,” 1/15/02-1/15/05.

2004-2005

Principal Investigator of National Geographic Society grant 7726-04 entitled "Basilosaurus: Eocene whale evolution and paleontological site protection in Egypt," 10/1/04-9/30/05.

2005-2006

Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (Germany) research award for senior scientists.

2005-2006

Principal Investigator of NSF grant OISE-0513544 (U.S.-Egypt Joint Cooperative Research) "Archaeocete whales and other fossil vertebrates of Eocene Wadi Hitan (Fayum)," 9/1/05-8/31/06.

2005-2008

Principal Investigator of NSF grant EAR-0517773 "Origin and early evolution of whales in Eocene Tethys (Pakistan)," 9/1/05-9/31/08.

2007-2008

Co-PI with W. C. Clyde and S. L. Wing of NSF grant EAR-EAR-0707415 “Bighorn Basin coring project (BBCP) Phase I: workshop,” 1/15/07-2/14-08.

2007-2009

Principal Investigator of American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund grant PRF 006227-ACS titled “Biotic Change in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, Before, During, and After the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM): Consistent with Orbital Forcing?” 9/1/07-8/31/09.

Students and student committees

Ph.D. students supervised (University of Michigan

1975-1979

Kenneth D. Rose (Geology)

Professor of Anatomy at Johns Hopkins University

1977-1982

David W. Krause (Geology)

Professor of Anatomy at State University of New York, Stony Brook

1979-1984

Neil A. Wells (Geology)

Professor of Geology at Kent State University

1980-1986

Gregg F. Gunnell (Anthropology)

Associate Research Scientist at University of Michigan

1984-1989

J. G. M. Thewissen (Geology)

Associate Professor of Anatomy at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine

1991-1995

Xiaoyuan Zhou (Geology)

Intel Corporation, Portland, Oregon

1992-1996

Mark D. Uhen (Geology)

Curator of Paleontology, Alabama Museum of Natural History, University of Alabama

1993-1997

William C. Clyde (Geology)

Associate Professor of Geology at University of New Hampshire

1996-2001

Jonathan I. Bloch (Geology)

Assistant Curator at Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida

1998-2004

Ross Secord (Geology)

Assistant Professor at University of Nebraska, Lincoln

2002-2008

Iyad S. Zalmout (Geology)

Postdoctoral Scholar at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

2003-pres.

Aaron R. Wood (Geology, in progress)

 

2005-pres.

Ryan Bebej (EEB Biology, in progress)

 

M.S. students supervised

1976-1978

Harvey Deutsch (1978: Geology)

1979-1981

William A. Bartels (1981: Geology)

1979-1981

Dale A. Winkler (1981: Geology)

1980-1982

Amanda Alexander (1982: Geology)

1980-1982

Logan Ivy (1982: Geology)

1981-1983

Victor Torres (1983: Geology)

1983-1985

Paul Koch (1985: Geology; w. D. Fisher)

1990-1992

Mark D. Uhen (1992: Geology)

1991-1993

William C. Clyde (1993: Geology)

1993-1995

Jonathan I. Bloch (1995: Geology)

1997-1999

Holly Severson (1999: Biology)

1998-2001

Iyad Zalmout (2001: Geology)

2001-2004

Tawny Seaton (Geology)

2004-2006

Thomas P. Eiting (2006, Geology)

2005-2007

Brady Foreman (2007, Geology)

Undergraduates supervised (list is incomplete):

1996-1998

Kenneth D. Angielczyk

Geology/Biology: Eocene Asiatosuchus from the Drazinda Formation of Pakistan

1996-1998

Angeli Goswami

Geology/Biology: Ecology of marine mammals using isotopes

2000-2003

Doug Boyer

Geology: Functional morphology of Paleocene-Eocene micromammals

Doctoral committees (member only, University of Michigan) :

Tim D. White (Anthropology, 1975), Leonard Greenfield (Anthropology, 1976), William Jungers (Anthropology, 1976), Marcia Roberts (Anthropology, 1979), Kenneth Creighton (Biology, 1980), Robert Voss (Biology, 1982), Sandra J. Carlson (Geology, 1986), Paul L. Koch (Geology, 1989), Ralph Stearly (Geology, 1990), Robert K. Carr (Geology, 1994), David L. Dettman (Geology, 1994), Brian Bodenbender (Geology, 1994), Henry C. Fricke (Geology, 1998), David L. Fox (Geology, 1999), Guillermo D'Elia (Biology, 2002), Adam Van Arsdale (Anthropology, 2006), Joseph W. Brown (Biology, in progress), Adam Rountrey (Geology, in progress), Kathlyn M. Smith (Geology, in progress).

Doctoral committees (Université de Montpellier, France):

Serge Legendre (1988), Stéphane Ducrocq (1992), Sabrina Renaud (1997), Gilles Escarguel (1998)

Doctoral committee (Université de Paris, France):

Emmanuel Gheerbrant (2001)

Doctoral committee (University of Ghent, Belgium):

Pieter Missiaen (2008)

Habilitation committee (Université de Lyon, France):

Gilles Escarguel (2008)

Doctoral committee, external reader (Monash University, Australia):

Erich M. G. Fitzgerald (2008)

Doctoral committee, external reader (University of New South Wales, Australia):

Kenny Travouillon (2008)

 

Postdoctoral/Research Fellows

1982-1985

Catherine E. Badgley, Michigan Society of Fellows

1994-1996

P. David Polly, Michigan Society of Fellows

1995-1996

Alexander Lavrov, University of Michigan International Center

2002-2003

Jonathan I. Bloch, NSF-funded research postdoc

2005-2006

Ross Secord, NSF-funded research postdoc

Visiting Scholars hosted

1998, 2000

Muhammad Arif, Geological Survey of Pakistan-National Science Foundation

2001, 2004

Munir-ul-Haq, Geological Survey of Pakistan-National Science Foundation

2006

Mohamed Sameh Antar , Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency-National Science Foundation

PUBLICATIONS

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