Gerta Keller

Gerta Keller (born 1945) is a paleontologist who contests the Chicxulub crater as the location of the meteorite impact, postulated as the cause of the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event 65 mya by the Alvarez hypothesis ref|sciencedaily. Keller is currently a professor of Geosciences, at Princeton University ref|sciencedaily.

Keller earned a doctorate in paleontology and geology from Stanford University in 1978ref|NYT, and then worked for the US Geological Survey and Stanford. She came to Princeton University in 1984 and after a few years started studying the K-T boundaryref|princetonweekly, the geological signature of the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event.

Bibliography

* Keller, G. & MacLeod, N. (Eds), (1996). "Cretaceous-Tertiary Mass Extinctions : Biotic and Environmental Changes". W. W. Norton & Co. (ISBN 0-393-96657-7)

References

* [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/09/030926065930.htm Sciencedaily.com accessed May 6, 2006]
* [http://geoweb.princeton.edu/people/faculty/keller/ Keller's faculty page from princeton.edu]
* "Public Lives: Where Dinosaurs Roamed, She Throws Stones" "The New York Times", December 17, 2003.
* [http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/03/0922/ "Dinosaur dust-up", "Princeton Weekly Bulletin", September 22, 2003]
* [http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/geoscientist/geonews/page2837.html] "Chicx comes home to roost", "Geoscientist Online", June 18, 2007
* [http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/null/lang/en/page2519.html] "Impact Factor", "Geoscientist Online", June 18, 2007