Paul E. Olsen

Paul E. Olsen (born 4 August 1953) is an American paleontologist and author and co-author of a large number of technical papers. He received a M. Phil. and a Ph.D. in Biology at Yale University in 1984. His thesis was on the Newark Supergroup.

His interests and research examine patterns of ecosystem evolution and extinction as a response to climate change over geological time, and Triassic and Jurassic Continental Ecosystems. His research methods include structural geology, paleontology, palynology, geochemistry, and geophysics.

Professor Olsen is currently Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University; Research Associate at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, the American Museum of Natural History and the Virginia Natural History Museum; Vice President, Board of Directors, Black Rock Forest Consortium, and on the Honorary Board of Directors, Fundy Geological Museum, Parrsboro, Nova Scotia.

Recent publications

* Peter LeTourneau and Paul Olsen (ed.), (2003) "The Great Rift Valleys of Pangea in Eastern North America, vol. 1-2" , published by Columbia University Press. Volume 1: Tectonics, Structure, and Volcanism (ISBN 0-231-11162-2), Volume 2: Sedimentology,Stratigraphy, and Paleontology (ISBN 0-231-12676-X)

In production

* Olsen, Paul E., "Dinosaur and Other Fossil Tracks of Eastern North America": Columbia University Press

External links / References

* [http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~polsen/nbcp/peo.cv1.html Curriculum Vitae of Paul E. Olsen]
* [http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/div/bpe/olsen.html Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory]