University of California Museum of Paleontology

University of California Museum of Paleontology

Infobox Museum |name = University of California Museum of Paleontology |


|imagesize = 280 |established = 1921 |location = Berkeley, CA |type = Natural History Museum |director = Jere H. Lipps |website = [http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/ www.ucmp.berkeley.edu] The University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) is a paleontology museum located on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, California, USA.

The museum is in the Valley Life Sciences Building, designed by Arthur Brown Jr., at Berkeley and the collections are primarily intended for research. Although located at the Berkeley campus, the museum is the primary locality for storing fossils collected statewide. The original fossils, around which the current collection has grown, were those gathered as part of the California Geological Survey (1860-1867).

Website

UCMP was one of the first museums to have its own website in the early 1990s, due to its location within a technology-oriented university with a good Internet connection. The site has been applauded for its use of visually appealing graphics, [cite book | last = Duff | first= Jon M. | coauthors = James L. Mohler | year=1996 | title= Laura Lemay's Web Workshop: Graphics & Web Page Design | pages=73–74 | isbn=1-57521-125-4 ] was nominated for a Webby Award five times, and receieved a medal from the Smithsonian Institution. It also had a cameo appearance in the movie "Deep Impact", albeit under an incorrect name.

Notable figures

Famous members

Many famous paleontologists have worked on staff at UCMP. Dates given afrter each name indicate the period during which the person was part of the university faculty or working in the museum.

* John C. Merriam (1894– 1920)
* William Diller Matthew (1927–1930)
* Ruben Arthur Stirton (1930–1966)
* Samuel Paul Welles (1940–1997)

Directors

* Bruce L. Clark (1880-1945), first director of UCMP
* William Diller Matthew (1871-1930), second director of UCMP
* Charles Lewis Camp (1893-1975), third director of UCMP
* Ruben Arthur Stirton (1901-1966), fourth director of UCMP
* Donald E. Savage (1917-1999), fifth director of UCMP
* Joseph T. Gregory (1914-2007), sixth director of UCMP
* William B. N. Berry, seventh director of UCMP
* William A. Clemens Jr., eighth director of UCMP
* Jere H. Lipps, ninth director of UCMP

References

External links

* [http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/ UCMP website]
* [http://www.paleoportal.org/ The Paleontology Portal]
* [http://evolution.berkeley.edu/ Understanding Evolution website]


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