Paul E. Olsen
Academic
1953 –
Who is Paul E. Olsen?
Paul E. Olsen is an American paleontologist and author and co-author of a large number of technical papers. Growing up as a teenager in Livingston, New Jersey, he was instrumental in Riker Hill Fossil Site being named a National Natural Landmark as a teenager by sending President Richard Nixon a dinosaur footprint cast from the site. 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.
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- Born
- Aug 4, 1953
New Jersey - Also known as
- Paul Olsen
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Yale University
- Employment
- Columbia University
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on July 23, 2013
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