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Paul E. Olsen

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Paul E. Olsen
Born(1953-08-04)4 August 1953(age 71)
New Jersey,USA
NationalityDanish-Ukrainian American
Alma materYale University
Known forNewark Supergroup
Scientific career
Fieldspaleontology,geology
InstitutionsLamont Doherty Earth Observatory

Paul E. Olsen(born August 4, 1953) is an Americanpaleontologistand author and co-author of a large number of technical papers.

Biography

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Growing up as a teenager inLivingston, New Jersey,he was instrumental inRiker Hill Fossil Sitebeing named aNational Natural Landmarkas a teenager by sending PresidentRichard Nixona dinosaur footprint cast from the site.[1][2][3]He received a M. Phil. and a Ph.D. in Biology atYale Universityin 1984. His thesis was on theNewark 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 includepaleoclimatology,structural geology,paleontology,palynology,geochemistry,andgeophysics.

Professor Olsen is currently Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences,Lamont–Doherty Earth ObservatoryatColumbia University;Research Associate at theCarnegie Museum of Natural History,Pittsburgh, theAmerican Museum of Natural Historyand theVirginia Natural History Museum,from which he received the Thomas Jefferson Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Natural Science, in 2015. He was elected to theNational Academy of Sciencesin 2008.

Recent publications

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  • Olsen, P.E., Laskar, J., Kent, D.V., Kinney, S.T., Reynolds, D.J., Sha, J., Whiteside, J.H., 2019, Mapping Solar System chaos with the Geological Orrery. PNAS, May 28, 2019 116 (22) 10664-10673.[4]
  • Peter LeTourneauand Paul Olsen (ed.), (2003)The Great Rift Valleys of Pangea in Eastern North America, vol. 1-2,published byColumbia University Press.Volume 1: Tectonics, Structure, and Volcanism (ISBN0-231-11162-2), Volume 2: Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Paleontology (ISBN0-231-12676-X)

In production

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

References

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  1. ^Kleiman, Miriam (2009)."Amateur Teenage" Dinosaur Hunter's "Find Ends up in the National Archives".National Archives. Archived fromthe originalon 2011-11-26.Retrieved2009-05-23.
  2. ^"Essex Fossil Site Now a Landmark".The New York Times.July 22, 1973.Retrieved2009-03-09.
  3. ^Staff.Foot Forward,Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory,March 31, 2009. Accessed February 24, 2011. "In 1968, 14-year-old Paul Olsen of suburban Livingston, N.J., and his friend Tony Lessa heard that dinosaur tracks had been found in a nearby quarry. They raced over on their bikes. 'I went ballistic,' Olsen recalls. Over the next few years, the boys uncovered and studied thousands of tracks and other fossils there, often working into the night. It opened the world of science to Olsen; he went on to become one of the nation’s leading paleontologists."
  4. ^Olsen, Paul (2019)."Mapping Solar System chaos with the Geological Orrery".PNAS.116(22): 10664–10673.Bibcode:2019PNAS..11610664O.doi:10.1073/pnas.1813901116.PMC6561182.PMID30833391.
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