Annalisa Berta

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Annalisa Berta
CitizenshipUnited States
EducationPh.D.
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Known forcontributions to the fossil history of pinnipeds and cetaceans
Awards
  • President, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 2004-2006
  • Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) 2015
Scientific career
FieldsVertebrate Paleontology, Evolution, Systematics
InstitutionsSan Diego State University (1989-Present)
Thesis (1979)
Doctoral advisorsWilliam A. Clemens, Jr.
Websitewww.bio.sdsu.edu/faculty/berta.html

Annalisa Berta is an American paleontologist and professor emerita in the Department of Biology at San Diego State University.[1][2]

The focus of her research is the evolution and fossil history of whales and other marine mammals, and among her contributions is the description of the early pinniped Enaliarctos.[3][4]

Berta received her Ph.D. from the Department of Paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1979, after which she was a postdoctoral researcher at University of Florida before starting as a faculty member at San Diego State University in 1989.[5] Berta served as president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in 2004-2006[6] and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2015.[7]

References[]

  1. ^ "Berta, Annalisa". San Diego State University. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
  2. ^ "Annalisa Berta, Fellow of AAAS". American Association for the Advancement of Sciences. Retrieved 23 July 2018.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ Berta, Annalisa; Sumich, James; Kovacs, Kit (2015). Marine Mammals: Evolutionary Biology. Academic Press. pp. 1–738. ISBN 9780123970022.
  4. ^ Berta, Annalisa (1989). "Skeleton of the oldest known pinniped, Enaliarctos mealsi". Science. 244 (4900): 60–62. Bibcode:1989Sci...244...60B. doi:10.1126/science.244.4900.60. PMID 17818847. S2CID 29596040.
  5. ^ Berta, Annalisa (1988). "Quaternary Evolution and Biogeography of the Large South American Canidae (Mammalia, Carnivora)". University of California Publications in Geosciences. 132: 1–151. ISBN 9780520099609.
  6. ^ "Past Presidents of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology". Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
  7. ^ "AAAS Members Elected as Fellows". Science. 350 (6264): 1047–1049. 27 Nov 2015. doi:10.1126/science.350.6264.1047.


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