RUSSELL W. GRAHAM

Director and Associate Professor

Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum and Department of Geosciences

The Pennsylvania State University

University Park , PA 16802

 

Phone
Office:  814 865-6336
Home: 814 861-0567
FAX:   814 863-7708
e-mail:  rgraham@ems.psu.edu

 

EDUCATION  

1976   Ph.D., Geology, University of Texas at Austin

1972   M.S., Geology, University of Iowa

1969   B.S., Zoology, University of Iowa

 

EXPERIENCE (Last five years)

2004-Present   Director, Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum and Associate Professor

                        of  Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University

2001-2004       Chief Curator, Denver Museum of Nature & Science

2000                                Deputy Chief Curator, Denver Museum of Nature & Science

1999-2000             Curator and Head, Earth and Space Sciences and Interim Head of

Anthropology, Denver Museum of Nature & Science

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

Vertebrate evolution, Cenozoic mammals, morphoimetrics, community evolution, quantitative approaches to paleoenvironmental reconstruction, taphonomy

 

 

PUBLICATIONS (Last five years)

Graham, R. Wm. 

2001     Late Quaternary Biogeography and Extinction of  Proboscideans in North

America . The World of Elephants (La Terra degli Elephanti),  Proceedings of the 1st International Congress (Atti del 1° Congrsso Internazionale, A cura di: G. Cavarretta, P Giola, M. Mussi, M. R. Palombo), G. Cavarretta, P Giola, M. Mussi, M. R. Palombo (Eds.), Roma 16-20 October, 707-709.

 

 

 

 

Graham, R. Wm.

2001    Comment on Skeleton of Extinct North American Sea Mink (Mustela macrodon)

            by Jim I.Mead, Arthur E. Spiess, and Kristin D. Sobolik. Quaternary Research

            56:419-421.

 

National Research Council (Graham part of Committee)

2002   Ecological Dynamics on Yellowstone's Northern Range. National Academy of Science , Washington , D. C.

 

Parmalee, P. W. and R. W. Graham

2002    Additional records of the giant beaver (Castoroides) from the midsouth: Alabama ,

Tennessee , and South Carolina .  Pp. 65-71. IN Cenozoic Mammals of Land and Sea: Tributes to the Career of Clayton E. Ray, Robert J. Emry (ed.), Contributions to Paleobiology 93, Smithsonian Institution Press.

 

Graham, R. W.

2003    Pleistocene Tapir from Hill Top Cave , Trigg County , Kentucky and a Review of Plio-Pleistocene Tapirs of North America and Their Paleoecology. Pp. 87-118. IN Vertebrate Paleontology of Caves, B.Schubert, J.I. Mead and R. W. Graham (eds.), Indiana University Press, Bloomington.

 

Schubert, B., J.I. Mead and R. W. Graham (eds.)

2003        Vertebrate Paleontology of Caves, Indiana University Press, Bloomington .

 

Webb, S. D., R. W. Graham, A. D. Barnosky, C. J. Bell. R. R. Franz, E. A. Hadly, E. L. Lundelius, Jr.. H. G. McDonald, R. A. Martin, H. A. Semken and D. W. Steadman

2004        Vertebrate paleontology IN The Quaternary Period in the United States, Gillespe, A. R., S. Porter and B. F. Atwater (eds.), Developments in Quaternary Science Series 1Elsevier, Amsterdam

 

Schubert, B. W., R. Wm. Graham, H. G. McDonald, E. C. Grimm and T. W. Stafford, Jr.

2004  Latest Plesitocene paleoecology of Megalonyx jeffersonii and Cervalces scotti in northern Illinois . Quaternary Research 61:231-240.

 

Bell, C. J., E. L. Lundelius, Jr. (cochairs), A. D. Barnosky, R. W. Graham,

E. H. Lindsey, D. R. Ruez, Jr., H. A. Semken, Jr., S. D. Webb and R. J. Zakrzewski

      2004    The Blancan, Irvingtonian,and Rancholabrean Land Mammal Ages. Pp. 232-

                  314 IN Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Mammals of North America :

                  Geochronology  and Biostratigraphy, M. O. Woodburne (ed.), Columbia

                  University Press.