David Jablonski

David Jablonski
Born	David Ira Jablonski 1953 (age 62–63)
Institutions	University of Chicago American Museum of Natural History University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Berkeley
Alma mater	Columbia University Yale University
Thesis	Paleoecology, Paleobiogeography, and Evolutionary Patterns of Late Creatceous Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plain Mollusks (1979)
Notable awards	Charles Schuchert Award (1988) Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2010)[1]
Website geosci.uchicago.edu/people/jablonski.shtml

David Ira Jablonski (born 1953) is an American professor of geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago. His research focuses upon the ecology and biogeography of the origin of major novelties, the evolutionary role of mass extinctions—in particular the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event—and other large-scale processes in the history of life.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]}

Education

Jablonski was educated at Columbia University (earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1974) and completed his graduate work at Yale University (with his Master of Science degree in 1976 and Ph.D. in 1979). As an undergraduate he worked at the American Museum of Natural History in the City of New York, NY. Then continued postdoctoral research at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of California, Berkeley. In 1985 he was hired by the University of Chicago.

Awards

In 1988 the Paleontological Society awarded Jablonski with the Charles Schuchert Award, which is given to persons under 40 "whose work reflects excellence and promise in paleontology".^[14] In 2010 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.^[15]

References

1. Zeliadt, N. (2013). "Profile of David Jablonski". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110 (26): 10467–9. doi:10.1073/pnas.1309893110. PMC 3696805. PMID 23776231.
2. Lipps, Jere H.; Valentine, James W.; Jablonski, David; Erwin, Douglas H. (1996). Evolutionary paleobiology: in honor of James W. Valentine. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-38913-8.
3. Jablonski, D. et al. (1997) Macroevolution in the 21st Century. International Senckenberg Conference and Workshop.
4. Jablonski, D. (1999). "The future of the fossil record" (PDF). Science. 284 (5423): 2114–2116. doi:10.1126/science.284.5423.2114. PMID 10381868.
5. Jablonski, D (2000). "Micro- and macroevolution: scale and hierarchy in evolutionary biology and paleobiology" (PDF). Paleobiology. 26 (4): 15–52.
6. Jablonski, D. (2001). "Lessons from the past: Evolutionary impacts of mass extinctions" (PDF). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 98 (10): 5393–5398. doi:10.1073/pnas.101092598. PMC 33224. PMID 11344284.
7. Jablonski, D. (2002). "Survival without recovery after mass extinctions" (PDF). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99 (12): 8139–8144. doi:10.1073/pnas.102163299. PMC 123034. PMID 12060760.
8. Jablonski, D. (2002) A more modern synthesis American Scientist 90 (July–August): 368-371.
9. Jablonski, D. (2004). "Extinction: Past and present" (PDF). Nature. 427 (6975): 589. doi:10.1038/427589a. PMID 14961099.
10. Jablonski, D (2005). "Mass extinctions and macroevolution" (PDF). Paleobiology. 31 (2): 192–210.
11. Jablonski, David (2007). "Scale and Hierarchy in Macroevolution" (PDF). Palaeontology. 50: 87–10. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2006.00615.x.
12. Talk of the Nation: "The Origin of Animal Body Plans" (March 7, 1997)
13. David Jablonski, the William Kenan Jr. Professor in Geophysical Sciences by Steve Koppes
14. http://www.paleosoc.org/awards.html
15. "David Jablonski elected to National Academy of Sciences". April 27, 2010.