UC Berkeley Paleontologist Bill Clemens on the Challenges of Dating Fossils
For complete oral history transcripts, visit bit.ly/OHC-UCMP
Excerpted from interview with Bill Clemens by Paul Burnett for the Bill Clemens/University of California Museum of Paleontology Oral History Project.
The Bill Clemens/UCMP oral history project has been several years in the making. Historian Sam Redman first proposed to do a history of members of the University of California Museum of Paleontology in 2011, specifically to interview Dr. William Clemens and a number of his graduate students. The concept behind the project was novel and important: to document with long-form oral history of successive cohorts of students who were advised by a single scholar, while at the same time interviewing the scholar in depth about the evolution of his field, as well as the key transformations in the institutions in which he played significant roles.
Introduction to the Purisima Formation: Moss Beach
Along Moss Beach in Central California we can observe layers of marine sediments deposited a few million years ago immediately adjacent to modern coastal environments where sediments are accumulating today.
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This video is part of the Explore Sediments Virtual Fieldwork Experience module, part of the EPICC project, funded by the National Science Foundation (DBI-1503678).
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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Content by Robert Ross, Paleontological Research Institution, Don Haas, Paleontological Research Institution, Lisa White, University of California Museum of Paleontology, video by John Tegan, NuVue Cinema
Charter Hill Society Roundtable: Behind the Scenes at the Hearst Museum
Charter Hill Society Leadership Roundtable: Behind the Scenes at the Hearst Museum of Anthropology.
An insider's look at the Hearst Museum of Anthropology with Victoria Bradshaw, Head of Collections; Ira Jacknis, curator; and Jane Williams, conservator.
Gigapan Tutorial Part 1 - Set Up
This video shows setting up the Gigapan unit at California's Halfmoon Bay. Precautions related to protecting the camera and unit are included as are some basics of adjusting the settings on the Gigapan. The Gigapan unit itself has a display screen that steps the user through selecting settings and checking those settings. The nine and a half minute video is a real-time look at how long it takes to set up a Gigapan unit and begin taking a panorama. It does not include the few minutes it takes to mount the camera in the unit, nor does it watch the unit capture all 450 pictures for the panorama. That takes another roughly 20 minutes. On a windy day, like the one shown in the video, the user should stand by the camera to make sure it doesn't blow over.
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Visit the Explore Landscapes website,
EPICC Homepage:
Acknowledgements:
This video is part of the Explore Landscapes Virtual Fieldwork Experience module, part of the EPICC project, funded by the National Science Foundation (DBI-1503678).
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
Visit the Explore Landscapes website,
Content by Don Haas, Paleontological Research Institution, Robert Ross, Paleontological Research Institution, Lisa White, University of California Museum of Paleontology, video by John Tegan, NuVue Cinema
GEOS Seminar Series: Dr. Lisa White
Increasing Public Engagement in Science through Research and Education at the University of California Museum of Paleontology
Dr. White is the Director of Education, Museum of Paleontology, University of California at Berkeley and Adjunct Professor of Geology, San Francisco State University
For more than 125 years, fossil vertebrates, invertebrates, microfossils, and plants from more than 10,000 localities worldwide have been housed at the University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP), a museum uniquely situated on the campus of UC Berkeley. The extensive fossil holdings and significant online resources are linked to UCMP educational websites, databases, specimen photographs, and digital archival materials and support the needs of both the research and teaching communities. Two award winning UCMP websites, Understanding Evolution and Understanding Science, deliver paleontological information online and provide novel ways to engage the K-16 education community in scientifically valid, real-life portrayals of how evolution and science works. The next planned UCMP web resource, Understanding Global Change, will be highlighted during the presentation and it will fill a unique and sorely needed niche by providing rich visualizations and informational graphics to users as a means of effectively incorporating global change science into interdisciplinary learning materials.
Berkeley's Campanile Houses CA's oldest fossils
Video by Roxanne Makasdjian and Phil Ebiner
Tule Springs
Tule Springs
Dr. Richard Shutler Jr., Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University
We went to Tule Springs in the fall of 1962 with an interdisciplinary group to check out the claims that had been going on for that site for about thirty years. In 1933, Findlay Hunter from the American Museum of Natural History was surveying in the area and he found what he thought was some charcoal, some obsidian flake and some camel, horse, and bison bones, and he collected the charcoal. Years later when radiocarbon dating had been invented, he sent it to Dr. Libby in Los Angeles and got a date of 28,000 years, which really shook up the people that were interested in that subject!
Then Dr. Raymond Harrington from the Southwest Museum went out to do some more checking in the same area Findlay Hunter worked in and he found some more charcoal and a couple of bones that he thought had been worked. That was saved until the radiocarbon dating system was available, and they got a date of 23,800 years, but it turned out to be a mixed sample from some other site.
In the spring of 1962, Dr. Willard F. Libby held a conference in southern California of people interested in Early Man Studies, to sort out exactly what was going on. These claims of ancient occupants of the area had begun to accumulate, but nobody had enough information to solve any problems. At the end of that conference it was decided that Tule Springs would be the ideal place to carry on because we knew there was a lot of stuff there. It was recommended by Dr. Robert F. Heizer of Berkeley that we have an interdisciplinary study at Tule Springs with me in charge. At that time, I was at the Nevada State Museum. We very quickly wrote up a request for money from the National Science Foundation which we got, and we showed up at the Tule Springs site (10 miles west of Las Vegas) on October 1, 1962. We had a crew of palynologists, geologists, Dr. Vance Haynes (who went on to be a great authority on Early Man in the New World), a number of students, and paleontologists and so forth. It was totally an interdisciplinary study.
The outcome was that we were unable to substantiate the 23,000 or 28,000 year old dates for the occupancy of people there. But we did find a lot of fossils, camel, horse, mammoth and bison that were 40,000 years old and were much deeper in the stratigraphy. We did obtain what I think are three bone artifacts which date between 12,000 and 13,000 years. This fits right in with all the claims that are coming out now - 13,000 years at Meadowcroft, 13,000 at Monte Verde, places like that. I think we have to take another look.
To accomplish what we did we were able to obtain the world’s two largest bulldozers – a DC25 and DC30, owned by the Caterpillar company.
We were able to criss-cross the valley with stratigraphic trenches up to thirty feet deep and the width of the blade on the bulldozer. With that, Vance Haynes was able to develop a complete stratigraphic sequence for the Tule Springs valley. We ended up with a thick publication and I think it was a good experience for the students and everyone involved. Now that they seem to think that the Clovis wall has really been broken, I’m going to have to go back and have a look at our 13,000 year old “bone artifacts”.
MVZ Herp Group 50th Anniversary Seminar
Zooarchaeological perspectives on California herps from 50 kya to 1 kya: Information from deeper time for biological & conservation research
Thomas A. Wake, Director
Zooarchaeology Laboratory
The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
University of California, Los Angeles
With introduction by David and Marvalee Wake
Elon Musk, watch out, I'm in Silicon Valley! Berkeley University and the crazy professor №10
A guy from Russia decided to go to the USA to give a gift to Elon Musk!
Finally got to Silicon Valley and San Francisco! My post is gaining even more likes and reposts, several people suggested help with passing the gift to Musk! In the meantime, I travel around the legendary Berkeley University and meet with Bernt Wahl, a professor at this university (and he, meanwhile, is working on a device that lets to read minds!) Watch the video to find out more!
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University of California, Berkeley | Wikipedia audio article
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University of California, Berkeley
00:02:55 1 History
00:08:39 1.1 Name
00:09:27 1.2 Controversies
00:11:29 2 Academics
00:13:21 2.1 Undergraduate programs
00:15:23 2.2 Graduate and professional programs
00:17:02 2.3 Faculty and research
00:18:08 2.4 Library system
00:19:52 2.5 Rankings and reputation
00:20:38 2.5.1 Global
00:21:48 2.5.2 National
00:23:03 3 Discoveries and innovation
00:23:19 3.1 Natural sciences
00:26:11 3.2 Computer and applied sciences
00:28:14 3.3 Companies and entrepreneurship
00:30:19 4 Campus
00:32:59 4.1 Architecture
00:35:16 4.2 Natural features
00:36:41 4.3 Environmental record
00:37:43 5 Organization and administration
00:39:47 5.1 Funding
00:43:45 5.1.1 Financial aid and scholarship programs
00:44:16 6 Admissions and enrollment
00:45:46 7 Student life and traditions
00:49:26 7.1 Student housing
00:49:53 7.1.1 University housing
00:52:13 7.1.2 Cooperative housing
00:54:06 7.1.3 Fraternities and sororities
00:54:26 7.2 Student-run organizations
00:54:36 7.2.1 Student government
00:56:03 7.2.2 Communications media
00:57:35 7.2.3 Student groups
01:03:54 7.3 Athletics
01:07:16 7.3.1 California – Stanford rivalry
01:08:12 7.3.2 National championships
01:08:39 8 Notable alumni, faculty, and staff
01:09:14 8.1 Faculty
01:10:45 8.2 Alumni
01:29:47 9 See also
01:30:11 10 Notes and references
01:30:21 11 Further reading and viewing
01:32:09 12 External links
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The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a top-ranked public research university in the United States. Located in the city of Berkeley, it was founded in 1868, and serves as the flagship institution of the ten research universities affiliated with the University of California system. Berkeley has since grown to instruct over 40,000 students in approximately 350 undergraduate and graduate degree programs covering numerous disciplines.Berkeley is one of the 14 founding members of the Association of American Universities, with $789 million in R&D expenditures in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015. Today, Berkeley maintains close relationships with three United States Department of Energy National Laboratories—Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory—and is home to many institutes, including the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and the Space Sciences Laboratory. Through its partner institution University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Berkeley also offers a joint medical program at the UCSF Medical Center.As of October 2018, Berkeley alumni, faculty members and researchers include 107 Nobel laureates, 25 Turing Awards winners, and 14 Fields Medalists. They have also won 9 Wolf Prizes, 45 MacArthur Fellowships, 20 Academy Awards, 14 Pulitzer Prizes and 207 Olympic medals (117 gold, 51 silver and 39 bronze). In 1930, Ernest Lawrence invented the cyclotron at Berkeley, based on which UC Berkeley researchers along with Berkeley Lab have discovered or co-discovered 16 chemical elements of the periodic table – more than any other university in the world. During the 1940s, Berkeley physicist J. R. Oppenheimer, the Father of the Atomic Bomb, led the Manhattan project to create the first atomic bomb. In the 1960s, Berkeley was particularly noted for the Free Speech Movement as well as the Anti-Vietnam War Movement led by its students. In the 21st century, Berkeley has become one of the leading universities in producing entrepreneurs and its alumni have founded a large number of companies worldwide.Berkeley is often ranked as a top-ten university in the world and as the top public university in the United States. For 2017–18, the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) ranked Berkeley 5th in the world. Berkeley also ranks 6th internationally in the CWUR World University Rankings. It is additionally ranked 4th in the world by U.S. News & World Report. Berkeley is ra ...
SCIENCED! - Population, Energy, & Climate Change with Dr. Jere Lipps
Filmed at Cal State Fullerton Department of Geological Sciences Seminar Series. Our director, Dr. Jere Lipps, presents the facts about climate change, how it will effect us, and what can done about it.
Dr. Jere H. Lipps, is an expert scientist in the field of paleontology. He well known for his study of foraminifera and climate change. His research has brought to many exciting places, such Antarctica and the Pacific Islands. Originally hailing from Southern California, Dr. Lipps was a professor at UC Berkeley and director of the University of California Museum of Paleontology. He is now our director at the Dr. John D. Cooper Archaeological and Paleontological Center.
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Creationism - Hear the Scientists Respond
Scientists counter the claims of intelligent design proponents. Here is an excellent documentary on the controversy surrounding evolution called Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial:
Evolution as fact and theory:
A great video on the subject from cdk007:
and an article by Dr. Richard Lenski:
The Collapse of Intelligent Design (Ken Miller Lecture):
Wikipedia page on Evolution:
Frequently asked questions about evolution:
Evolution: Fact and Theory:
101 Reasons Why Evolution is True:
Evidence of Common Descent:
Human Evolution Database:
Evolution 101:
8 examples of evolution in action:
15 Evolutionary Gems:
Evolution teaching resources:
Speakers in this video:
Barbara Forrest, Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy, Dept. of History and Political Science, South Eastern Louisiana University. Author, Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design
David Deamer, Ph.D., Professor in Dept. of Biomolecular Engineering, Under NASA grant to research the origins of Life, U.C. Santa Cruz
Eugenie C. Scott, Ph.D., Exec. Director, National Center for Science Education, Author of College Textbook, Evolution vs. Creationism: An Introduction
Kenneth Miller, Ph.D. Cell Biologist, Professor of Biology at Brown University. Author of three High School & College Biology Textbooks, Plus Finding Darwin's God and Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul
Kevin Padian, Ph.D. Professor of Integrative Biology, Evolutionary Biologist, Macro Evolution, Curator of Paleontology at the Museum of Paleontology, U.C. Berkley
James Hofmann, Ph.D. Professor of History & Philosophy of Science (specializing in the history of evolutionary sciences), California State University, at Fullerton
Francisco Ayala, Ph.D., Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences, Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, U.C. Irvine, 2001 National Medal of Science Laureate
James L. Powell, Ph.D., Geologist, Specialist in Geochronology, Former Director and President of the L.A. County Museum of Natural History, USC. Executive Director of the National Physical Science Consortium.
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Logan Butte: Paleontology Bonanza
Paleontological resources are any fossilized remains, traces, or imprints of organisms, preserved in or on the earth's crust, that are of paleontological interest and that provide information about the history of life on earth.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) regards paleontological or fossil resources as a fragile, nonrenewable scientific record. The history of life on earth is an important component of America's natural heritage. If these resources are damaged, destroyed or improperly collected, their scientific and educational value may be greatly reduced or lost forever.
Many kinds of fossils can be found on the BLM-managed public lands in Oregon and Washington, some world-class in scientific importance. Fossils are the remains and traces of once-living organisms, preserved in rocks of the Earth's crust. BLM managed lands in Oregon have fossil resources ranging from near-shore Oligocene marine species along the margins of the Willamette Valley to the well-preserved, remarkably complete fossil record of plants and animals within the heavily eroded volcanic deposits of the scenic John Day River basin.
Fossil deposits in eastern Oregon, in particular, represent a time when primitive mammals began to change and adapt to new environments and show a slow transition into faunas that we recognize today. Researchers from institutions such as the University of Oregon, the University of California-Berkeley, University of Nebraska, University of Florida, and South Dakota School of Mines and Technology conduct studies on public lands to study ecological and evolutionary changes of the past 50 million years.
Two areas on public lands have been designated Areas of Critical Environmental Concern to protect paleontological resources: Logan Butte and Fossil Lake.
To learn more about these amazing resources on your public lands head on over to:
blm.gov/or/resources/heritage/paleo.php
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[Wikipedia] Charles Lewis Camp
Charles Lewis Camp (March 12, 1893 Jamestown, North Dakota – August 14, 1975 San Jose, California) was a palaeontologist and zoologist, working from the University of California, Berkeley. He took part in excavations at the 'Placerias Quarry', in 1930 and the forty Shonisaurus skeleton discoveries of the 1960s, in what is now the Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park. Camp served as the third director of the University of California Museum of Paleontology from 1930 to 1949, and coincidentally as chair of the UC Berkeley Paleontology Department between 1939 and 1949.Camp was also an important bibliographer and historian of Western America. This aspect of his career is represented most notably by two works. The first is his biography of James Clyman, which Bernard De Voto called one of the half-dozen classics in the field. The second work was the third edition of The Plains and the Rockies, published in 1953, which Camp annotated heavily. He was the 1970 recipient of the California Historical Society's Henry Raup Wagner Memorial Award.The theropod Camposaurus was named in Camp's honour in 1998.
Oral History Center Class of 2018
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These are selections from some of our oral histories completed in the past year. We celebrated them at a graduation ceremony in the Morrison Library of UC Berkeley on June 22, 2017.
Excerpts include Kate Kendall from the Freedom to Marry OHP; Domingo Fernandes from the Portuguese in California OHP; Edward Howden, California Civil Rights Advocate; Professor Susan Ervin-Tripp; Rick Laubscher – San Francisco Journalist, PR Executive, and Founder of Market Street Railway; Former SPUR Executive Director Jim Chappell; Heyday Press founder Malcolm Margolin; former San Francisco Fire Chief Robert Demmons; Paul C. Jones, Global Mining OHP; Bill Clemens, UC Museum of Paleontology OHP; Linda Yemoto, East Bay Regional Park District OHP; Tim Gordon, East Bay Regional Park District OHP; Joan Jeanrenaud, compose and charter cellist of the Kronos Quartet; Betty Coates, Mary Fierros, Elizabeth Tate, and Malca Chall of the Rosie the Riveter / World War II Home Front OHP.
Many other oral histories on a wide array of subjects can be found at
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Oral History Center Class of 2017
for complete oral history transcripts.
These are selections from oral histories we completed in the past year. We celebrated them at a graduation ceremony in the Morrison Library of UC Berkeley on June 22, 2017.
Excerpts include Kate Kendall from the Freedom to Marry OHP; Domingo Fernandes from the Portuguese in California OHP; Edward Howden, California Civil Rights Advocate; Professor Susan Ervin-Tripp; Rick Laubscher – San Francisco Journalist, PR Executive, and Founder of Market Street Railway; Former SPUR Executive Director Jim Chappell; Heyday Press founder Malcolm Margolin; former San Francisco Fire Chief Robert Demmons; Paul C. Jones, Global Mining OHP; Bill Clemens, UC Museum of Paleontology OHP; Linda Yemoto, East Bay Regional Park District OHP; Tim Gordon, East Bay Regional Park District OHP; Joan Jeanrenaud, compose and charter cellist of the Kronos Quartet; Betty Coates, Mary Fierros, Elizabeth Tate, and Malca Chall of the Rosie the Riveter / World War II Home Front OHP.
Many other oral histories on a wide array of subjects can be found at
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Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley
Breakthrough of the Year 2009: Ardipithecus ramidus
This video is an enhanced edition of our 2 October 2009 video introducing Ardipithecus ramidus -- a 4.4-million-year-old hominid from Ethiopia and this year's Breakthrough of the Year. In addition to interviews with Project Co-Director Tim White (University of California, Berkeley), Science correspondent Ann Gibbons, and paleoanthropologist Andrew Hill (Yale University), this edition features new footage with statements from Tim White, Project Co-Director Giday WoldeGabriel (Los Alamos National Laboratory) and project researchers C. Owen Lovejoy (Kent State University), and Yohannes Haile-Selassie (Cleveland Museum of Natural History). Produced by Robert Frederick.
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July Evening Public Lecture 2015- The Giant Cascadia Earthquake of January 26, 1700
The speaker for this event is Justin Rubinstein, USGS Research Geophysicist; Moderator: Bill Ellsworth
Denali Events: Tony Fiorillo- Dinosaurs in Denali
Anthony R. Fiorillo, Ph.D, curator of Earth Sciences at the Perot Museum of Science and Nature, has earned national recognition for his work in more than a dozen units of the National Park Service. He works extensively on Late Cretaceous vertebrate faunas across the globe, with a particular interest in polar Late Cretaceous communities and dinosaur paleoecology. For Dr. Fiorillo, the appeal of fieldwork in Alaska is the result of the combination of intellectual pursuit and the rigors of working in the Arctic environment. He received his bachelor of science from the University of Connecticut and his master of science from the University of Nebraska. He completed his Ph.D. work in vertebrate paleontology at the University of Pennsylvania, became the Rea Postdoctoral Fellow at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and then a museum scientist at the Museum of Paleontology at the University of California-Berkeley. Since 1995 Dr. Fiorillo has been the Curator of Earth Sciences at the Museum of Nature & Science in Dallas. Though he has collected fossils throughout North America and parts of Asia, he has primarily worked in western Texas and Alaska. Dr. Fiorillo is also an adjunct associate professor at Southern Methodist University in the Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences. He chaired, co-chaired and served on the Education Committee of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology from 1996-2004. He was named a Fellow of the Geological Society of America in 2008. Dr. Fiorillo has published over 100 scientific and popular papers.
Historical wetlands of San Francisco Bay
Talk by Robin M. Grossinger, scientist at the San Francisco Estuary Institute, given at the 2010 University of California Museum of Paleontology Short Course. Before development, the Bay's shoreline was a broad intertidal landscape comprising over 200,000 acres of diverse wetland habitat types. While most were destroyed prior to 1900, their characteristics and spatial patterns are revealed in a remarkable array of historical documents. This talk will explore the historical landscape, its transformation, and how these data are contributing to contemporary restoration efforts.