LIPPS, Jere Henry

LIPPS, Jere Henry (b. 1939) is a trailblazer in avian paleontology. He was graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, earning a B.A. and later a Ph.D. from UCLA in 1966. During this time, he became involved in paleontological research on the Southern California Channel Islands, collecting fossils and documenting the geology on six of the eight islands. Lipps became faculty curator and director of Berkeley’s UC Museum of Paleontology (1989-1997). He currently studies paleontology, geology, marine biology, and astrobiology.

• 1964. Lipps, J. H. Late Pleistocene History of West Anacapa Island, California Geological Society of America Bulletin 75(1):1169-1176.

• 1968. Lipps, Jere H., James W. Valentine and Edward Mitchell. Pleistocene Paleoecology and Biostratigraphy, Santa Barbara Island, California Journal of Paleontology 42(2): March, 1968

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