Anna Katherine (Kay) Behrensmeyer is a Research Curator and Senior Scientist in the Department of Paleobiology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. She is also a Research Affiliate at the National Museums of Kenya and a member of the Center for Advanced Study in Human Paleobiology (CASHP) at George Washington University.
She is recognized as a pioneer in taphonomy, and her research is broadly aimed at understanding the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems over the past + million years. Kay’s career has been inspired by collaborative field projects in North America, Africa, and Pakistan, ranging up and down the geological time column from the Triassic to the Pleistocene. She has explored temporal versus spatial averaging in the fossil record and contributed concepts such as “isotaphonomy” and “taphonomic control fossils.” She designed methods for sampling paleontological sites aimed at understanding taphonomic biases, with a particular focus on how these affect the record of human evolution. Kay’s research in modern ecosystems has advanced knowledge of taphonomic processes that alter and recycle organic remains. Her 50 year study of the “taphosystem” of Ambose
The Smithsonian Institution&#;s Human Origins Program
Behrensmeyer, A. K. Preliminary geological interpretation of a new hominid site in the Lake Rudolf Basin. Nature ()
Isaac, G., Leakey, R., Behrensmeyer, A. Archeological traces of early hominid activities east of Lake Rudolf, Kenya. Science
Behrensmeyer, A. K. The Taphonomy and Paleoecology of Plio-PleistoceneVertebrate Assemblages East of Lake Rudolf, Kenya. Bulletin MCZ (10) (Ph.D. Dissertation)
Behrensmeyer, A. K. The habitat of Plio-Pleistocene hominids in East Africa: taphonomic and microstratigraphic guidance. In: C. Jolly (ed.), Early Hominids of Africa (Duckworth: London), pp.
Behrensmeyer, A. K., Hill A. (Editors). Fossils in the Making: Vertebrate Paleoecology and Taphonomy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press). pp.
Behrensmeyer, A. K., Laporte, L.F. Footprints of a Pleistocene Hominid in Northern Kenya. Nature
Behrensmeyer, A. K. Taphonomy and the paleoecologic reconstruction of hominid habitats in the Koobi Fora Formation. In: Coppens, Y., Ed., L'environment des hominides au Plio-Pleistocene. (Paris: Foundation
Behrensmeyer, Anna K.
Senior Research Geologist and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology
Paleoecology of terrestrial environments, especially in the later Cenozoic of Africa and Pakistan, continental sedimentation, investigation of taphonomic processes affecting the fossil record, human paleoecology, evolution of terrestrial ecosystems.
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Anna Katherine (Kay) Behrensmeyer is a Research Curator and Senior Scientist in the Department of Paleobiology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. She is recognized as a pioneer in taphonomy, and her research is broadly aimed at understanding the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems over the past + million years. Kay’s career has been inspired by collaborative field projects in North America, Africa, and Pakistan, ranging up and down the geological time column from the Triassic to the Pleistocene. She has explored temporal versus spatial averaging in the fossil record and contributed concepts such as “isotaphonomy” and “taphonomic control fossils.” She design
Anna K. Behrensmeyer
Anna K. Behrensmeyer is a paleontologist and geologist who is recognized as a pioneer in the field of taphonomy and the study of land ecosystems through geological time, with a particular focus on the paleoecology of human evolution in Africa. Behrensmeyer was born and grew up in Quincy, Illinois. She earned her undergraduate degree in geology from Washington University, St. Louis, and her doctorate in vertebrate paleontology and sedimentology from the Department of Geological Sciences, Harvard University. After post-doctoral positions at UC Berkeley and Yale University and an interval of teaching at UC,Santa Cruz, she became a Research Curator in Paleobiology at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, in She has served as Acting Associate Director for Science at NMNH (), co-Director of the Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems (ETE) Program since , and Deep Time Initiative Lead Scientist at NMNH since She was one of Discover Magazine&#;s 50 most important women scientists in Recent awards include the R.C Moore Medal (SEPM), the Romer-Simpson Medal (Society of Vertebrate Paleontology), the Paleontological Society Medal, and the
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