Education: Columbia University, B.A. (Geology), 1956; Ph.D. (Geology), 1960.
Academic Positions: Instructor to Professor (Geological Sciences), Brown University, 1959-71. Professor (Earth Sciences), University of California at Santa Cruz, 1971-94; Emeritus, 1994.
Academic Activities: Univ. of California: Dept. Chairman, 1972-75, Dean, Natural Sciences Division, 1975-76; Provost, Crown College, 1993-1998; Associate Vice Chancellor, Undergraduate Education, 1994-1998. UC Santa Cruz Alumni Distinguished Teacher Award, 1980; Undergraduate and graduate courses in The Fossil Record, Advanced Paleontology, Life and Work of Charles Darwin, and George Gaylord Simpson, and the History of Geology. Paleontological research expeditions to Galápagos, Kenya, Bahamas, Belize, Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Southwestern U. S.
Professional Activities: President's Award for (best paper), American Assoc. Petroleum Geologists, 1967; Founding Editor, Palaios (SEPM), 1985-1989; Councilor, SEPM, 1985-1989; President, SEPM, 1995-96. Chairman, History of Geology Division, GSA, 1988. U.S. History of Geology Ctee., National Research Council, Secretary, 1991-93; Chair, 1994-96. Member of the International Commission of the History of the Geological Sciences (1994-date). History of Earth Sciences Society, President, 1994. Co-convenor, Penrose Research Conference on History of Earth Sciences (GSA), 1994.
Earth and Human Affairs, 1972, Canfield Press /Harper & Row, (principal author).
Reefs in Time and Space, 1974, SEPM, Spec. Public. 18 (editor).
Encounter with the Earth, 1974, Canfield Press/Harper & Row.
Simple Curiosity: Family Letters of George G. Simpson, 1921-1970, 1987, Univ. of California Press (editor).
Establishment of a Geologic Framework for Paleoanthropology, 1990, Geol. Soc. America, Spec. Paper 242 (editor).
George Gaylord Simpson, Paleontologist and Evolutionist, 2000, Columbia Univ. Press.