S. DAVID WEBB

Ph.D.: University of California, Berkeley, CA, l964 Paleontology. M.A.: University of California, Berkeley, CA, l961 Paleontology. B.A.: Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, l958 Zoology (Minor Geology).

Current appointments (since 1964): Curator, Florida Museum of Natural History. Professor of Zoology and Geology, University of Florida. 1976: Visiting Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT. 1963-64: Instructor, Department of Paleontology, University California at Berkeley. 1978-79: President, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. 1979-84: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Host of National Office. 1976-79: Governing Board, American Geological Institute. 1987-91: Chairman, U.S. National Committee for International Quaternary Association. 1991: Chairman, U.S. Delegation to International Quaternary Association XIII Congress, Beijing. 1979-83: National Academy of Sciences, U.S. National Committee on Geology. 1970-72: National Science Foundation, Systematic Biology Advisory Panel. 1980-84: SIMROE Foundation, board member. Since 1993: Paleontology Society Awards Committee. 1986-90: Smithsonian Institution, Scholarly Studies Program, Advisory Panel. Since 1978: Founding President and Honorary Member, Florida Paleontological Society. Since 1990: Scientific Advisory Board, Raymond M. Alf Museum, Claremont, GA.

1991: Visiting Professor, Stuttgart Museum of Natural History, Germany. 1990: Outstanding Achievement Award, Florida Museum. 1989: Case Lecture, University of michigan, Ann Arbor. 1984: Distinguished Visiting Scientist, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Ill. 1972-73: John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, (European Museums.) 1964: Annie Alexander Fellow (University of California, Berkeley.) 1961-62: National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow (University of California, Berkeley.) 1956-58: Telluride Association Scholarship (Cornell University.) 1979-80: Sigma Xi, Scientific Research Society (UF Chapter President.)

Thirty-five years paleontological field experience most of them developing Florida’s rich middle and late Cenozoic record. Earliest work was for University of California, Berkeley in west and midcontinent; five years in Central America and one summer in the Amazon River.

One hundred seventy-two publications (including 4 edited books and 21 abstracts). Ten examples follow:

1974 Pleistocene Mammals of Florida, University of Florida Presses

1981 (with Bruce J. MacFadden and Jon A. Baskin). Geology and Paleontology of the Love Bone Bed from the late Miocene of Florida. Amer. Jour. Sci. 281:513-544.

1985 The Great American Biotic Interchange, F.G. Stehli and S.D. Webb, eds. (Plenum Press); 536 pp.

1990 A Biogeographic History of Florida, pp. 70-100, in J. Ewel and R. Myers (eds.), Ecosystems of Florida, U. of Central Florida Press, Orlando, FL, 795 pp.

1994 Paleontology and Geology of the Leisey Shell Pits, Early Pleistocene of Florida, R.C. Hulbert, Jr., G.S. Morgan and S.D. Webb, eds. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History, Biological Sciences, vol. 37 (2 parts) 660 pp.

1977 Evolution of Savanna Vertebrates in the New World. Part I: North America. Ann. Rev. Ecol. and Syst., 8:355-380 and 1978 Part II: South America and the Great Interchange, 9:393-426.

1984 Ten-million years of Mammal Extinctions in North America. pp. 189-210 in Quaternary Extinctions, (Paul Martin and R. Klein, eds.), Univ. Arizona Press.

1987 (with R.H. Tedford et al.). Faunal Succession and Biochronology of the Arikareean through Hemphillian interval (late Oligocene through earliest Pliocene epochs in North America. pp. 153-210) in Cenozoic Mammals of North America, Geochronology and Biostratigraphy, M.O. Woodburne, ed. Univ. Calif. Press.

1992 Webb, S.D. A brief History of New World Proboscidea with emphasis on their adaptations and interactions with man, in J. Fox, C. Smith and K. Wilkins (eds.) Mammoths, Mastodons, and Human interactions, U. of Texas Press, Austin, ca. 30 pp.

1995 Webb, S.D. and N.D. Opdyke, Global Climatic Influence on Cenozoic Land Mammal Faunas, pages 184-208. Effects of Past Global Change on Life, Studies in Geophysics, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C.