Comptes Rendus Palevol: A festschrift dedicated to Prof. Robert Reisz
The Hot Student Paper series is about celebrating the achievements of our students and PDFs. It is about recognizing the years of figurative and literal blood, sweat and tears that go into a single publication. This week we turn the HSP on its head to celebrate current and past students who organized a festschrift dedicated to Prof. Robert Reisz. A recent volume of the journal Comptes Rendus Palevol (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/16310683/12) contains 11 papers written by former and current students, postdocs, and collaborators of Robert Reisz. The lead article states the special issue's focus in the following way:
"This special issue is intended as a small token of appreciation for our colleague, mentor, and friend, Robert R. Reisz. It represents but a cross-section of his pervasive influence on our academic discipline, as he has published on virtually all major groups of vertebrates, from dipnoans to mammals. His fieldwork on several continents has resulted in the recovery of numerous important specimens. He has mentored students at all collegiate levels, and has become a great promoter of science to the general public. So, we predict this volume will stand as a signpost, rather than a monument, in a remarkable career that continues to move vertebrate paleontology forward."
-Laurin et al., 2013
Congratulations to Prof. Reisz and his current and former students and PDFs who have and continue to shape modern paleontology.
The following authors were UTM PDFs :
- Stephen J. Godfrey (Calvert Marine Museum, Solomons, Maryland)
- Jason S. Anderson (U. of Calgary)
- Johannes Müller (Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin)
- Nadia B. Fröbisch (Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin)
The following authors are/were UTM PhD and Master's students:
- Michel Laurin, (1994; CNRS, Paris)
- Sean P. Modesto (1996; Cape Breton University, Sydney, Nova Scotia),
- Corwin M. Sullivan (2000; Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing),
- Michael deBraga (2001; now works at RGASC),
- Linda A. Tsuji (2005; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto),
- Hillary C. Maddin (2006; Carleton University),
- David C. Evans (2007; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto),
- Kaila E. Folinsbee (2008; Iowa State University, Ames),
- Jörg Fröbisch (2008; Museum für Naturkunde, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin),
- Richard A. Kissel (2010; Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, NY).
- Nicolas Campione (2013; Postdoctoral Researcher Uppsala University)
- Jessica Hawthorn (current PhD student)
- Kirstin Brink (current PhD student)