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The University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) is a paleontology
Paleontology

File:Geological time spiral - sharper.pngPaleontology from Greek: pa?a??? "old, ancient", ??, ??t- "being, creature", and ????? "speech, thought" is the study of prehistory life, including organisms' evolution and interactions with each other and their environments ....
 museum located on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley is a public university research university located in Berkeley, California, California, United States. The oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley offers some 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA.

The museum is in the Valley Life Sciences Building, designed by Arthur Brown Jr., at Berkeley and the collections are primarily intended for research. Although located at the Berkeley campus, the museum is the primary locality for storing fossils collected statewide.






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The University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) is a paleontology
Paleontology

File:Geological time spiral - sharper.pngPaleontology from Greek: pa?a??? "old, ancient", ??, ??t- "being, creature", and ????? "speech, thought" is the study of prehistory life, including organisms' evolution and interactions with each other and their environments ....
 museum located on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley is a public university research university located in Berkeley, California, California, United States. The oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley offers some 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines....
, California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
, USA.

The museum is in the Valley Life Sciences Building, designed by Arthur Brown Jr., at Berkeley and the collections are primarily intended for research. Although located at the Berkeley campus, the museum is the primary locality for storing fossils collected statewide. The original fossils, around which the current collection has grown, were those gathered as part of the California Geological Survey
California Geological Survey

Although it was not until 1880 that the California State Mining Bureau, predecessor to the California Geological Survey, was established, the "roots" of California's state geological survey date to an earlier time....
 (1860-1867).

Website

UCMP was one of the first museums to have its own website
Website

A Web site is a collection of related Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that are hosted on one Web server, usually accessible via the Internet....
 in the early 1990s, due to its location within a technology-oriented university with a good Internet
Internet

The Internet is a global network of interconnected computers, enabling users to share information along multiple channels. Typically, a computer that connects to the Internet can access information from a vast array of available server and other computers by moving information from them to the computer's local memory....
 connection. The site has been applauded for its use of visually appealing graphics, was nominated for a Webby Award
Webby Awards

The Webby Awards is an international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including websites, interactive advertising, online film and video, and mobile web sites, presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences since 1996....
 five times, and received a medal from the Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its Financial endowment, contributions, and profits from its shops and its magazine....
. It also had a cameo appearance in the movie Deep Impact
Deep Impact (film)

Deep Impact is a 1998 in film science fiction-drama film disaster film released by Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks SKG in the United States on May 8, 1998....
, albeit under an incorrect name.

Notable figures


Famous members

Many famous paleontologists have worked on staff at UCMP. Dates given after each name indicate the period during which the person was part of the university faculty or working in the museum.

  • John C. Merriam
    John C. Merriam

    John Campbell Merriam was an United States paleontologist. The first vertebrate paleontologist on the West Coast of the United States, he is best known for his taxonomy of vertebrate fossils at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California, particularly with the genus Smilodon, more commonly known as the sabertooth cat....
     (1894– 1920)
  • Charles Lewis Camp
    Charles Lewis Camp

    Charles Lewis Camp was a notable Palaeontology and Zoology, working from the University of California, Berkeley. He took part in excavations at the 'Placerias Quarry', in 1930 and the 40 Shonisaurus skeleton discoveries of the 1960, in what is now the Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park....
     (1921-1975)
  • William Diller Matthew
    William Diller Matthew

    William Diller Matthew was a vertebrate paleontologist who worked primarily on mammal fossils.Matthew was born in St. John, New Brunswick, the son of George Frederic Matthew and Katherine Matthew....
     (1927–1930)
  • Ruben Arthur Stirton (1930–1966)
  • Samuel Paul Welles
    Samuel Paul Welles

    Samuel Paul Welles was an USA palaeontologist, who was Research Associate at the Museum of Palaeontology, University of California, Berkeley. He took part in excavations at the 'Placerias Quarry' in 1930 and the Shonisaurus discoveries of 1954 and later, in what is now the Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park....
     (1940–1997)


Directors

  • Bruce L. Clark (1880-1945), first director of UCMP
  • William Diller Matthew
    William Diller Matthew

    William Diller Matthew was a vertebrate paleontologist who worked primarily on mammal fossils.Matthew was born in St. John, New Brunswick, the son of George Frederic Matthew and Katherine Matthew....
     (1871-1930), second director of UCMP
  • Charles Lewis Camp
    Charles Lewis Camp

    Charles Lewis Camp was a notable Palaeontology and Zoology, working from the University of California, Berkeley. He took part in excavations at the 'Placerias Quarry', in 1930 and the 40 Shonisaurus skeleton discoveries of the 1960, in what is now the Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park....
     (1893-1975), third director of UCMP
  • Ruben Arthur Stirton (1901-1966), fourth director of UCMP
  • Donald E. Savage (1917-1999), fifth director of UCMP
  • Joseph T. Gregory
    Joseph T. Gregory

    Dr. Joseph Tracy Gregory was an American paleontology and professor.Joseph Tracy Gregory was born in Eureka, California, the only child of Frank Gregory, a civil engineer, and Edith Tracy, a high school teacher....
     (1914-2007), sixth director of UCMP
  • William B. N. Berry, seventh director of UCMP
  • William A. Clemens Jr.
    William A. Clemens Jr.

    Dr. William "Bill" A. Clemens, Jr. is a professor emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley. He has been on the faculty of the Department of Integrated Biology since 1994, and since 1967 in the Department of Paleontology and the UC Museum of Paleontology....
    , eighth director of UCMP
  • Jere H. Lipps
    Jere H. Lipps

    Dr. Jere Henry Lipps is a professor at the University of California at Berkeley in the Department of Integrated Biology since 1988 and Curator of Paleontology at the UC Museum of Paleontology....
    , ninth director of UCMP
  • David R. Lindberg
    David R. Lindberg

    David R. Lindberg is an American Malacology and professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the Curator for the University of California Museum of Paleontology and co-editor of the journal Molecular Systematics and Phylogeography of Mollusks....
    , tenth director of UCMP
  • Roy L. Caldwell, eleventh director of UCMP


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