Bruce Tiffney Explained

Bruce H. Tiffney
Birth Date:3 July 1949
Birth Place:Massachusetts
Nationality:American
Field:Paleobotany
Work Institution:University of California, Santa Barbara
Alma Mater:Harvard
Boston University
Doctoral Advisor:Elso Barghoorn
Doctoral Students:Karen Chin[1]

Bruce Haynes Tiffney is an American paleobotanist, professor, and the former dean of the College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[2] [3] He graduated from Boston University with a degree in geology in 1971, and after earning his PhD at Harvard University in 1977, he became a professor of biology at Yale University, where he taught for nine years, and where he also worked as a curator of the D. C. Eaton Herbarium and paleontological collections at the Peabody Museum of Natural History. His research focuses on the evolution of flowering plants (angiosperms) in the fossil record. He identified the first Cretaceous flower in the 1970s in sediment from Martha's Vineyard in the USA, but was seen as an exceptional discovery.[4]

Tiffney is a fellow of the Geological Society of America,[5] and appeared on the documentary series The Future Is Wild.

He is known for his wizard's hat.[6]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: What the Dinosaurs Left Us. Discover Magazine. Karen. Wright. June 1, 1996.
  2. News: Jurassic Plants. August 15, 1993. Robert. Smaus . Los Angeles Times.
  3. Web site: Gratitude to CCS Interim Dean Bruce H. Tiffney for His Leadership UCSB College of Creative Studies. 2022-01-21. ccs.ucsb.edu.
  4. Crair . Ben . The fossil flowers that re-wrote the history of life . 3 January 2023 . The New Yorker . 2 January 2023.
  5. Web site: Active and Current GSA Fellows. Geological Society of America. 2015-01-21. 2018-09-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20180927030402/http://rock.geosociety.org/membership/fellows.asp#t. dead.
  6. Web site: Passing the Hat. 2022-01-21. The UCSB Current. 2 June 2016 . en.