bio

[Thomas_R_HOLTZ@umail.umd.edu (th81)]

Since everyone else is doing this:

In brief, I'm 30, a lecturer at U Md (dinosaurs, invertebrate paleo,
environmental geology), theropod phylogeneticist, biomechanicist,
paleobiogeographer, functional morphologist, etc., etc.

Married (C Sue Shambaugh, computer software designer and notorious anime fan
translator), no kids, 2 cats.  Live in Clinton, MD (southern Prince George's
County, on the fringes of the Washington, D.C. suburbs).

B.A. (the School of Arts & Sciences doesn't give B.S.s) from Johns Hopkins
University in 1983, primary advisor Steve Stanley (mollusc guy).  M.Phil.
and Ph.D. from Yale (latter in 1992), primary advisor John Ostrom.

(Any similarity between me and Dr. Levine in Crichton's _The Lost World_ is
completely coincidental.  We might both be 30-ish Yalie dinosaur specialists
with classmates with Hispanic surnames who started out doing paleontology but
switched emphasis to modern biology, but I'm not the inheritor to a toy (or
any other sort of) fortune, and he goes through the entire book without
mentioning cladistics at all!)

 From 1991 to 1995, employed at the U.S. Geological Survey picking Neogene
marine and estuarine ostracodes for the Climate Change Program.  Got out of
there (due to end of 4-year contract) five months or so before the axe fell
and most of the other technicans were fired.

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Vertebrate Paleontologist     Webpage: http://www.geol.umd.edu
Dept. of Geology              Email:th81@umail.umd.edu
University of Maryland        Phone:301-405-4084
College Park, MD  20742       Fax:  301-314-9661

"There are some who call me...  Tim."