Vertebrate paleobiology Mammal evolution Primate evolution Human evolution Paleoecology

Tesis de postgrado FINALIZADAS en los últimos 5 años:

DOCTORADO

2012- 2017. Tutor de tesis de doctorado, Amelia Villaseñor, "Hominin environments in eastern Africa circa 3.4 million years ago". Human Paleobiology PhD Program, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA.

2011- 2016. Tutor de tesis de doctorado, David B. Patterson, "Ecosystem Evolution and Hominin Ecology between 2.0 and 1.4 Ma at East Turkana, northern Kenya". Human Paleobiology PhD Program, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA.

2012-2016. Comisión de tesis de doctorado, Andrew Du, "The role of scale in ecological inference: implications for interpreting hominin paleoecology". Human Paleobiology PhD Program, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA.

2012-2014. Comisión de tesis de doctorado, Andrew Barr, "Paleoenvironments of the Shungura Formation, Ethiopia". University of Texas at Austin, USA.

2010-2012. Comisión de tesis de doctorado, Jessica Scott, "Dental Microwear Texture Analysis of Pliocene Fossil Bovids from Four Early Hominin Sites in Eastern Africa: Implications for Environmental Dynamics and Human Evolution". University of Arkansas, USA.

2010-2012. Comisión de tesis de doctorado, Seri Chapman Beall, "Explorations in paleoanthropology: a teacher's reflection on Middle School students learning about human evolution using 3-D hominin skulls. Department of Science Education, University of Georgia, USA.

MAGISTER

2009-2012 . Tutor de tesis de Master of Science, Sarah Hakala, "Distribution of mammalian fauna during the Early Pleistocene of the Koobi Fora Formation, Kenya." MS thesis in Anthropology, University of Georgia, USA.

Tesis de postgrado EN CURSO:

2017-presente. Co-tutor de tesis de Magister, Felipe Torres, "Origen y contexto evolutivo de Homo erectus en la cuenca del lago Turkana, Kenia." Programa de Magister en Paleontología, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia.

2014-presente. Tutor de tesis de doctorado, Enquye Wondimu Negash, "Calibrating paleoenvironmental proxies and implications for hominin evolution". Human Paleobiology PhD Program, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA.

2013-presente. Tutor de tesis de doctorado, Laurence Dumouchel, "The environments of the earliest Australopithecus". Human Paleobiology PhD Program, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA.

Design, implementation, and maintenance of the Turkana Basin Paleontology Database, Smithsonian Institution and National Museums of Kenya:
http://naturalhistory.si.edu/ete/ete_datasets_turkana.html

SELECTED MEDIA CONTRIBUTIONS IN THE PAST 5 YEARS

2015: Paper Apes in the Anthropocene, Hockings et al. 2015, featured in The New Yorker, “Apes in a human world,” 22 April 2015
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/apes-chimpanzees-human-world

2013: Interviewed and quoted in Richard Garcias’s article on Anthropocene apes, “Los simios se han debido adaptar a zonas dominadas por el hombre,” El Mercurio, 26 March 2015

2013: Interviewed for CNN-Chile about human origins research, aired on 7 November 2013 http://cnnchile.com/noticia/2013/11/07/-la-evolucion-de-hombre-segun-el-antropologo-chileno-rene-bobe

2012: Interviewed and quoted in Kate Wong’s article, “Lucy’s baby: an extraordinary new human fossil renews debate over the evolution of upright walking.” Scientific American, December 2012, pp. 78-85

2012: Interviewd and quoted in Jeff Tollefson’s article, “Early humans linked to large carnivore extinction.” Nature, 26 April 2012
http://www.nature.com/news/early-humans-linked-to-large-carnivore-extinctions-1.10508

2012: Interviewed and quoted in Kate Wong’s article, “Rise of humans 2 million years ago doomed large carnivores.” Scientific American online 25 April 2012
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/rise-of-humans-two-million-years-ago-doomed-large-carnivores/

2012: Interviewed and quoted in Kate Wong’s article, “First of our kind: sensational fossils from South Africa spark debate on how we came to be human.” Scientific American, April 2012, pp. 31-39