Annalisa Berta

Annalisa Berta
Citizenship	United States
Education	Ph.D.
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley
Known for	contributions to the fossil history of pinnipeds and cetaceans
Awards	President, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 2004-2006 Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2015
Scientific career
Fields	Vertebrate Paleontology, Evolution, Systematics
Institutions	San Diego State University (1989–present)
Thesis	(1979)
Doctoral advisor	William A. Clemens, Jr.
Website	biology.sdsu.edu/people/annalisa-berta/

Annalisa Berta (born 23 July 1952 ^[1] ) is an American paleontologist and professor emerita in the Department of Biology at San Diego State University. ^{[2] [3]}

The focus of her research is the evolution and fossil history of whales and other marine mammals, and among her contributions is the description of the early pinniped Enaliarctos . ^{[4] [5]}

Berta received her Ph.D. from the Department of Paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1979, after which she was a postdoctoral researcher at University of Florida before starting as a faculty member at San Diego State University in 1982. ^[6] Berta served as president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in 2004–2006 ^[7] and she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2015 ^[8] and of the Paleontological Society in 2022. ^[9]

References

1. Historical Perspectives: Annalisa Berta (Born 23 July 1952), Aquatic Mammals43(5):570–582,2017 | DOI:10.1578/AM.43.5.2017.570.
2. "Berta, Annalisa". San Diego State University. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
3. "Annalisa Berta, Fellow of AAAS". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved 23 July 2018.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
4. Berta, Annalisa; Sumich, James; Kovacs, Kit (2015). Marine Mammals: Evolutionary Biology. Academic Press. pp. 1–738. ISBN   9780123970022.
5. Berta, Annalisa (1989). "Skeleton of the oldest known pinniped, Enaliarctos mealsi". Science. 244 (4900): 60–62. Bibcode:1989Sci...244...60B. doi:10.1126/science.244.4900.60. PMID   17818847. S2CID   29596040.
6. Price, Michael (4 December 2015). "Anatomy of Excellence". San Diego State University. Retrieved 15 September 2024.
7. "Past Presidents of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology". Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. Archived from the original on 7 June 2019. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
8. "AAAS Members Elected as Fellows". Science. 350 (6264): 1047–1049. 27 Nov 2015. doi: 10.1126/science.350.6264.1047 .
9. "2022 Paleontological Society Fellows". Paleontological Society. 2022.