Arthur H. Harris | |
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 Harris in his office at the University of Texas at El Paso | |
| Alma mater | University of New Mexico |
| Awards | see article section |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mammalogy and Paleontology |
| Institutions | Fort Hays State University, University of Texas at El Paso |
| Doctoral advisor | James S. Findley [1] |
| Author abbrev. (zoology) | A. H. Harris |
Arthur H. Harris is an American mammalogist and paleontologist.
Arthur H. Harris spent his academic career at the University of New Mexico where he earned a Bachelor's degree in biology with a minor in anthropology (1958), a Master of Science in zoology with a minor in botany (1959) and a PhD in vertebrate zoology with a minor in geochronology in 1965.
Harris began his career as an assistant professor of zoology at Ft. Hays Kansas State College. From there he relocated to The University of Texas at El Paso where he held the positions of assistant professor of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, and Professor of Biological Sciences. After his retirement from teaching, Harris was honored as Professor Emeritus, Biological Sciences.
Harris is Past Director of the Laboratory for Environmental Biology (now the UTEP Biodiversity Collections), Curator of Higher Vertebrates, and Curator of Vertebrate Paleobiology. [2] He is a Research Associate in the Museum of Southwestern Biology Division of Mammals. [3]
Harris's research is focused primarily on Pleistocene vertebrate faunal remains from the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.
Harris completed a preliminary report on the fauna of the Pendejo Cave in 1991. [4] Subsequently, he prepared a review of the vertebrate fauna of the cave [5] and contributed this research for a section of Pendejo Cave. [6] Subsequently, both Harris and others have reworked the faunal list for the cave extensively to better reflect the time units and modifications of identifications since Pendejo Cave was published. [7]
Harris has published extensively. See external links for more comprehensive sources.
Harris communicated his research to the public through writing episodes of Desert Diaries, a series of radio shorts presented by the Centennial Museum and National Public Radio for the Southwest (KTEP) from 2001 to 2005. [12]
He served as Managing Editor of The Southwestern Naturalist a publication of the Southwestern Association of Naturalists from 1978 to 1982.
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Miracinonyx is an extinct genus of felids belonging to the subfamily Felinae that was endemic to North America from the Pleistocene epoch and morphologically similar to the modern cheetah. The genus was originally known from fragments of skeletons, but nearly complete skeletons have been recovered from Natural Trap Cave in northern Wyoming.
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Notiosorex is a genus of shrew from the subfamily Soricinae.
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