Department News
Catherine Badgley
- Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Biology, Yale University, 1982 - Museum of Paleontology website
Contact information
- University of Michigan
Museum of Paleontology
1109 Geddes Rd.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079
Phone: 734-763-6448
Fax: 734-936-1380
- Email: cbadgley@umich.edu
Fields of study
Ecology and paleoecology of mammals, evolution of Cenozoic mammals, biogeography, sustainable agriculture
Academic background
Catherine Badgley studied geology as an undergraduate at Radcliffe College (Harvard University). She then obtained a master's degree from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, followed by a Ph.D. from the Biology Department at Yale. She came to the University of Michigan in 1982 as a Michigan Fellow with the Michigan Society of Fellows. She has been a research scientist in the Museum of Paleontology since 1985 and a lecturer in the Residential College since 1987. She has conducted paleontological field work in Pakistan, China, Kenya and the western United States. Her research also includes studies of modern mammal biogeography. A long-standing interest in the modern biodiversity crisis led her to study the impacts of agriculture on biodiversity and then to evaluate alternative scenarios to the current food system. She is past president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, an international scientific organization.
Graduate students
UM affiliation
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Residential College
- Museum of Paleontology, Research Scientist
- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences , Research Scientist
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