Department News
Robyn Burnham
- Associate Professor
- Ph.D. Botany, University of Washington, 1987
- Burnham webpage
Contact information
- University of Michigan
1518 Museums Building
1109 Geddes Ave
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079 - Phone: (734) 647-2585
- Fax: (734) 936-1380
- Email: rburnham@umich.edu
Fields of study
Tropical ecosystems and paleoecology of northern South America
Academic background
Professor Burnham received her Ph.D. in botany at the University of Washington in 1987. Her dissertation was on "Inferring vegetation from plant-fossil assemblages: effects of depositional environment and heterogeneity in the source vegetation on assemblages from modern and ancient fluvial-deltaic environments." Research was carried out in southern Mexico (Tabasco) and in the state of Washington in coal mines of the Puget Group. Her master's degree was also received from the University of Washington in 1983 on foliar morphological analysis of the Ulmoideae (Ulmaceae) from the early Tertiary of western North America. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1980.
Graduate students
Leslie McGinnis, David Marvin, Aaron Iverson, Kassandra Semrau
Museum of Paleontology website
UM affiliation
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Museum of Paleontology
- University Herbarium
Related news
The Detroit Free Press interviewed Professor Robyn Burnham in a travel article about Yasuni National Park in Ecuador.
EEB graduate students Alison Gould, David Marvin and Beatriz Otero Jimenez received Rackham International Research Awards.
ED-QUE2ST is a new Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program especially for first and second year college students from backgrounds underrepresented in ecology and evolutionary biology.
Professor Robyn Burnham has been awarded a grant of over $78,000 from the LSA Associate Professor Support Fund.
