Daniel Fisher

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Daniel Fisher
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Claude W. Hibbard Collegiate Professor of Paleontology

Curator of Paleontology, Museum of Paleontology
Professor of Geological Sciences

Ph.D. Geology, Harvard, 1975

U-M affiliation(s)
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Museum of Paleontology
Department of Geological Sciences
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Contact information

University of Michigan
Dept of Geological Sciences
1535 Museums Building
1109 Geddes Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1005
Phone: 734.764.0488
Fax: (734) 763-4690
Email: dcfisher@umich.edu

Fields of study
Functional morphology and phylogenetic inference (incorporating stratigraphic data) to understand large-scale patterns of change in evolution

Ruthven Museums Web site

News
From Pole to Pole: U-M Research at the Ends of the Earth
The Exhibit Museum of Natural History celebrates International Polar Year with the exhibit From Pole to Pole: U-M Research at the Ends of the Earth. The research of Professors Knute Nadelhoffer, George Kling, Dan Fisher and Joel Blum is featured in the rotunda exhibit.

U-M paleontologist part of international team studying preserved baby mammoth
Daniel Fisher, curator of paleontology at the U-M Museum of Paleontology, recently spent a week in Siberia as part of an international team that examined the frozen, nearly intact remains of a 4-month-old female woolly mammoth. Samples will be sent to Fisher's Ann Arbor laboratories for analysis.

"It's the best and most complete mammoth carcass—baby or adult—ever found," said Fisher. He has studied elephant-like mammoths and mastodons since 1979 and has worked on more than 20 excavations of the prehistoric pachyderms. But examining the latest Siberian discovery stands out as a career highlight, he said.