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Daniel Fisher
Professor
Ph.D. Geology, Harvard, 1975
Contact information
University of Michigan
Dept of Geological Sciences
2534 CC Little Bldg
1100 North University Ave
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1005
Phone: 734.764.0488
Fax: (734) 763-4690
Email: dcfisher@umich.edu
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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.
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