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Gerald Smith
Professor, Emeritus
Ph.D., Zoology, University of Michigan, 1965
Professor of Biology, 1981; Professor of Geological Sciences, 1981
U-M affiliation(s)
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Department of Geological Sciences
Museum of Zoology
Museum of Paleontology
College of Literature, Science and the Arts
Contact information
University of Michigan
1109 Geddes Avenue
45 Ruthven Museums Building
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079
Phone: 734.764.0491
Fax: (734) 763-4080
Email: grsmith@umich.edu |
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Fields of study
Evolution of North American freshwater fishes
Research interests
Cenozoic fossils and calibration of rates of evolution; speciation, biogeography, conservation.
Academic background
B.S., 1957, and M.S., 1959, University of Utah; Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1965, in Zoology. Faculty: Univ. Utah, 1963-66; Univ. Kansas, 1966-69; Univ. Michigan, 1969-2003.
Recent publications
Spencer, J.E., G.R. Smith, and T.E. Dowling. 2008. Middle and Late Cenozoic Evolution of Topography and Late Cenozoic Evolution of Fish in the American Southwest, and the Location of the Continental Divide, in Reheis, M., and Hershler, R., eds., Geological Society of America Special Paper 439: 279-299.
Smith, G.R., and T.E. Dowling. 2008. Hydrography and phylogeography of speckled dace, Rhinichthys osculus, in the Colorado River drainage, in Reheis, M., and Hershler, R., eds., Geological Society of America Special Paper 439: 301-317.
Eiting, T., and G.R. Smith. 2007. Miocene Salmon (Oncorhynchus) from Idaho and Oregon: Gill Raker Evolution Correlated with Plankton Productivity in the eastern Pacific. Paleobiology, Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, 249: 412-424.
Smith, G.R., D.R. Montgomery, N.P. Peterson. 2007. Pleistocene sockeye salmon in lake sediments in the Skokomish River Canyon, Washington. Quaternary Review, 68:227-238 .
Estabrook, G.F., G.R. Smith, T.E. Dowling. 2007. Body Mass and Temperature Influence Evolutionary Rate of mtDNA in North American Cyprinidae. Evolution, 61: 1176-1187.
Zazzo, A., G.R. Smith, W.P. Patterson, and E. Dufour. 2006. Life history reconstruction of modern and fossil sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) by oxygen isotopic analysis of otoliths vertebrae, and teeth: implication for paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 249:200-215.
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