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Kristina Curry Rogers

Kristina "Kristi" Curry Rogers (born June 20, 1974) is an American vertebrate paleontologist and a professor in Biology and Geology at Macalester College.[1] Her research focuses on questions of dinosaur paleobiology, bone histology, growth, and evolution, especially in a subgroup of sauropods called Titanosauria. She has named two dinosaur species from Madagascar, Rapetosaurus,[2] the most complete Cretaceous sauropod and titanosaur found to date, and Vahiny, so far known only from a partial skull. She and Jeffrey A. Wilson co-authored The Sauropods, Evolution and Paleobiology, published in December 2005.[3] Her research includes field work in Argentina, Madagascar, Montana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.

Early life and education

Kristi in her lab at Macalester College

Rogers was born in Sikeston, Missouri, where her passion for paleontology was fostered at an early age. By the time she began research during her undergraduate education under the guidance of Jack Horner, her future career in research was fossilized. Her experience ignited a long-term fascination with the long-necked, giant dinosaurs known as sauropods.[4] She graduated with a degree in Biology from Montana State University in 1996.

Rogers completed both her MSc and PhD in Anatomical Sciences from State University of New York at Stony Brook.[5] by 2001. Her graduate advisors, Catherine Forster and David W. Krause, were founding members of the Mahajanga Basin Project, a long-term, National Science Foundation and National Geographic Society-supported research program focused on the Upper Cretaceous Maevarano Formation.

Her graduate research focused on the evolutionary history of Titanosauria. Since then, she has continued to publish work elucidating titanosaur anatomy and paleobiology.

Career

In 2001, Rogers was hired as the Curator of Paleontology at the Science Museum of Minnesota, where she worked until 2008. At that time, she moved to Macalester College, where she was jointly appointed in the Biology and Geology Departments. In 2019, she was appointed as Chair of Biology at Macalester College.[6]

She is also an active member of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, the Geological Society of America, and the Society for Integrative Comparative Biology.

Awards and honours

Rogers has been the recipient of a number of National Science Foundation grants, including the prestigious NSF CAREER award. Rogers was awarded the Macalester College Jack and Marty Rossman Excellence in Teaching Award in 2015.[citation needed]

Rogers has also served as an on screen expert for numerous documentaries with the BBC, PBS, the National Geographic Channel, and the Discovery Channel, and is featured in the large format film Titanosaur 3D: The Story of Maximo. She was also a guest speaker on the MPR News in 2012 where she discussed dinosaur bones and has starred in a video describing the way in which dinosaurs grow.

Family

She is married to Macalester College geologist, Ray Rogers, and has two daughters.[citation needed]

Partial bibliography

Books

Reviews:
  • Norman, David (2006). "True Giants on Earth". Science. 312 (5770): 57. doi:10.1126/science.1126250. JSTOR 3845971. S2CID 161258764.
  • Schweitzer, Mary Higby (2007). "Review of The Sauropods: Evolution and Paleobiology". Copeia. 2007 (1): 234–237. doi:10.1643/0045-8511(2007)7[234:TSEAP]2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 4126517. S2CID 83597127.
  • Sidor, Christian A. (2006). "Review of The Sauropods: Evolution and Paleobiology". Integrative and Comparative Biology. 46 (3): 348. doi:10.1093/icb/icj032. JSTOR 3884743.
  • Irmis, Randall B. (2007). "Review of The Sauropods: Evolution and Paleobiology". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 27 (3): 776. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[776:TSEAP]2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 30126387. S2CID 84109405.
  • Fiorillo, Anthony R. (2006). "Review of The Sauropods: Evolution and Paleobiology". Great Plains Research. 16 (2): 203–204. JSTOR 23780064.
  • Sues, Hans‐Dieter (September 2006). "The Sauropods: Evolution and Paleobiology. Based on a symposium held in 2001 at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting. Edited by Kristina A Curry Rogers and, Jeffrey A Wilson. Berkeley (California): University of California Press. $65.00. ix + 349 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 0‐520‐24623‐3. 2005". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 81 (3): 271–272. doi:10.1086/509404.

References

  1. ^ "Kristi Curry Rogers - Macalester College". Macalester.edu. Retrieved 2015-07-06.
  2. ^ Curry Rogers, Kristina; Forster, Catherine A. (2 August 2001). "The last of the dinosaur titans: a new sauropod from Madagascar". Nature. 412 (6846): 530–534. Bibcode:2001Natur.412..530C. doi:10.1038/35087566. PMID 11484051. S2CID 4347583.
  3. ^ Rogers, Kristina Curry; Wilson, Jeffrey (2005). The Sauropods: Evolution and Paleobiology. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-24623-2.[non-primary source needed]
  4. ^ "Bright Ideas with Kristi Curry Rogers". MPR News. 27 March 2012.
  5. ^ "Kristi Curry-Rogers". The Shape of Life. Public Broadcasting Service. Retrieved 2008-08-02.
  6. ^ "Biology - Macalester College". Retrieved 2020-09-09.

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