• Curator, California Academy of Sciences
• Research Professor, Department of Geosciences, San Francisco State University
• Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology, San Francisco State University
• Research Associate, University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley

Professional Biography

• Curator, California Academy of Sciences,  2008-present
• Associate Curator, California Academy of Sciences,  2005-2008
• Department Chair, California Academy of Sciences,2001-2004
• Assistant Curator, California Academy of Sciences, 1999-2004
• Research Associate, University of Arizona, 1997-1999
• Assistant Professor, Southeast Missouri State University,  1994-1998
• Lecturer, University of California Davis, 1994

• 1994 - Ph.D., Geology, University of California Davis
• 1988 - M.S., Ocean Sciences, Nova Southeastern University
• 1984 - B.Sc., Biology, Mount Allison University

• Theory of extinction, mass extinctions, and community evolution
• Mathematical modelling of paleocommunity perturbative dynamics
• Morphometric analysis of morphological integration
• Venerid and corbulid bivalve evolution and systematics
• Evolutionary ecology of Neogene tropical American marine molluscs

• Featured scientist,Year of Science 2009, February, Celebrate Evolution.
• Invited speaker, "Paleocommunity structure, stability and evolution", Geology, The Field Museum, 09/22/2007.
• Invited speaker, "The evolution and emergence of paleocommunity resistance to secondary extinctions: Species and community level processes", Special Symposium - Environmental Change, Extinction Risk, and the Maintenance of Biodiversity through Time, Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, San Jose, 08/03/2007.
• Invited speaker, "Food web models, secondary extinction, and instability of Early Triassic paleocommunities", Hewitt Club Speaker, Earth Sciences, University of California Riverside, 05/22/2007.
• Invited speaker, "Modelling extinction and collapse in Permian-Triassic communities", Paleobiology Seminar, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, 04/11/2007.
• Invited speaker, "Modelling extinction and collapse in Permian-Triassic communities", Geological Sciences and Marine Chemistry Seminar, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 02/12/2007.
• Invited speaker, "Global warming: Truth and Consequences", The Environmental Alliance, John Muir Center, 11/20/2006.
• Film, featured speaker (one of many), Call of Life: Facing the mass extinction,
  Species Alliance.

Contact Information

415-379-5271
proopnarine@calacademy.org