• Curator, California Academy of Sciences
• Chair, Department of Invertebrate Zoology & Geology, 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, 2012-present
• 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

• Keynote speaker, Symposium "Biodiversity in the fossil record - Going beyond how many taxa", for the Centenary Meeting of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft, Berlin, September 24-29, 2012.

Contact Information

415-379-5271
proopnarine@calacademy.org