美国国家自然历史博物馆现任馆长

古植物学家Kirk Johnson博士

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美国史密松国家自然历史博物馆(The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History)现任馆长Kirk Johnson博士是一位古植物学家[自2012年10月29日正式就职]。1960年，Kirk Johnson出生于西雅图。

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1.  Kirk Johnson本科毕业于Amherst College

Amherst College （官网--https://www.amherst.edu）是美国非常有名的文理学院（Liberal  Arts college)，位于麻州西部的Amherst小镇，距波士顿约有两小时车程。参见：

Lexi环游世界的梦想-- “Hello From Amherst College”

http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4c28b9ce0102e9lh.html?tj=1

1982年Kirk Johnson毕业于Amherst College，获地质学和艺术学士学位（bachelor’s degree in geology and fine arts）。其学士论文信息如下：

Title:PALEOBOTANY AND SEDIMENTOLOGY OF SOME LOWER LUDLOWS TRATA, FORT UNION FORMATION, (PALEOCENE), SLOPE COUNTY, SOUTHWESTERN NORTHDAKOTA / KIRK R.JOHNSON.

Author:Johnson, Kirk R.

Publication: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1982.

Format:Book, Thesis

Thesisnote: THESIS (B.A.)--AMHERST COLLEGE, 1982.

OtherAuthor(s):Amherst College. Department of Geology.

Location(s):AC Archives & Special Coll. / AC Archives & Special Collections / THESIS 1982 / Library Use Only

2.  Kirk Johnson本科毕业于宾州大学(University of Pennsylvania)

       Kirk Johnson从Amherst College毕业后，他到宾州大学艺术与科学研究生院学习，1985年获地质学硕士学位。他的硕士学位论文信息如下：

The puercan flora and paleo-environments of the Hunt Creek sandstone member of the Fort Union formation, Northern Bighorn Basin, Park County, Wyoming and Carbon County,Montana.

Author/Creator: Johnson, Kirk Richard.

Publication: 1985.

Format/Description: Book xi,204 leaves illus. 29 cm.

Localsubjects: Penn theses --Geology.
Geology -- Penntheses.

Notes:Thesis (M.S. in Geology)--Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, 1985.
Includes bibliography.

3.  Kirk Johnson博士毕业于耶鲁大学

Kirk Johnson在耶鲁大学师从古植物学家Leo J. Hickey教授（1940--2013）攻读博士学位。关于Leo J. Hickey教授，请参阅：

专业精神的榜样--耶鲁大学古植物学家Leo J. Hickey教授（1940--2013）

Yale palaeobotanist—Professor Leo Hickey [In Chinese]

http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-225931-486065.html

http://bbs.sciencenet.cn/home.php?mod=space&uid=225931&do=blog&quickforward=1&id=486065

古植物学名家--耶鲁大学Leo J. Hickey教授(1940--2013)逝世

http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-225931-661477.html

    1989年，Kirk Johnson从耶鲁大学毕业，他的博士学位论文信息如下：

Author/Creator:Johnson, Kirk Richard.

Title:A High-Resolution Megafloral Biostratigraphy Spanning the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the Northern Great Plains [microform].

Thesis note:Thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, 1989.

Format:Archives or Manuscripts

4.  Kirk Johnson职业经历

     Kirk Johnson曾在澳大利亚从事博士后研究（University of Adelaide）。1991年到2012年，他一直供职于丹佛自然与科学博物馆古生物部（Denver Museum of Nature and Science）。

Fig.1 美国国家自然历史博物馆外观（引自2012年7月26日《华盛顿邮报》）

Fig.2 美国国家自然历史博物馆现任馆长、古植物学家Kirk Johnson博士（引自史密松官方网站）

孙启高2014年Columbus Day整理于 Amherst, MA

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相关阅读：

http://www.mnh.si.edu/about/kirk-johnson.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_Johnson_(scientist)

http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_560a17e20102drlj.html

Umbrella of American palaeobotany:An unfinished list of American palaeobotanists

http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-225931-826366.html

附件：美国古植物学家Kirk Johnson博士的部分研究论文

1

The Chicxulub asteroid impact and mass extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary

P Schulte, L Alegret, IArenillas, JA Arz, PJ Barton, PR Bown, TJ Bralower, ...

Peter Schulte, Laia Alegret,Ignacio Arenillas, José A Arz, Penny J Barton, Paul R Bown, Timothy J Bralower,Gail L Christeson, Philippe Claeys, Charles S Cockell, Gareth S Collins,Alexander Deutsch, Tamara J Goldin, Kazuhisa Goto, José M Grajales-Nishimura,Richard AF Grieve, Sean PS Gulick, Kirk R Johnson, Wolfgang Kiessling,Christian Koeberl, David A Kring, Kenneth G MacLeod, Takafumi Matsui, JayMelosh, Alessandro Montanari, Joanna V Morgan, Clive R Neal, Douglas J Nichols,Richard D Norris, Elisabetta Pierazzo, Greg Ravizza, Mario Rebolledo-Vieyra,Wolf Uwe Reimold, Eric Robin, Tobias Salge, Robert P Speijer, Arthur R Sweet,Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi, Vivi Vajda, Michael T Whalen, Pi S Willumsen

Science 327 (5970), 1214-1218

2

Manual of leafarchitecture

B Ellis, DC Daly, LJ Hickey,KR Johnson, JD Mitchell, P Wilf, SL Wing

CABI

3

High plant diversity in Eocene South America: evidence from Patagonia

P Wilf, NR Cúneo, KR Johnson,JF Hicks, SL Wing, JD Obradovich

Science 300 (5616), 122-125

4

Impact of the terminal Cretaceous event on plant–insect associations

CC Labandeira, KR Johnson, PWilf

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99 (4), 2061-2066

5

Correlated terrestrial and marine evidence for global climate changes before mass extinction at the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary

P Wilf, KR Johnson, BT Huber

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100 (2), 599-604

6

Timing the radiations of leaf beetles: Hispines on gingers from latest Cretaceous to recent

P Wilf, CC Labandeira, WJ Kress, CL Staines, DM Windsor, AL Allen, ...

Science 289 (5477), 291-294

7

South American palaeobotany and the origins of neotropical rainforests

RJ Burnham, KR Johnson

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B .

8

Megafloral change across the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary in the northern Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, USA

KR Johnson, LJ Hickey

Geological Society of America Special Papers 247, 433-444

9

Eocene plant diversity at Laguna del Hunco and Río Pichileufú, Patagonia, Argentina

P Wilf, KR Johnson, NR Cúneo,ME Smith, BS Singer, MA Gandolfo

The American Naturalist 165(6), 634-65

10

Habitat-related error in estimating temperatures from leaf margins in a humid tropical forest

RJ Burnham, NCA Pitman, KR Johnson, P Wilf

American Journal of Botany 88(6), 1096-1102

11

Land plant extinction at the end of the Cretaceous: a quantitative analysis of the North Dakota megafloral record

P Wilf, KR Johnson

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13

A tropical rainforest in Colorado 1.4 million years after the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary

KR Johnson, B Ellis

Science 296 (5577), 2379-2383

14

Insect herbivory,plant defense, and early Cenozoic climate change

P Wilf, CC Labandeira, KRJohnson, PD Coley, AD Cutter

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98 (11), 6221-6226

15

Decoupled plant and insect diversity after the end-Cretaceous extinction

P Wilf, CC Labandeira, KRJohnson, B Ellis

Science 313 (5790), 1112-1115

16

Plants and the KT Boundary

DJ Nichols, KR Johnson

Cambridge University Press

17

Sensitivity of leaf size and shape to climate: global patterns and paleoclimatic applications

DJ Peppe, DL Royer, BCariglino, SY Oliver, S Newman, E Leight, ...

New Phytologist 190 (3),724-739

18

Megaflora of the Hell Creek and lower Fort Union Formations in the western Dakotas: Vegetational response to climate change, the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary event, and rapid marine transgression

KR Johnson

Geological Society of AmericaSpecial Paper 361, 329-391

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古植物学的故事230期[总第231期]

Story of Palaeobotany Series (No.230) [The 231^stissue in total]

Umbrella of American palaeobotany-2: Dr. Kirk Johnson

美国国家自然历史博物馆现任馆长、古植物学家Kirk Johnson博士

Dr. KirkJohnson--The Sant Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History [in Chinese]

http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-225931-835715.html

2014-10-15 04:20

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[美国国家自然历史博物馆是如何崛起的？]

How did the U.S. National Museum of Natural History have so rapid emergence?

1. 美国国家自然历史博物馆概览

Take a glimpse of the U.S. National Museum of Natural History [in Chinese]

http://bbs.sciencenet.cn/blog-225931-724802.html

2013-9-14 04:27

2. 英国科学家James Smithson (1765--1829)的遗嘱与美国史密森研究院（ Smithsonian Institution）

A British scientist James Smithson’s (1765--1829) will and testament for founding the Smithsonian Institution [in Chinese]

http://bbs.sciencenet.cn/blog-225931-732180.html

2013-10-1201:39

3. James Smithson(1765--1829)与美国史密森研究院（ Smithsonian Institution）

A British scientist James Smithson, FRS (1765--1829) and the Smithsonian Institution [in Chinese]

http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-225931-732469.html

2013-10-1304:54

4. 为何美国联邦地质调查局的植物化石必须存放在美国国家自然历史博物馆？

Why should the collections of the U.S. G.S. be deposited in the USNM?

http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-225931-826356.html

5. 美国国家自然历史博物馆现任馆长、古植物学家Kirk Johnson博士

Dr. KirkJohnson--The Sant Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History [in Chinese]

http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-225931-835715.html

2014-10-15 04:20

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