走进非洲----

Bonnie F. Jacobs & African palaeobotany

   非洲大陆的总面积有3,000多万平方公里，占全球陆地总面积的20.4%。非洲拥有11亿人口，占世界人口的15%。

Orthographic map of Africa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa#mediaviewer/File:Africa_(orthographic_projection).svg

   总的来说，世界古植物学的发展水平很不平衡，地区之间的差距很大。非洲大陆的古植物学研究基础在总体上是极其薄弱的，需要全球性的支持与合作。

   目前供职于美国南方卫理公会大学地球科学系[Southern Methodist University（SMU），Dallas, Texas]的古植物学教授Bonnie F. Jacobs博士长期从事非洲古植物学的研究，取得了很多研究成果。

（1）教育背景

B.A. 1974, Geology/Anthropology,State University of New York at Buffalo.

M.S. 1978, Geosciences,University of Arizona. Vegetation and Modern Pollen Spectra in Sinaloa andNayarit, Mexico.

Ph.D. 1983, Geosciences,University of Arizona. Past Vegetation and Climate of the Mogollon Rim Area,Arizona.

Bonnie F. Jacobs的博士论文基本信息--

Author: Jacobs, Bonnie F. (Bonnie Fine)

Title: Past vegetation andclimate of the Mogollon Rim Area, Arizona / by Bonnie Fine Jacobs

Publisher: 1983. Thesis (Ph. D.- Geosciences)--University of Arizona, 1983.

Subjects: Geology, Stratigraphic,Holocene; Geology, Stratigraphic—Pleistocene; Vegetation and climate—Arizona—Mogollon Rim Region

Note: Thesis (Ph. D. -Geosciences)--University of Arizona,1983

Bibliography: leaves 150--166

Description: xi, 166 leaves :ill., maps : 28 cm.

Location: Special Collections

Call #: E9791 1983 474

（2）研究兴趣

The application of paleobotany and palynology to Cenozoic and Cretaceous geological and environmentalproblems. Research foci include the evolution of tropical African ecosystems,paleoclimate and paleoecological reconstruction, and historical biogeography inAfrica and North America, within an integrated multidisciplinary framework.

Bonnie F. Jacobs’ researchcenters on paleobotany, the study of fossil plants, ranging in size frommicroscopic cells to macroscopic leaves, fruits, seeds and wood. Within paleobotany, she is pursuing several research questions, all united by a broad research interest in past climate and paleoecology. Paleoclimate and climate change are directly relevant to environments of human evolution, and tied closely to the evolution of plants and biomes. Research projects have included field work in Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and in the U. S., Texas, and New Mexico. 

（3）与非洲古植物学有关的研究项目

2011—2014:  National Science Foundation. “Collaborative Research: A multi-proxy approach to Early Miocene community, landscape, andclimate reconstruction, Ethiopian Plateau”, with SMU is Lead, $383,129 (SMUBudget, $173,995).

2009—2010:  National Science Foundation. Supplemental Funding for “A Geosystems Approach to Paleobotany, Isotope Geochemistry, andPaleoecology of the Late Oligocene Chilga Deposits, Northwest Ethiopian Plateau”, with Co-PI Neil Tabor. $21,628.

2006—2009:  National Science Foundation. “A Geosystems Approach to Paleobotany, Isotope Geochemistry, and Paleoecology of the Late Oligocene Chilga Deposits, Northwest Ethiopian Plateau”, with Co-PI Neil Tabor.$300,505.

（4）研究成果

参见：

http://www.smu.edu/Dedman/Academics/Departments/EarthSciences/People/Faculty/B%20Jacobs

相关阅读：

http://www.smu.edu/Dedman/academics/departments/earthsciences/aboutus

http://blog.smu.edu/research/tag/bonnie-f-jacobs/

Southern Methodist University (SMU)南方卫理公会大学

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Methodist_University

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Palaeobotanical studies in Ethiopian Highlands

http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-225931-866213.html

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Palaeobotanical studies in the Sahara deserts

http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-225931-866441.html

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The unsolved palaeobotanical riddle: origin and evolution of African tropical rainforests

http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-225931-867409.html

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Catalogue of Umbrella of American Palaeobotany

http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-225931-843288.html

Umbrella of American palaeobotany--1: An unfinished list of American palaeobotanists

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