I am a former graduate student from the Earth Sciences Department at Montana State University, in Bozeman, Montana. I graduated with my Master's Degree in May, 2011. I am a California native, and have anticipated a fulfilling career in paleontology for most of my life. Amateur collecting in the San Francisco Bay Area during High School got me hooked on Miocene and Pliocene marine vertebrates. My master's thesis research concerns the taphonomy (preservation) of marine vertebrate bones and teeth in different depositional environments on the continental shelf, as preserved in the Mio-Pliocene Purisima Formation of Central California. Besides marine vertebrate taphonomy, my research interests include the study of fossil pinnipeds and cetaceans.
I have recently been accepted into the Doctoral Program at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, and will commence doctoral research on early baleen whales from the Oligocene of New Zealand with Dr. R. Ewan Fordyce in early 2012.
Contact Information
200 Traphagen Hall
Department of Earth Sciences
Montana State University
Bozeman, MT 59715
(650)-773-6438
robert.boessenecker (AT) msu.montana.edu
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