Peter Wilf | Penn State
Paleobotany
Professor of
Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA, pwilf (@psu.edu), +1 814-865-6721
I use fossil plants to
investigate ancient ecosystems, past environmental change, biogeography, and the
evolution and extinction of plants and plant-insect associations. I emphasize
questions with relevance for modern climate change, biodiversity, biogeography,
conservation, and ecology. Significant field areas include Patagonian Argentina, Western Interior USA,
several SE Asian countries, and southeastern Pennsylvania. I am also a proud
Research Associate of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural
History.
Training
Smithsonian Institution
Postdoctoral Fellow, 1998-1999.
Ph.D., University of
Pennsylvania 1998.
B.A., University of
Pennsylvania 1985.
Recognition
Fellow, American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2022.
Wilson Award for
Excellence in Research, Penn State College of Earth & Mineral Sciences
2022.
Fellow, Paleontological
Society 2017.
Fellow, Geological
Society of America 2016.
Paul F. Robertson
Research Breakthrough of the Year Award, Penn State College of Earth &
Mineral Sciences 2016.
George W. Atherton Award
for Excellence in Teaching, Pennsylvania State University 2013.
The Paleontological
Society, Councilor Unrestricted 2012-2014.
Kavli Fellow, National
Academy of Sciences and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 2011.
Distinguished Lecturer,
The Paleontological Society 2009-2012.
David and Lucile Packard
Fellow in Science and Engineering 2005-2010.
John T. Ryan, Jr.
Faculty Fellow, Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences 2005-2008.
Michigan Fellow,
University of Michigan 1999-2002.