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                                                   Biography


            R. Ewan Fordyce was appointed to the Geology staff at the University of Otago in 1982.This is situated in Dunedin, New Zealand. He is currently an associate professor. (His other affiliation is as a research associate, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.) He teaches paleontology, stratigraphy and related topics, such as microfossils, paleoecology, origins of the New Zealand fauna and flora, evolution, and fossil vertebrates. Originally he trained as a zoologist at the University of Canterbury. His Ph.D. work was followed by a postdoctoral fellowship (to carry out research on fossil whales) in the Department of Paleobiology at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., and another postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Earth Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne. This work led to ongoing research on the history and diversity of whales and dolphins, based on living and fossil species from around the world. It also led to study on other New Zealand fossil vertebrates, particularly penguins and reptiles. Fordyce's publications deal with whales and dolphins (stranding, anatomy, paleontology, evolution etc), fossil penguins, and other aspects of the natural history of southern New Zealand. He is recently supervising work on  fossil sites in North Otago for a fossil trail to be opened soon to Geologists and the general public.       

                                      

                            

               Recently Published books.

1. Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises ( Nature Company Guide).

by Time Life books (Editor), Ewan Fordyce, Erich Hoyt (Editor), Mark Carwardine (Editor),  Peter Gill.

                     
2. The Natural History Of Southern New Zealand.

by Ewan Fordyce (Editor), et al(Paperback-September2000)

 

3. Collins Whales and Dolphins.

 by R. Ewan Fordyce, Mark Carwardine, Erich Hoyt, and Peter Gill

                                     

                              Main Research Interests.

                     Micropaleontology

                    Vertebrate Paleontology

                     Systematics and paleontology of Cetacea

                                 (Whales and Dolphins)           

                     Tertiary Paleontology and Stratigraphy

                      Marine geology.

                  

Recent Publications

  • Ichishima, H., Barnes, L.G., Fordyce, R.E., Kimura, M., Bohaska, D.J. A review of kentriodontine dolphins (Cetacea; Delphinoidea; Kentriodontidae): Systematics and biogeography. The Island Arc. 3: 486-492 (1994)
  • Kohler, R., Fordyce, R.E. An Archaecete whale (Cetacea: Archeoceti) from the Eocene Waihao Greensand, New Zealand. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 17(3): 574-583 (1997)
  • Fordyce, R Ewan. 1998. New Zealand's Tertiary Vertebrates and their Contribution to Phylogenetic Studies. Geogenes 98.
  • Cruickshank, Arthur R I, Fordyce, R E, and Long, J A. 1999. Recent developments in Australasian sauropterygian paleontology (Reptilia: Sauropterygia). Records of the Western Australian Museum Suplement No 57: 201-205.
  • Boyd, W.E., Chang, N.J., Debreceny, J., Domett, K., Fordyce, R.E., Higham, C.F.W., Higham, T.F.G., Hogg, A., Hunt, V., Manly, B.F.J., Mason, G.M., O'Reilly, D.J.W., Pailles, C., Reay, A., Tayles, N.G. and Thosarat, R. 1998. The Excavation of Nong Nor, a Prehistoric Site in Central Thailand. (Eds) C.F.W. Higham and R. Thosarat. Published by the Department of Anthropology, University of Otago Studies in Prehistoric Anthropology No 18, p 305 - 314. Distributed by Oxbow Books Ltd, UK.

                                                   

E-mail address for Ewan Fordyce is ewan.fordyce@stonebow.otago.ac.nz

More information on Ewan Fordyce and other happenings at the Geology Department, Otago University is found at http://www.otago.ac.nz/geology/ 

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