Sterling Nesbitt (born March 25, 1982, in

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) is an American paleontologist best known for his work on the origin and early evolutionary patterns of

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s. He is currently an associate professor at Virginia Tech in the Department of Geosciences.

Biography

Sterling Nesbitt received his B.A. in integrative biology with a minor in geology from the University of California Berkeley in 2004. He received his PhD from Columbia University in 2009, completing the majority of his research at the

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in New York City. He subsequently held postdoctoral researcher positions at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Washington, and the

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. He is currently an associate professor in th
Department of Geosciences
at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. He is also a research associate/affiliate of the American Museum of Natural History, the Vertebrate Paleontology Lab at The University of Texas at Austin, the Virginia Museum of Natural History, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, and the National Museum of Natural History. Nesbitt appears in the 2007 IMAX movie ''

Dinosaurs Alive! ''Dinosaurs Alive!'' is a 2007 IMAX documentary produced by Giant Screen Films about various dinosaurs that inhabited the Earth between 251 and 65 Ma. The documentary features animals from the Triassic period of New Mexico to the Cretaceous per ...

'' and the re-worked 2008 version of ''

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'' on the Discovery Channel.

Academic contributions

Nesbitt has over 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals with over 5,000 citations (per Google Scholar) and numerous papers in high-profile scientific journals, including Current Biology, Earth-Science Reviewss, Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, Science, and

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. Below is a list of taxa that Nesbitt has contributed to naming:

References

External links

Personal websiteVirginia Tech Paleobiology & Geobiology Research Group

External links

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Dinosaurs Alive!
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