Sterling Nesbitt (born March 25, 1982, in Mesa, Arizona) is an American paleontologist best known for his work on the origin and early evolutionary patterns of archosaurs. 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 Geology (). is a branch of natural science concerned with the Earth and other astronomical objects, the rocks of which they are composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Modern geology significantly overlaps all other Earth ...

from the University of California Berkeley in 2004. He received his PhD from

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in 2009, completing the majority of his research at the American Museum of Natural History in

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. He subsequently held postdoctoral researcher positions at the

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, the University of Washington, and the Field Museum. 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

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. Nesbitt appears in the 2007 IMAX movie '' Dinosaurs Alive!'' and the re-worked 2008 version of '' Walking With Dinosaurs'' on the Discovery Channel.

Academic contributions

Nesbitt has over 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals with over 7,700 citations (per Google Scholar) and numerous papers in high-profile scientific journals, including ''

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'', '' Earth-Science Reviews'', ''Nature'', '' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America'', ''Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences'', '' Royal Society Open Science'', ''Science'', and '' Scientific Reports''. 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!
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nesbitt, Sterling 1982 births Living people American paleontologists People associated with the American Museum of Natural History