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Appointments
Lecturer, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh. July 2018 – Present.
Research Associate, Section of Vertebrate Paleontology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA. December 2018 – Present.
Rea Postdoctoral Fellow, Section of Vertebrate Paleontology & Section of Mammals, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA. December 2016 – December 2018.
Adjunct Instructor, Bank Street College of Education, New York, NY. June 2014 – August 2014.
Research Associate, Section of Vertebrate Paleontology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA. December 2018 – Present.
Rea Postdoctoral Fellow, Section of Vertebrate Paleontology & Section of Mammals, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA. December 2016 – December 2018.
Adjunct Instructor, Bank Street College of Education, New York, NY. June 2014 – August 2014.
Publications
West, AR, CR Torres, JA Clarke, JA Case, and MC Lamanna. 2019. Description of an avian femur from Vega Island, Antarctic Peninsula: removing the record of cursorial land birds from the Cretaceous of Antarctica. PeerJ 7:e7231 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7231 [Link to PDF]
Tobin, T, EM Roberts, S Slotznick, J Biasi, JA Clarke, PM OConnor, S Skinner, AR West, L Snyderman, J Kirschvink, MC Lamanna. In press. New evidence of a Campanian age for the Cretaceous fossil-bearing strata of Cape Marsh, Robertson Island, Antarctica. Cretaceous Research.
Lamanna, MC, JA Case, EM Roberts, VM Arbour, RC Ely, SW Salisbury, JA Clarke, E Malinzak, AR West, and PM O’Connor. 2019. Late Cretaceous non-avian dinosaurs from the James Ross Basin, Antarctica: description of new material, updated synthesis, biostratigraphy, and paleobiogeography. Advances in Polar Science. 30(3): 228-250. doi: 10.13679/j.advps.2019.0007 [Link to PDF]
Geiger, M, SE Marron, AR West, and RJ Asher. 2018. Influences of domestication and island evolution on dental growth in Ovis. Journal of Mammalian Evolution p.1-16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10914-018-9452-y [Link to PDF]
Wible, JR and AR West. 2017. The basicranial axis in the rock hyrax, Procavia capensis (Pallas, 1766) (Mammalia, Afrotheria, Hyracoidea): novel structure of the frontal bone. Annals of Carnegie Museum 84(4): 287-300. https://doi.org/10.2992/007.084.0403 [Link to PDF]
West, AR 2016. Mitogenome of the extinct helmeted musk ox, Bootherium bombifrons. Mitochondrial DNA Part B: Resources 1: 862-863. https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2016.1250136 [Link to PDF]
Published Abstracts
Tobin, TS, EM Roberts, SP Slotznick, JA Biasi, JA Clarke, PM O'Connor, S Skinner, AR West, JL Kirschvink, and MC Lamanna. 2019. Biostratigraphic and detrital zircon geochronological age assignment of Late Cretaceous sedimentary exposures on Robertson Island, Antarctica. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 51, No. 5., Paper No. 271-17. DOI: 10.1130/Abs/2019am-338048
Gold, MEL and AR West. 2018. She Found Fossils: a crowdfunded, multi-lingual, self-published children’s book about women in paleontology. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Program and Abstracts, p. 135.
Gold, MEL, AR West, and AJ Gardiner. 2018. She Found Fossils: A kids’ book about women in paleontology. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting.
West, AR 2017. Resolving the affinities of Notoungulata: character selection, taxon sampling, and the influence of ancient molecular data. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Program and Abstracts, p. 63.
Torres, CR, SN Davis, RDE MacPhee, J Meng, JV Proffitt, LT English, AR West, and JA Clarke. 2017. New fossils from the La Meseta Formation of Seymour Island, Antarctica expand our understanding of middle-late Eocene Antarctic fauna. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Program and Abstracts, p. 71.
West, AR and J Ingber. 2016. Learners as researchers: teaching concepts of stability and change in natural systems through project-based exploration of paleontology. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Program and Abstracts, p. 248. [Link to PDF]
West, AR 2015. Ancient DNA from Alaska’s extinct Pleistocene musk oxen: phylogenetics and population dynamics reveal a unique paleoenvironmental history. Geological Society of America Program with Abstracts, 47:7, p. 237. [Link to PDF]
West, AR and JJ Flynn. 2015. Chronologic calibration and cross-continental correlation of the South American Land Mammal ‘Ages’: Update 2015. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Program and Abstracts, p.235.
Lee, V, A Balcarcel, and AR West. 2015. Comparison of quantitative assessment methods for polymer consolidant penetration on rock and fossil substrates. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Program and Abstracts, p.162.
West, AR, R Pian, R Charrier, JJ Flynn, and AR Wyss. 2014. New high precision 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of fossil-bearing strata of the Cachapoal Valley, Andean Main Range, Chile. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, p. 254.
West, AR, JJ Flynn, DA Croft, AR Wyss. 2013. A quantitative model for morphological evolution in the Interatheriidae (Typotheria, Notoungulata, Mammalia) as a response to climatic and tectonic changes. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, p. 236.
Tobin, T, EM Roberts, S Slotznick, J Biasi, JA Clarke, PM OConnor, S Skinner, AR West, L Snyderman, J Kirschvink, MC Lamanna. In press. New evidence of a Campanian age for the Cretaceous fossil-bearing strata of Cape Marsh, Robertson Island, Antarctica. Cretaceous Research.
Lamanna, MC, JA Case, EM Roberts, VM Arbour, RC Ely, SW Salisbury, JA Clarke, E Malinzak, AR West, and PM O’Connor. 2019. Late Cretaceous non-avian dinosaurs from the James Ross Basin, Antarctica: description of new material, updated synthesis, biostratigraphy, and paleobiogeography. Advances in Polar Science. 30(3): 228-250. doi: 10.13679/j.advps.2019.0007 [Link to PDF]
Geiger, M, SE Marron, AR West, and RJ Asher. 2018. Influences of domestication and island evolution on dental growth in Ovis. Journal of Mammalian Evolution p.1-16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10914-018-9452-y [Link to PDF]
Wible, JR and AR West. 2017. The basicranial axis in the rock hyrax, Procavia capensis (Pallas, 1766) (Mammalia, Afrotheria, Hyracoidea): novel structure of the frontal bone. Annals of Carnegie Museum 84(4): 287-300. https://doi.org/10.2992/007.084.0403 [Link to PDF]
West, AR 2016. Mitogenome of the extinct helmeted musk ox, Bootherium bombifrons. Mitochondrial DNA Part B: Resources 1: 862-863. https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2016.1250136 [Link to PDF]
Published Abstracts
Tobin, TS, EM Roberts, SP Slotznick, JA Biasi, JA Clarke, PM O'Connor, S Skinner, AR West, JL Kirschvink, and MC Lamanna. 2019. Biostratigraphic and detrital zircon geochronological age assignment of Late Cretaceous sedimentary exposures on Robertson Island, Antarctica. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 51, No. 5., Paper No. 271-17. DOI: 10.1130/Abs/2019am-338048
Gold, MEL and AR West. 2018. She Found Fossils: a crowdfunded, multi-lingual, self-published children’s book about women in paleontology. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Program and Abstracts, p. 135.
Gold, MEL, AR West, and AJ Gardiner. 2018. She Found Fossils: A kids’ book about women in paleontology. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting.
West, AR 2017. Resolving the affinities of Notoungulata: character selection, taxon sampling, and the influence of ancient molecular data. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Program and Abstracts, p. 63.
Torres, CR, SN Davis, RDE MacPhee, J Meng, JV Proffitt, LT English, AR West, and JA Clarke. 2017. New fossils from the La Meseta Formation of Seymour Island, Antarctica expand our understanding of middle-late Eocene Antarctic fauna. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Program and Abstracts, p. 71.
West, AR and J Ingber. 2016. Learners as researchers: teaching concepts of stability and change in natural systems through project-based exploration of paleontology. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Program and Abstracts, p. 248. [Link to PDF]
West, AR 2015. Ancient DNA from Alaska’s extinct Pleistocene musk oxen: phylogenetics and population dynamics reveal a unique paleoenvironmental history. Geological Society of America Program with Abstracts, 47:7, p. 237. [Link to PDF]
West, AR and JJ Flynn. 2015. Chronologic calibration and cross-continental correlation of the South American Land Mammal ‘Ages’: Update 2015. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Program and Abstracts, p.235.
Lee, V, A Balcarcel, and AR West. 2015. Comparison of quantitative assessment methods for polymer consolidant penetration on rock and fossil substrates. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Program and Abstracts, p.162.
West, AR, R Pian, R Charrier, JJ Flynn, and AR Wyss. 2014. New high precision 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of fossil-bearing strata of the Cachapoal Valley, Andean Main Range, Chile. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, p. 254.
West, AR, JJ Flynn, DA Croft, AR Wyss. 2013. A quantitative model for morphological evolution in the Interatheriidae (Typotheria, Notoungulata, Mammalia) as a response to climatic and tectonic changes. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, p. 236.
