Timothy Rowe
Professor
University of Texas at Austin
Jackson School of Geosciences
1 University Station C1100
Austin TX
78712-0254 USA
http://www.utexas.edu/research/vprl/

Timothy Rowe is the J. Nalle Gregory Regents Professor In Geological Sciences, and Director of the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory of the Texas Memorial Museum, at the The University of Texas at Austin. He earned an A.B. in Geology from Occidental College (1975), an M.S. in Anatomy from the University of Chicago (1981), and a Ph.D. in Paleontology from the University of California at Berkeley (1986). Dr. Rowe is also a Fellow of the Thomas J. Watson Foundation and recipient of a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. The Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory, which he directs, houses a collection of 250,000 cataloged specimens and ranks highly among the top 10 vertebrate fossil collections in North America. Rowe also co-directs The University of Texas High-Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography Facility (UTCT), a designated NSF-supported Multi-User Facility. Now in its seventh year, UTCT has scanned hundreds of rocks, meteorites, fossils, and modern organisms, providing unique data and visualizations for a wide range of interests in education and research.

Timothy will demonstrate Digital Morphology - a 3D Collec tion of Natural History Specimens.