Dr Karen Black.

Dr Karen Black honoured

By Phil Creaser
14 May 2012

A key member of the Riversleigh research team, Dr Karen Black, has received the 2012 Dorothy Hill Award for research in the Earth Sciences by the Australian Academy of Science.

Dr Black has studied a range of marsupial fossils including the giant herbivore Nimbadon. She has also recently published a paper on a fossil koala from Riversleigh.

Links:

Australian Academy of Science Science at the Shine Dome
Herds of large marsupials in the treetops: UNSW Faculty of Science
New Tertiary koala (Marsupialia, Phascolarctidae) from Riversleigh, Australia, with a revision of phascolarctid phylogenetics, paleoecology, and paleobiodiversity

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