Earth's History
July 26-31
Brian Huber
Curator of Planktic Foraminifera and
Department Chairman
Department of Paleobiology
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Brian Huber received his B.Sc. in Geology from the University of Akron (1981) and M.Sc. (1984) and Ph.D. (1988) from The Ohio State University. He joined the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History’s Department of Paleobiology in 1988 as Curator of Foraminifera and is currently Chairman of the department. His research focuses on changes in global climate change from 115 to 35 million years ago and the evolutionary dynamics and extinction of Cretaceous and Paleogene planktonic foraminifera during that time interval. He was a shipboard paleontologist on several Ocean Drilling Program cruises, he has done field work in Antarctica, southern South America, and Spain, and from 2007-2009 he led a Cretaceous marine sediment coring program in southeast coastal Tanzania. He has served on the Board of Directors and as President of the Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research and as a member of several editorial boards and Ocean Drilling Program panels, he was on the Steering Committee and Board of Directors for the NSF-CHRONOS initiative and he is a Voting Member of the International Subcommission on Cretaceous Stratigraphy.
