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Harry Filkorn Collections Manager e-mail: HFilkorn@nhm.org PhD Geology: Kent State University, 2001 |
| Harry joined the Invertebrate Paleontology section of the museum in 2002. He has a broad background in the geological sciences and specialization in the areas of invertebrate paleontology, biostratigraphy, paleobiogeography and carbonate sedimentology. He has participated in geologic excursions to most regions of the US and Canada and traveled extensively in some of the most remote areas of the American Southwest and Mexico. His research interests mainly concern Cretaceous and Early Tertiary reef coral faunas of Mexico and the western US. He has also studied Late Cretaceous and Paleocene corals from Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula, and some Jurassic corals from southwestern New Mexico. Ongoing investigations in Mexico, in collaboration with geologists of the Instituto de Geología of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, and the Instituto de Historia Natural del Estado de Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, include studies of the Late Cretaceous and Eocene coral faunas of Chiapas and the middle Cretaceous reef faunas of the Tierra Caliente region in Michoacan and Guerrero. In his spare time, with the support of the USGS, he has mapped the geology of a rugged area of the Markagunt Plateau in southwestern Utah, the heart of the Markagunt Megabreccia. He is a member several professional organizations, including Sigma Xi, the Paleontological Society and the International Association for the Study of Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera. |
