Professor Patricia Vickers-Rich

Qualifications

AB Calif., MA Ph.D. Col.

Research Interests

  • Late Mesozoic ecosystems and climate change
  • The Precambrian World - the origin of life and the early evolution of animals
  • The vertebrate history on Gondwana, with special interest in the Mesozoic
  • History of palaeontology in Australia, Russia, China and Argentina
  • Communicating science to young children and the general public, with emphasis on developing countries and those affected by lack of stability

Contact Pat

Rm 148 Building 28
Clayton campus
Monash University

p: +61 3 9905 4889
f: +61 3 9905 4903
e: Pat Vickers-Rich

Chair, Palaeontology
Founding Director,
Monash Science Centre

Pat Rich

Research | Publications | Other

Geoscience units

  • ESC2032 - The Dynamic Biosphere: Changing Fauna and Flora Through Geologic Time
  • ESC3232 - The Dynamic Biosphere: Changing Fauna and Flora Through Geologic Time

Phd Students

Student Supervisor(s) Project Title
Lucas Buchanan Prof. P. Vickers-Rich Fossil crocodilians from the early Cenozoic of Australia
Roger Close Prof. P. Vickers-Rich
Dr Emily Rayfield 		Finite element analysis of the flying mechanism in birds
David Elliott Prof. P. Vickers-Rich Precambrian metazoans from West Africa
Erich Fitzgerald Prof. P. Vickers-Rich
Dr T. Rich		 The palaeobiology of Mammalodon colliveri
Tim Holland Dr John Long
Prof P. Vickers-Rich 		Fossil fish from the Devonian
Sarah Martin Dr Ken Walker Dr Ken McNamara
Prof P. Vickers-Rich		 The Mesozoic insect faunas of Australia
Doris Seegets-Villers Prof. P. Vickers-Rich
Dr B. Wagstaff		 Taphonomy of Victorian Mesozoic biotas