Bonnie Fine Jacobs


Curriculum Vitae

Degrees
Positions Held
Societies
Awards and Grants
Publications

Address:

Environmental Science Program
P.O. Box 750395
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas 75275-0395
bjacobs@smu.edu

Degrees:

• Ph.D. 1983, Geosciences, University of Arizona. Past Vegetation and Climate of the Mogollon Rim Area, Arizona.
• M.S. 1978, Geosciences, University of Arizona. Vegetation and Modern Pollen Spectra in Sinaloa and Nayarit, Mexico.
• B.A. 1974, Geology/Anthropology, State University of New York at Buffalo.

Positions Held:

• 2006 - Associate Professor and Chair, Environmental Science Program, Southern Methodist University
• 2000 - Assistant Professor and Chair, Environmental Science Program, Southern Methodist University.
• Exhibit Advisor - Ft. Worth Museum of Science and History, Ongoing.
• 8/93 to Present - Director, Palynology Laboratory, Department of Geological Sciences, Southern Methodist University.
• 12/83 to 8/00 - Adjunct Assistant Professor (Adjunct Associate Professor from 7-95), Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University.
• 12/86 to 8/00 - Adjunct Assistant Professor (Adjunct Associate Professor from 10-95), Department of Geological Sciences, Southern Methodist University.
• 12/84 to 8/00 - Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Southern Methodist University.
• 10/85 to Present - Scientist, Institute for the Study of Earth and Man, Southern Methodist University.
• 11/81 to 7/83 - Palynologist, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya.

Societies:

• American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists
• American Institute of Biological Sciences
• American Quaternary Association
• Botanical Society of America
• International Association of Wood Anatomists
• International Organization of Paleobotany
• Paleobotanical Section of the Botanical Society of America

Awards And Grants:

• 2006 – 2009. National Science Foundation. “A Geosystems Approach to Paleobotany, Isotope Geochemistry, and Paleoecology of the Late Oligocene Chilga Deposits, Northwest Ethiopian Plateau”.11/05 - 12/06 - “Paleobotany and Isotope Geochemistry of the Oligocene Chilga Deposits of the Northwest Ethiopian Plateau”, National Geographic Society.
• 2/03-4-06 -"Acquisition of a Variable Pressure Scanning Electron Microscope for Multiple Use in Research and Education", National Science Foundation, with Co-PIs Louis Jacobs and Radovan Kovacevic.
• 5/00 - 5/03 - National Science Foundation, "Eocene paleobotany and paleoecology of the Singida District, Tanzania".
• 1995-1997 - National Science Foundation Career Advancement Award, "The Interpretation of Climate from Leaf Form: Application to the Miocene of Africa."
• 1990 - L.S.B. Leakey Foundation grant, "SEM Analysis of 6 My Old Grasses from Kenya.
• 1987 - Research Grant, Institute for the Study of Earth and Man, Field Expenses, Kenya.
• 1984 - National Science Foundation, "Middle Miocene leaf fossils from Kenya."
• 1981 - Norwegian Aid (NORAD) grant to establish pollen laboratory at the National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi.

Publications:

• 2007: Jacobs, B.F. Fossils from ancient forests in Africa provide a palaeobotanist with insight into past climates. Nature Journal Club 447:119.
   
• 2006: Kaiser, Thomas. M., Ansorge, Jörg. , Arratia, Gloria,  Bullwinkel, Volker, Gunnell, Gregg F., Herendeen, Patrick, S., Jacobs, Bonnie, Mingram, Jens, Msuya, Charles, Musolf, Andreas, Naumann, Rudolf, Schulz, Ellen, and Wilde, Volker. The maar lake of Mahenge (Tanzania) – unique evidence of Eocene terrestrial environments in sub-Sahara Africa. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften 157(3): 411-431.
   
• 2006: Jacobs, B.F. The plant fossil record and implications for phytogeography in tropical Africa.  Pp. 191-203 In: Taxonomy and Ecology of African Plants, their Conservation and Sustainable Use. Proceedings of the 17^th Association for the Taxonomic Study of the Flora of Tropical Africa (AETFAT) Congress, Ethiopia.  Kew, London.
   
• 2006: García Massini, J.L., Jacobs, B. F., Pan, A., Tabor, N., Kappelman, J. The occurrence of the fern Acrostichum in Oligocene volcanic strata of the northwestern Ethiopian plateau.  International Journal of Plant Sciences. 167: 909-918.
   
• 2006: Pan, A., Jacobs, B. F., Dransfield, J. and Baker, W. The fossil history of palms in Africa and new records from the Late Oligocene (~27 – 28 Myr) of northwestern Ethiopia. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 151: 69-81.
   
• 2006: Jacobs, B.F. and Meltzer, D. Late Pleistocene and Holocene Pollen Analysis at Bellisle Lake, New Mexico. Pp. 157-166 In: (Meltzer, D., ed.) FOLSOM: new investigations of a classic Plaeoindian bison kill. University of California Press, Berkeley.
   
• 2005 Jacobs, B.F., Tabor, N., Feseha, M., Pan, A., Kappelman, J. Rasmussen, D., Sanders, W., Wiemann, M., Crabaugh, J., Garcia Massini, J. Oligocene terrestrial strata of northwestern Ethiopia: a preliminary report on paleoenvironments and paleontology. Palaeontologia Electronica Vol. 8, Issue 1; 25A:19p, 852KB; http://palaeo-electronica.org/paleo/2005_1/jacobs25/issue1_05.htm.
   
• 2005 Axsmith, B.J. and Jacobs, B.F. The conifer Frenelopsis ramosissima (Cheirolepidiaceae) in the Lower Cretaceous of Texas: phylogenetic, biogeographical and paleoecological implications. International Journal of Plant Sciences 166: 327-337.
• 2004: Jacobs, B.F. Paleobotanical studies from tropical Africa: relevance to the evolution of forest, woodland, and savannah biomes. Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. Lond. B 359: 1573-1583. pdf
• 2004:Jacobs, B.F. and Herendeen, P.S. Eocene Dry Climate and Woodland Vegetation in Tropical Africa Documented by Fossil Leaves from Northern Tanzania. Palaeo 3 213:115-123. pdf
• 2003: New Oligocene mammals from Ethiopia and the pattern and timing of faunal exchange between Afro-Arabia and Eurasia. John Kappelman, D. Tab Rasmussen, William J. Sanders, Mulugeta Feseha, Thomas Bown|, Peter Copeland, Jeff Crabaugh, John Fleagle, Michelle Glantz, Adam Gordon, Bonnie Jacobs, Murat Maga, Kathleen Muldoon, Aaron Pan, Lydia Pyne, Brian Richmond, Timothy Ryan, Erik R. Seiffert, Sevket Sen, Lawrence Todd, Michael C. Wiemann, and Alisa Winkler. Nature. 426: 549-552.
• 2003: Gunnell, G., Jacobs, B.F., Herendeen, P.S., Head, J.J., Kowalski,E., Msuya, C.P., Mizambwa, F.A., Harrison, T. Habersetzer, J.and Storch, G. Oldest placental mammal from sub-Saharan Africa: Eocene microbat from Tanzania - evidence for early evolution of sophisticated echolocation Paleontologia Electronica 5: http://palaeo-electronica.org/2002_2/africa/issue2_02.htm.
• 2002: Jacobs, B.F. Estimation of low latitude paleoclimates using fossil angiosperm leaves: examples from the Miocene Tugen Hills, Kenya. Paleobiology 28: 399-421. pdf
• 2002: Kingston, J. D., Jacobs, B. F., Hill, A. & Deino, A. L.. Stratigraphy, age and environments of the late Miocene Mpesida Beds, Tugen Hills, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 42: 95-116. 
• 2001: Harrison, T., Msuya, C., Murray, A., Jacobs, B., Báez, A., Mundil, R. and Ludwig, K. Paleontological investigations at the Eocene locality of Mahenge in north-central Tanzania, East Africa. In: "Eocene Biodiversity: Unusual Occurrences and Rarely Sampled Habitats". Gregg Gunnell (ed.) Plenum Press. pdf
• 2000: Herendeen, P.S. and Jacobs, B.F. Fossil legumes from the Middle Eocene (46.0 Ma) Mahenge flora, Singida, Tanzania. American Journal of Botany 87: 1358-1366. Abstract
• 1999. Jacobs, B.F., Kingston, J.D. and Jacobs, L.L. The origin of grass-dominated ecosystems. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 86: 590-643. Abstract
• 1999. Jacobs, B.F. Estimation of rainfall variables from leaf characters in tropical Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 145: 231-250. pdf
• 1996. Jacobs, B.F. and Deino, A. Test of climate-leaf physiognomy regression models, their application to two Miocene floras from Kenya, and 40Ar/39Ar dating of the Late Miocene Kapturo site. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 123(1):259-271.pdf
• 1992. Jacobs, B.F. and Winkler, D.A. Taphonomy of a middle Miocene autochthonous forest assemblage, Ngorora Formation, central Kenya. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 99:31-40.
• 1991. Review: Predicting future desertification from paleoecological evidence. A symposium. Ecological Society of America Bulletin.
• 1990. Jacobs, B.F. Lower Cretaceous diaspores from Malawi. National Geographic Research 6:516-518.
• 1990. Jacobs, B.F. and Winkler, D.A. Taphonomic and structural aspects of a Miocene tropical forest, Kenya. Suppl. American Journal of Botany 77:88 (Abstract).
• 1989. Jacobs, B.F. Paleobotany of the Lower Cretaceous Trinity Group, Texas. In: Field Guide to the Vertebrate Paleontology of the Trinity Group, Lower Cretaceous of central Texas. Society for Vertebrate Paleontology Field Trip Guidebook, Nov. 1989. pdf
• 1989. Jacobs, B.F. and Kabuye, C.H.S. An extinct species of Pollia (Commelinaceae) from the Miocene Ngorora Formation, Kenya. Review of Palaeobotany & Palynology 59:67-76.
• 1988. Brown, R.B. and Jacobs, B.F. Análisis e interpretación del polen de dos lagos del occidente de México. Palynologica et Palaeobotanica 1(1):45-59.
• 1987. Jacobs, B.F. and Kabuye, C.H.S. A middle Miocene (12.2 Ma) forest in the East African Rift Valley, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 16:147-155. pdf
• 1987. Mworia, J., Dallmeijer, A., and Jacobs, B.F. Vegetation and modern pollen rain at Olorgesailie, Kenya. Utafiti 1(1):1-22.
• 1985. Hill, A., Drake, R., Tauxe, L., Monaghan, M., Barry, J., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Curtis, G., Jacobs, B., Jacobs, L., Johnson, N. and Pilbeam, D. Neogene palaeontology and geochronology of the Baringo Basin, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 14:759-773.
• 1985. Jacobs, B.F., Fall, P. and Davis, O. (Eds.) Late Quaternary vegetation and climates of the American Southwest. American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Contribution Series No. 16.
• 1985. Jacobs, B.F. Identification of pine pollen from the southwestern United States. American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Contribution Series No. 16:155-168.
• 1985. Jacobs, B.F. A middle Wisconsin pollen record from Hay Lake, Arizona. Quaternary Research 24:121-130. pdf
• 1983. Jacobs, B.F. Pollen and the Past. Kenya Past and Present 15:2-7.
• 1982. Jacobs, B.F. Modern pollen spectra from surface soil samples, northern Nayarit, southern Sinaloa, Mexico. Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Sciences 17:1-14.
• 1973. Fine, B. Excavations at Venadillo, 1973. pp. 8-16d. In: The Marismas Nacionales of Mexico: Report on continuing investigation of the archaeology and related natural science studies. West Mexican Prehistory, Part 7. Department of Anthropology, State University of New York at Buffalo, New York.