I'm a paleontologist with particular interests in biotic interactions and paleobiodiversity databases. Taxonomically, most of my work has focused on either Paleozoic crinoids or Quaternary terrestrial vertebrates.

Currently I'm a postdoctoral fellow at UC Merced, working on a project using public databases and text-mining to revise chronologies for Quaternary vertebrate fossil sites in North America in order to construct species distribution models. I'm currently obsessing about the problem of geographic bias in global paleobiological data sets.

Curriculum vitae

Summary

• B.S. (Geology), Caltech, 2008
• Ph.D. (Geology/Paleontology), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2014 (thesis)
• Postdoc, University of Wisconsin, Ann Arbor, 2015-2016
• Instructor (Geology & Biology), Clovis Community College, 2018-2021
• Postdoc, University of California, Merced, 2022-2024

Links to my topical résumés/CVs:

• Full academic CV
• Résumé focused on software developer positions
• Résumé focused on geoscience teaching positions
• Résumé focused on paleontological resource management positions

Recent posts

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Collaborators

• Jessica Blois (lab website)
• Marta Jarzyna (lab website)
• André Bellvé (website)
• Don Prothero (website)
• Judi Sclafani (website)
• Shanan Peters (lab website)

Contact Me

email: vsyverson@gmail.com, vsyverson@ucmerced.edu

researchgate: Val J. P. Syverson

linkedin: Val Syverson

twitter: @vjpsyverson