Caroline Strömberg—Response for the 2017 Schuchert Award of the Paleontological Society


started by giving me access to their field sites, donating sam- ples, or sharing their expertise. Among them are Bob Hunt, Dick Tedford, Gary Morgan, Mike O’Neill, Emmett Evanoff, Russ Graham, Tony Barnosky, Debbie Hanneman, Alan Tabrum, Bruce McFadden, Joe Thomasson, and Dolores Piperno. I especially thank Hannan and Leigh Anne LaGarry, who did geologic mapping in Nebraska when I came cruising through in my Isuzu Trooper in search of Cenozoic sediment. They took me into their home and taught me everything there is to know about Great Plains stratigraphy (which is riveting stuff indeed). I owe thanks to my postdoctoral mentors, who believed in


Numerous people outside of UC Berkeley helped me get


me enough to take me on: Lars Werdelin and Else Marie Friis at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, and Scott Wing and Kay Behrensmeyer at the Smithsonian. In particular, thank you Scott for teaching me about leaves. I had some of my most enjoyable and educative science moments quibbling with you and the late Leo Hickey over Cretaceous leaf morphotypes— and I heard some of the worst puns. I thank my scientific family, namely my lab and my collaborators and colleagues, for all the fun times doing research together, and the Burke Museum for


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being my home. My scientific heroes in the field, Else Marie Friis, Kay Behrensmeyer, Bonnie Jacobs, Christine Janis, and of course Estella Leopold should not go unmentioned. These bold, brilliant, non-conforming scientists have helped pave the way for younger generations of women paleontologists. Finally, I want to thank my family. My husband and


partner in crime since graduate school at UC Berkeley, Greg Wilson. He is a superb researcher who I love talking endless shop with, and he has been my rock in life’s ups and downs, supplying both comic relief and numerous useful sports metaphors that I have slowly, begrudgingly learned to appreciate. Our two children, Freddy and Ilse, without whom science would be less fun, and I would be less inspired. They remind me that scientists are just grownups that manage to maintain a childlike curiosity into adulthood, and they help me rediscover that same joy I felt when I foundmy very first fossil. Thank you all.


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