Carol M. Tang

California Academy of Sciences

875 Howard Street

San Francisco, CA  94103 USA.

Carol Tang received her BA (1989) in Paleontology from the University of California, Berkeley and her MS (1993) and Ph.D. (1996) in Geological Sciences from the University of Southern California.  Before taking her current position at the California Academy of Sciences, she also served as a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the UC Museum of Paleontology and an Assistant Professor of Geology at Arizona State University.  As an evolutionary paleoecologist, she’s interested in understanding how and why the structure of marine communities change through time.  She has worked on Jurassic marine invertebrates of the western United States, Ordovician communities of the Ohio region, and Neogene Dominican Republic assemblages.  In addition, she has studied desert thermal spring ecosystems through the NASA Astrobiology Institute.