Alan B. Shabel
Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Paleontology
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
USA 

Alan Shabel received his BA in Biology at Dartmouth College (1993), where he developed an interest in the dynamics of whole ecosystems, particularly in the tropics. After a year in the field studying the ecology of East African vertebrates, Alan shifted his attention to skeletal morphology and the fossil record, and he participated in paleontological field work in Ethiopia, Spain, and the United Arab Emirates. Now Alan is in the doctoral program at the University of California, Berkeley, where he uses comparative anatomy,  geochemistry, and dental microwear to study the ecology and evolution of Old World mammals.