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Robert L Anemone
Summary
My major research interest is in the evolution of primates and other mammals in North America during the Paleocene and Eocene Epochs (ca. 66 to 34 mya), and my primary field site is the Great Divide Basin of southwestern Wyoming, although I have also done fieldwork in the Miocene of Kenya and Mozambique, and the Plio-Pleistocene of South Africa. In recent years my colleague Jay Emerson (Western Michigan University) and I have been exploring the use of remote sensing imagery and other tools from the geographic information sciences in vertebrate paleontology and paleoanthropology. In effect, we are attempting to create a new, geospatially informed, vertebrate paleontology that we refer to as Geospatial Paleontology. With NSF funding (2012-2015) we developed and testing predictive models for paleontological site location in Wyoming based on a variety of different artificial intelligence approaches to the classification of satellite imagery. We are also testing the utility of unmanned aerial systems (both quad copter and fixed wing models) in paleontological fieldwork.
Anthropology Evolutionary Studies Paleontology Spatial & Geographic Information Science
