Research
The History of Palaeontology with Emphasis on Vertebrate Palaeontology in China (Especially the work of Teilhard de Chardin)
Patricia Komarower completed her Ph.D. in 2003 (advisors, Profs. P. Vickers-Rich and Homer Le Grand) on the history of vertebrate palaeontology in China, emphasizing the role played by many foreign advisors such as the French Jesuit Teilhard de Chardin working in concert with developing Chinese academics and scholars. As a result of the thesis, Komarower has become interested in the comparative study of the historical development of palaeontology in Australia, South America, India and China in order to highlight similarities and differences arising from the different cultural settings.
Associated projects include:
- English-Chinese dictionary of paleontological terms, in collaboration with Prof. Patricia Vickers-Rich and Fan Jun-hang.
- Preliminary research for a biography of Boris Sokolov, a Russian paleontologist and academician, best known for his ground-breaking work on the fossil record of the Late Proterozoic, in collaboration with Prof. Patricia Vickers-Rich.
Komarower was born and educated in France, with a life-long interest in languages and translation. Current translation projects include:
- Danielle Clode, 2007. Voyages to the South Seas : In search of Terres Australes, Melbourne University Press.
- Alcide d’Orbigny, 1842. Voyage dans l’Amérique Méridionale (Le Brésil, la République Orientale de l’Uruguay, la République Argentine, la Patagonie, la République du Chili, la République de Bolivia, la République du Pérou) Éxécuté pendant les Années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833), Tome troisième, 4ème Partie: Paléontologie (Travels in South America – Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Patagonia, Chile, Bolivia, Peru – 1826 to 1833, Volume 3, Part 4: Palaeontology)
Recent Publications
- Close, R.A., Vickers-Rich, P., Trusler, P., Chiappe, L.M., O’Connor, J., Rich, T.H., Kool, L. & Komarower, P., In Press. Earliest Gondwanan Bird from the Cretaceous of Southeastern Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
- Rich, T.H., Vickers−Rich, P., Flannery,T.F., Kear, B.P., Cantrill , D.J., Komarower, P., Kool , L., Pickering, D., Trusler, P., Morton , S., Van Klaveren, N. & Fitzgerald, E.M.G., 2009. An Australian multituberculate and its palaeobiogeographic Austral implications. Acta Palaeolontologica Polonica ) 54 (1): 1–6.
- Vickers-Rich, P. & Komarower, P., 2008. Dynamic Biosphere: Changing Fauna and Flora through Geological Time. Monash University, Monash Science Centre, Melbourne.
Scientific editor for:
- Fedonkin, M. A., Gehling, J. G., Grey, K., Narbonne, G. M. & Vickers-Rich, P. (2007). The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia. Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Rich, P.V. & Komarower, P., eds. (2007). The Rise and Fall of the Ediacaran Biota. Geological Society Special Publication 286, London.
- Rich, P.V., Zhang, Y.P., Chow, M.C., Wang, B.Y., Komarower, P., Fan, J.H., Sloss, R., Moody, J.K.M. & Dawson, J., 1994. A Chinese-English and English-Chinese Dictionary of Vertebrate Paleontology Terms. Monash University Publications Committee.
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