Jere Lipps

Jere Lipps is Curator/Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP), University of California, Berkeley. His lifelong research integrates marine geology, marine biology, and paleontology, focusing especially on modern and fossil protists including foraminifera.

Research Interests

• Modern and fossil marine protists, particularly foraminifera
• Marine geology and paleoecology from tropical to Antarctic seas
• Stratigraphic and environmental history of fossil deposits worldwide (Galápagos, Russia, China, Western North America, Mexico, New Zealand, Azores)

His field investigations span living planktonic and benthic communities as well as ancient sedimentary records, providing key insights into evolutionary stasis, environmental change, and the geological history of ocean basins.

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Laboratories & Teams
As a senior figure at UCMP, Lipps curates and researches within one of the world’s leading paleontological collections, collaborating with an international network of micropaleontologists, stratigraphers, and marine biologists.