| 词条 | Victoria Arbour |
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| name = Victoria M. Arbour | nationality = Canadian | fields = Paleontology | workplaces = {{unbulleted list |University of Toronto, |Royal Ontario Museum }} | education = BSc, PhD | alma_mater = {{unbulleted list |Dalhousie University, |University of Alberta }} | thesis_title = Systematics, evolution, and biogeography of the ankylosaurid dinosaurs | thesis_url = https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/6d56zx896/Arbour_Victoria_Spring2014.pdf | thesis_year = 2014 | doctoral_advisor = Philip J. Currie | known_for = Ankylosaurs | website = {{URL|pseudoplocephalus.com}} }}Victoria Megan Arbour is a Canadian evolutionary biologist and palaeontologist working as a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto and Royal Ontario Museum.[1][1][2] An "expert on the armoured dinosaurs known as ankylosaurs",[3] Arbour analyzes fossils and creates 3-D computer models. She named the possible pterosaur Gwawinapterus from Hornby Island, and a partial ornithischian dinosaur from Sustut Basin, and has participated in the naming of the ankylosaurs Zuul,[5][6] Zaraapelta,[5] Crichtonpelta,[8] and Ziapelta.[4] Early life and educationBorn in 1983, Arbour is from Halifax, Nova Scotia.[10] Her mother, a math teacher, and father, a soil scientist, supported her science interests.[5] Arbour completed a B.Sc. Honours Thesis supervised by Milton Graves, An ornithischian dinosaur from the Sustut Basin, British Columbia, Canada, and graduated from Dalhousie University in 2006.[6] She completed her master's thesis, Evolution, biomechanics, and function of the tail club of ankylosaurid dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) in 2009, and her Ph.D. thesis, Systematics, evolution, and biogeography of the ankylosaurid dinosaurs, in 2014, both advised by paleontologist Philip Currie at the University of Alberta.[13] CareerArbour is a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada postdoctoral fellow at the Royal Ontario Museum and University of Toronto.[7] As the top-ranked female candidate for the fellowship, she also received a supplement available to applicants who demonstrate "exemplary involvement in science promotion, mentorship, and leadership".[8] From 2014 to 2016 she was a postdoctoral researcher with a joint appointment at North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and North Carolina State University.[4][9] Arbour primarily studies dinosaurs in the group Ankylosauria, including biomechanical analyses of tail clubs.[10][11] Arbour has studied microfossils from Nova Scotia.[13] She has also named the possible pterosaur Gwawinapterus from Hornby Island, and a partial ornithischian dinosaur from Sustut Basin, both locations in British Columbia.[13] She has participated in the naming of the ankylosaurs Zuul,[12][13][14] Zaraapelta,[12] Crichtonpelta,[10] Ziapelta,[4][15] as well as resurrecting Dyoplosaurus,[16] and publishing a new phylogenetic analysis on the interrelationships of Ankylosauridae.[30] According to Brian Alary of the University of Alberta, "She's contributed to history-making research by analyzing fossils and creating 3-D computer models, developed course materials and taught 35,000 students at a time through the Dino 101 MOOC."[17] Philip Currie credits Arbour for involving the paleontology discipline with the University of Alberta's "Women in Scholarship, Engineering, Science & Technology", making study of dinosaurs more appealing to women.[17] ReferencesExternal links
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