BACKGROUND

Bob Dundas is a vertebrate paleontologist specializing in the study of Quaternary mammals of North America. A native of Missoula, Montana, Bob received his B.A. in Geology from the University of Montana. He pursued graduate studies at the University of California at Berkeley where he received his C.Phil. and Ph.D. in Paleontology. After completing his doctoral work, Bob taught for two years as a Lecturer on the faculty of the Department of Geosciences at San Francisco State University. In 1998, he joined the faculty at California State University, Fresno. Over the years Bob has also had other professional associations, including Adjunct Faculty of the State Center Community College District in California, Faculty Affiliate of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Montana, Research Fellow at the University of California Museum of Paleontology at Berkeley and Research Associate at the Museum of the Rockies, Montana State University, Bozeman. He belongs to several professional societies, including The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, The Paleontological Society, The Geological Society of America, American Geophysical Union, and Society of American Foresters. Bob is author of numerous publications related to vertebrate paleontology and the history of railroad logging in Montana. Active in the community, he co-founded the San Joaquin Valley Paleontology Foundation in 1996, serving as the organization's first President. Bob also serves on the Madera County Board of Supervisor's Dig Oversight Committee, which oversees the County's Fairmead Landfill fossil locality. He maintains well funded programs in academic research and applied paleontology, bringing in over $1.2 million in the past few years, including financial support for graduate and undergraduate students.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Trayler, Robin B. and Robert G. Dundas. 2009. American Mastodon (Mammut americanum) in the Rancho La Brea Collection of the University of California Museum of Paleontology. Current Research in the Pleistocene, v.26, pp.184-186.

Dundas, Robert G., Yesenia Ibarra, Frederika J. M. Harmsen and Peter K. Van de Water. 2009. Bison cf. B. latifrons from the Late Pleistocene Broach Locality, Fresno, California. Current Research in the Pleistocene, v.26, pp.149-151.

Dundas, Robert G. 2005. The Late Pleistocene Vertebrate Fauna, pp.79-90 in The Merrell Locality & Centenniel Valley, Southwest Montana, Pleistocene Geology, Paleontology & Prehistoric Archaeology (Christopher Hill and Leslie B. Davis, eds.), Bureau of Land Management Cultural Resources Series No.4, Montana State Office.

Dundas, Robert G. 2005. Heron Lumber Company, Flathead Indian Reservation Logging Operations 1917-1930. Tall Timber Short Lines, n.79, pp.12-28.

Dundas, Robert G. 2003. The Lumberman’s Library, An account of the ACM’s rolling reading room. Tall Timber Short Lines, n.73, pp.30-36.

O'Gara, Bart W. and Robert G. Dundas. 2002. Chapter 2. Distribution: Past and Present pp.67-119 in North American Elk: Ecology and Management (Dale E. Toweill & Jack Ward Thomas, eds.), Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.

Bartholomew, Mervin J., Michael C. Stickney, Edith M. Wilde, and Robert G. Dundas. 2002. Late Quaternary paleoseismites: Syndepositional features and section restoration used to indicate paleoseismicity and stress-field orientations during faulting along the main Lima Reservoir fault, southwestern Montana pp.29-47 in Ancient Seismites (Ettensohn, F.R., Rast, N., and Brett, C.E., eds.), Geological Society of America, Special Paper 359, pp.29-47.

Dundas, Robert G. 1999. Quaternary records of the dire wolf, Canis dirus, in North and South America. Boreas, v.28, n.3, pp.375-385.

Dundas, Robert G., Christopher L. Hill, and David C. Batten. 1996. Late Pleistocene Fauna from the Merrell Locality, Centennial Valley, Montana: Summary of the Vertebrate Remains from the 1994 and 1995 Excavations. Current Research in the Pleistocene, v.13, pp.103-105.

Dundas, Robert G., Randall B. Smith, and Kenneth L. Verosub. 1996. Fairmead Landfill Locality (Pleistocene, Irvingtonian), Madera County, California: Preliminary Report and Significance. Pages 50-58 in The Uses of Vertebrate Fossils in Biostratigraphic correlation (C. J. Bell and S. S. Sumida, eds.), PaleoBios, v.17, n.2-4.

Bell, Christopher J. and Robert G. Dundas. 1993. Fossil lizards from Rancho La Brea in the collections of the University of California Museum of Paleontology. Pages 14‑17 in New Additions to the Pleistocene Vertebrate Record of California (R. G. Dundas and D. J. Long, eds.), PaleoBios, v.15, n.2.

Dundas, Robert G. and Laura M. Cunningham. 1993. Harlan's Ground Sloth (Glossotherium harlani) and Columbian Mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) from Stevenson Bridge, Yolo County, California. Pages 47‑62 in New Additions to the Pleistocene Vertebrate Record of California (R. G. Dundas and D. J. Long, eds.), PaleoBios, v.15, n.3.

Dundas, Robert G. and Douglas J. Long (editors). 1993. New Additions to the Pleistocene Vertebrate Record of California. PaleoBios, v.15, n.1‑4, 80p.

Dundas, Robert G. 1992. A Scimitar Cat (Homotherium serum) From the Late Pleistocene Merrell Locality, Southwestern Montana. PaleoBios, v.14, n.1, pp.9‑12

Dundas, Robert G. 1991. A Late Pleistocene Occurrence of Equus and Camelops hesternus From the Flint Creek Area, Western Montana. PaleoBios, v.13, n.51, pp.7‑11.

Dundas, Robert G. 1990. Paleontology and Geology of the Late Pleistocene Hoover Creek Terrace, Granite and Powell Counties, Montana. Northwest Geology, v.19, pp.31-37.

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RECENT ABSTRACTS

Dundas, Robert G., Frederika J. Harmsen, and John Wakabayashi. 2009. Mammuthus and Camelops from Pleistocene Strata along the Caltrans State Route 180 West Project, Fresno, California. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v.41, n.7, p.109.

Ibarra, Yesenia, Robert G. Dundas, Frederika J. Harmsen and Peter K. Van de Water. 2009. Late Pleistocene Bison cf. B. latifrons from Fresno, California with Comments on the Age of the Upper Unit of the Modesto Formation. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v.41, n.7, p.109.

Trayler, Robin B. and Robert G. Dundas. 2009. Rancho La Brea Mastodons, Are They Smaller Than Mammut Found Elsewhere in the United States? Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v.41, n.7, p.454.

Kottachchi, Niranjala, Joe A. Canchola and Robert G. Dundas. 2009. Platygonus cf. P. vetus from the Middle Pleistocene (Late Irvingtonian) Fairmead Landfill Locality, Madera County, California. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v.41, n.7, p.453.

Dundas, Robert G. 2009. The Late Irvingtonian Fairmead Landfill Locality, Madera County, California: Partnership in Management and Research at the Local Level. Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Fossil Resources, St. George, Utah, pp.113-114.

Tovar, Danny H. and Robert G. Dundas. 2009. California State University, Fresno and the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans): Collaboration in Paleontological Resource Assessment and Impact Mitigation. Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Fossil Resources, St. George, Utah, pp.79-80.

Tovar, Danny H. and Robert G. Dundas. 2008. Irvingtonian occurrences of Homotherium from Irvington and Fairmead Landfill in California. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v.28, n.3 supplement, pp.152A-153A (abstract). Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 2008 annual meeting, Cleveland, Ohio.

Anglen, J. Jeffrey, James C. Chatters, and Robert G. Dundas. 2008. Taphonomy of isolated skeletal elements from the Fairmead Landfill locality (Pleistocene, Irvingtonian), Madera County, California. 2008 California Paleontology Conference Abstracts with Program, PaleoBios, v.28, n.1 (supplement), p.1.

Kottachchi, Niranjala, Robert G. Dundas, and James C. Chatters. 2008. The Fairmead Landfill fossil site: continuing recovery of a diverse middle Pleistocene (late Irvingtonian) biota in Madera County, California. 2008 California Paleontology Conference Abstracts with Program, PaleoBios, v.28, n.1 (supplement), p.4.

Tovar, Danny H., Joe A. Canchola and Robert G. Dundas. 2008. Columbian Mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) from the late Irvingtonian Fairmead Landfill locality, Madera County, California. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v.40, n.1, p.44.

Dundas, Robert G. 2007. The Late Pleistocene Vertebrate Fauna from the Merrell Locality, Beaverhead County, Montana. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v.39, n.6, p.77.

Dundas, Robert G. 2007. Did Interspecific Competition with the Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) Cause the Extinction of the Dire Wolf (Canis dirus)? Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v.39, n.4, p.3.

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