Arthur H. Harris

Arthur H. Harris
Harris in his office at the University of Texas at El Paso
Alma materUniversity of New Mexico
Awardssee article section
Scientific career
FieldsMammalogy and Paleontology
InstitutionsFort Hays State University, University of Texas at El Paso
Doctoral advisorJames S. Findley[1]
Author abbrev. (zoology)A. H. Harris

Arthur H. Harris is an American mammalogist and paleontologist.

Education

Arthur H. Harris spent his academic career at the University of New Mexico where he earned a Bachelor's degree in biology with a minor in anthropology (1958), a Master of Science in zoology with a minor in botany (1959) and a PhD in vertebrate zoology with a minor in geochronology in 1965.

Professional career

Harris began his career as an assistant professor of zoology at Ft. Hays Kansas State College. From there he relocated to The University of Texas at El Paso where he held the positions of assistant professor of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, and Professor of Biological Sciences. After his retirement from teaching, Harris was honored as Professor Emeritus, Biological Sciences.

Harris is Past Director of the Laboratory for Environmental Biology (now the UTEP Biodiversity Collections), Curator of Higher Vertebrates, and Curator of Vertebrate Paleobiology.[2] He is a Research Associate in the Museum of Southwestern Biology Division of Mammals.[3]

Research

Harris's research is focused primarily on Pleistocene vertebrate faunal remains from the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.

Pendejo Cave

Harris completed a preliminary report on the fauna of the Pendejo Cave in 1991.[4] Subsequently, he prepared a review of the vertebrate fauna of the cave[5] and contributed this research for a section of Pendejo Cave.[6] Subsequently, both Harris and others have reworked the faunal list for the cave extensively to better reflect the time units and modifications of identifications since Pendejo Cave was published.[7]

Awards

  • NSF Graduate Fellowship (1959-1960)[8]
  • NSF Graduate Fellowship (1961-1962)[9]

Taxa

Taxa named for Arthur H. Harris

Taxa described by Arthur H. Harris

Selected publications

Arthur H. Harris Field Journal 1965
  • Russell, Brett D., and Arthur H. Harris. 1986. A New Leporine (Lagomorpha: Leporidae) from Wisconsinan Deposits of the Chihuahuan Desert.. In: Journal of Mammalogy 67(4):632-639, doi:10.2307/1381125.
  • Harris, Arthur H., and Linda S. W. Porter. 1980. Late Pleistocene Horses of Dry Cave, Eddy County, New Mexico.. In: Journal of Mammalogy 61(1):46-65.t, doi:10.2307/1379956.
  • Findley, James S., Arthur H. Harris, Don E. Wilson, and Clyde Jones. 1975. Mammals of New Mexico. University of New Mexico Press. 360 pp.

Harris has published extensively. See external links for more comprehensive sources.

Service

Harris communicated his research to the public through writing episodes of Desert Diaries, a series of radio shorts presented by the Centennial Museum and National Public Radio for the Southwest (KTEP) from 2001 to 2005.[12]

He served as Managing Editor of The Southwestern Naturalist a publication of the Southwestern Association of Naturalists from 1978 to 1982.

References

  1. ^ "History of the Mammal Collection". University of New Mexico, Museum of Southwestern Biology. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  2. ^ "Art Harris Bio". UTEP Biodiversity Collections. University of Texas at El Paso. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  3. ^ "Associates of the Division of Mammals". University of New Mexico Museum of Southwestern Biology. 2005. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
  4. ^ Harris, Arthur H. (1991). "Preliminary report on the fauna of Pendejo Cave, Otero County, New Mexico". Current Research in the Pleistocene. 8: 92–93.
  5. ^ Harris, Arthur H. (1995). "The vertebrate fauna from Pendejo Cave, Otero County, New Mexico". Directorate of Environment, Cultural Resources Branch, U.S. Army Air Defense Artillery Center, Fort Bliss, TX.: 1–60.
  6. ^ MacNeish, Richard; Libby, Jane, eds. (2004). Pendejo Cave. University of New Mexico. pp. 36–65. ISBN 978-0826324054. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
  7. ^ Harris, Arthur H. "Pendejo Cave". Pleistocene Vertebrates of Southwestern USA and Northwestern Mexico. University of Texas at El Paso. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
  8. ^ "Fellowship Awards". The Ninth Annual Report of the National Science Foundation (PDF). The National Science Foundation. 1959. p. 248. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
  9. ^ "Fellowship Awards". The Eleventh Annual Report of the National Science Foundation (PDF). The National Science Foundation. 1961. p. 247. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
  10. ^ Carraway, Leslie N. (2010-07-09). "Fossil history of Notiosorex (Soricomorpha: Soricidae) shrews with descriptions of new fossil species". Western North American Naturalist. 70 (2): 155. Bibcode:2010WNAN...70..144C. doi:10.3398/064.070.0202. S2CID 86042657. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  11. ^ Metcalf, Artie L. (1977). "Two new species of Ashmunella from Dona Ana County, New Mexico, with notes on the Ashmunella kochii Clapp complex (Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Polygyridae)". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 90: 895. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
  12. ^ "Desert Diaries Index". KTEP's Desert Diary Web Pages. University of Texas at El Paso. Retrieved 18 April 2020.