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Mark McMenamin
Mark A. S. McMenamin is an American paleontologist and professor of geology at Mount Holyoke College. He has contributed to the study of the Cambrian explosion and the Ediacaran biota. McMenamin has articulated novel solutions to challenging problems associated with study of the history of life and the history of geographic exploration.
He is the author of several books, most recently ''The Garden of Ediacara: Discovering the Earliest Complex Life'' one of the only popular accounts of research on the Ediacaran biota, and ''Science 101: Geology''. He is credited with co-naming several geological formations in Mexico, describing several new fossil genera and species, and naming the Precambrian supercontinent Rodinia. The Cambrian archeocyathid species ''Markocyathus clementensis'' was named in his honor in 1989.〔 〕
==Early life and career==
McMenamin was born in Oregon,〔 earned his B.S. at Stanford University in 1979 and his PhD at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1984.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mark McMenamin Professor of Geology )〕 In 1980, while at Santa Barbara he met his future wife, Dianna, also a paleontology graduate student, with whom he would co-author several publications. He joined the staff at Mount Holyoke College in 1984.
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