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John R. Hutchinson
Reader in Evolutionary Biomechanics
Structure and Motion Laboratory
The Royal Veterinary College
University of London
North Mymms, Hatfield, Herts
AL9 7TA, United Kingdom
phone: 44 1707 666313
fax: 44 1707 666371
e-mail: jrhutch at (the @ symbol) rvc.ac.uk
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Homepage (at RVC)
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John writes:
I was trained as a biologist (B.S., University of Wisconsin, 1993) and specialized in the evolution of dinosaur anatomy and locomotion (Ph.D., University of California, 2001), and in 2002 when this work was published was an NSF postdoctoral research fellow in the Biomechanical Engineering Division at Stanford University. The biomechanics skills I learned there were to make me a better evolutionary biomechanist. One of my goals is drawing the fields of biomechanics and evolution closer together. My research focuses on the evolution of locomotion in terrestrial vertebrates and the relationship between size, anatomy, and locomotor biomechanics. Currently I study dinosaurs (and their bird descendants), elephants, crocodiles, and other large land animals.
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Dan Famini
(Class of 2005)
School of Veterinary Medicine
University of California
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616
(please use e-mail to contact)
E-mail: djfamini@ucdavis.edu
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Dan writes:
I am a veterinary student at UC Davis pursuing the zoological medicine track.Thanks to this project I can now claim to have analyzed more video data of moving elephants than anyone who ever lived.
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Richard C. Lair
Advisor and International Affairs Officer
Thai Elephant Conservation Center, National Elephant Institute,
Forest Industry Organization
P.O. Box 26, Lampang 52000, Thailand
Phone: 66-1-993-5821
Personal e-mail: rlair@loxinfo.co.th
Office e-mail: fiolair1@loxinfo.co.th
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Richard writes:
I studied film (B.A.; San Francisco State University) and as a professional won top prizes at the New York and Atlanta Film Festivals. The life sciences, particularly biology, and conservation have fascinated me since early childhood; and nature cinematography led me to wild Asian elephants in 1978. I am a member of the IUCN/SSC Asian Elephant Specialist Group and wrote the book "Gone Astray: The Care and Management of the Asian Elephant in Domesticity" (1997), a multi-disciplinary study. I helped introduce elephant painting to Thailand and am co-founder of the Thai Elephant Orchestra, believing innovative and creative directions are needed to provide a viable future for captive elephants in modern Asia. Presently, I am working at the Thai Elephant Conservation Center, Lampang, Thailand.
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Rodger Kram
Associate Professor
Department of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology
University of Colorado, 354 UCB
Boulder CO 80309-0354
Lab phone: (303) 492-7984
E-mail: rodger.kram@colorado.edu
Homepage (at Colorado)
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Rodger writes:
My students and I study how humans and other animals walk and run. We are most interested in the links between the biomechanics of how animals move and how much metabolic energy they consume. The general principles that we discover have application to the treatment of people and animals with gait disabilities.
I have studied animals as small as a milligram (ants) to these several thousand kilogram elephants. I have had the fun of studying penguins, kangaroos, llamas, beetles, dogs, horses, goats, etc., etc. I love watching animals run and enjoy running myself.
I'd like to think that my two late mentors, Dick Taylor and Tom McMahon would get a kick out of our elephant discovery. Dick taught me to study extreme animals and he organized our first elephant metabolic experiments. Tom was the first to mathematically understand how running animals bounce. Both of them showed me that any energy you put into exciting a student pays back a hundred times over. It has been a lot of fun to mentor John and Dan.
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