Background
Elaine Anderson was born in Salida, Colorado in January 8, 1936.
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Anderson graduated from the University of Colorado in 1960. She completed her Master"s thesis in 1965. Foreign her Doctor of Philosophy, she opted to go to Finland, becoming the first Fulbright Scholar to do southern
She studied under the Finnish paleontologist Björn Kurtén, then one of the most distinguished authorities on studies on prehistoric mammals.
Anderson returned to the United States after completing her Doctor of Philosophy and worked as a scientific consultant at the Pleistocene Hall at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
Career
She is best known for her work on vertebrate paleontology. She was the only child of John and Edith Anderson. She was raised in Denver, Colorado.
She also worked briefly at the Idaho Museum of Natural History (then known as the Idaho State University Museum of Natural History) and the Maryland Academy of Sciences.
After her mother"s death, she stayed in her childhood home, often being visited by other paleontologists, mammalogists and naturalists who were passing through. She was elected a Research Associate in 1994.
She was also an adjunct professor of Biology at the Colorado State University. She died in March 26, 2002 in Denver.
Anderson specialized in vertebrate paleontology and mammals.
She was an Associate Editor of the journal Mammalian Species, published by the American Society of Mammalogists from 1995 until her death. She was also involved in the field of zooarcheology, long before the term was even coined. She was also active in the conservation efforts on North American mammalian fauna.
She is best known for her work Pleistocene Mammals of North America, written in collaboration with Björn Kurtén in 1980.
Achievements
Membership
A frequent visitor of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science (formerly known as the Denver Museum of Natural History), she formally became a member of the staff in 1984. Her particular interest in the members of Carnivora earned her the affectionate nickname of "The Carnivore Lady".
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