EES PhD alumnus Eric Wilberg wins Best Student Paper award from Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Friday, August 5, 2016

Eric Wilberg
Eric Wilberg

University of Iowa alumnus Eric Wilberg, who received his PhD from the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences in 2012, has won the 2016 Taylor & Francis Best Student Paper award. The annual award provides funding for the best student first-authored paper published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

His paper is titled, “A New Metriorhynchoid (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia) from the Middle Jurassic of Oregon and the Evolutionary Timing of Marine Adaptations in Thalattosuchian Corcodylomorphs.”

Wilberg completed his PhD under the mentorship of Earth & Environmental Sciences Professor Christopher Brochu. Wilberg is now an instructor in the Department of Anatomical Sciences in the School of Medicine at Stony Brook University.

The Department Earth & Environmental Sciences is part of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.


The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.