Caroline A. E. Strömberg

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Caroline A. E. Strömberg is a Swedish-American paleontologist whose primary research focuses on the deep time evolution and ecology of plants through the use of the fossil record and by comparison with modern analogues, more specifically how previous plant communities changed in response to climate change and how plant evolution affected animal evolution. She is currently the Estella B. Leopold Professor of Biology and an adjunct associate professor in Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington[1][2] and the Curator of Paleobotany at the affiliated Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.[3]

Strömberg obtained her B.A. and M.S. degrees in Historical Geology and Palaeontology from Lund University (1991-1997).[4][5][6] Her master's thesis was titled "The conodont genus Ctenognathodus in the Silurian of Gotland."[7] She obtained her Ph.D. in Integrative Biology from the University of California at Berkeley with a dissertation titled "The origin and spread of grass-dominated ecosystems during the Tertiary of North America and how it relates to the evolution of hypsodonty in equids."[8] She subsequently held postdoctoral positions at the Swedish Museum of Natural History (2004-2006) and the U.S. National Museum of Natural History (2007) before obtaining her current faculty and curatorial positions at the University of Washington in 2007.[4]

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