
Professional staff at Geological Sciences
Research associate at Alabama Museum of Natural History
Office: Tom Bevill Bldg (Rm 2030)
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Alabama, Box 870338, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
About me
I am Ike (sounds ‘EE-KAY’). If you call me ‘AYE-CK’, I may look at and smile at you. In Japan, people usually call last names to each other (and Ike comes from a part of my family name, Ikejiri!). My name spells 池尻武仁 in Japanese, and Ike (池) literally means a ‘pond’ (or a small lake). I moved from Nagoya, Japan to the States – to study dinosaur and other fossils (i.e., paleontology) in the winter of 1997. Since then, I had lived in Colorado, Kansas, Wyoming, and Michigan in this order.

Education & professional experience
- Ph.D. in Geology (Paleontology) at The University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor (in December 2010)
- ‘Dinosaur researcher‘ at The Wyoming Dinosaur Center, in Thermopolis (January 2005 – May 2006)
- M.S. in Geology (Paleontology) at Fort Hays State University, in Hays, Kansas (in May 2005)
- B.S. in Geology at Fort Hays State University, in Hays, Kansas (in December 2001)
- A.A. in general Science at Trinidad State Junior College, in Colorado (in May 1999)
Research interests
- Vertebrate paleontology
- Paleobotany
- Macroevolution & mass extinctions
- Paleoecology
- Evolutionary developmental biology
Taxonomic interests
- Mesozoic archosaurs (dinosauromorphs, crocodylomorphs, etc.)
- Extant archosaurs (crocodylians & birds)
- Mesozoic marine reptiles (mosasaurs, etc.)
- Cretaceous fish (sharks, bony fish, etc.)
- Paleozoic cartilaginous fish
- Paleozoic trees

Links (for past)
- University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology
- Wyoming Dinosaur Center
- Fort Hays State University (Geosciences)
- Sternberg Museum of Natural History
- Trinidad State Junior College
- Louden-Henritze Archaeology Museum




