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

University of Alabama (homepage)