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

+1 (205) 348-5095 (dept office)    

  Home page: tikejiri.people.ua.edu/

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 () 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.

w/ e-Chi in 2015

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
w/ Camarasaurus skeleton

Links (for past)