{"id":10,"date":"2018-03-08T08:58:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T16:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-vanvalkenburgh\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2021-01-08T16:40:19","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T00:40:19","slug":"blaire","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-vanvalkenburgh\/blaire\/","title":{"rendered":"Blaire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_full-79ff81c021393065cee878051452f6a6\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_full-79ff81c021393065cee878051452f6a6{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_one_full-79ff81c021393065cee878051452f6a6 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kjoz2avg-c12b0dc97331cc3aa5edc7bd9486f9c9\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-kjoz2avg-c12b0dc97331cc3aa5edc7bd9486f9c9{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-kjoz2avg-c12b0dc97331cc3aa5edc7bd9486f9c9 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-kjoz2avg-c12b0dc97331cc3aa5edc7bd9486f9c9 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-kjoz2avg-c12b0dc97331cc3aa5edc7bd9486f9c9 av-special-heading-h3  avia-builder-el-1  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >DR. BLAIRE VAN VALKENBURGH <\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='flex_column_table av-kjoz4nz1-a774bbbfac6365975f1446f25bb5233f sc-av_two_third av-equal-height-column-flextable'>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kjoz4nz1-a774bbbfac6365975f1446f25bb5233f\">\n.flex_column.av-kjoz4nz1-a774bbbfac6365975f1446f25bb5233f{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-kjoz4nz1-a774bbbfac6365975f1446f25bb5233f av_two_third  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_third  first no_margin flex_column_table_cell av-equal-height-column av-align-bottom av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-kjoz8jft-252c116b656f647030c19538022a94b8 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-30 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-vanvalkenburgh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/2018\/03\/BVV-Tanzania2005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-vanvalkenburgh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/2018\/03\/BVV-Tanzania2005.jpg 364w, https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-vanvalkenburgh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/2018\/03\/BVV-Tanzania2005-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kjozbnai-03622f7befe836213404fff7ccbb8cd2\">\n.flex_column.av-kjozbnai-03622f7befe836213404fff7ccbb8cd2{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-kjozbnai-03622f7befe836213404fff7ccbb8cd2 av_one_third  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_two_third  el_before_av_one_full  no_margin flex_column_table_cell av-equal-height-column av-align-bottom av-zero-column-padding  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-kjoyvoqw-f9d45934be067c619943d120daee74ae '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Donald R. Dickey Chair in Vertebrate Biology<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Distinguished Research Professor, Emeritus<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>email:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><a href=\"mailto:bvanval@ucla.edu\">bvanval@ucla.edu<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>phone:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">(310) 794-9398<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>address:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\">Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"> UCLA<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"> 621 Charles E Young Drive South<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif\"> Los Angeles, CA 90095-1606<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><!--close column table wrapper. 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Modern species evolved within much more diverse and complex guilds of large predators that included species such as short-faced bears, sabertooth cats, and dire wolves.\u00a0 To better understand both the dynamics of extant predator communities and the adaptations of individual species, I explore the fossil record of carnivores from both ecological and evolutionary perspectives, sometimes focusing on guilds of species in distinct time horizons, and other times focusing on the evolutionary trajectories of species over millions of years.\u00a0 Under the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-vanvalkenburgh\/research\/\">RESEARCH<\/a> section, I describe several recent areas of research that exemplify the current work in my lab.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div  class='hr av-av_hr-7bacd336e8c7b574fdeac16e430feaa5 hr-default  avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-last '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-vanvalkenburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-vanvalkenburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-vanvalkenburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-vanvalkenburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-vanvalkenburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-vanvalkenburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-vanvalkenburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.lifesci.ucla.edu\/eeb-vanvalkenburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}