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Personal profile
Biography
Patricia works in the Monash Science Centre at Monash University as an Emerita Professor and the Director of PrimeSCI!, a group that provides science education to primary and early secondary students as well as preschools, as well as developing curriculum and providing training for teachers. She also travels to exhibitions that highlight cutting edge research (Dinosaurs: Dawn to Extinction; Wildlife of Gondwana; Dinosaurs of Darkness; the Flow on Effect of Peter Trusler's Paleoreconstruction Art, etc.) which generates funding for university students and underwrites expeditionary work.
She is an elected member of the NY Explorers Club, and elected member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, an Honorary Researcher of Museum Victoria and the Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and has gained more than 30 National Geographic Grants for field research in southern Africa, Siberia, Argentina, China, Australia and Saudi Arabia.
Patricia has written a number of research and popular books which have won awards including the Premier of Victoria's Science book of the year, the Eureka awards for science writing, and has published more than 200 scientific publications, including several in Science over the years.
She still teaches at undergraduate level, mentors graduate student projects and is involved in early childhood education projects in Afghanistan, Timor-Leste, Namibia and Argentina.
Research area keywords
- Field Work Saudi Arabia
- Argentina
- Timor-Leste
- Namibia
- Siberia
- Phanerozoic and Precambrian Palaeobiology
- Science Communication
- Jurassic - Cretaceous Gondwana
- Exhibitions (Wildlife of Gondwana
- Dinosaurs of Darkness
- etc.)
- Ediacaran
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Projects
Mesozoic Austral Biodiversity: Research and Regional Museum Applications
Rich, P., Kear, B. P., Lee, M., Hock, S., McLoughlin, S. & Rich, T.
Australian Research Council (ARC)
1/01/10 → …
Project: Research
IGCP: Australian IGCP committee of the INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGICAL CORRELATION PROGRAM Travel Grant 2020
Rich, P., Hall, M. & Rich, T.
2/03/20 → 23/04/20
Project: Research
Research Output
A polar dinosaur feather assemblage from Australia
Kundrát, M., Rich, T. H., Lindgren, J., Sjövall, P., Vickers-Rich, P., Chiappe, L. M. & Kear, B. P., Apr 2020, In : Gondwana Research. 80, p. 1-11 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
R. A. Stirton: pioneer of Australian mammalian palaeontology
Rich, T. H., Lawson, P. F., Vickers-Rich, P. & Tedford, R. H., 13 Apr 2019, In : Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 143, 2, p. 244–282 40 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Other › peer-review
A ~565 Ma old glaciation in the Ediacaran of peri-Gondwanan West Africa
Linnemann, U., Pidal, A. P., Hofmann, M., Drost, K., Quesada, C., Gerdes, A., Marko, L., Gärtner, A., Zieger, J., Ulrich, J., Krause, R., Vickers-Rich, P. & Horak, J., Apr 2018, In : International Journal of Earth Sciences. 107, 3, p. 885-911 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
17
Citations
(Scopus)
A preliminary report on new Ediacaran fossils from Iran
Vickers-Rich, P., Soleimani, S., Farjandi, F., Zand, M., Linnemann, U., Hofmann, M., Wilson, S. A., Cas, R. & Rich, T. H., 2018, In : Alcheringa. 42, 2, p. 230-243 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
1
Citation
(Scopus)
Early Cretaceous polar biotas of Victoria, southeastern Australia—an overview of research to date
Poropat, S. F., Martin, S. K., Tosolini, A. M. P., Wagstaff, B. E., Bean, L. B., Kear, B. P., Vickers-Rich, P. & Rich, T. H., 3 Apr 2018, In : Alcheringa. 42, 2, p. 157-229 73 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Other › peer-review
18
Citations
(Scopus)