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BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Rowe is the Director of the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory of the Texas Memorial Museum and a Professor of Geological Sciences. He conducts field work primarily on the extinct Mesozoic vertebrates of Texas and the Southwest. He is interested in vertebrate evolutionary relationships and systematics, and on the evolution and development of the vertebrate skeleton. Dr. Rowe has published most extensively on archosaur evolution, the relationships among birds and dinosaurs, the origin of mammals, evolution and development of the mammalian skull and brain, and the broader history of the land-living vertebrates over the last 300 million years. He also conducts research on the development of the skeleton in modern species. To further these interests, he researches the application of advanced digital technologies to understanding complex 3-dimensional structures like the vertebrate skull. Dr. Rowe has pioneered the use of high-resolution X-ray CT (or CAT) scanning in the study of vertebrate anatomy and relationships, and isone of three faculty founders of the UT High Resolution X-ray CT Facility. He was also founding Director of the UT Center for Instructional Technologies, which developed multimedia technologies to electronically publish large digital datasets, and to bring digital technologies into college natural history classes.
