Christopher A. Norris
 
Director of Collections & Archives
 
B.A., University of Oxford, 1988
 
D.Phil, University of Oxford, 1992
 
 
 
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  • Development of collections policy and strategic planning.
  • Climate control and environmental monitoring of collections.
  • Collection database development.
  • Preventive conservation of collections.
  • Management of collections staff.
  • Security, access, and emergency response issues.
  • Management of Osborn Library and divisional archives.
  • Co-Director of Building 3A renovation moves.
  • Acting collection manager, Fossil Mammals.
 
     
Recent Grant Support  
     
NSF DBI-353533 Workshop on Emergency Preparedness and Response in Natural History Collections
NSF DBI-545155 Support for the AMNH Fossil Mammal Collection: An Integrated Program to Rehouse Types and Perissodactyla and Enhance On-Line Collections Data and Web-Based Educational Resources
NSF EAR-552256 Collaborative Research: the Paleontology Portal
NSF BCS-653793 Workshop on Databases and Data-sharing in Paleoanthropology
     
Selected Publications  
Crosby, K. and Norris, C.A. 2003. Periotic morphology in the trichosurin possums Strigocuscus celebensis and Wyulda squamicaudata (Diprotodontia, Phalangeridae) and a revised definition of the Trichosurini. American Museum Novitates, 3414; 1-14.
Delson, E., Harcourt-Smith, W.E.H., Frost, S.R., and Norris, C.A. 2007. Databases, data access, and data sharing in paleoanthropology: first steps. Evolutionary Anthropology, 16: 161-163.  
Flemming, C., Norris, C.A., and Bell, S.K. 2005. Re-revealed: vertebrate paleontology archives in the American Museum of Natural History. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 25 (suppl. 3): 57A.  
Jerve, A., Youngfert, A., Elkin, L., and Norris, C.A. 2007. An improved approach to fossil mammal type collection housing. Poster Presentation, SPNHC 2007, Minnesota
Norris, C.A. 1993. Changes in the composition of the auditory bulla from populations of the grey cuscus, Phalanger orientalis breviceps (Marsupialia, Phalangeridae) from the southern Solomon Islands. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 107: 93-106.
Norris, C.A. 1994. The periotic bones of possums and cuscuses: cuscus polyphyly and the division of the marsupial family Phalangeridae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 111: 73-98.
Norris, C.A. 1999a. The cranium of Bunomeryx (Artiodactyla: Homacodontidae) from the late Eocene Uinta deposits of Utah, and its implications for tylopod systematics. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 19(4): 742-751.  
Norris, C.A.1999b. Phalanger lullulae. Mammalian Species, 621: 1-4.
Norris, C.A. 2000. The cranium of Leptotragulus, a hornless protoceratid (Artiodactyla: Protoceratidae) from the middle Eocene of North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 20(2): 341-348.
Norris, C.A. and Harrison, D.L. 1998a. A possible omomyid periotic (Primates: Omomyidae) from the Eocene deposits at Hordle, Hampshire. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensa, 41: 61-68.  
Norris, C.A. and Harrison, D.L. 1998b. Mammalian periotics from the Eocene deposits of Hordle, Hampshire. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensa, 41: 69-77.  
Norris, C.A. and Musser, G.G. 2001. Systematic Revision within the Phalanger orientalis complex (Diprotodontia, Phalangeridae): a third species of lowland gray cuscus from New Guinea & Australia. American Museum Novitates, 3356: 1-20.
Norris, C.A. and Pickering, J. 1994. Catalogue of specimens of Monotremata and Marsupialia in the Zoological Collections of the Oxford University Museum. University Museum, Oxford. 83pp.  
Pickering, J. and Norris, C.A. 1996. New evidence on the extinction of the endemic murid Rattus macleari from Christmas Island, Indian Ocean. Australian Mammalogy, 19: 35-41.  
     
Web Projects  
MuseumSOS.org  
Richard Gilder Graduate School at AMNH  
MuseumPests.net  
AMNH Division of Paleontology  
     
 
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