Dr. F. Robin O'Keefe

Dr. F. Robin O’Keefe

Professor F. Robin O’Keefe received his Bachelor’s degree in honors Biology from Stanford University in 1992, and his Ph.D. in Evolutionary Biology from the University of Chicago in 2000. He has held a faculty position at Marshall University in West Virginia since 2006, where he has taught over two thousand undergraduates in courses ranging from human anatomy to comparative zoology and earth history. Dr. O’Keefe has successfully mentored 19 Master’s degrees, with two in progress. O’Keefe has published widely in journals including Science, Nature, PNAS, Systematic Biology. An acknowledged expert on marine reptiles from the age of dinosaurs, O’Keefe was awarded the 2013 Drinko Distinguished Research Fellowship for his work on plesiosaur reproduction. O’Keefe has also published on the anatomy and relationships of Permian reptiles from Africa, as well as a series of papers on the evolutionary biology of Rancho La Brea carnivores. Doctor O’Keefe has done paleontological field work in the Caribbean, Madagascar, Niger, China, Europe, South America, and throughout the American West, with current digs in the Cretaceous of Wyoming and Montana.