Curriculum Vitae

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Appointments

  • Field Program Director & Permanent Lecturer, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University (2023–present)
  • Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Climate School, Columbia University (2021–2023)
  • Lecturer, Associate Concentration Advisor, and College Fellow, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge MA (2019–2021)
  • Research Affiliate, Turkana Basin Institute and National Museums of Kenya, Kenya (2019–present)
  • Ruth L. Kirschstein T90 NIH Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mineralized Tissue Biology, The Forsyth Institute, Cambridge MA (2017–2019)
  • Research Associate, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University (2017–present)

Education

  • Ph.D. 2017, Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University. “Reconstructing oxygen isotope seasonality in large herbivores through mineralization modeling, experimentation and optimization.”
  • M.A. 2012, Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University.
  • B.S. 2008, triple major in Anthropology–Zoology, History, French and Francophone Studies, Minor in Biology, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Publications

  • Green DR, Winkler D, Leichliter J, Harms G, Hatt J-M, Clauss M, Tütken T (2023) Formation and Replacement of Bone and Tooth Mineralized Tissues in Green Iguanas (Iguana iguana) Revealed by In-Vivo Fluorescence Marking. Integrative and Comparative Biology,, icad089, Access.
  • Green DR, Avila JN, Cote S, Dirks W, Lee D, Poulsen CJ, Williams IS, Smith TM (2022) Fine-Scaled Climate Variation in Equatorial Africa Revealed by Modern and Fossil Primate Teeth Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(35): e2123366119, Access.
  • Smith TM, Austin C, Ávila JN, Dirks W, Green DR, Williams IS, Arora M (2022) Permanent signatures of birth and nursing initiation are chemically recorded in teeth. Journal of Archaeological Science, Access.
  • [Cover article]Green DR, Olack G, Tütken T, Leichliter J, Winkler DE, Clauss M, Vonhof H, Colman AS (2022) A simple method for measuring blood oxygen isotope compositions. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, Access.
  • Smith TM, Austin C, Cook L, Dirks W, Green DR, Arora M (2021) Biological rhythms and chemical records in teeth reveal juvenile diet, health, and neurotoxicant exposures retrospectively. Bioessays, Access.
  • Merceron G, Berlioz E, Vonhof H, Green DR, Garel M, Noûs C, Tütken T (2020) Tooth tales told by dental diet proxies: an alpine community of sympatric ruminants as a model to decipher the ecology of fossil fauna. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 562:110077. Access.
  • Stifler CA, Jakes J, North JD, Green DR, Weaver JC, Gilbert PU (2020) Crystal misorientation correlates with hardness in tooth enamels. Acta Biomaterialia, In Press. Access.
  • Green DR, Hardt M, Schulte F, Lee K-H, Pugach MK, Bidlack FB (2019) Integrating microsampling and proteomics to map matrix protein posttranslational modifications during tooth enamel mineralization. Frontiers in Physiology, 10:925. Access.
  • Goodson JM, Hardt M, Hartman M-L, Alqaderi H, Green DR, Tavares M, Mutawa A-L, Ariga J, Soparkar P, Behbehani J, Behbehani K (2019) Salivary N1-Methyl-2-pyridone-5-carboxamide, a biomarker for uranium uptake, in Kuwaiti children exhibiting exceptional weight gain. Frontiers in Endocrinology, 10:280. Access.
  • Smith TM,* Austin C*, Green DR*, Joannes-Boyau R*, Bailey S, Dumitriu D, Fallon S, Grün R, James HF, Moncel M-H, Williams IS, Wood R, Arora M (2018) Wintertime stress, nursing, and lead exposure in Neanderthal children. Science Advances 4: eaau9483 *These authors contributed equally to this work. Access.
  • Green DR, Smith TM, Green GM, Bidlack FB, Tafforeau P, Colman AS (2018) Quantitative reconstruction of seasonality from stable isotopes in teeth. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 235:483–504. Access.
  • Green DR, Olack G, Colman AS (2018) Determinants of blood water δ18O variation in a population of experimental sheep: implications for paleoclimate reconstruction. Chemical Geology 485:32-43. Access.
  • Green DR, Green GM, Bidlack FB, Colman AS, Tafforeau P, Smith TM (2017) Synchrotron imaging and Markov Chain Monte Carlo reveal tooth mineralization patterns, PLoS ONE 12(10): e0186391. Access.
  • Cho S, Huang ZY, Green DR, Smith DR, Zhang J (2006) Balancing selection generates trans-species polymorphisms at the complementary sex-determination locus of honey bees. Genome Research 16:1366-1375. Access.

Invited Lectures

  • Green DR (2023) Dental Records from the Miocene World of Kenya. Paleontology Section Seminar Series, The National Museums of Kenya (NMK) (invited talk).
  • Green DR (2023) Seasonal Ecology of Primates and Hominins in the Eastern African Neogene. New York Regional Primatology Lecture Series, The New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology (NYCEP) (invited talk).
  • Green DR (2023) Coding teeth and climate in Google Colab. Workshop on Good Statistical Practice in Archaeology, Australasian Research Cluster for Archaeological Science (invited talk).
  • Green DR (2023) Predicting future climate with teeth. Brown University Earth Science Department, Climate and Environment Group, Providence, Rhode Island (invited talk).
  • Green DR (2022) Most severe struggle: seasonality in primate and human evolution. Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (invited talk).
  • Green DR (2022) Climate Variation and the Miocene Ape Afropithecus. University of Kent, Kent, UK (invited talk).
  • Green DR (2022) Records from the Miocene World. For ENST 177, Vassar College (invited talk).
  • Green DR (2022) Oxygen isotopes in teeth: exploring climate-evolution dynamics in equatorial Africa. GCSCR & ARCHE Visiting Scholar Seminar Series, Griffith University (invited talk).
  • Green DR (2021) Seasonal Isotope Ecology of Modern and Fossil Apes. Division of Biology and Paleoenvironment, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Research Seminar (invited talk).
  • Green DR (2021) Climate Variation and the Miocene Ape Afropithecus. Museum Conservation Institute, Smithsonian, Washington DC (invited talk).
  • Green DR (2019) Seasonal records in living and fossil teeth. Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY (invited talk).
  • Green DR (2017) Seasonal climate reconstruction from seasonality in teeth. National Cabinet of Archaeology, Havana (invited talk).

Posters and Presentations

  • Green DR, Avila JN, Cote S, Dirks W, Lee D, Poulsen CJ, Williams IS, Smith TM (2022) High-Resolution Seasonal Climate Variation in Equatorial Africa Revealed by Modern and Fossil Primate Teeth. Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Chicago IL (presentation by Kevin Uno).
  • House A, Uno KT, Bapana S, Aoron EE, Princehouse P, Vitek N, Green DR (2022) Faunal Stable Isotopes Describe Eastern African Hydroclimate Across the Afro-Eurasian Collision. Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Chicago IL (Poster).
  • Bapana S, Uno KT, House A, Areny I, Beck CC, Grossman A, Firera FM, Liutkus-Pierce C, Miller E, Nengo I, Russo GR, Green DR (2022) Heterogeneous Hydroclimate and Vegetation. in the Middle Miocene East African Rift Valley Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Chicago IL. (Poster).
  • Green DR, Olack G, Smith TM, Williams IS, Lewis JS, Harmand S, Uno KT, Colman AS (2022) Seasonal carbon and oxygen isotope compositions from Lomekwi in the Turkana Basin, Kenya. The Annual Meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society, Denver, CO (presentation).
  • Green DR, Avila JN, Dirks W, Williams IS, Smith TM (2022) Diverse monsoon seasonality in eastern Africa recorded by papionin tooth enamel δ18O. 91st Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Denver, CO (poster).
  • Green DR, Smith TM, Arora M, Austin C (2020) Trace metal compositions in forming teeth reflect both mineralization and diet. The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 80th Annual Meeting, Virtual, October 12-16, 2020. View.
  • Merceron G, Berlioz E, Vonhof H, Green DR, Garel M, Noûs C, Tütken T (2020) Ground Truthing Dental Ecological Proxies On A Modern Alpine Community Of Sympatric Ruminants. The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 80th Annual Meeting, Virtual, October 12-16, 2020.
  • Green DR, Cote S, Dirks W, Reid DJ, Williams IS, Smith TM (2020) Seasonal Isotope Ecology in the East African Miocene Ape Afropithecus. 89th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Los Angeles, CA and online, April 15-18, 2020.
  • Green DR, Cote S, Williams IS, Smith TM (2019) High resolution paleoenvironmental records from East African fossil apes. 20th International Union for Quaternary Research Congress, Dublin, Ireland, July 25-31, 2019.
  • Smith TM, Green DR, Williams IS (2019) Weekly oxygen isotope measurements in teeth reveal environmental variation. 20th International Union for Quaternary Research Congress, Dublin, Ireland, July 25-31, 2019.
  • Pugach MK, Jang JY, Green DR, Depalle B, Bidlack FB (2019) Investigating potential roles of ameloblastin and enamelin in enamel development. 13th International Conferences on the Chemistry and Biology of Mineralized Tissues, Montebello, Quebec, October 20-25, 2019.
  • Smith TM, Austin C, Green DR, Joannes-Boyau R, Bailey S, Dumitriu D, Fallon S, Grün R, James HF, Moncel M-H, Williams IS, Wood R, Arora M (2019) Tales teeth tell: wintertime stress, nursing, and lead exposure in Neanderthal children. 88th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Cleveland, OH, March 27-30, 2019.
  • Green DR, Hardt M, Schulte F, Lee K-H, Pugach MK, Bidlack FB (2018) Mapping amelogenesis proteins in an expanded enamel proteome. Gordon Research Conference on Biomineralization, New London, NH (poster).
  • Green DR, Colman AS (2017) How tooth isotope sample number and location affect seasonality reconstruction. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting, Calgary (presentation).
  • Green DR, Colman AS, Green GM, Tafforeau P, Bidlack F, Smith TM (2017) New Tooth Growth Model for Studying Old Climates. Goldschmidt annual meeting, Paris (presentation).
  • Green DR, Colman AS (2017) Phosphate-water δ18O offset revision improves paleoclimatic reconstructions. American Association of Physical Anthropologists annual meeting, New Orleans (poster).
  • Green DR, Colman AS, Green GM, Tafforeau P, Bidlack F, Smith TM (2016) Reconstructing past seasonality from herbivore teeth. American Association of Physical Anthropologists annual meeting, Atlanta, GA (poster).
  • Green DR, Colman AS, Green GM, Tafforeau P, Bidlack F, Smith TM (2015) Seasonal climate reconstruction with isotopes and synchrotron X-rays. Cleveland Museum of Natural History Paleoecology Symposium. Cleveland, OH (poster).
  • Green DR, Green GM, Colman AS, Tafforeau P, Smith TM (2015) Synchrotron x-ray imaging and MCMC support seasonal climate reconstruction. American Association of Physical Anthropologists annual meeting, St. Louis, MO (poster).
  • Green DR, Green GM, Tafforeau P, Weaver J, Colman AS, Smith TM (2014) Synchrotron imaging helps reconstruct mineralization patterns, and ancient climate. Gordon Conference on Biomineralization, New London, NH (poster).
  • Green DR, Green GM, Smith TM, Tafforeau P (2013) Microtomographic assessment of mineralization patterns to inform isotope paleoenvironmental reconstruction. American Association of Physical Anthropologists annual meeting, Knoxville, TN (poster).
  • Green DR, Weaver J, Smith TM (2012) Quantitative Density with micro-Computed tomography: mapping mineralization. Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology: Division of Vertebrate Morphology annual meeting. Amherst, MA (presentation).
  • Green DR, Braun J, Morgan M, Pilbeam D, Tuross N, Smith TM (2010) Integrating carbon and oxygen isotope signals: seasonality in the Siwaliks, Pakistan. Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology: Division of Vertebrate Morphology annual meeting. Cambridge, MA (presentation).

Funding

  • "Seasonal Water Use Across Miocene Apes and Hominins." Turkana Basin Institute, Awarded with co-Is Kyalo Manthi, Tanya Smith, and Kevin Uno, $99,545 (2022–2024).
  • "Comparative and proximate chimpanzee oxygen isotope ecology as a model for hominin and paleoclimatic patterns." Leakey Foundation, Awarded with co-PI Erin Wessling, $25,000 (2021–2023).
  • "How does orbital forcing affect rainfall seasonality? A case study in the Pleistocene East African Rift System with implications for human evolution." Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Climate Center, Columbia University, $10,000 (2021–2023).
  • "How does orbital forcing affect rainfall seasonality? A case study in the Pleistocene East African Rift System with implications for human evolution." The Earth Institute, Columbia University, $157,000 for research and salary (2021–2023).
  • "Constructing robust climate proxies to explore human and primate evolution." With Tanya Smith and Ian Williams as chief investigators, and Daniel Green as partner investigator. Australian Research Council, $343,000 (2021–2022).
  • "Tracing Ancient Environments During the Peopling of Southeast Asia." Jointly awarded to Tanya Smith, Ian Williams, Daniel Green and Hallie Buckley, with Tanya Smith as lead PI. Australian Academy of Science Regional Collaborations Programme Grant, $79,000 (2019–2021).
  • T90 Forsyth Postdoctoral Training Fellowship, National Institute of Health, $144,000 for research and salary (2018–2019).
  • “Inferring toxin exposure timing and magnitude from deciduous teeth.” Forsyth Institute Pilot Grant, $7,830 (2017).
  • “Plio-Pleistocene Seasonal Precipitation through isotopes in Bovid molars, West Turkana.” Leakey Foundation General Grant, $12,000 (2014).
  • “Experimental Reconstruction of Seasonal Rainfall for Paleoclimate Research.” Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Grant, $18,810 (2014).
  • “Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Experimental Determination of Tooth Mineralization Patterns in Ungulates for Application to Paleoseasonality Reconstruction.” National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant #1247426, $19,855 (2012).
  • “Determination of Enamel Mineralization Pattern by Scans of Successive Developmental Stages With Application for Study of Paleoecology.” European Synchrotron Radiation Facility project award EC1018, est. value $10,000/day for 3 days (2012).
  • “Plio-Pleistocene Seasonal Precipitation through isotopes in Bovid molars, West Turkana.” Harvard University Committee on African Studies Summer Research Grant, $5,000 (2012).
  • NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program, $90,000 for salary (2011-2014).

Teaching

  • Stable Isotopes in Ecology at the Mpala Research Centre: Isotope Short Course for Kenyan Students. With Daeun Lee (2023 Spring).
  • Turkana University College, Stable Isotope Paleoecology for MHEB 824: Theory and Applications. With Kevin Uno and Isaiah Nengo (2021 Fall).
  • Lecturer: Harvard Human Evolutionary Biology, Graduate Introduction to the Hominin Fossil Record (2021 Spring).
  • Lecturer: Harvard Human Evolutionary Biology, Director of Sophomore Concentration Tutorial (2021 Spring).
  • Harvard Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (2020).
  • Lecturer: Harvard Human Evolutionary Biology, Climate Change and Human Evolution (2020 Fall).
  • Lecturer: Harvard Human Evolutionary Biology, Climate Change and Human Evolution (2020 Spring).
  • Lecturer: Harvard Human Evolutionary Biology, Graduate Student Proseminar, with Dr. Rachel Carmody (2019).
  • Lecturer: Harvard Human Evolutionary Biology, Climate Change and Human Evolution (2018).
  • Teaching Assistant: Sophomore Concentration Tutorial, Human Evolutionary Biology (2017).
  • Teaching Assistant: Sophomore Concentration Tutorial, Human Evolutionary Biology (2015).
  • Teaching Assistant: Human Evolutionary Anatomy (2012).
  • Harvard Bok Center Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (2012).
  • Field school Teaching Assistant: Geology - Turkana Basin Institute (2011).
  • Field school Teaching Assistant: Ecology - Turkana Basin Institute (2011).
  • Field school Teaching Assistant: Paleontology - Turkana Basin Institute (2011).
  • Field school Teaching Assistant: Paleoanthropology - Turkana Basin Institute (2011).
  • Field school Teaching Assistant: Archaeology - Turkana Basin Institute (2011).

Tutoring and volunteering

  • Organizer and Host: Drugs and Violence at the Border, a Conversation with Tiller Russell and Ieva Jusionyte (Harvard, 2020).
  • Harvard College Resident Tutor, specializing in Biology and Fellowships, Eliot House (2012-2016).
  • Wikipedia editor, 60+ articles created with more than 4 million pageviews (2011-present).
  • Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology Volunteer (2011-13).
  • Society of Biology Students Co-President, University of Michigan (2007-2008).