Research Interests

• Evolutionary biology and ecology of marine organisms, protists in particular
• Biology and molecular phylogeny of coral reef (Papua New Guinea, Enewetak Atoll, French Polynesia) and Pacific Rim foraminifera with the aim of better understanding the fossil record of these forms
• Evolution of the earliest shelled protists in the Precambrian and Cambrian and metazoan origins and early evolution, as well as their Cambrian radiation
• Biologic constraints on mass extinctions and radiations
• Habitats and taphonomy of possible life on Jupiter's Icy Moons, Europa in particular, to identify likely sites for exploring for life from orbit or with landers on future space missions.
  

Contact Information

Museum of Paleontology
1101 VLSB
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/people/jlipps/

http://ib.berkeley.edu/faculty/lippsj.html

jlipps@berkeley.edu