Susannah Maidment

Susannah Catherine Rose Maidment is a British palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum, London.[1] She is internationally recognised for her research on ornithischian dinosaur evolution, and was awarded the 2016 Hodson Award[2] of the Palaeontological Association and the 2017 Lyell Fund of the Geological Society of London.[3][4] She was featured as a 2019 National Geographic Women of Impact.[5]

Susannah Maidment
Alma materImperial College London
University of Cambridge
Scientific career
InstitutionsNatural History Museum, London
University of Birmingham

Education and career

Maidment studied geology at Imperial College London, graduating with an MSc in 2003. She completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2007, in which she studied the systematics of the dinosaur group Stegosauria.[1][4][6] Her research was supervised by David Norman and Paul Upchurch.[7] Following time working as an exploration geologist in Vietnam,[1] she moved in 2009 to work with Paul Barrett at the Natural History Museum, London, as a postdoctoral researcher co-investigator on a NERC-funded project.[8] on ornithischian dinosaur locomotion[9][10]

In 2012 she returned to Imperial College London as a Research Fellow, before moving in 2016 to the University of Brighton as a Senior Lecturer.[1] In 2018 she re-joined the Natural History Museum as a researcher.[1] She is also an honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham.[11]

Research

Maidment has published more than 30 scientific papers, primarily focused on the systematics, evolution and palaeobiology of ornithischian dinosaurs.[12] She has worked extensively on stegosaurs, and is considered the world leader on this group.[4] Her contributions have included overall revisions of the systematics of the group,[6][13][14] the description of the Portuguese stegosaur Miragaia,[15] the description of the oldest known stegosaur, Adratiklit, from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco,[16][17] anatomical and systematic revisions of Chinese stegosaurs,[18][19] and work on the postcranial skeleton and body mass of Stegosaurus.[20][21][22] She has also published several papers on locomotion and the evolution of quadrupedality in ornithischian dinosaurs.[9][10][23]

In 2015, she was part of a team who reported evidence of original collagen fibres and blood cells in Cretaceous dinosaur specimens.[24][25][26] Her most recent research has focused on the stratigraphy of the Morrison Formation of the Western United States.[4][27][28][29] She was one of the lead scientists for the "Mission Jurassic" dinosaur excavation project.[30][31]

gollark: As well as having special casing for stuff, it often is just pointlessly hostile to abstracting anything:- lol no generics- you literally cannot define a well-typed `min`/`max` function (like Lua has). Unless you do something weird like... implement an interface for that on all the builtin number types, and I don't know if it would let you do that.- no map/filter/reduce stuff- `if err != nil { return err }`- the recommended way to map over an array in parallel, if I remember right, is to run a goroutine for every element which does whatever task you want then adds the result to a shared "output" array, and use a WaitGroup thingy to wait for all the goroutines. This is a lot of boilerplate.
gollark: It also does have the whole "anything which implements the right functions implements an interface" thing, which seems very horrible to me as a random change somewhere could cause compile errors with no good explanation.
gollark: - `make`/`new` are basically magic- `range` is magic too - what it does depends on the number of return values you use, or something. Also, IIRC user-defined types can't implement it- Generics are available for all of, what, three builtin types? Maps, slices and channels, if I remember right.- `select` also only works with the built-in channels- Constants: they can only be something like four types, and what even is `iota` doing- The multiple return values can't be used as tuples or anything. You can, as far as I'm aware, only return two (or, well, more than one) things at once, or bind two returns to two variables, nothing else.- no operator overloading- it *kind of* has exceptions (panic/recover), presumably because they realized not having any would be very annoying, but they're not very usable- whether reading from a channel is blocking also depends how many return values you use because of course
gollark: What, you mean no it doesn't have weird special cases everywhere?
gollark: It pretends to be "simple", but it isn't because there are bizarre special cases everywhere to make stuff appear to work.

References
  1. "Dr Susannah Maidment | Natural History Museum". www.nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-10-09.
  2. "Medal and Award Winners List | The Palaeontological Association". www.palass.org. Retrieved 2018-10-09.
  3. "Dinosaur expert's double award".
  4. "Hodson Award: Dr Susannah C. R. Maidment" (PDF). The Palaeontology Newsletter. 94: 12.
  5. @NatGeoUK (2019-10-28). "Women of Impact". National Geographic. Retrieved 2019-12-02.
  6. Maidment, S.C.R.; Norman, D.B.; Barrett, P.M.; Upchurch, P (2008). "Systematics and phylogeny of Stegosauria (Dinosauria: Ornithischia)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 6 (4): 367–407. doi:10.1017/S1477201908002459.
  7. dn102@cam.ac.uk. "Dr David Norman — Department of Earth Sciences". www.esc.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-10-09.
  8. "GOTW - Grants on the Web". gotw.nerc.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-10-09.
  9. Maidment, S.C.R.; Bates, K.T.; Falkingham, P.L.; VanBuren, C.; Arbour, V.; Barrett, P.M. (2013). "Locomotion in ornithischian dinosaurs: an assessment using three-dimensional computational modelling". Biological Reviews. 89 (3): 588–617. doi:10.1111/brv.12071. ISSN 1464-7931. PMID 24251809.
  10. Maidment, S.C.R.; Barrett, P.M. (2012). "Does morphological convergence imply functional similarity? A test using the evolution of quadrupedalism in ornithischian dinosaurs". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences. 279 (1743): 3765–3771. doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.1040. ISSN 0962-8452. PMC 3415913. PMID 22719033.
  11. "Vertebrate Palaeontology - Palaeobiology theme - Geosystems research - University of Birmingham". www.birmingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-07-28.
  12. "Susannah Maidment - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-10-09.
  13. Raven, T.J.; Maidment, S.C.R. (2017). "A new phylogeny of Stegosauria (Dinosauria, Ornithischia)". Palaeontology. 60 (3): 401–408. doi:10.1111/pala.12291. hdl:10044/1/45349.
  14. Maidment, S.C.R. (2010). "Stegosauria: a historical review of the body fossil record and phylogenetic relationships". Swiss Journal of Geosciences. 103 (2): 199–210. doi:10.1007/s00015-010-0023-3.
  15. Mateus, O.; Maidment, S.C.R.; Christiansen, N.A. (2009). "A new long-necked 'sauropod-mimic'stegosaur and the evolution of the plated dinosaurs". Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 276 (1663): 1815–1821. doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.1909. PMC 2674496. PMID 19324778.
  16. Maidment, S. C. R.; Raven, T. J.; Ouarhache, D.; Barrett, P. M. (2019). "North Africa's first stegosaur: Implications for Gondwanan thyreophoran dinosaur diversity". Gondwana Research. 77: 82–97. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2019.07.007. ISSN 1342-937X.
  17. "The oldest stegosaur ever has been discovered in Morocco". www.nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
  18. Maidment, S.C.R.; Wei, G. (2006). "A review of the Late Jurassic stegosaurs (Dinosauria, Stegosauria) from the People's Republic of China". Geological Magazine. 143 (5): 621–634. Bibcode:2006GeoM..143..621M. doi:10.1017/S0016756806002500.
  19. Maidment, S.C.R.; Wei, G.; Norman, D.B. (2006). "Re-description of the postcranial skeleton of the middle Jurassic stegosaur Huayangosaurus taibaii". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 26 (4): 944–956. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[944:ROTPSO]2.0.CO;2.
  20. Maidment, S.C.R.; Brassey, C.; Barrett, P.M. (2015). "The Postcranial Skeleton of an Exceptionally Complete Individual of the Plated Dinosaur Stegosaurus stenops (Dinosauria: Thyreophora) from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming, U.S.A." PLOS ONE. 10 (10): e0138352. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1038352M. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0138352. PMC 4605687. PMID 26466098.
  21. Brassey, C; Maidment, S.C.R.; Barrett, P.M. (2015). "Body mass estimates of an exceptionally complete Stegosaurus (Ornithischia: Thyreophora): comparing volumetric and linear bivariate mass estimation methods". Biology Letters. 11 (3): 20140984. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2014.0984. PMC 4387493. PMID 25740841.
  22. "Scientists reveal the body weight of the world's most complete Stegosaurus | Imperial News | Imperial College London". Imperial News. Retrieved 2018-10-09.
  23. Maidment, S.C.R.; Linton, D.H.; Upchurch, P.; Barrett, P.M. (2012). "Limb-Bone Scaling Indicates Diverse Stance and Gait in Quadrupedal Ornithischian Dinosaurs". PLoS ONE. 7 (5): e36904. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...736904M. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036904. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3358279. PMID 22666333.
  24. Bertazzo, S.; Maidment, S.C.R.; Kallepitis, C.; Fearn, S.; Stevens, M.M.; Xie, H.-N. (2015). "Fibres and cellular structures preserved in 75-million–year-old dinosaur specimens". Nature Communications. 6: 7352. Bibcode:2015NatCo...6.7352B. doi:10.1038/ncomms8352. PMC 4468865. PMID 26056764.
  25. Rincon, Paul (2015-06-09). "'Blood cells' found in dino fossils". BBC News. Retrieved 2018-10-09.
  26. Sample, Ian (2015-06-09). "75-million-year-old dinosaur blood and collagen discovered in fossil fragments". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-10-09.
  27. Maidment, S.C.R.; Balikova, D.; Muxworthy, A.R. (2017), "Magnetostratigraphy of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation at Dinosaur National Monument, Utah, and Prospects for Using Magnetostratigraphy as a Correlative Tool in the Morrison Formation", Terrestrial Depositional Systems, Elsevier, pp. 279–302, doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-803243-5.00007-8, ISBN 9780128032435
  28. Poppick, Laura (2019-08-15). "To date a dinosaur". Knowable Magazine. doi:10.1146/knowable-081419-1.
  29. Maidment, S. C. R.; Muxworthy, A. (2019). "A chronostratigraphic framework for the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, western U.S.A.". Journal of Sedimentary Research. 89 (10): 1017–1038. Bibcode:2019JSedR..89.1017M. doi:10.2110/jsr.2019.54. ISSN 1527-1404.
  30. "Mission Jurassic excavation | Natural History Museum". www.nhm.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-05-04.
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