Jere H. Lipps

Jere H. Lipps

Professor of the Graduate School

Email: jlipps@berkeley.edu
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Research Description

My research concerns the evolutionary biology and ecology of marine organisms, protists in particular. Mostly, these are field-oriented projects utilizing scuba and geologic work.

Biology: Presently, I study the 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. Foraminifera are used in environmental and seismic history analyses of marshes on the Pac Rim.

Paleobiology: Paleobiologic projects include the evolution of the earliest shelled protists in the Precambrian and Cambrian and metazoan origins and early evolution, as well as their Cambrian radiation. The biologic constraints on mass extinctions and radiations are studied as well.

Astrobiology: I study the habitats and taphonomy of possible life on Jupiter's Icy Moons, Europa in particular. We aim to identify likely sites for exploring for life from orbit or with landers on future space missions.  At Mars, we compare Earth and Mars history to understand where life might reside on that planet.

See https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/people/jere-lipps/ for further information and a complete list of publications.

Selected Publications

Lipps, Jere H.  Lake Merritt, Jewel of Oakland.  2023.  Charleston, South Carolina, Arcadia Publishing, 128 pp.

Ávila, Sérgio P., Jere H. Lipps, among many others.  2022.   Os fósseis de Santa Maria (Açores).2. Pedra-que-pica: uma história com 5 milhões de anos.  OVGA - Observatório Vulcanológico e Geotérmico dos Açores, Ponta Delgada. 160 pp.  2022.

Bassi, Davide, Bolivar-Feriche, M., Braga, J.C., Pignatti, J., Renema, W., Di Domenico, G., Fujita, K., Lipps, J.H., Reolid, J., Iryu, Y.  2022.  Coral-reef associated larger porcelaneous foraminifera with a common ancestor: the Neogene Indo-Pacific Flosculinella and Alveolinella (Alveolinoidea).  Marine Micropaleontology, v. 172.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2022.102124

Lipps, Jere H.  2022.  The University of California Museum of Paleontology.  Charleston, South Carolina, Arcadia Publishing, 128 pp.

Davide Bassi, Johannes Pignatti, Sigal Abramovich, Kazuhiko Fujita, Johann Hohenegger, Jere H. Lipps, and Yasufumi Iryu.  2022.  Ephemeral masks in the ellipsoidal foraminifera Alveolinella and Borelis (Alveolinoidea): Resilient solutions to stabilization in coral-reef settings.  Journal of Foraminiferal Research 52, no. 2, p. 92–98.

Lipps, J.H., Vartak, A., Van Eijden, T., Rajshekhar, C., Vaddadi, S., and Vartak, R., 2021, Paleontological postage stamps in art and education,  in Clary, R.M., Rosenberg, G.D., and Evans, D.C., eds., The Evolution of Paleontological Art: Geological Society of America Memoir 218, p. 229–236, https://doi.org/10.1130/2021.1218(25).

Lipps, Jere H.  2021. Foraminiferal art through the ages..  in Clary, R.M., Rosenberg, G.D., and Evans, D.C., eds., The Evolution of Paleontological Art: Geological Society of America Memoir 218, p. 1-12, https://doi.org/10.1130/2021.1218(22).

Fajemila, O., Langer, M. R, and Lipps, Jere H.  2020.  Atlas of shallow-water tropical benthic Foraminifera from Moorea (Society Archipelago, French Polynesia).  Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research, Special Paper 48,107 pp.

Vénec-Peyré, M-T., Bartolini, Annachiara, Weber, Michele, and Lipps, Jere H.  2020.  Morphological deformation of foraminiferal tests caused by intertidal oil spills (Black Tides): p. 175-196, in J. Guex et al. (eds.), Morphogenesis, Environmental Stress and Reverse Evolution, Dordrecht, Springer Science+Business Media.

Richardson, S. L., and Lipps, Jere H.  2020.  Foraminifera C. E. Eichwald:  p. 67-83, InKevin de Queiroz, Philip D. Cantino, Jacques A. Gauthier (editors) Phylonyms: A Companion to the PhyloCode.  CRC Press.

Ghiselin, Michael, and Lipps, Jere H.  2019.  The Sea Slug Phanerophthalmus luteus (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia) and its habitat and ecology at the marine Jellyfish Lake (Ongeim’l Tketau), Palau, Western Pacific Ocean.  Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.   Series 4, Volume 65, No. 8, pp. 181–194, 8 figs., 2 tables.

Lipps, Jere H.,  2018.  Natural history museums: Facilitating science literacy across the globe, in Rosenberg, G.D., and Clary, R.M., eds., Museums at the Forefront of the History and Philosophy of Geology: History Made, History in the Making: Geological Society of America Special Paper 535, p. 9–33, https://doi.org/10.1130/2018.2535(02).

Newland, M., Pentney, S., Franklin, R., Tipon, N., Steinruck, S., Pedersen-Guzman, J., and Lipps, Jere H.  2017.  Racing against time:  Preparing for impact of climate change on California’s archaeological resources In: Dawson, T., Nimura, C., Lopez-Romero, E., and Daire, M.-Y.  Eds.  Public Archaeology and Climate Change. Havertown, PA., Oxbow Books.  Chapter 13, pp. 115-125.

Lipps, Jere H., Lozinsky, R., Pedersen-Guzman, J., Scott, E., and Babilonia, L., 2017,  Geology, stratigraphy, and paleontology of the Santa Ana Mountains, California, In: Kraatz, B., Lackey, J.S., and Fryxell, J.E., eds., Field Excursions in Southern California: Field Guides to the 2016 GSA Cordilleran Section Meeting: Geological Society of America Field Guide 45, p. 31–47, doi:10.1130/2017.0045(02).

Lipps, Jere H. and Stanley, G. D.  2016.  Reefs through time: An evolutionary view.  Pp. 175-196, In D. Hubbard, C. Rogers, George Stanley, Jere H. Lipps (Eds).  Reefs at the Crossroads.  Dordrecht, Springer Science+Business Media.

Lipps, Jere H. and Stanley, G. D.  2016.  Photosymbiosis, past and present.  Pp. 47-68, In  D. Hubbard, C. Rogers, George Stanley, Jere H. Lipps (Eds).  Reefs at the Crossroads.  Dordrecht, Springer Science+Business Media.

D. Hubbard, Caroline Rogers, George Stanley, Jere H. Lipps (Eds).  2016.  Reefs at the Crossroads.  Dordrecht, Springer Science+Business Media.

Fajenila, O., Langer, MR, Lipps, Jere H.  2015.  Spatial Patterns in the Distribution, Diversity and Abundance of Benthic Foraminifera around Moorea (Society Archipelago, French Polynesia).  PlosOne. 28 Dec 2015 PLOS ONE 10.1371/journal.pone.0145752

Dunthorn, Micah, Lipps, Jere H., and many more.  2015  Ciliates –protists with complex morphologies and ambiguous early fossil records.  Marine Micropaleontology 119:1–6.   doi: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2015.05.004

Avila, S.P., S. P. Ávila, M. Cachão, R. S. Ramalho, A. Z. Botelho, P. Madeira, A. C. Rebelo, R. Cordeiro, C. Melo, A. Hipólito, M. A. Ventura,  Jere H. Lipps.  2015,  The palaeontological heritage of Santa Maria Island (Azores: NE Atlantic): a revaluation of the geosites in GeoPark Azores and its use in geotourism.  Geoheritage  8(2): 155–171.  DOI 10.1007/s12371-015-0148-x

Koerper, H. C., Lipps, Jere H.  2015.  Additional evidence of marine mammal middle ear bones as special objects.  Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly 51(2):59-65.

Lipps, Jere H., Dunthorn, M., and Stoeck, T.  2013.  Fossil tintinnids, p. 186-197
In:  J. R. Dolan, D. S. Montagnes, S. Agatha, D. W. Coats & D. Stoecker (Editors), The Biology and Ecology of Tintinnid Ciliates: Models for Marine Plankton, Wiley/Blackwell, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Lipps, Jere H., Finger, K. L., and Walker, Sally.  2011.  What shall we call Foraminifera?  Journal of Foraminiferal Research 41: 309–313.

Lesen, A., and Lipps, Jere H.  2011.  What Have Natural and Human Changes Wrought on the Foraminifera of San Francisco Bay Late Quaternary Estuaries?  Quaternary Research.  doi:10.1016/j.yqres.2011.06.005.

Lipps, Jere H.  2011.  Reef restoration—the good and the bad.  A paleontological perspective.  Paleontological Society Special Papers 17: 139-150.

Stanley, George D., Jr., and Lipps, Jere H.  2011.  Photosymbiosis:  a driving force for reef success and failure.  Paleontological Society Special Papers 17: 33-60.

Lipps, Jere H.  2010.  Charles Darwin and H.M.S. Beagle:  Besides Galapagos.  Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Series 4, Vol. 61, Supplement II, No. 2:  7-30.

Pyenson, N. D., Irmis, R. B., and Lipps, Jere H.  2010.  Comment on "Climate, Critters, and Cetaceans:  Cenozoic Drivers of the Evolution of Modern Whales".  Science 330, 178-a.

Dunthorn, M., Lipps, Jere H., and Stoeck, Thorsten.  2010.  Reassessment of the putative ciliate fossils Eotintinnopsis, Wujiangella, and Yonyangella from the Neoproterozoic Doushantuo Formation in China.  Acta Protozoologica 49: 139–144.

Sameeni, S. J., Haneef, M., Obaid-Ur-Rehman, and Lipps, Jere H.  2009.  Paleogene biostratigraphy of Kohat Area, Northern Pakistan.  The Geological Bulletin of the Punjab University 44: 27-42.

Lipps, Jere H., and Granier, Bruno (eds.).  2009.  PaleoParks—the Preservation and Conservation of Fossil Sites Worldwide.  Carnets du Geologie E-book http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/CG2009_BOOK_03/

Lipps, Jere H.  2009.  Dear Mr. Darwin.  Paleontologica Electronica 12(2), http://palaeo-electronica.org/2009_2/commentary/darwin.htm

Fay, S. Weber, M. and Lipps Jere H.  2009.  The distribution of Symbiodinium diversity within individual host foraminifera.  Coral Reefs 28(3): 717-726.

Ujiié, Yurika, and Lipps, Jere H.  2009.  Cryptic diversity in planktonic foraminifera in the Northwest Pacific Ocean.  Journal of Foraminiferal Research 39(3):  145-154.

Lipps, Jere H.  2009.  Voyage of the Beagle.  In Gillespie, R., and Clague, D.  Encyclopedia of Islands.  Berkeley, University of California Press.  Pp. 954-966.

Pyenson, N. D., Irmis, R.B, Lipps, Jere H, Barnes, L. B., Mitchell, Jr. E. D., and McLeod, S. A.  2009.  The origin of a widespread marine bonebed deposited during the middle Miocene Climatic Optimum.  Geology 37: 519-522.

Finger, K. L., Flenniken, M. M., and Lipps, Jere H.  2008.  Foraminifera used in the construction of Miocene polychaete tubes, Monterey Formation, California, USA.  Journal of Foraminiferal Research 38 (4): 277-291.

Li, C W; Chen, J Y; Lipps, J H; Gao, F; Chi, H M; Wu, H J.  2007.  Ciliated protozoans from the Precambrian Doushantuo Formation, Wengan, south China.  Geological Society Special Publications 286: 151-156.

Lipps, Jere H.  2007.  Museums and their Exhibits.  Palaeontologica Electronica 10.2.3E  http://palaeo-electronica.org/2007_2/toc.htm

J. H. Lipps.  2006.  Major Features of Protistan Evolution:  Controversies, Problems and a Few Answers.  Anuário do Instituto de Geociências – UFRJ, 29: 55-80.

Hayward, B. W., Grenfell, H. R., Sabaa, A. T., Carter, R., Cochran, U., Lipps, J. H., Shane, P. A. R., and Morley, M. S., 2006.  Micropaleontological evidence of large earthquakes in the past 7200 years in southern Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.: Quaternary Science Reviews.  25:1186-1207.

Langer, M. R., and Lipps, J. H.  2006. Assembly and persistence of foraminifera in introduced mangroves on Moorea, French Polynesia. Micropaleontology 52: 343-355.

Hayward, B.W., G.H. Scott, H.R. Grenfell, R. Carter, and J.H. Lipps 2004. Estimation of tidal elevation and salinity histories of sheltered harbours and estuaries using foraminifera. The Holocene 14 (2):218-232.

Schulze-Makuch1, D., Irwin, L. N., Lipps, J. H., LeMone, D., Dohm5, J. M., and Fairén, A. G.  2005.  Scenarios for the Evolution of Life on Mars.  Journal of Geophysical Research—Planets, 110, E12S23, doi:10.1029/2005JE002430.

Lipps, Jere H., and Rieboldt, Sarah.  2005. Habitats and taphonomy of life on Europa.  Icarus.  177:  515-527.

Hawkes, A., Scott, D. B., and Lipps, Jere H. 2005.  Evidence of Possible Precursor Events for Mega-thrust Earthquakes on the West Coast of North America.  Geological Society of America Bulletin 117: 996-1008.

Lipps, Jere H., and Valentine, J. W.  2004.  Late Neoproterozoic Metazoa:  Weird, wonderful and ghostly.  Paleontological Soc. Papers 10: 51-66.

Medina1, M., AG. Collins, J. Taylor, J.W. Valentine, J.H. Lipps, L. Amaral-Zettler, and M.L. Sogin. 2003. Phylogeny of Opisthokonta and the evolution of multicellularity and complexity in fungi and metazoa. Intnl Jour Astrobiology 2:203-211.

Langer, M.R. and J.H. Lipps. 2003. The distribution and diversity of foraminifera in the Madang Reef and Lagoon, Papua New Guinea. Coral Reefs 22:143-154.

Culver, S. J., and J.H. Lipps. 2003. Predation on and by foraminifera. In Predator-Prey Interactions in the Fossil Record, p. 7-32. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

Lipps, J.H., and S.J. Culver. 2002. The trophic role of marine microorganisms through time. Paleont. Soc. Papers 8:69-92.

Collins, A., J.H. Lipps, and J.W. Valentine. 2000. Modern mucociliary creeping trails and the bodyplans of Neoproterozoic trace-makers.Paleobiology 26(1):47-55.

Langer, M.R., M.T. Silk, and J.H. Lipps. 1997. Global ocean carbonate and carbon dioxide production: The role of reef foraminifera. J. Foraminiferal Res. 27:271-277.

Langer, M.R., and J.H. Lipps. 1995. Phylogenetic incongruence between dinoflagellate endosymbionts (Symbiodinium) and their host foraminifera (Sorites): Small-subunit ribosomal RNA gene sequence evidence. Mar. Micropaleontol. 26:179-186.