• Email Address: wgallagher@rider.edu
• Phone: 609-896-5000 ext. 7784
• Fax: 609-895-5782
• Office: SCI 320F
• Mailing Address: 2083 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648

Dr. William B. Gallagher was, until his retirement in 2008, the Assistant Curator of Natural History, Collections and Exhibits, Natural History Bureau, New Jersey State Museum, and currently holds the rank of Adjunct Associate Professor. During the 2008-2009 academic year, Bill was a full-time Visiting Assistant Professor for GEMS and is now a Rider University STARI Research Fellow. He received his Ph.D. in geology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990 where his doctoral dissertation investigated the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary and its associated mass extinction event. Bill has traveled the world during the course of his field studies on dinosaurs and other vertebrate species, including stops in Iran, Egypt, China, Russia, Argentina, Ireland, England, the Netherlands, Italy, and Switzerland, as well as much of eastern North America and most of the American west. In addition to adjunct teaching the Mesozoic Ruling Reptiles course at Rider, Bill has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses at numerous other institutions, including the University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers University, Drexel University, Richard Stockton College, and Kean University. Bill has authored over 70 scientific papers, articles, and abstracts, as well as the popular book, When Dinosaurs Roamed New Jersey. His current research interests include the paleoecological dynamics of mass extinction events, especially the Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/P) Boundary mass extinction that involved the disappearance of the dinosaurs.

Primary Teaching Responsibilities:

• Marine Life Through Time
• Mesozoic Ruling Reptiles

Selected Publication Titles and Sources:

• When Dinosaurs Roamed New Jersey. Rutgers University Press.
  
  
• A new Mosasaur specimen from Maastricht (the Netherlands), with a review of the Late Cretaeous-Early Paleogene marine faunas of New Jersey and Limburg. The Mosasaur.
  
  
• Faunal changes across the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary in the Atlantic coastal plain of New Jersey: Restructuring the marine community after the K-T mass-extinction event. Geological Society of America Special Paper 356.