Paul Renne

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Paul R. Renne (born 1957 in San Antonio, Texas) is the director of the Berkeley Geochronology Center and also Professor in Residence of geology in the Department of Earth & Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley).{{cite web|author=Berkeley Geochronology Center|title=Paul R. Renne|url=http://www.bgc.org/people/each_person/renne_r.html|accessdate=2009-02-08}}{{cite journal|doi=10.1002/(SICI)1520-6505(2000)9:2<101::AID-EVAN4>3.0.CO;2-W|last=Ludwig|first=Kenneth R.|author2=Paul R. Renne|title=Geochronology on the paleoanthropological time scale|journal=Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews|volume=9|issue=2|pages=101–110|year=2000}} Renne is considered a leading expert on the argon–argon dating technique and is interested in paleomagnetism in Earth history, precisely dating flood basalts, particularly the Siberian Traps, and large igneous province volcanism in general, and paleoanthropology.{{cite web|last=Farley |first=Kenneth A. |title=Renne Receives 2005 N. L. Bowen Award |url=http://www.agu.org/inside/awards/bios/renne_paul.html |date=December 2005 |accessdate=2009-02-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011023225/http://www.agu.org/inside/awards/bios/renne_paul.html |archive-date=October 11, 2008 }} Renne received his A.B. and his Ph.D. in geology from UC Berkeley.