Rowan Lockwood

{{Short description|American paleobiologist}}

Rowan Lockwood is an American paleobiologist specializing in environmental change and the ecology of fossil marine invertebrates.{{Cite web |title=William & Mary - Rowan Lockwood |url=https://www.wm.edu/as/data-science/people/lockwood-r.php |access-date=2024-03-10 |website=William & Mary |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Takemura |first=Alison F. |date=July 3, 2018 |title=Down to Earth With: Paleobiologist Rowan Lockwood |url=https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/down-earth-paleobiologist-rowan-lockwood/ |access-date=2024-03-10 |website=Earth Magazine |publisher=American Geosciences Institute}} She is professor of geology at College of William & Mary. Lockwood has served as the president-elect of the Paleontological Society since 2024.{{Cite web |title=Society Officers |url=https://www.paleosoc.org/society-officers |access-date=2024-03-10 |website=www.paleosoc.org}}

Lockwood is from Rockford, Illinois and attended the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy.{{Cite web |date=1992-12-11 |title=Rhodes scholar opts for other award |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1992/12/11/rhodes-scholar-opts-for-other-award/ |access-date=2024-03-10 |website=Chicago Tribune |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |last=Michaels |first=Jane |date=1988-05-29 |title=Rowan Lockwood's feat has her flying as high as a pterosaur |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-rowan-lockwoods-feat-ha/143109335/ |access-date=2024-03-10 |work=Chicago Tribune |pages=343 |via=Newspapers.com}} She earned a B.A. in biology and organismal biology, cum laude, from Yale College.{{Cite web |date=March 2008 |title=Rowan Lockwood |url=http://paleoportal.org/index.php?globalnav=paleopeople&interview_id=5 |access-date=2024-03-10 |website=The Paleontology Portal}} In 1993, Lockwood won a Rhodes Scholarship and Marshall Scholarship. She declined the former and completed a M.Sc. from the University of Bristol as a Marshall Scholar. She earned a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology at the University of Chicago. Her 2001 dissertation was titled Extinction and Rebound: Evolutionary Patterns in Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Bivalves.{{Cite thesis |last=Lockwood |first=Rowan |title=Extinction and Rebound: Evolutionary Patterns in Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Bivalves |date=2001 |degree=Ph.D. |publisher=University of Chicago |oclc=47784038}} Her committee included David Jablonski, Michael LaBarbera, Michael Foote, Barry Chemoff, and Jack Sepkoski.