Academic Training:

B.S. (Geology), Texas Technological University, 1987
Ph.D. (Geology), University of Texas at Austin, 1997

Occupational History:

• 1984 Part-time Preparator (Triassic vertebrates), Texas Technological University, Lubbock, Texas
• 1988 Geologist (GS-7), United States Geological Survey, Branch of Geologic Risk Assessment, Golden, Colorado
• 1989-92 Teaching Assistant (Geology), University of Texas at Austin. Assignments included Historical Geology, Non-major Historical Geology/Paleontology, and Field Methods
• 1992-94 Assistant Collections Manager/Assistant Curator, Vertebrate Paleontology and Radiocarbon Laboratories, J. J. Pickle Research Campus, Austin, Texas
• 1992 Research Assistant, Duke Primate Center (Eocene-Miocene vertebrates), Fayum, Egypt
• 1993- present Faunal analyst, Froehlich and Froehlich Consulting (with Laura Froehlich), consulting services for archeological research. Contracts completed for Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, South Texas Archeological Association, Lone Star Archeological Services, Hicks and Co. Environmental/ Archeological Consulting, and University of Texas Classics Department. Currently working with George Veni and Associates on analysis of faunal elements from caves at Camp Bullis near San Antonio
• 1994-96 Geology and Biology Instructor, Austin Community College
• 1997-2003 Assistant Professor of Biology, Austin Community College
• 1997-present Research Associate, Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory, Texas
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• 1999 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico
• 2003-present Professor of Biology, Austin Community College; teaching mostly Cellular and Organismal Biology, Introduction to Biology; unity of life, and Introduction to Biology; diversity of life. I have also taught several Geology and Physical Science classes as the opportunity has arisen.

Membership in Professional Organizations:

• Geologic Society of America
• Paleontological Society
• Society of Systematic Biologists
• Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

Research Support:

• 1988 Paleontological Society: Early Eocene equids
• 1989-93 University of Texas at Austin: Early Eocene equids
• 1992 Duke Primate Center, Fayum, Egypt
• 1998 National Geographic Society, Sulawesi, Indonesia

Publications:

Personal history:

David J. Froehlich was born in Loma Linda California in 1966. From the age of four he wanted to study fossils. To this end he pursued various activities in high school including fossil hunting in the Mesozoic and Cenozoic of New Mexico, and spending several weeks volunteering with the Carnegie Museum quarrying of the Ghost Ranch Coelophysis locality.
He obtained his bachelors degree from Texas Technological University in Lubbock where he was involved with Dr. Sankar Chatterjee's fossil collection in the local Triassic sediments including preparation of several of the recovered vertebrates. After graduation from Texas Tech, David spent a summer working for the USGS, Branch of Geologic Risk Assessment as a summer intern.
David began his Doctoral work on Early Eocene equids at the University of Texas at Austin, in the Fall of 1988. In 1992 David went to Egypt with Dr. Elwyn Simons as a research assistant to work on the Eocene and Oligocene fossil localities of the Fayum Depression and Mogra. Also during that year, he began working half-time on the NSF Collections Improvement Grant that the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory had received. He worked as an assistant collections manager and curator cataloging Miocene vertebrates, preparing and managing a map database, and helping to reorganize the collection until the grant ran out in the Fall of 1994. His association with the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory continues through today as a research associate. In 1993 David and his wife Laura began an intermittent archeological consulting service primarily providing faunal identification and analysis of bone recovered from archeological sites. This continues through the present. After the end of the NSF collections improvement grant David became an adjunct member of the faculty of Austin Community college teaching a variety of geology and biology courses. He was hired as a full-time professor of Biology in early 1997 and continues to teach at ACC. He is currently a member of the Self-Assessment, Faculty Assessment, and Budget Subcommittees of the Biology Department.