Underwater Lemur Graveyard Discovered
Alfred L. Rosenberger
Professor Emeritus
Since his college days, Alfred Rosenberger has been involved in studying nonhuman primates, working in museums and promoting interest in anthropology and evolutionary biology. He has worked in several countries in South and Central America, studying the behavior and ecology of monkeys in forests and looking for their fossils in deserts and open-country plains. In addition to teaching, Rosenberger has held research and education outreach positions at the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoological Park and the National Museum of Natural History. His research focuses on the evolution of New World monkeys, tarsiers, anthropoid origins, and, most recently, the giant subfossil lemurs of Madagascar. He works with a team of scuba divers collecting recently extinct subfossil primates in flooded freshwater caves in Madagascar and the Dominican Republic.
Additional Affiliations
Doctoral Faculty Member
Department of Anthropology
CUNY Graduate Center
Core Faculty Member
New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology
