Portrait of Samantha Hopkins.

Samantha Hopkins

Professor, Earth Sciences; Associate member, IMB

Contact

Office address: 151 Cascade Annex
Office Phone: 541-346-5976

Samantha Hopkins is an academic expert in mass extinction, paleontology, climate change and evolution. Samantha studies the evolution of ecology in mammals, primarily fossil mammals. She is also interested in the role climate change and geologic activity play in mammal evolution. Samantha can talk about the deep time history of climate change on earth, evidence for evolution, conservation biology, and the future of life on earth in the context of human activity.