• Master of Science — University of California, Los Angeles
• Bachelor of Arts — University of Southern Mississippi

Ron Schmidtling is a published paleontologist and geologist who received his Master of Science degree from UCLA. He was a geological consultant on the Getty Conservation Institute’s Renaissance Bronze Project for almost 10 years and was a paleontology site monitor at the Hollywood Reservoir and an archaic Indian site for Michael Brandman Associates. Ron is also an amateur photographer who enjoys hiking and excavating on the weekends.

• Earth Sciences (GN104)
• Ecological Science (GN114)
• Science: The History of Life (GN280)

• UCLA Fellowship for graduate work in paleontology
• Award for Superior Achievement in Geology — Pasadena City College

• CEO Space, Inc.
• Tree People
• Green Getty
• 4Rs Group
• Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life — UCLA Dept. of Earth Sciences
• Association of Applied Paleontological Sciences

• “Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Blastoid Hydrospires” — PaleoBios 1993 California Paleontology Conference Abstracts
• “Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of the Hydrospires of Pentremites Rusticus (Echinodermata; Blastoidea)” — GSA Abstracts with Programs
• “Gastropod Shell Micro-structure” — Evolution Journal
• “A Comparison of some Mediterranean Limestones to a Large Acrolithic Cult Statue” — PaleoBios 1998 California Paleontology Conference Abstracts
• Dinosounds — writer and illustrator
• Journal of Paleontology — illustrator
• The Craftsman Revealed — contributing writer