# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/blaire-van-valkenburgh
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:54:30.673Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/blaire-van-valkenburgh"
name: "Blaire Van Valkenburgh"
slug: "blaire-van-valkenburgh"
description: "Blaire Van Valkenburgh is an American paleontologist and holds the Donald R. Dickey Chair in Vertebrate Biology in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of California Los Angeles. She is a former president of Society of Vertebrate Paleontology."
tagline: "American paleontologist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1952"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.735042735042735
  historical:           5.938697333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.eeb.ucla.edu/indivfaculty.php?FacultyKey=1620"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%86%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AC"
    title: "بلير فان فالكنبرج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaire_Van_Valkenburgh"
    title: "Blaire Van Valkenburgh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaire_Van_Valkenburgh"
    title: "Blaire Van Valkenburgh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaire_Van_Valkenburgh"
    title: "Blaire Van Valkenburgh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaire_Van_Valkenburgh"
    title: "Blaire Van Valkenburgh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaire_Van_Valkenburgh"
    title: "Blaire Van Valkenburgh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30001857"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump