Christopher H. Whittle, Ph.D. is an educator, paleontologist and has published on a wide variety of topics including the development of paranormal beliefs, learning from popular television, museum studies, and dinosaur paleontology (Nedcolbertia

Nedcolbertia

Nedcolbertia is a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period. It was a coelurosaur which lived in North America during the Barremian. Kirkland, Britt, Madsen and Burge in 1995 reported its discovery in the basal Cedar Mountain Formation in Utah. The type species, N...

, gastroliths). He graduated with a B.S. degree in Earth Sciences from the University of Massachusetts

University of Massachusetts

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, an Ed.M. from Harvard University

Harvard University

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, and a Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico

University of New Mexico

The University of New Mexico at Albuquerque is a public research university located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the United States. It is the state's flagship research institution...

. He was a professor on the faculty of the University of New Mexico

University of New Mexico

The University of New Mexico at Albuquerque is a public research university located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the United States. It is the state's flagship research institution...

in the College of Education and the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Whittle was on the faculty at The Jefferson School in Georgetown, Delaware.
Dr. Whittle currently teaches science and language arts at Vision Quest Morningstar Youth Academy in Woolford, Maryland.

Partial bibliography

• Whittle, C.H. (2004). Development of Paranormal and Transnatural Phenomena Beliefs. 科學和無神論, 32(6), 56-57 (translated into Chinese by W. Zhen).
• Whittle, C.H. (2004). Development of Beliefs in Paranormal and Supernatural Phenomena. Skeptical Inquirer, 28(2), 43-45,55.
• Whittle, C. & Onorato, L. (2000). On the Origins of Gastroliths: Determining the Weathering Environment of Rounded and Polished Stones by Scanning Electron Microscope Analysis in Lucas, S.G., and Heckert, A.B., (eds.), Dinosaurs of New Mexico, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 17, 69-73.
• Whittle, C.H., & Everhart, M.J., (2000). Evolutionary Trends in Lithophagic Vertebrates in New Mexico and Elsewhere in Lucas, S.G., and Heckert, A.B., (eds.), Dinosaurs of New Mexico, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 17, 75-82.
• Kirkland, J.I., Britt, B.B., Whittle, C.H., Madsen, S.K., and Burge, D.L. (1998). A Small Coelurosaurian Theropod from the Yellow Cat Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Barremian) of Eastern Utah in Lucas, S.G., Kirkland, J.I., and Estep, J.W., (eds.), Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin No. 14, 239-248.
• Whittle, C.H. (1997). Proxy Climate Indicators of the Chinle Group, Upper Triassic, in New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas: Correlation of Climate to the Geological and Fossil Record in Lucas, S.G., Estep, J.W., Williamson, T.E., and Morgan, G.S., (eds.), New Mexico's Fossil Record 1. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin No. 11, 9-13.
• Whittle, C. (1995). X-ray Observations of Digestion in an Alligator. Crocodile Specialists Group, IUCN World Conservation Union, Species Survival Commission Newsletter 14:3.
• Whittle, C. (1995). A Sauropod from Marine Shales in Shiprock, New Mexico. New Mexico Geology 17:2.
• Whittle, C. (1992). Evolutionary Trends in Lithophagic Vertebrates. Paleontological Society Special Publication 6:312
• Whittle, C. (1989). On the Origins of Gastroliths: Determining the Weathering Environment of Rounded and Polished Stones by Scanning Electron Microscope Analysis. Geological Society of America Bulletin 51:5.
• Whittle, C. (1988). On the Origins of Gastroliths. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Supplement to 3:28.
• Whittle, C., Tierney, R.H., and Ginther, K., (1999). Learning Science and Pseudoscience from Popular Television. NASA University Research Centers Advances in Technology, Exploration and National Service: Education, Aeronautics, Earth, Autonomy, and Environment, Volume 2: Proceedings of the ACE-PURSUE Student Conference, 165-170.
• Whittle, C. (1997). The Museum as a Communication System: A Review and Synthesis. ERIC No. ED 417 076. 25p.
• Kuh, W., Simmons, J., Sorge, C., and Whittle, C. (1997). Group Study on Adult Learning at the Explora Science Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. ERIC No. ED 417 077. 31p.
• Whittle, C. (1997). On the Ethology of Female Homo sapiens sapiens at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. ERIC No. 417 078. 18p.
• Whittle, C. (1997). Teaching Science by Television: the Audience, Education, History, and the Future. ERIC No. 417 079. 34p.