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Hildegrade, throughout her career wrote 150 papers. (cite 5)

She complete her Bachelor's degree at U.C Berkley  in 1924 (cite 5) , where she took courses in paleontology.

She continued her studies at U.C. Berkley where she earned her M.S in 1926 (cite 5).

https://academic.oup.com/auk/article/117/3/775/5561735?login=false **Cite 5

Awards

Notably, Hildegrade Howard was awarded with the Brewster award in 1953 (cite 5). Howard was recognized for a significant body of work within the ten year period between 1943 - 1953 (cite brewster award site) in ornithology (place link to associated wiki article) research on Western Hemisphere birds. She was the third female recipient of the award, and Howard would continue to be the most recent female recipient until 2000. (cite brewster site).

https://americanornithology.org/awards-grants/senior-professional/brewster/

Significant works

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New Avian Fossil

Howard was allowed to research a coracoid bone (between shoulder blade and sternum) discovered for a species of avian (bird) not yet known by public record, she concluded through previous evidence and modern avians that the bird was a newly discovered species of a water bird, by the shape of the shoulder and chest bone.

doi:10.2307/1366050

Review of Extinct Avian Genus

Howard conducted an experiment in which she took wasps from their home ecosystem and brought them to a greenhouse to see how they would take to the conditions of isolation and whether or not they would nest in that environment. After corrections to the methodology of the experiment she was able to collect 41 nests to study the structure of their nesting.

doi:10.5962/p.241190

The Avifauna of Emeryville Shellbound

Howard’s 1929 dissertation, “The Avifauna of Emeryville Shellmound” was particularly influential at the time. The dissertation she wrote thoroughly labeled ornithological fossil specimens, and paired the terms to visual representations (cite 5). This allowed common terminology to be taught, and widely popularized her work in the field (cite source 5). Her diagrams were eventually phased out after Nomina Anatomica Avium was published in 1997. (cite source 5 from wikipedia).The avifauna of Emeryville shellmound was important because it set the grounds of vocabulary for avian paleontology. Howard detailed, named and labeled a baseline for the skeletal makeup of all birds. This work solidified her significance in the world of paleontology and continues to stay as a point of agreement for paleontologists of all levels. The names used are still widely referenced and give a strong baseline when labeling unknown species.

Campbell Jr., Kenneth. September 15, 1980b. “Illustrations of Avian Osteology Taken from The Avifauna of Emeryville Shellmound.”  Contributions in Science, Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring Dr. Hildegarde Howard, No 330

A Census of the Pleistocene Birds of Ranch Brea Howarde, Hildegarde (1929), “A Census of the Pleistocene Birds of Ranch Brea from the collections of the Los Angeles Museum”, The Condor, 32 (2): 81-88, doi:10.2307/1363526, JSTOR 1363526


 * Howarde goes into detail, comparing two studies regarding the Pleistocene animals of the Rancho La Brea region. One of them is a census conducted by Dr. Chester Stock regarding mammals of the region while the other was a census of the birds. This entry seeks the common factors, if any, between the two groups.  In conclusion,  she finds that there is a limitation on the age of the animals from the Rancho La Brea exhibit. This effect Is only manifested in the specimens that came from the early to the middle part of the late Pleistocene era.