{{Short description|American paleontologist}} {{Multiple issues| {{COI|date=February 2026}} {{Undisclosed paid|date=February 2026}} }} {{Infobox scientist | name = Barry Stephen Kues | image = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1946|3|15}} | birth_place = Santa Monica, California, U.S. | fields = Paleontology, geology, stratigraphy | workplaces = University of New Mexico | alma_mater = {{ubl|University of California, Riverside (BA)|Scripps Institution of Oceanography (MS)|Indiana University Bloomington (PhD)}} | thesis_title = Paleoecology of the Late Pennsylvanian Oketo Member of the Barneston Limestone | thesis_year = 1974 | known_for = {{ubl|Paleontology of New Mexico|founding of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science}} | awards = {{ubl|New Mexico Earth Science Achievement Award (2019)|Honorary Life Member of the New Mexico Geological Society}} }} '''Barry Stephen Kues''' (born March 15, 1946) is an American paleontologist<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Socorro |first=N.M |title=Bureau of Geology Selects UNM Prof Barry Kues For Annual Award: New Mexico Tech |url=https://www.nmt.edu/news/2019/kues_gets_achievement_award.php |access-date=2026-02-04 |website=www.nmt.edu}}</ref> and professor emeritus in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of New Mexico.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Dunbar |first=Nelia |title=New Mexico Bureau of Geology names Barry Kues as 2019 Achievement Award winner |url=https://news.unm.edu/news/new-mexico-bureau-of-geology-names-barry-kues-as-2019-achievement-award-winner |access-date=2026-02-04 |website=UCAM Newsroom |language=en}}</ref> His research has focused on the stratigraphy and paleontology of the Pennsylvanian, Permian, and Cretaceous formations of the American Southwest, and the study of marine invertebrates and the history of geological research in New Mexico.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stone |first=Katie |date=2015-07-22 |title=Geology Of New Mexico |url=https://www.kunm.org/entertainment/2015-07-21/geology-of-new-mexico |access-date=2026-02-04 |website=KUNM |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Clemens |first=William A. |date=1982-02-19 |title=Eocene and Earlier Deposits: Advances In San Juan Basin Paleontology. Spencer G. Lucas, J. Keith Rigby, Jr., and Barry S. Kues, Eds. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1981. xii, 394 pp., illus. $27.50. |url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.215.4535.962.b |journal=Science |volume=215 |issue=4535 |pages=962–964 |doi=10.1126/science.215.4535.962.b|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
==Biography== Kues was born in Santa Monica, California, and raised in southern California.<ref name=":1" /> He received a B.A. in zoology from the University of California, Riverside in 1967,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Barry S. Kues |url=https://www.unmpress.com/author/barry-s-kues/ |access-date=2026-02-04 |website=University of New Mexico Press |language=en-US}}</ref> followed by an M.S. in marine biology from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego in 1969.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barnett |first=Tim P. |title=Graduate Students and the List of Ph.D. and M.S. Recipients |url=https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=kt109nc2cj&chunk.id=ap04&toc.depth=1&toc.id=ap04&brand=eschol |access-date=2026-02-04 |website=SCRIPPS INSTITUTION of OCEANOGRAPHY}}</ref> He completed his Ph.D. in geology at Indiana University Bloomington in 1974, where his dissertation examined the paleoecology of the Permian Oketo Member of the Barneston Limestone in Kansas and Nebraska.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Barry S. Kues research interests involve the taxonomy, biostratigraphy, and paleoecology |url=https://eps.unm.edu/people/faculty/profile/barry-kues.html |access-date=2026-02-04 |website=eps.unm.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Barry Kues (Ph.D. 1975) is nearing completion of 31 years in the University of New Mexico Department of Geology, during several of which he served as chair. Kues comments that "time flies when you're having fun. |url=https://earth.indiana.edu/news-alumni/alumni-news/index.htm |website=Indiana University}}</ref>
==Career== Kues joined the University of New Mexico in 1974 as an assistant professor of geology after completing his Ph.D. at Indiana University Bloomington. He spent his entire academic career at University of New Mexico, becoming associate professor in 1980 and full professor in 1992, and served as chair of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences from 1991 to 1999.<ref name=":2" /> He retired in 2011 and was named professor emeritus. Beyond the university, he held positions as Adjunct Curator of Paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science and served as a Research Associate of the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources.<ref name=":0" />
Kues also played a role that led to the establishment of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Rowe |first1=Timothy |last2=Cifelli |first2=Richard L. |last3=Kues |first3=Barry |date=1982 |title=The Instrumental Role of Paleontology in the Funding and Development of a Major New Natural History Museum: Editorial |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1304705 |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=56 |issue=4 |pages=839–842 |jstor=1304705 |issn=0022-3360}}</ref> In 1977, he led a paleontological survey of northwestern New Mexico for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, and the resulting for a state natural history museum, which opened in 1986.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Paleontological survey, resource assessment, and mitigation plan for the Bisti-Star Lake area, northwestern New Mexico : report to the Bureau of Land Management / by Barry S. Kues ... [et al.]. |url=https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=T7616AE675302.551622&profile=liball&uri=link=3100009~!1193884~!3100001~!3100002&aspect=subtab103&menu=search&ri=1782&source=~!silibraries&term=Paleontology+--+New+Mexico+--+Bibliography.&index=PSUBJ |access-date=2026-02-04 |website=siris-libraries.si.edu}}</ref>
His research focused on the geology and fossil record of New Mexico and the American Southwest, with emphasis on the Cretaceous and Paleozoic eras.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Kues |first1=Barry S. |last2=Duchene |first2=Harvey R. |date=1990 |title=The largest late Paleozoic bellerophontid gastropod |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0022336000018746/type/journal_article |journal=Journal of Paleontology |language=en |volume=64 |issue=3 |pages=478–479 |doi=10.1017/S0022336000018746 |issn=0022-3360|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kues |first=Barry |date=2005-08-02 |title=Bibliography of New Mexico Invertebrate Paleontology |url=https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/eps_fsp/4 |journal=Earth and Planetary Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications}}</ref>
Kues is an editor and author of ''The Paleontology of New Mexico'', a scholarly volume that documents the fossil record of New Mexico from the Precambrian through the Pleistocene and compiles contributions on the state's paleontology and stratigraphy.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kues |first=Barry S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q9YgAQAAIAAJ |title=The paleontology of New Mexico |date=2008 |publisher=University of New Mexico Press |isbn=978-0-8263-4136-5 |location=Albuquerque}}</ref>
==Awards== Kues is an Honorary Life Member of the New Mexico Geological Society.<ref name=":2" /> He received the New Mexico Earth Science Achievement Award, presented by the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nelia Dunbar & Barry Kues |url=https://news.unm.edu/file?fid=5ce84f082cfac259fa57d521 |access-date=2026-02-04 |website=UNM UCAM Newsroom |language=en}}</ref> He also serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Board of Trustees {{!}} New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science |url=https://nmnaturalhistory.org/general-info/board-trustees |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251005221323/https://nmnaturalhistory.org/general-info/board-trustees |archive-date=2025-10-05 |access-date=2026-02-04 |website=www.nmnaturalhistory.org |language=en}}</ref>
==Selected Publications== ===Books=== *{{cite book |last1=Kues |first1=B. S |title=Fossils of New Mexico |date=1982 |publisher=University of New Mexico Press |isbn=978-0-8263-0613-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FM-zAAAAIAAJ |language=en}} *{{cite book |last1=Kues |first1=B.S |title=The Paleontology of New Mexico by Kues, Barry S {{!}}... |date=December 16, 2008 |publisher=University of New Mexico Press |isbn=978-0826341365 |pages=446 |url=https://www.biblio.com/book/paleontology-new-mexico-kues-barry/d/1556120203?srsltid=AfmBOooqdeNXalnB2d3MmMPkpXhT5EgoVF7tN1gbf682reXUsxwmx7BR |language=en}} *{{cite book |last1=Kues |first1=B.S |title=A Brief History of Geological Studies in New Mexico, with Biographical Profiles of Notable New Mexico Geologists |date=January 1, 2014 |publisher=New Mexico Geological Society, Special Publication 12 |isbn=978-1585460113 |pages=230}}
===Journal Articles and book chapters=== *{{cite journal |last1=Kues |first1=B.S |title=Taxonomy and variability of three Texigryphaea (Bivalvia) species from their Lower Cretaceous (Albian) type localities in New Mexico and Oklahoma |journal=Journal of Paleontology |date=1989 |volume=63 |issue=4 |pages=454–483 |doi=10.1017/S0022336000019697 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/abs/taxonomy-and-variability-of-three-texigryphaea-bivalvia-species-from-their-lower-cretaceous-albian-type-localities-in-new-mexico-and-oklahoma/50971BB0A3B334EC337270928F4C01B2|url-access=subscription}} *{{cite journal |last1=Kues |first1=B.S |last2=Giles |first2=K.A |last3=Mack |first3=G.H |last4=Lawton |first4=T.F |title=A Late Pennsylvanian outer shelf marine fauna from a highstand systems tract, Derry Hills, south-central New Mexico |journal=New Mexico Geology |date=2015 |volume=24 |issue=4 |pages=121–130 |doi=10.58799/NMG-v24n4.121 |url=https://geoinfo.nmt.edu/publications/periodicals/nmg/24/n4/nmg_v24_n4_p121.pdf |publisher=New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources |language=en |issn=2837-6420}} *{{cite journal |last1=Kues |first1=B.S |last2=Batten |first2=Roger L. |title=Middle Pennsylvanian Gastropods from the Flechado Formation, North-Central New Mexico |journal=Journal of Paleontology |date=January 2001 |volume=75 |issue=sp54 |pages=1–95 |doi=10.1666/0022-3360(2001)75[1:MPGFTF]2.0.CO;2 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/abs/middle-pennsylvanian-gastropods-from-the-flechado-formation-northcentral-new-mexico/E1E4B67217E97D110C81C19144738AF3|url-access=subscription }} *{{cite journal |last1=Kues |first1=B. S |title=New Genera and Species of Middle Pennsylvanian Gastropods from West Texas |journal=Journal of Paleontology |date=2002 |volume=76 |issue=1 |pages=52–62 |doi=10.1666/0022-3360(2002)076<0052:NGASOM>2.0.CO;2 |jstor=1307175 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1307175 |issn=0022-3360}} *{{cite book |last1=Kues |first1=B.S |editor1-last=Giles |editor1-first=K.A |editor2-last=Mack |editor2-first=G.H |title=The Geology of New Mexico, a Geologic History |last2=Giles |first2=K.A |publisher=New Mexico Geological Society |year=2004 |isbn=978-1585460106 |pages=95–136 |chapter=The late Paleozoic Ancestral Rocky Mountains system in New Mexico}} *{{cite journal |last1=Kues |first1=B.S |title=The geology of New Mexico as understood in 1912: an essay for the centennial of New Mexico statehood: Part 3 |journal=New Mexico Geology |date=2012 |volume=34 |issue=3 |pages=67–75 |article-number=127331 |doi=10.58799/nmg-v34n3.67 |s2cid=262324243}} *{{Cite journal |last=Kues |first=B.S |date=1987 |title=Pharkidonotus megalius , a large new gastropod species from the Middle Pennsylvanian of south-central New Mexico |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0022336000029553/type/journal_article |journal=Journal of Paleontology |language=en |volume=61 |issue=6 |pages=1187–1193 |doi=10.1017/S0022336000029553 |issn=0022-3360|url-access=subscription}}
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