William Gearty
Evolutionary Paleobiologist
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
American Museum of Natural History
wgearty@amnh.org
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History, where I study the factors that governed the diversification of marine reptiles during the Mesozoic Era. More broadly, I am interested in the biotic and abiotic contraints and drivers of taxonomic and functional diversity as our planet has changed through time. I integrate paleontological and neontological tools to investigate the evolution of various biological systems through time and test hypotheses regarding the constraints and drivers of that evolution.
Right now, I'm interested in:
- The functional morphology and diversification of secondarily marine tetrapods
- How humans have impacted the community dynamics of mammals
- The role of energetics in diversity dynamics across space and time
- Developing tools for standardizing evolutionary and paleontological research
- Teaching others about extinctions, R, and phylogenetic comparative methods
news
Sep 12, 2022 | I’ve moved to New York! I’m now a Postdoc at the American Museum of Natural History! |
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Sep 01, 2019 | I’ve moved to Nebraska! I’m now a Postdoc at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with Dr. Kate Lyons! |
selected publications
- Anthropogenic disruptions to longstanding patterns of trophic-size structure in vertebratesNature Ecology & Evolution, 6, 684–692,