Fossil crocodiles, birth-death models, and the K-Pg mass extinction
By: Andrew Magee (Minin Lab)

Dental ecomorphology and macroevolutionary patterns of Late Cretaceous North American metatherians
By: Alexandria Brannick (Wilson Lab)

What exactly is your machine learning? How to evaluate tree growth models
By: Stuart Graham (Hille Ris Lambers Lab)

Maize yield under a changing climate: impacts, mechanisms, and adaptation
By: Jennifer Hsiao (Swann Lab)

My research program addresses two fundamental questions in evolutionary biology: how do the observable characteristics of organisms (e.g., morphology, behavior) evolve and adapt in response to ecological pressures? And, how does this evolutionary process facilitate or constrain the diversification of lineages? I largely focus on bats to answer these questions because, with over 1,400 ecologically and morphologically diverse species, they provide a natural experiment to investigate the sources of diversification.