CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal information

Contact information

Professional goals

Teaching: community ecology, macroevolution, mammalian biology, quantitative paleobiology, systematic theory

Employment

2006 - present	Associate Researcher, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, California
1999 - 2006	Assistant Researcher, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, California
1998 - 1999	Postdoctoral Fellow, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, California
1996 - 1998	Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1994 - 1996	Research Associate, Research Training Group in the Analysis of Biological Diversification, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
1989 - 1990	Intern, Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems Program, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Education

1994	Ph.D., Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Title: "Quantitative mammalian biochronology, biogeography, and diversity history of North America."
1993	M.S., Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
1989	B.A., Biology, Reed College, Portland, Oregon.

Other professional activities

Informatics Advisory Committee member, NESCent

Information committee member, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

Editorial board member, Systematic Biology

Grants, awards, and fellowships

2007	Charles Schuchert Award, Paleontological Society.
2005 - 2007	"The Paleobiology Database: an international, web-based community project to assemble, disseminate, and analyze paleontological data." Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology Program, National Science Foundation.
2000 - 2006	"The coevolution of biodiversity and the environment through geologic time" (with C. Marshall, J. Hayes, A. Miller, and D. Rothman). Biocomplexity Program, National Science Foundation.
1998 - 2000	"Phanerozoic marine diversification and extinction" working group (with C. Marshall). National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis.
1994	Alfred Sherwood Romer Prize, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.
1993 - 1994	William Rainey Harper Fellowship, University of Chicago.
1993	Grant-in-Aid of Research, Sigma Xi.
1993	Research Grant, Geological Society of America.
1993	Hinds Fund Award, University of Chicago.

Published papers and book chapters

Alroy, J. 2009. Speciation and extinction in the fossil record of North American mammals. Pp. 301-323 in R. Butlin, J. Bridle, and D. Schluter, (eds.), Speciation and Patterns of Diversity. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Alroy, J. 2008. Dynamics of origination and extinction in the marine fossil record. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105:11536-11542.

Alroy, J., M. Aberhan, D. J. Bottjer, M. Foote, F. T. Fürsich, P. J. Harries, A. J. W. Hendy, S. M. Holland, L. C. Ivany, W. Kiessling, M. A. Kosnik, C. R. Marshall, A. J. McGowan, A. I. Miller, T. D. Olszewski, M. E. Patzkowsky, S. E. Peters, L. Villier, P. J. Wagner, N. Bonuso, P. S. Borkow, B. Brenneis, M. E. Clapham, L. M. Fall, C. A. Ferguson, V. L. Hanson, A. Z. Krug, K. M. Layou, E. H. Leckey, S. Nürnberg, C. M. Powers, J. A. Sessa, C. Simpson, A. Tomasovych, and C. C. Visaggi. 2008. Phanerozoic trends in the global diversity of marine invertebrates. Science 321:97-100.

Madin, J. S., J. Alroy, M. Aberhan, F. T. Fürsich, W. Kiessling, M. A. Kosnik, and P. J. Wagner. 2006. Statistical independence of escalatory ecological trends in Phanerozoic marine invertebrates. Science 312:897-900.

Behrensmeyer, A. K., F. T. Fürsich, R. A. Gastaldo, S. M. Kidwell, M. A. Kosnik, M. Kowalewski, R. E. Plotnick, R. R. Rogers, and J. Alroy. 2005. Are the most durable shelly taxa also the most common in the marine fossil record? Paleobiology 31(4):607-623.

Smith, F. A., J. H. Brown, J. P. Haskell, S. K. Lyons, J. Alroy, E. L. Charnov, T. Dayan, B. J. Enquist, S. K. M. Ernest, E. A. Hadly, K. E. Jones, D. M. Kaufman, P. A. Marquet, B. A. Maurer, K. J. Niklas, W. P. Porter, B. Tiffney, and M. R. Willig. 2004. Similarity of mammalian body size across the taxonomic hierarchy and across space and time. American Naturalist 163(5):672-691.

Alroy, J. 2004. Are Sepkoski's evolutionary faunas dynamically coherent? Evolutionary Ecology Research 6(1):1-32. PDF

--------. 2003c. Taxonomic inflation and body mass distributions in North American fossil mammals. Journal of Mammalogy 84(2):431-443. PDF

--------. 2003b. Cenozoic bolide impacts and biotic change in North American mammals. Astrobiology 3:119-132. PDF

Bowen, G. J., W. C. Clyde, P. L. Koch, S. Ting, J. Alroy, T. Tsubamoto, Y. Wang, and Y. Wang. 2002. Mammalian dispersal at the Paleocene/Eocene boundary. Science 295:2062-2065. PDF

Alroy, J. 2002a. How many named species are valid? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99:3706-3711. PDF

--------. 2001a. A multi-species overkill simulation of the end-Pleistocene megafaunal mass extinction. Science 292:1893-1896. PDF

Alroy, J., C. R. Marshall, R. K. Bambach, K. Bezusko, M. Foote, F. T. Fürsich, T. A. Hansen, S. M. Holland, L. C. Ivany, D. Jablonski, D. K. Jacobs, D. C. Jones, M. A. Kosnik, S. Lidgard, S. Low, A. I. Miller, P. M. Novack-Gottshall, T. D. Olszewski, M. E. Patzkowsky, D. M. Raup, K. Roy, J. J. Sepkoski, Jr., M. G. Sommers, P. J. Wagner, and A. Webber. 2001. Effects of sampling standardization on estimates of Phanerozoic marine diversification. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98(11):6261-6266. PDF

Alroy, J., P. L. Koch, and J. C. Zachos. 2000. Global climate change and North American mammalian evolution. In D. H. Erwin and S. L. Wing, eds. Deep time: Paleobiology's perspective. Paleobiology 26(Suppl. to No. 4):259-288.

Alroy, J. 2000c. New methods for quantifying macroevolutionary patterns and processes. Paleobiology 26(4):707-733. PDF

--------. 2000b. Successive approximations of diversity curves: ten more years in the library. Geology 28(11):1023-1026. PDF

--------. 2000a. Understanding the dynamics of trends within evolving lineages. Paleobiology 26(3):319-329. PDF

--------. 1999b. Putting North America's end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinction in context: large scale analyses of spatial patterns, extinction rates, and size distributions. Pp. 105-143 in R. D. E. MacPhee (ed.), Extinctions in near time: causes, contexts, and consequences. Plenum, New York.

--------. 1999a. The fossil record of North American mammals: Evidence for a Paleocene evolutionary radiation. Systematic Biology 48(1):107-118. PDF

Alroy, J., R. L. Bernor, M. Fortelius, and L. Werdelin. 1998. The MN system: regional or continental? Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssamlung für Paläontologie und historische Geologie 38:243-258.

Alroy, J. 1998e. Equilibrial diversity dynamics in North American mammals. Pp. 232-287 in M. L. McKinney and J. A. Drake (eds.), Biodiversity dynamics: turnover of populations, taxa, and communities. Columbia University Press, New York.

--------. 1998b. Cope's rule and the dynamics of body mass evolution in North American mammals. Science 280:731-734. PDF

--------. 1998a. Diachrony of mammalian appearance events: implications for biochronology. Geology 26(1):23-27. PDF

--------. 1996. Constant extinction, constrained diversification, and uncoordinated stasis in North American mammals. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 127(1/4):285-311. PDF

--------. 1995. Continuous track analysis: a new phylogenetic and biogeographic method. Systematic Biology 44(2):152-178. PDF

Wing, S. L., J. Alroy, and L. J. Hickey. 1995. Plant and mammal diversity in the Paleocene to early Eocene of the Bighorn Basin. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 115:117-155. PDF

Alroy, J. 1994b. Four permutation tests for phylogenetic structure. Systematic Biology 43(3):430-437. PDF

--------. 1994a. Appearance event ordination: a new biochronologic method. Paleobiology 20(2):191-207. PDF

--------. 1992. Conjunction among taxonomic distributions and the Miocene mammalian biochronology of the Great Plains. Paleobiology 18(3):326-343. PDF

Comment and reply pieces

Alroy, J. 2003a. Global databases will yield reliable measures of global biodiversity. Paleobiology 29(1):26-29. PDF

--------. 2002b. Stratigraphy in phylogeny reconstruction - reply to Smith (2000). Journal of Paleontology 76:587-589. PDF

--------. 2001b. Did human hunting cause mass extinction? Science 294:1459-1462.

--------. 1998d. Diachrony of mammalian appearance events: implications for biochronology: Reply. Geology 26(10):956-958. PDF

--------. 1998c. Cope's rule. Science 282:50-51.

Alroy, J., and A. Levine. 1994. Driving both ways: Wilson and Sober's conflicting criteria for the identification of groups as vehicles of selection. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 17(4):608-610.

World Wide Web sites

North American Fossil Mammal Systematics Database (now part of the Paleobiology Database)

The Paleobiology Database

Abstracts

--------. 2003b. Patterns of ecological dominance throughout the fossil record: a demonstration of the Paleobiology Database. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 35(6):458.

--------. 2003a. The 5% project: just how good is the fossil record of tetrapods? Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23:29A.

--------. 2002b. Walking the gangplank: ecological correlates of extinction in fossil mammals. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 34(6).

McDermott, B., J. Hunter, and J. Alroy. 2002. Estimating body mass of multituberculate mammals. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22:86A.

Alroy, J. 2002a. Extraterrestrial bolide impacts and biotic change in North American mammals. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22:32A.

--------. 2001c. Skeletons in the closet: estimating the number of invalid species names. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 33(6):389-390.

--------. 2001b. A dietary ecomorphospace for mammals. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21:27A-28A.

--------. 2001a. The Paleobiology Database. PaleoBios 21(Suppl. to No. 2):23.

--------. 2000b. Implications of a large database for phylogenetic measures of the fossil record. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 32(7):132.

--------. 2000a. An ecologically realistic simulation of North America's end-Pleistocene megafaunal mass extinction. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20:26A

--------. 1999b. Inferring modes of speciation from a phylogeny of North American fossil mammals. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 31(7):398.

Marshall, C. R., and J. Alroy. 1999. Towards a sample-standardized Phanerozoic diversity curve. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 31(7):336.

Sears, K., and J. Alroy. 1999. The geography of end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinction in South America: massive overkill in the tropics? Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19:74A.

Alroy, J. 1999a. A phylogeny of North American mammals: what does it say about adaptive radiations? Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19:29A

--------. 1998b. Differential turnover across the mammalian body size spectrum: diversification trends governed by equilibrial dynamics. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 30(7):38.

--------. 1998a. Cenogram statistics: what do they tell us about the evolution of body mass? Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18:23A.

--------. 1997b. Cope's rule revisited: the evolution of body mass in North American mammals. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 29(6):A108.

--------. 1997a. Are appearance events synchronous? Evidence from North American fossil mammals. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17:29A.

--------. 1996c. Four methods of correcting diversity curves for sampling effects: which is best? Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 28(7):A107.

--------. 1996b. How important are adaptive radiations as a source of mammalian diversity? Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16:19A.

--------. 1996a. Cenozoic migration rates, extinction rates, and diversity patterns in North American mammals: stability in the face of stochastic migration. Paleontological Society Special Publication 8:5.

--------. 1995b. The Paleocene diversity dynamics of North American mammals: Initial lag phase of a logistic diversification, or an independent evolutionary fauna? Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 27(6):A405-406.

--------. 1995a. Does climate or competition control mammalian diversity? Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15:16A.

--------. 1994c. Class-level stasis, ordinal-level stochasticity: Random walks and the Cenozoic diversity history of North American mammals. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 26(7):A124.

--------. 1994b. The mammalian time scale of North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14:14A.

--------. 1994a. Long-term equilibrium in North American mammalian diversity. Supplement to Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 75(2):4.

--------. 1993b. Continuous track analysis and the Cenozoic mammalian biogeography of North America. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 25(6):A460.

--------. 1993a. Continuous track analysis and the phylogenetics of Old and New World Hipparionini (Mammalia, Equidae). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 13:24A.

--------. 1992c. A unified biochronologic method encompassing faunistic, stratigraphic, geochronologic, and phylogenetic data. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 24(7):A269-270.

--------. 1992b. A new phylogenetic method. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 12:15A.

--------. 1992a. Quantitative mammalian biochronology and biogeography of the late Eocene through early Pleistocene. Paleontological Society Special Publication 6:5.

--------. 1991. A quantitative biochronologic method independent of biostratigraphy: telling time from species lists. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 23(5):A473.

--------. 1990. A synthesis of North American mammalian biochronology based on multivariate sample ordination. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 10:12A.

Manuscript and grant reviews

American Malacological Bulletin (1) American Naturalist (5) Association of Australasian Palaeontologists Memoirs (1) Biology Letters (1) Diversity and Distributions (1) Ecological Reviews (2) Evolution (1) Evolutionary Ecology Research (2) Geology (5) Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (1)

Book chapter, MacPhee 1999 (1) Book chapter, McKinney and Drake 1998 (1) National Science Foundation (10) Book proposal, Oxford University Press (1) Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (2) Paleobiology (15) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA (2) Royal Society Proceedings: Biological Sciences (2) Science (4) Systematic Biology (11)

Talks presented at national and international meetings

Underlined presentations were invited.

October, 2008	Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Cleveland, Ohio.
October, 2008	Geological Society of America, Houston, Texas.
December, 2007	Sackler Colloquium on Biodiversity and Extinction, Irvine, California.
October, 2007	Geological Society of America, Denver, Colorado.
October, 2007	Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Austin, Texas.
March, 2007	BES Symposium on Speciation and Ecology, University of Sheffield.
October, 2006	Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Ottawa, Ontario.
June, 2006	Second International Palaeontological Congress, Beijing.
April, 2006	Future Research Directions in Paleontology Workshop, Washington, DC.
October, 2005	Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Mesa, Arizona.
October, 2005	Geological Society of America, Salt Lake City, Utah.
August, 2005	Ecological Society of America, Montreal, Canada.
June, 2005	North American Paleontological Convention, Halifax, Canada.
Dec., 2004	Palaeontological Association, Lille, France.
November, 2004	Geological Society of America, Denver, Colorado.
November, 2004	Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Denver, Colorado.
January, 2004	Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, New Orleans, Louisiana.
November, 2003	Geological Society of America, Seattle, Washington.
October, 2003	Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, St. Paul, Minnesota.
October, 2003	EarthTime workshop, Washington, D.C.
June, 2003	Society of Systematic Biologists, Chico, California.
March, 2003	International Paleobiology Database Symposium, Berlin (symposium co-organizer).
October, 2002	Geological Society of America, Denver, Colorado.
October, 2002	Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Norman, Oklahoma.
September, 2002	Extinction Thresholds Conference, Helsinki.
August, 2002	Ecological Society of America, Tucson, Arizona.
June, 2002	American Society of Mammalogists, Lake Charles, Louisiana.
March, 2002	Society for American Archaeology, Denver, Colorado.
February, 2002	Rubey Colloquium on Impacts and the Origin, Evolution, and Extinction of Life, University of California, Los Angeles
November, 2001	Geological Society of America, Boston, Massachusetts.
October, 2001	Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Bozeman, Montana.
June, 2001	North American Paleontological Convention, Berkeley, California.
November, 2000	Geological Society of America, Reno, Nevada (symposium co-organizer).
October, 2000	Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Mexico City.
October, 2000	Sepkoski Memorial Symposium, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.
June, 2000	Society of Systematic Biologists, Bloomington, Indiana (symposium co-organizer).
May, 2000	Origin and Evolutionary Transformations of Mammals, Berlin.
October, 1999	Geological Society of America, Denver, Colorado.
October, 1999	Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Denver, Colorado.
June, 1999	Society of Systematic Biologists, Madison, Wisconsin.
October, 1998	Geological Society of America, Toronto, Ontario.
October, 1998	Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Snowbird, Utah.
July, 1998	Origins of the Mammal Orders Conference, Hayama, Japan.
June, 1998	10th International Gondwana Conference, Cape Town, South Africa.
June, 1998	Society of Systematic Biologists, Vancouver, British Columbia.
October, 1997	Geological Society of America, Salt Lake City, Utah.
October, 1997	Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Chicago, Illinois.
June, 1997	Society of Systematic Biologists, Boulder, Colorado.
May, 1997	American Geophysical Union, Baltimore, Maryland.
April, 1997	Center for Biodiversity and Conservation Spring Symposium, American Museum of Natural History, New York.
October, 1996	Geological Society of America, Denver, Colorado.
October, 1996	Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, New York.
June, 1996	North American Paleontological Convention, Field Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.
November, 1995	Geological Society of America, New Orleans, Louisiana.
November, 1995	Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
July, 1995	Society of Systematic Biologists, Montreal, Quebec.
October, 1994	Geological Society of America, Seattle, Washington.
October, 1994	Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
August, 1994	Ecological Society of America, Knoxville, Tennessee.
June, 1994	Society of Systematic Biologists, Athens, Georgia.
October, 1993	Geological Society of America, Boston, Massachusetts.
October, 1993	Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
June, 1993	Society of Systematic Biologists, Snowbird, Utah.
October, 1992	Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario.
October, 1992	Geological Society of America, Cincinatti, Ohio.
July, 1992	North American Paleontological Convention, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois.
October, 1991	Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, California.
October, 1991	Geological Society of America, San Diego, California.
October, 1990	Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Ks.
October, 1988	Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Drumheller, Alberta.

Invited seminars