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P. David Polly

Director Emeritus + Professor, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Chair, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. IUB

Phone:
812-855-7994
Email:
pdpolly@iu.edu
Website:
https://pollylab.org
Department:
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Campus:
IU Bloomington

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Geological Sciences 5053A
1001 E. 10th St.
Bloomington, IN 47405

Research Interests

P. David Polly is a Professor in and chair of the department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Indiana University (IU) A vertebrate paleontologist, he studies the evolution of mammals and other vertebrates in the fossil record, including trait-based studies of community response to environmental change, geometric morphometric analysis of evolution and morphology, phylogenetics, biogeography, and speciation on regional and continental geographic scales.

David is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and recently served as president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (2016-18), Director of the IU Center for Biological Research Collections (2013-2018), and Associate Director of the Environmental Resilience Institute at IU (2017-2018), and was an Edward P Bass Distinguished Visiting Environmental Scholar at the Yale University Institute of Biospheric Studies (2018-19).

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