The Polly Lab

We study vertebrate paleontology with a focus on how earth history, especially changing climates and geographies, has affected vertebrate evolution and community composition. Our work includes trait-based studies of community responses to environmental change, geometric morphometric analysis of evolution and morphology, phylogenetics, biogeography, and speciation. Our studies synthesize data from regional and continental geographic scales and across historical, Quaternary, and Cenozoic time scales. We are part of the Geobiology Group of the Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana Univesrity.

Palaeontologia ElectronicaPalaeontologia Electronica, an electronic journal of paleontological research, is now in its fifteenth year.

NESCent Fossil Calibration Database working groupFossil Calibration Database working group at NESCent, 2012.

2011 GMM shortcourse in Cuernavaca, MexicoGeometric morphometrics short-course at CIBYC, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca, Mexico, 2011.

Opening of Titanoboa exhibit in Grand Central StationOpening of Titanoboa exhibit in New York's Grand Central Station, 2012.
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  • Beth Reinke, IMP Zoology major, has graduated, received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and will start graduate school at Dartmouth in Fall, 2012.

  • Rituparna Bose received her PhD in December, 2011 and was hooded in May, 2012.

  • The Titanoboa exhibit opened at the Smithsonian in April, 2012 at the same time as the documentary aired on the Smithsonian Channel.
 
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