John Alroy

Area of expertise

Education

• University of Chicago, Committee on Evolutionary Biology, PhD, 1994.
• Reed College, Department of Biology, B.A., 1989.
• Hunter College High School, graduated 1984.

  Professional life

• Macquarie University, Future Fellow, 2010–present.
• Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, Assistant and later Associate Researcher, 2000–2010.
• National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Post-doctoral Fellow, 1998–2000, and Center Associate, 2000–2010.
• University of Arizona, Research Training Group in the Analysis of Biodiversification, 1994–1996.
• Smithsonian Institution, Predoctoral internship, Department of Paleobiology and Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems consortium, 1989–1990.

  Selected publications

• The shifting balance of diversity among major marine animal groups. Science 329:1191–1194.
• Speciation and extinction in the fossil record of North American mammals. pp. 301–323 in R. Butlin, J. Bridle, and D. Schluter, Speciation and Patterns of Diversity. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
• Dynamics of origination and extinction in the marine fossil record. PNAS 105:11536-11542.
• Phanerozoic trends in the global diversity of marine invertebrates. Science 321:97–100.
• Statistical independence of escalatory ecological trends in Phanerozoic marine invertebrates. Science 312:897–900.
• A multispecies overkill simulation of the end-Pleistocene megafaunal mass extinction. Science 292:1893–1896.
• Global climate change and North American mammalian evolution by John Alroy, Paul L. Koch, and James C. Zachos; The Paleontological Society.
• Successive approximations of diversity curves: Ten more years in the library. Geology 28:1023–1026.
• Equilibrial diversity dynamics in North American mammals. pp. 232–287 in M. L. McKinney and J. Drake, Biodiversity Dynamics: Turnover of Populations, Taxa and Communities. Columbia University Press, York.
• Cope's rule and the dynamics of body mass evolution in North American mammals. Science 280:731–734.
• Constant extinction, constrained diversification, and uncoordinated stasis in North American mammals. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 127:285–311.

  Honors

• 2010 NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing from the National Academy of Sciences.
• 2007 Charles Schuchert Award of the Paleontological Society.
• 1994 Romer Prize of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.

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