Alison G. Boyer

About me:

NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Biological Informatics
University of California, San Diego &
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Visiting Scientist, Smithsonian Institution

Curriculum Vitae: .pdf

Research Interests:

I study macroecology, biogeography, and paleoecology, with a focus on island birds. I use ecoinformatics, statistical modeling, and the fossil record to pursue a variety of questions centering on extinction risk, historical and current human impacts on ecosystems, patterns of body size evolution, and processes governing biological diversity. My postdoctoral project focuses on broad-scale patterns of biodiversity and extinction of island birds. For my dissertation, I worked in the Brown Lab at the University of New Mexico, where I studied avian macroecology.

Collaborators:

• Walter Jetz (University of California, San Diego)
• Allen Hurlbert (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
• Helen James (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC)

Contact:

Email: aboyer [at] email.unc.edu
Office phone: (919) 962-8795
Mailing Address:
CB# 3280, Coker Hall
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3280