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Lawing, Michelle

Michelle Lawing

Associate Professor
Office:  
WFES 322
Email:  
[email protected]
Website: https://lawinglab.org/

Education

Undergraduate Education
B.S. Biology, University of Texas at Arlington
Graduate Education
M.S. Biology, University of Texas at Arlington
Ph.D. Double Major, Indiana University • Evolution, Ecology and Behavior • Geological Sciences (Paleobiology)

Areas of Expertise

  • Global Change Biology
  • Paleobiology
  • Macroecology
  • Community Ecology
  • Spatial Ecology
  • Biogeography
  • Functional Ecology
  • Evolution
  • Phylogenetic Comparative Methods
  • Geometric Morphometrics
  • Conservation Biology
  • Quantitative Methods
  • Informal STEM Learning

Professional Summary

Michelle Lawing, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology at Texas A&M University and a visiting fellow in the Department of Biology at the University of Pisa in Italy. Her research is focused on how biodiversity responds to climate change and her approach involves interdisciplinary work at the nexus of conservation biology, ecology, evolution, and paleontology. Her work includes the investigation of geographic, evolutionary, and morphological responses of species and communities to environmental changes in the Anthropocene, Late Pleistocene, and throughout the Miocene to present. She is involved in developing methods to better harness ecological niche and species distribution models, geometric morphometric models, and phylogenetic comparative methods. Before joining TAMU, Dr. Lawing was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS).

 

Publications

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