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Lab Contact Information: Rob Guralnick PI

E176 Museum Collection Bldg. University of Colorado Boulder CO 80309-0265
lab and office ph: 303-735-0441; calendar
email: Robert.Guralnick@colorado.edu
Assoc. Professor: EBIO; Curator: CU Museum

PhD Students:
Liesl Peterson, 
Brian Stucky, 
Andrew Hill, 
Robert Jadin, 
Gaurav Vaidya,
Natalie Robinson
(co-advised
 w/ D. Bowers)

Masters, EBIO:
Peter Erb  

Informatics:  
Philip Goldstein, 
Elyse Belmonte

Zoology Staff:
Heather Robeson,
Mariko Kageyama

We are biodiversity scientists and our research focuses on what causes

spatiotemporal changes in genetic and species diversity. We take an

integrative approach to global change biology and the skills in lab range

from occupancy modeling to spatial ecological modeling, to landscape

genetics, to molecular phylogenetics. The diversity in lab is also its

strength -- we continue to discover that the interesting questions are the

integrative ones that require multiple lines of evidence.

Because so much of the work in lab uses primary species and population

occurrence data (when and where species and populations occur) available

from natural history collections, we are very involved in ecological and

biodiversity informatics initiatives to increase the quality, availability and

utility of such datasets at the global scale. Our particular informatics interest

is building web-based tools so that anyone may access, visualize and analyze

legacy and current biodiversity distribution and environmental data. I primarily

work on gastropod molluscs but students work on a variety of organisms

including mammals, snakes, insects and viruses. Our work, both at the level of

landscape and taxon, often has applied utility in the area of conservation biology.