P. David Polly

Phone:

+1 (812) 855-7994

Email:

pdpolly@indiana.edu

Website:

pollylab.indiana.edu

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Department:

Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Campus:

IU Bloomington

Resume/CV

B.A. 1987, Plan II Honors Program (concentration in paleontology, zoology, geology), University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D. 1993, Paleontology / Integrative Biology, University of California at Berkeley

P. David Polly is a Professor in and chair of the department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Indiana University (IU)  A vertebrate paleontologist, he studies the evolution of mammals and other vertebrates in the fossil record, including trait-based studies of community response to environmental change, geometric morphometric analysis of evolution and morphology, phylogenetics, biogeography, and speciation on regional and continental geographic scales.  

David is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and recently served as president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (2016-18), Director of the IU Center for Biological Research Collections (2013-2018), and Associate Director of the Environmental Resilience Institute at IU (2017-2018), and was an Edward P Bass Distinguished Visiting Environmental Scholar at the Yale University Institute of Biospheric Studies (2018-19).