Jeremy Kirchman

Jeremy Joseph Kirchman is an American ornithologist and paleontologist ( paleornithology with a focus on the Holocene ). He is the curator of ornithology at the New York State Museum in Albany, New York .

Life

Kirchman grew up in Illinois and was a college bird watching bird in the Ozark Mountains . He studied biology from Illinois Wesleyan University with a bachelor's degree in 1994 and zoology from Louisiana State University with a master's degree in 1997 (on population genetics of cave swallows). He was then from 1997 to 2000 at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and 2000/2001 teacher of biology at St. Gregory High School in Chicago. In 2001 he went to study zoology at the University of Florida , where he received his doctorate in 2006 with David William Steadman . Since 2006 he has been a curator for birds at the New York State Museum. He is also an Assistant Professor at the University at Albany, The State University of New York .

Among other things, he investigated extinct rallies of islands in the western Pacific from archaeological finds (topic of his dissertation) and their relationships with ancient DNA analysis, and initiated research projects on extinct bird species in North America. He uses DNA analysis to study isolated populations of birds and biogeographical diversification.

With Steadman he wrote the first scientific descriptions of some extinct species of cage of the genus Gallirallus , including ( Gallirallus gracilitibia , Gallirallus epulare , Gallirallus roletti , Gallirallus storrsolsoni ), the purple chicken Porphyrio mcnabi and some cuckoo pigeons .

He also studied the development of coyotes through hybridization with wolves ( Coywolf ) in the northeastern United States and the evolution of the human louse .

Awards

In 2003 Kirchman was accepted into the Sigma Xi Scientific Association .

Web links

• Homepage
• CV given at a lecture at the Hudson-Mohawk Bird Club

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Roland Kays, Abigail Curtis, Jeremy Kirchman Rapid adaptive evolution of northeastern coyotes via hybridization with wolves , Biology Letters, 2009
2. ↑ David L. Reed, Jessica E. Light, Julie M. Allen, Jeremy J. Kirchman Pair of lice lost or parasites regained: the evolutionary history of anthropoid primate lice , BMC Biology 5, 2007, 7, abstract
3. ↑ Sigma Xi ( Memento of the original from August 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.