Robert P. Anderson, Ph.D.

 
Associate Professor, Department of Biology
City College of New York (CCNY)
City University of New York (CUNY)
Marshak Science Building, Room J-526
160 Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031 USA
 
Telephone, office: (212) 650-8504
Telephone, research laboratory: (212) 650-8424
FAX: (212) 650-8585
CCNY E-mail
 
Research Associate, Mammalogy
American Museum of Natural History
Central Park West at 79th Street
New York, NY 10024 USA
 
Telephone: (212) 769-5484
FAX (212) 769-5239
AMNH E-mail

 

 

 

 

 

 

RESEARCH

TEACHING

GRADUATE STUDIES

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH

PUBLICATIONS

PEOPLE

 
Academic history
Postdoctoral Fellow, Mammalogy, 2001-2003
New York, NY, USA
 
Ph.D. (honors) in Systematics and Ecology, 2001
University of Kansas, Natural History Museum
Lawrence, KS, USA
 
B.A. (cum laude) in Biology, 1994
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS, USA

 

My lab is funded currently by a grant from the National Science Foundation (DEB-0717357; Systematic Biology and Biodiversity Inventories Program, Division of Environmental Biology) entitled “Integrating systematics and GIS modeling: biogeography of spiny pocket mice (Heteromyidae) in South America" Read more and see Research.

 

Recent Lab News:

We have received funding for a second REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) supplement to my NSF grant (see above).  This supplement will allow one undergraduate in-depth training in many aspects of modern systematics and biogeography.

In May 2009, Mariya Shcheglovitova (see People) completed her undergraduate Honors Thesis in Biology, entitled "A jackknife approach to tuning Maximum Entropy models of species geographic distributions with few occurrence records: tests with spiny pocket mice (Heteromys) in South America."

Mariya Shcheglovitova (see People) was awarded the 2009 Gerald Brenner Scholarship from the Division of Science at CCNY (one of the highest honors bestowed by the Division).

In May 2009, Samuel Glickman (see People) was awarded the Edmund Baermann Scholarship from the Department of Biology at CCNY (the highest honor for sophomores and juniors granted by the Department).

Eliécer Gutiérrez (see People) received grants from the American Society of Mammalogists and the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Fund of the American Museum of Natural History.  The grants will support his summer 2009 DNA-sequencing research on the phylogenetics and biogeography of mouse opossums of the genus Marmosa.

Tatiana Caldera-Andara is a visiting research scholar for several months, conducting phylogenetic research associated with our NSF grant.  She is a master's student at the Universidad Simón Bolívar supervised by Dr. Marisol Aguilera, one of our Venezuelan collaborators.  While in the U.S., Tatiana is working with our lab and with Dr. Duke S. Rogers, our collaborator on Heteromys phylogenetics (see Research).

Aleks Radosavljevic, Mariya Shcheglovitova, and Darla Thomas (see People) won travel awards from the International Biogeography Society to attend and present their work at the biennial meeting of the Society in Mérida, Mexico in January 2009. Read more (third story)

Darla Thomas (see People) was selected as an Undergraduate Diversity Scholar; this funded her travel to Evolution 2008, the joint meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, American Society of Naturalists, and the Society for Systematic Biology. Read more (fourth story)

 

Selected Press:

138th @ Convent, City College of New York (3 Students Receive Grants to Attend Biogeography Meeting; third story)

138th @ Convent, City College of New York (Biology Senior Darla Thomas Presents at Evolution Meeting; fourth story)

Essential Science Indicators (New Hot Paper; Elith et al., 2006; modeling species distributions) 

Nature (Research Highlights; Elith et al., 2006; modeling species distributions) 

Blackwell (Press Releases; Elith et al., 2006; modeling species distributions) 

City College of New York (Recent News; Anderson and Timm, 2006; new species of rodent from Costa Rica) 


 

Cerro Santa Ana on the Península de Paraguaná in northwestern Venezuela, site of fieldwork undertaken in in collaboration with Dr. José Ochoa-G. (October 2005).

 

               
Hudson River at Cold Spring, NY, October 2004. Photo by R. Sotomayor

 

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R. P. Anderson
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Unless noted, all photographs by RPA


Last modified: 3 June 2009 (RPA)