A. Townsend Peterson

University Distinguished Professor

town@ku.edu

Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center
1345 Jayhawk Blvd.
The University of Kansas
Lawrence KS 66045

Telephone: 785-864-3926
Fax: 785-864-5335

Academic Department

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Research Specialty

• The geography and ecology of species’ distributions in space and in time.

Awards

• 2006 – Byron A. Alexander Graduate Mentor Award, University of Kansas
• 2003 – K-BRIN Faculty Scholar Award, University of Kansas

Professional Memberships

• Fellow – American Ornithologists’ Union

Degrees

• B.S., Department of Zoology, Miami University, 1985
• M.S., Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, 1987; Ph.D., Committee on Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago, 1990
• Post-doctoral Researcher (informal), Louisiana State University, J. Van Remsen sponsor, 1990-1991; Post-doctoral Researcher, Field Museum of Natural History, Lawrence Heaney sponsor, 1991-1992.

For More Information

• A. Townsend Petersons Web site

Why Study at the University of Kansas?

The program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) at KU is extremely attractive thanks to the strengths of its faculty, which is drawn from fields as diverse as ecology, evolutionary genetics, genomics, and geography. Of particular importance is the full participation of the faculty and staff of the Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, which lends a strong dimension of systematics and biodiversity science, as well as biodiversity informatics, to the program. EEB undergraduate and graduate students come from across the US, and indeed from around the world; they form a fascinating ‘family’ of junior scientists and young colleagues who interact extensively with the faculty in the program.