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Pam Groves
Much of my research has focused on muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) in areas ranging from muskox husbandry to their genetics, evolutionary history and convergent evolution with takins (Budorcas taxicolor) in China. I also am interested in mammalian adaptations to arctic environments.
More recently, I have been studying paleontology of extinct megafaunal mammals from the late Pleistocene and early Holocene in northern Alaska.
B.A. - Hampshire College, Amherst MA. 1976. Animal Behavior and Ecology.
Ph.D. -University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks AK. 1995. Dissertation: The Takin and Muskox: a Molecular and Ecological Evaluation of Relationship.
Bureau of Land Management, Arctic Field Office. Seasonal Employee. Wildlife biologist and paleontologist. Collected and catalogued 1000’s of bones from North Slope. 2002-2012
Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks AK. Research Scientist. 1995 - present.
Large Animal Research Station, University of Alaska, Fairbanks AK. Public education and outreach supervisor. 1987 - 2014.
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, OH. Research Associate. Jan. 2002 – 2010.
Molecular Biology Unit, AgResearch, Dunedin, New Zealand. Visiting Researcher. Jan. - April 1996.
Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks AK. Postdoctoral fellow. May - Dec. 1995.
Large Animal Research Station, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks AK. Co-PI for Muskoxen and Caribou Earthwatch Project. 1991 - 1993.
Shaanxi Institute of Zoology, Xian, China. Research associate. 1998-1991.
- Ice-age megafauna in Arctic Alaska: extinction, invasion, survival
- American mastodon extirpation in the Arctic and Subarctic predates human colonization and terminal Pleistocene climate change
- Population structure over a broad spatial scale driven by nonanthropogenic factors in a wide-ranging migratory mammal, Alaskan c
- Genetic diversity of the major histocompatibility complex class II in Alaskan caribou herds
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Pages
Bureau of Land Management. “Predicting the Effects of Climate Change Based on Past Occurrences of Climatic Warming in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.” August 2012-August 2016. $173K
National Science Foundations. "Collaborative Research: Land Bridges, Ice-Free Corridors, and Biome Shifts: Impacts on the Evolution and Extinction of Horses in Ice-Age Beringia" 2015-2018. $543K
News Releases
- Ice-age lesson: Large mammals need room to roam
(2 November 2015) PNAS paper
In the News
- Ice-age lesson: Large mammals need room to roam
(9 November 2015) TerraDaily - Ice-age Lesson: Large Mammals Need Room to Roam
(9 November 2015) Heritage Daily - Ice age triggered boom-and-bust cycles in the populations of large mammals
(9 November 2015) IneffableIsland.com - Wooly Mammoth: Habitat Fragmentation Learnings from Alaska's Ice Age
(5 November 2015) Nature World News - Ice-age Lesson: Large Mammals Need Room to Roam
(5 November 2015) ThroughGoldenEyes.blogspot - Study: North Slope's volatile Pleistocene climate benefited big mammals, but only temporarily
(3 November 2015) Alaska Dispatch News - Ice-Age Lesson: Large Mammals Need Room to Roam
(3 November 2015) Alaska Native News - Ice-age lesson: Large mammals need room to roam
(2 November 2015) Science codex - Ice-age lesson: Large mammals need room to roam
(2 November 2015) Phys.org - Rising seas, peat may have done in large ice age animals
(2 November 2015) Peninsula Clarion - Ice-age lesson: Large mammals need room to roam
(2 November 2015) ScienceDaily - Field Notes: Ancient islands stranded in the Arctic
(12 October 2015) Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Mastodons ruled from Yukon to Honduras
(20 December 2014) Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman - Bison Bob a Big Discovery on the North Slope
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(27 January 2013) Alaska Native News - Bison Bob a big discovery on North Slop
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(26 January 2013) Anchorage Daily News
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