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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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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