Congratulations to David! Absolutely well deserved! Dr Alannah Pearson (Any) Sessional Lecturer & Tutor, Haydon-Allen Building, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, College or Arts and Social Sciences, The Australian National University Canberra, ACT, 2600
E: [email protected] X: @PalaeoNeuro W: https://linktr.ee/paleoneuro<https://linktr.ee/paleoneuro?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=75491fab-9d36-4397-9f44-6e923fb8696c> The Australian National University, Canberra | CRICOS Provider : 00120C | ABN : 52 234 063 906|TEQSA Provider ID: PRV12002 (Australian University [Image.jpeg] [Image.jpeg] The Australian National University acknowledges, celebrates and pays our respects to the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people of the Canberra region and to all First Nations Australians on whose traditional lands we meet and work, and whose cultures are among the oldest continuing cultures in human history On 16 Jul 2025, at 5:51 am, Eric Delson <[email protected]> wrote: You don't often get email from [email protected]. Learn why this is important<https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification> On October 22, 2025, the eighth Rohlf Medal for Excellence in Morphometric Methods and Applications will be awarded to P. David Polly, Professor of Paleontology in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Indiana University, Bloomington. He received his PhD in 1993 from the University of California, Berkeley, and spent 10 years at the University of London (UK) before joining Indiana in 2006, with visiting appointments at Yale, the Australian National University and Helsinki. Polly has developed new frameworks for evolutionary and ecological analysis using morphometrics. He developed one of the early solutions to representing 3D surfaces with geometric morphometrics, later referred to as eigensurface analysis. He combined this approach with his work on evolutionary modeling of geometric morphometric structures to show how rates and modes of complex functional traits could be used to redefine and analyze adaptive zones using his “adaptive peak model”. He has studied problems of morphological integration, modularity and evolvability, for example examining modular structure in vertebrate body plans in an explicitly phylogenetic context, which showed that HOX-mediated regionalization was present in the last tetrapod ancestor and has been accentuated in birds and mammals compared to lizards and snakes. He also taught numerous short courses on morphometrics and has supervised dozens of PhD students as advisor or committee member. Polly’s current and future morphometric work is focused on spatial processes in phenotypic evolution and on evolutionary ecology and “ecometrics” of complex morphological traits. These and other advances, including the development of freely-available software packages, led the Committee to award the 2025 Rohlf Medal to Professor P. David Polly. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Morphmet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/morphmet2/MN2PR14MB339244EA099595494B937F6DA057A%40MN2PR14MB3392.namprd14.prod.outlook.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/morphmet2/MN2PR14MB339244EA099595494B937F6DA057A%40MN2PR14MB3392.namprd14.prod.outlook.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Morphmet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/morphmet2/072E4870-ED63-4866-9349-5134388F28B9%40anu.edu.au.
