Curriculum Vitae

Amy R. McCune

CURRICULUM VITAE

PERSONAL

Name: Amy Reed McCune

Date of Birth: 31 May 1954

Place of Birth: Cincinnati, Ohio

Contact Information: (607) 254-4217, arm2@cornell.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1982 (Biology)
M. Phil., Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1978 (Biology)
B.A., Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976 (Biology, with Honors)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2005- Professor and Curator of Ichthyology, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Corson Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853

1989-2005 Associate Professor and Curator of Ichthyology, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (formerly Section of Ecology and Systematics), Corson Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853

1990- Curatorial Affiliate, Division of Vertebrate Paleontology, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

1983-1998 Acting Curator of Herpetology, Section of Ecology and Systematics, Division of Biological Sciences, Cornell University

1983-1989 Assistant Professor, Curator of Ichthyology, Section of Ecology and Systematics, Division of Biological Sciences, Cornell University

1982-1983 Postdoctoral Fellow, Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, Department of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley

1980-1982 Assistant in Research, Department of Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

1980 Curatorial Assistant in Vertebrate Paleontology, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

1976-1980 Teaching Assistant, Department of Biology, Yale University

1976 Curatorial Assistant in Ichthyology, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2002-2004 National Science Foundation, "A New Facility for the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates: Moving, Compactors, and Cases" (with J. Friel, H. Greene, D. Winkler, K. Zamudio)

2000-2003 National Science Foundation, "Genomic rate of recessive lethal mutation in Danio rerio"

1996-1998 National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Research (of N. Lovejoy); "Molecular Systematics of Needlefishes: Interpreting Heterochrony and Biogeography"

1995-1998 National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Research (of M. McClure); "Development and evolution of pigmentation patterns in the genus Danio (Teleostei:Cyprinidae)"

1992-1995 National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Research (of G. Graffin); "Development and phylogenetic significance of acellular bone: a comparative study"

1990-1996 Hatch Grant; "Long-term effects of climatic change on fish species diversity"

1989-1992 National Science Foundation, Biological Research Resources; "Computerization of the Cornell Ichthyology Collection" (with J. M. Humphries)

1987-1993 National Science Foundation, Systematic Biology; "Systematics and evolution of semionotid fishes in an Early Jurassic lake"

1987-1990 Hatch Grant; "Long-term effects of reduction of lake levels on fish species diversity"

1987-1990 National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Research (of P. H. Wimberger); "Phenotypic plasticity of jaw and skull morphology in the cichlid fishes, Geophagus braziliensis and G. steindachneri"

1986 National Science Foundation, Biological Research Resources; "Toward the phylogeny of a fossil species flock: semionotid fishes from a lake deposit in the Early Jurassic Towaco Formation, Newark Basin" (for publication of a systematic monograph)

1983-1996 DuPont Corporation Young Faculty Grant

1983-1986 Hatch Grant, "Long-term effects of reduction in lake level on fish populations"

1982 Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science

FIELD STUDIES

1984- Fish collecting in fresh waters of New York State

1978- Fossil collecting in the Triassic and Jurassic of New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Nova Scotia; also in the Carboniferous and Devonian of Pennsylvania and the Devonian of New York

1978-1980 Three major excavations for fossil fishes, reptiles, plants, and invertebrates (10 months) in the Triassic and Jurassic of New Jersey

1976 Ecology of estuarine fishes in Rhode Island and Massachusetts

GENERAL INTERESTS

Evolutionary biology, especially systematics, paleobiology and development; ichthyology

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

1989-1994 &
1998-2003 Member, Board of Governors, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists

1985-1987 &
1994 - Member, Board of Trustees, Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, New York

1994-1996 Member, Council, Society for the Study of Evolution

1990-1993 Associate Editor, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

1990-1993 Member, Council, Society of Systematic Biology

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND ORGANIZATIONS

American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Association for Zoological Nomenclature
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
American Society of Zoologists
Paleontological Research Institution
Society for the Study of Evolution
Society of Systematic Biology
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

REVIEWER

Academic Press, American Naturalist, American Scientist, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Blackwell Scientific Publications, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Center for Field Research (Earthwatch), Copeia, Cornell University Press, Eloise Gerry Fellowships for Women, Evolution, Hudson River Foundation for Science and Environmental Research, John Wiley & Sons,Journal of Paleolimnology, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration, National Science Foundation (Biological Research Resources; Paleobiology; Population Biology and Physiological Ecologys, Systematic Biology; Stratigraphy & Paleontology; Geology & Paleontology; Population Biology; and Research Collections in Systematics and Ecology), Natural Environment Resource Council (United Kingdom), Oxford University Press, President's Council of Cornell Women, Princeton University Press, Saunders College Publishing, Science, Sinauer Associates, Smithsonian Institution Office of Fellowships and Grants, Trends in Ecology and Evolution

INVITED LECTURES

1982 Section of Ecology and Systematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Department of Geology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois

1983

Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley

Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley

Special Symposium on Newark Supergroup Geology and Paleontology, Geological Society of America, Kiamesha Lake, New York

Special Symposium on the Evolution of Fish Species Flocks, American Society of Ichthyology and Herpetology, Tallahassee, Florida

Bodega Marine Laboratory Seminar Series, University of California, Bodega Bay

1984
Special Symposium on Faunal Change Across the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Annual Meeting, Berkeley, California

1985
Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Department of Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York at Stony Brook

1986
Symposium on the Paleobiology of Lakes, North American Paleontological Convention, Boulder, Colorado

1987
Symposium on "The New Paleontology" sponsored by the Paleontological Society and the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Tucson, Arizona

1988
American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York

Systematics Discussion Group, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

1989
Department of Zoology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Department of Zoology, University of Alberta, Edmonton

Department of Biology, Princeton University

1992
Distinguished Biologists Lecture Series, Department of Biology, Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York

1993
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia

Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York, Binghamton

1994
Symposium on Variation in Fossil Species, Geological Society of America, Northeastern Regional Meeting

1995
Department of Biology, Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York

Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

Molecular Evolution and Adaptive Radiation: A Satellite Symposium of the Society for the Study of Evolution, Montreal, Canada

1996
Endless Forms: Species and Speciation, a Special Symposium in Honor of Guy Bush, Pacific Grove, California

1997
Earth History and Paleobiology Seminar Series, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Graduate Student-Invited Speaker)

1998
Department of Biology, Clarkson College, Potsdam, New York

1999
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria

Workshop on "The Formation of Biodiversity through Adaptive Speciation"

2000
Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley

Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ Post-Doctoral Invited Speaker)

Updated 11/16/05

Name:	Amy Reed McCune
Date of Birth:	31 May 1954
Place of Birth:	Cincinnati, Ohio
Contact Information:	(607) 254-4217, arm2@cornell.edu

2005-	Professor and Curator of Ichthyology, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Corson Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
1989-2005	Associate Professor and Curator of Ichthyology, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (formerly Section of Ecology and Systematics), Corson Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
1990-	Curatorial Affiliate, Division of Vertebrate Paleontology, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
1983-1998	Acting Curator of Herpetology, Section of Ecology and Systematics, Division of Biological Sciences, Cornell University
1983-1989	Assistant Professor, Curator of Ichthyology, Section of Ecology and Systematics, Division of Biological Sciences, Cornell University
1982-1983	Postdoctoral Fellow, Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, Department of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley
1980-1982	Assistant in Research, Department of Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
1980	Curatorial Assistant in Vertebrate Paleontology, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
1976-1980	Teaching Assistant, Department of Biology, Yale University
1976	Curatorial Assistant in Ichthyology, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

2002-2004	National Science Foundation, "A New Facility for the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates: Moving, Compactors, and Cases" (with J. Friel, H. Greene, D. Winkler, K. Zamudio)
2000-2003	National Science Foundation, "Genomic rate of recessive lethal mutation in Danio rerio"
1996-1998	National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Research (of N. Lovejoy); "Molecular Systematics of Needlefishes: Interpreting Heterochrony and Biogeography"
1995-1998	National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Research (of M. McClure); "Development and evolution of pigmentation patterns in the genus Danio (Teleostei:Cyprinidae)"
1992-1995	National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Research (of G. Graffin); "Development and phylogenetic significance of acellular bone: a comparative study"
1990-1996	Hatch Grant; "Long-term effects of climatic change on fish species diversity"
1989-1992	National Science Foundation, Biological Research Resources; "Computerization of the Cornell Ichthyology Collection" (with J. M. Humphries)
1987-1993	National Science Foundation, Systematic Biology; "Systematics and evolution of semionotid fishes in an Early Jurassic lake"
1987-1990	Hatch Grant; "Long-term effects of reduction of lake levels on fish species diversity"
1987-1990	National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Research (of P. H. Wimberger); "Phenotypic plasticity of jaw and skull morphology in the cichlid fishes, Geophagus braziliensis and G. steindachneri"
1986	National Science Foundation, Biological Research Resources; "Toward the phylogeny of a fossil species flock: semionotid fishes from a lake deposit in the Early Jurassic Towaco Formation, Newark Basin" (for publication of a systematic monograph)
1983-1996	DuPont Corporation Young Faculty Grant
1983-1986	Hatch Grant, "Long-term effects of reduction in lake level on fish populations"
1982	Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science

1984-	Fish collecting in fresh waters of New York State
1978-	Fossil collecting in the Triassic and Jurassic of New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Nova Scotia; also in the Carboniferous and Devonian of Pennsylvania and the Devonian of New York
1978-1980	Three major excavations for fossil fishes, reptiles, plants, and invertebrates (10 months) in the Triassic and Jurassic of New Jersey
1976	Ecology of estuarine fishes in Rhode Island and Massachusetts

1989-1994 & 1998-2003	Member, Board of Governors, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
1985-1987 & 1994 -	Member, Board of Trustees, Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, New York
1994-1996	Member, Council, Society for the Study of Evolution
1990-1993	Associate Editor, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
1990-1993	Member, Council, Society of Systematic Biology

1982	Section of Ecology and Systematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
	Department of Geology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois
1983	Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley
	Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley
	Special Symposium on Newark Supergroup Geology and Paleontology, Geological Society of America, Kiamesha Lake, New York
	Special Symposium on the Evolution of Fish Species Flocks, American Society of Ichthyology and Herpetology, Tallahassee, Florida
	Bodega Marine Laboratory Seminar Series, University of California, Bodega Bay
1984	Special Symposium on Faunal Change Across the Triassic-Jurassic Boundary, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Annual Meeting, Berkeley, California
1985	Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
	Department of Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York at Stony Brook
1986	Symposium on the Paleobiology of Lakes, North American Paleontological Convention, Boulder, Colorado
1987	Symposium on "The New Paleontology" sponsored by the Paleontological Society and the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Tucson, Arizona
1988	American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York
	Systematics Discussion Group, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1989	Department of Zoology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
	Department of Zoology, University of Alberta, Edmonton
	Department of Biology, Princeton University
1992	Distinguished Biologists Lecture Series, Department of Biology, Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York
1993	Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
	Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York, Binghamton
1994	Symposium on Variation in Fossil Species, Geological Society of America, Northeastern Regional Meeting
1995	Department of Biology, Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York
	Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
	Molecular Evolution and Adaptive Radiation: A Satellite Symposium of the Society for the Study of Evolution, Montreal, Canada
1996	Endless Forms: Species and Speciation, a Special Symposium in Honor of Guy Bush, Pacific Grove, California
1997	Earth History and Paleobiology Seminar Series, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Graduate Student-Invited Speaker)
1998	Department of Biology, Clarkson College, Potsdam, New York
1999	International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
	Workshop on "The Formation of Biodiversity through Adaptive Speciation"
2000	Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
	Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ Post-Doctoral Invited Speaker)