Current Position
Associate Professor Summer 2007-present
Curator of Zoology, Invertebrates
Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology Dept.
University of
Website: http://robgur.googlepages.com
Professional Preparation
-
- Ph.D.
Integrative Biology,
Major
Advisor: David Lindberg
- Post-doctoral
Student,
-
Assistant Professor and Curator of Invertebrates Fall 2000- Spring 2007
2008 Pending.
Co-PI. Collaborative Research: A Flora and
Information System for Freshwater Diatoms of the Continental United States
(lead overall PI Patrick Kociolek, Co-PI Sarah Spaulding
from
2007 Co-PI : A
multi-species study of grasshopper phenology,
distribution and body size responses to climate changes in the Front Range of
Colorado (PI Nufio, Co-PI Bowers; NSF Ecology $292K budget, full ICR, 3 years guaranteed plus $100K, full ICR,
years 4 and 5 likely; start date: 9/01/07)
Co-Investigator: Information System (OBIS) to Support the
Census of Marine Life (CoML) (PI John Kineman, USGS, $30K budget, 17.5% ICR, 6 months,
7/01/07-12/31/07)
Pending. PI. Testing climate-related models of range contraction for the
American pika. Pre-proposal accepted Dec. 1, 2007. Full proposal submitted Decmber
18, 2007. (12 month National Geographic
Research and Exploration grant, $25,712 no ICR).
2006 Co-PI: Spatial Analysis and Modeling Plug-in
Services Development for
the
New GBIF Portal (9 month GBIF contract; David Neufeld, PI; Robert Guralnick,
Co-PI; ~$25,000 with 15% ICR)
2005
Co-PI: The
Alpine Microbial Observatory: Changes in microbial community composition across
extreme environmental gradients (NSF Microbial Observatory, Steve Schmidt PI,
Andrew Martin Co-PI, Jason Neff Co-PI, 5 yrs. @ ~$1.75 million, Full ICR –
approx. 400K for Bioinformatics)
PI
Student Travel Grants for the 2005 meeting of the Taxonomic Data Working Group
and associated workshops,
Co-PI: Web Feature Service Integration into the DiGIR portal software.
(Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Dave Neufeld, PI, $10,500;
15% ICR)
Co-Investigator and
Co-Investigator and Colorado
PI: Arizona Natural Heritage Program
Proposal – Conservation genetics of the endangered land snail, Sonorella, in
2004 Co-PI Curation and Databasing
of the Gordon Alexander Orthoptera Collection at the
Co-Investigator Collaborative
Research: Biogeomancer. Moore Foundation Eco-Intelligence program
(Collaborative Research Project with U. C. Berkeley, Yale University, Tulane
University, University of New Mexico, University of Kansas, etc.: Budget total:
$1.6 million, amount as PI: $126,000; 12.5% ICR).
PI
Student Travel Grants for the 2004 meeting of the Taxonomic Data Working Group
and associated workshops,
PI
A Study to examine endemism and population
relationships of the
PI National Geographic Society
Research/Exploration Grant: Historical
biogeography and evolution of talus-slope endemicity
in the
PI NSF DDIG: Dissertation Research: The Evolution of Developmental
Modules and Lability of Leaf Form in the Fern Genus Pleopeltis [Polypodiaceae] (Co-PI’s Jon
Krieger, Tom Ranker) ($8500; No ICR)
2003 Co-PI Collaborative Research: Linked Databases and Interactive Key for the
Vascular Flora of
PI
Montane Mollusc and
Crayfish Survey. Colorado Department of
Natural Resources ($107,000; 10% ICR)
2002
2001 PI NSF BDI Mountain and Plains Spatio-temporal
Database Initiative ($620,000; Full ICR). 2001-2005.
Mollusk Curation Grant ($7000;
No ICR, Division of Wildlife).
2001-2002.
1997 NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant ($4500)
Smithsonian
Short-Term Visitors Grant
($1500)
1998 Dorothy
Palmer Award for Research Excellence in Invertebrate Paleontology ($3000)
1995 Hawaiian Malacological
Society Student Scholarship, 1995 ($300)
Best Student Paper Award, American Malacological
Union Meeting, 1995 ($250)
1994 Complex Systems Summer School
1994, Selected Participant
1993 NSF Predoctoral
Fellowship (from 1993-1998, $14,000/yr + tuition)
2008 Invited
colloquium talk,
Symposium
talk, American Association for the
Advancement of Science Annual Meeting Colloquium, 3rd author on
invited paper in the “Global Dimension of Research Infrastructures”
symposium. Wouter Los presenting.
2007 Invited
Speaker, Western Interior Paleontological Society
Symposium 2007
Invited Presentation, Genomic Standards Consortium 4th Workshop: “eGenomics: Cataloguing our Current Genome Collection IV”,
June 2007
Invited
International Talk, “GMBA/GBIF joint
workshop – data mining for mountain biodiversity research” meeting, Sept. 26-28
in
Invited
International Symposium Presentation, Global
Biodiversity Information Facility GB14 Invited Speaker, Science Symposium. “GBIF's
role in creating a platform for biodiversity prediction”, October 18, 2007
American Medical Informatics
Association Poster Presentation (A.
Hill, R. Guralnick, B. Alexandrov, D. Janies) “Genomic Analysis and Geographic Visualization of
H5N1 and SARSCoV” (A. Hill attending, Distinguished Poster winner, Nov.
2007).
2006
Invited Presentation,
Invited Presentation, Global Biodiversity Information Facility Governing
Board Meeting 12 - Science Symposium [International; Co-Presented with Paul Flemons]
Invited Participant, American Malacological
Society Workshop: New Frontiers in
Western US Non-marine Malacology [July 2006, 2 lead
presented papers]
TDWG 2006 Symposium “Building
Biodiversity Applications” Presentation [lead author Guralnick, presented by D.
Neufeld]
Invited
Presentation, Global Biodiversity
Information Facility Governing Board Meeting 13 [October 2006, Paul Flemons lead presenter]
2005
Invited
colloquium talk:
Invited workshop speaker. New Zealand Mud Snail Workshop (USFW and ANS sponsored
workshop)
2000
American Malacological Society
Society
for Integrative and Comparative Biology
1999 Society
for Integrative and Comparative Biology
1998 Unitas
World Congress of Malacology [International]
International
Congress of Invertebrate Reproduction and Development
1997 Museums and
the Web Conference
CalPaleo Annual Meeting
American
Malacological Union Meeting, Symposium Speaker
Paleo21
Meeting, Invited Delegate [International]
1996 North
American Paleontological Conference
American
Malacological Union Meeting
1995 American Malacological Union Meeting
2008 Field,
D., G. Garrity, T. Gray, N. Morrison, J. Selengut, P. Sterk, T. Tatusova, N. Thomson and 62 other co-authors (R. Guralnick
28th of 70 co-authors). In Press. Towards a
richer description of our complete collection of genomes and metagenomes: the “Minimum Information about a Genome
Sequence” (MIGS) specification. Nature Biotechnology.
Roberts, A., D. Smith, R. P. Guralnick, P. Cushing and
J. Krieger. In Press. Quantitative prediction of fossil
biodiversity: Eocene Spiders from
Weaver, K., M. Perez-Losada,
R. Guralnick, A. Nelson, S. Blatt and K. A. Crandall. Online Early. Assessing the conservation status of the land snail Oreohelix peripherica wasatchensis (Family Oreohelicidae). Conservation Genetics.
[doi:10.1007/s10592-007-9415-y]
2007 Guralnick, R. P.
2007. Differential effects of past climate warming on
mountain and flatland species’ distributions:
A multispecies North American mammal
assessment. Global Ecology and
Biogeography 16(1):14-23 [doi:10.1111/j.1466-822X.2006.00260.x; free online: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2006.00260.x]
Krieger,
J., R. Guralnick, and D. Smith.
2007. Generating empirically determined, continuous measures of leaf shape for climate
prediction. Palaios 22(2):212-219.
[DOI:
10.2110/palo.2005.p05-079r]
Daitch,
D. and R. Guralnick. 2007. Geographic variation in the tooth morphology
of the arctic fox (Alopex lagopus). Journal
of Mammalogy 88(2): 384-393. [DOI: 10.1644/06-MAMM-A-139R1.1]
Anderson,
T., K. Weaver & R. Guralnick. 2007
[Online First]. Variation in adult shell
morphology and life history traits in the land snail Oreohelix cooperi in relationship to biotic and abiotic factors. Journal of Molluscan
Studies 73(2):129-137.
[doi:10.1093/mollus/eym006]
Janies, D., A. W. Hill, R. Guralnick, F. Habib,
Flemons,
P., R. Guralnick, J. Krieger, A. Ranipeta, and D.
Neufeld. 2007. A Web based GIS Tool for Exploring the
World's Biodiversity: The Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Mapping and Analysis Portal Application (GBIF MAPA). Ecological
Informatics 2:49-60. [doi:10.1016/j.ecoinf.2007.03.004]
Guralnick,
R. P., A. W. Hill and M. Lane.
2007. Toward
a collaborative, global infrastructure for biodiversity assessment. Ecology
Letters 10(8):663-672 [doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01063.x; free PDF: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01063.x]
E.
Waltari, R. Hijmans , A. Peterson , Á. Nyári , S.
Perkins, and R. Guralnick. 2007. Locating Pleistocene Refugia:
Comparing Phylogeographic and Ecological Niche Model
Predictions. PLoS ONE 2(7): e563. [doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000563; free online
paper: http://www.plosone.org/doi/pone.0000563]
Schutz, H. and R. P.
Guralnick. 2007. Postcranial element shape and function: Assessing locomotor mode in extant and extinct mustelid
carnivorans. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 150(4): 895-914. [doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00303.x]
2006 Guralnick, R.P.
2006. The legacy of past
climate and landscape change on species’ current experienced climate and
elevation ranges across latitude: A multispecies
study utilizing mammals in western
Guralnick,
R. P. 2006. Do flatland and mountain
dwelling species show different structuring of their experienced environment
over latitude? A western versus
central-eastern
Weaver,
K., Anderson, T. and R. Guralnick. 2006.
Combining phylogenetic and ecological niche
modeling approaches to determine distribution and historical biogeography of
Black Hills Mountain Snails (Oreohelicidae). Diversity
and Distributions 12(6): 756-766 [doi: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2006.00289.x]
2005 Guralnick,
R. P. 2005. Combined molecular and morphological
approaches for documenting regional biodiversity and ecological patterns in
problematic taxa: A case study utilizing
the bivalve group Cyclocalyx (Sphaeriidae,
Bivalvia) from western
Guralnick,
R. P. and J. Van Cleve. 2005. Strengths and weaknesses of museum and national
survey datasets for predicting regional species richness: Comparative and
combined approaches. Diversity and Distributions 11(4):349-359.
Guralnick,
R. P. and D. Neufeld. 2005. Challenges Building Distributed GIS Services
to Support Global Biodiversity Mapping and Analysis: Lessons from the Mountain
and Plains Database and Informatics project.
Biodiversity Informatics 2:57-69.
2004 Murphey, P.C., R. P. Guralnick, R. Glaubitz,
D. Neufeld, and J. Allen Ryan.
2004. Georeferencing
of Museum Collections: A review of the
problems and automated tools, and the methodology developed by the Mountain and
Plains Spatial-Temporal Database-informatics initiative (MaPSTeDI). Phyloinformatics 1(3):1-29.
Guralnick, R. P.
2004. Functional Morphology
Symposium: Integrating Historical and
Functional Data In Molluscan
Feeding: Approaches and Case
Studies. American Malacological Bulletin
19(1/2):25-29.
Guralnick,
R. P. 2004. Life-history patterns in the brooding
freshwater bivalve Pisidium
(Sphaeriidae).
Journal of Molluscan
Studies 70: 341-351.
Wethington,
A. and R. P. Guralnick. 2004. Are populations of physids
from different hot-springs distinctive lineages? American
Malacological Bulletin 19(1/2):135-144.
Guralnick,
R. P., E. Hall, and S. Perkins.
2004. A comparative approach to
understanding causes and consequences of mollusc-digenean
size relationships: A case study with Allocreadiid trematodes and Cyclocalyx clams.
Journal of Parasitology 90(6):1253-1262.
2003 Neufeld, D., R. Guralnick, R. Glaubitz and J. R. Allen.
Lindberg, D. R. and R. P. Guralnick. 2003. Phyletic patterns of early
development in gastropod mollusks. Evolution and Development 5(5):494-507.
Teusch,
K. and R. P. Guralnick. 2003. Environmentally-driven variation in ancient
populations of turritellids: evaluating the causal
link. Paleobiology 29(2):163-180.
Lindberg, D. R. and R. P. Guralnick. 2003.
Lineages, Cell and Phyletic.
In B. K Hall and W. Olson (eds.).
Keywords in Evolution and Development.
2002 Guralnick. R. P. 2002. A Recapitulation of the Rise and Fall of the Cell Lineage Research Program: The
evolutionary-developmental relationship of cleavage to homology, body plans and
life history. Journal of the History of Biology 35(3):537-567.
Guralnick, R. P. and D. R. Lindberg. 2002.
Cell lineage data and Spiralia: A reply to
Nielsen & Meier. Evolution 56(12): 2558–2560.
2001 Guralnick,
R. P. and D. R. Lindberg. 2001. Reconnecting cell and animal lineages: What do cell lineages tell us about the
evolution and development of Spiralia? Evolution
55(8):1501-1519.
Guralnick, R. P.
and J. Kurpius.
2001. Spatial and temporal
growth patterns in the phenotypically variable Littorina saxatilis: Surprising
patterns emerge from chaos. Pg. 195-228 In: M. Zelditch (ed.) Beyond Heterochrony. John Wiley and Sons,
1999 Guralnick, R. P. and K. Smith. 1999. Historical and
biomechanical analysis of integration and dissociation in molluscan
feeding, with special emphasis on the true limpets (Patellogastropoda:
Gastropoda).
Journal of Morphology 241(2):175-195.
Guralnick,
R. P. and D. R. Lindberg. 1999.
Integrating developmental evolutionary patterns and mechanisms: A case study
using the Gastropod radula. Evolution 53(2):447-459.
1997 Guralnick, R. P. and
M. J. de Maintenon. 1997. Formation and homology of radular
teeth: A case study using columbellid
gastropods. (Neogastropoda:
Columbellidae). Journal
of Molluscan Studies 63(1):65-77.
1995 Guralnick, R. P.
1995. Museums and the Internet II: Sewing museums into the strands of the Web. Spectra 23(1):21-23.
Guralnick, R. P. 1995. Museums and the Internet
I: Weaving towards the Web. Spectra 22(4):10-12.
1994 Guralnick,
R. P. 1994. From E-mail to E-museum. Comite
International pour la Documentation 5:28-31.
In revision/review/submitted:
Waltari, E. and R. Guralnick. Outcome: Revision required. Ecological niche modeling of
Guralnick, R. P. and P. B. Pearman. In Review, Peer-Reviewed Book Chapter. Niche dynamics of montane and lowland species since last glacial maximum. In: E. Spehn and C.
Körner, (Eds.), E-mining for global trends in
mountain biodiversity. CRC/Taylor and Francis Boca Raton, FL.
Shutz, H, P. D. Polly, J. Krieger and R.
Guralnick. In 2nd Review. Differential Sexual Dimorphism: Size and
Shape in the Cranium and Pelvis of Gray Foxes (Urocyon). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.
Hill, A. W., R. P. Guralnick, M. J. C. Wilson and Dan Janies. In Review. Evolution and geographic
spread of drug-resistance in multiple distinct lineages of influenza A/H5N1. PLoS Pathogens.
Nufio, C., K. Lloys,
D. Bower and R. Guralnick. Submitted. Gordon Alexander,
Grasshoppers and Climate Change. American Entomologist.
2007 Nelson,
M. and R. P. Guralnick. 2007. A Field Guide to the Freshwater Mollusks of
Freely available PDF: http://wildlife.state.co.us/NR/rdonlyres/A760FB47-4931-4669-845C-59EC1E31EA8E/0/FreshwaterMollusks.pdf
2006 Guralnick,
R., J. Wieczorek, R. J. Hijmans,
R. Beaman and the Biogeomancer
Working Group. 2006. Biogeomancer:
Automated georeferencing to map the world's
biodiversity data. PLoS Biology 4(11):1908-1909. [doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040381; Faculty of 1000 cited paper: http://www.f1000biology.com/article/id/1057996]
Open
Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0040381
Guralnick, R. P.
2006. The Past, Present and
Future of (Digital) Paleontological Collections. American Paleontologist.
Chapman,
A.D. and J. Wieczorek (ed.).
2006. Guide to Best Practices for Georeferencing.
Edited by: Arthur D. Chapman and John Wieczorek.
Contributors: J.Wieczorek, R.Guralnick,
A.Chapman, C.Frazier, N.Rios, R. Beaman, Q. Guo. Global
Biodiversity Information Facility.
2003 Guralnick, R. P. 2003.
Book review: Cladistics, A Practical Primer on
CD-ROM. Paleontologia
Electronica 6(2):book review
1.
Free PDF: http://palaeo-electronica.org/2003_2/books/cladis.pdf
2000 MacLeod,
N. and R. P.
Guralnick. 2000. Paleoinformatics.
In: LANE, R. H. (sic), STEININGER, F. F., KAESLER, R. L., ZIEGLER, W.
& LIPPS, J. (eds.). Fossils
and the Future. Paleontology in the 21st Century. Senckenberg-Bücher Nr. 74: 31-37.
MacLeod, N., P.
Diver, R. Guralnick, D. Lazarus and B. Malmgren.
2000. Computers, Quantification, and
Databases. In: LANE, R. H. (sic), STEININGER, F. F., KAESLER, R. L., ZIEGLER,
W. & LIPPS, J. (eds.).
Fossils and the Future. Paleontology in the 21st Century. Senckenberg-Bücher Nr. 74: 191-201.
1997 R. P. Guralnick.
Bridging the Gap between Research and Education: The Future of Network
Technology in the Sciences and
- NSF MAPSTEDI
protocols and project website: http://mapstedi.colorado.edu
NSF MAPSTEDI beta public mapping
clients: http://geomuse.colorado.edu
NSF MAPSTEDI code repository
(beta clients): http://mapstedi.sourceforge.net/
Code and process documentation developed by D,
Neufeld, R. Glaubitz, P. Murphey,
R. Guralnick, G. Hill.
- Biogeomancer code
repository: http://sourceforge.net/projects/biogeomancer/
Biogeomancer website:
http://www.biogeomancer.org
Biogeomancer workbench: http://bg.berkeley.edu/latest
Code developed
by the Biogeomancer Consortium
- GBIF-MAPA project website for analysis of
biodiversity data: http://gbifmapa.austmus.gov.au/mapa/
(Flemons, Neufeld, Ranipeta,
Krieger and Guralnick)
- Ksord – KML for species
occurrence mapping: http://ksord.colorado.edu (Andrew Hill Lead)
- Alpine Microbial Observatory database and informatics: