Curriculum Vitae

DEGREES HELD
Ph.D. 1999. State University of New York at Stony Brook. Ecology and Evolution.
M.S. 1994. University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Biology.
B.A. 1992. Franklin and Marshall College. Biology.

LANGUAGES English, Spanish

POSITIONS
2006-present. Associate Professor. Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
2006-present. Associate Professor. Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
2001-2006. Assistant Professor. Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa (formerly Zoology and Genetics).
2001-2006. Assistant Professor. Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
1999-2001. NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Department of Zoology and Genetics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
1994-1999. Research Assistant: Geometric Morphometrics. Department of Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York.
1998. Consultant. Instituto de Investigação Agrária e Extensão Rural, Estação Agronómica Nacional, Oeiras, Portugal.
1997; 2000. Statistical Consultant. Mill Valley, CA.
1995. Consultant. Exeter Software. Setauket, NY.

EXTERNAL GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS (OVER $5,000)
2005-2010. National Science Foundation. “CAREER: Evolutionary community ecology in Plethodon salamanders.” (DEB-0446758).
• 2008: National Science Foundation. REU Supplement (DEB-0817853)
• 2007: National Science Foundation. REU Supplement (DEB-0723929)
• 2006: National Science Foundation. REU Supplement (DEB-0618243).
• 2005: National Science Foundation. ROA Supplement (DEB-0535825).
• 2005: National Science Foundation. REU Supplement (DEB-0527317).
2001-2003. National Science Foundation. “Research Starter Grant: The morphological consequences of competition in Plethodon salamanders.” (DEB-0122281).
1999-2001. National Science Foundation. “Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biological Informatics: Comparison of three-dimensional protein structures using geometric morphometrics.” (DBI-9974207).
1998-2000. National Science Foundation. “Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Extensions of landmark-based morphometrics methods to articulated structures: an example using Plethodon.” (IBN-9800636, Co-P.I. with F. James Rohlf).

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2004-present. Associate Editor. Herpetologica.
2007. National Science Foundation (BIO), Washington, DC.
1997 – present. Reviewer of grants and manuscripts (below).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE: UNIVERSITY INSTRUCTION
2007, ‘06, ‘05, ‘04. Instructor. Vertebrate Biology (undergraduate). Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University.
2007, ‘05, ‘02, ‘00. Instructor. Advanced Biostatistics. (graduate). Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University.
2006, '04, ’03, ‘02. Instructor. Morphometric Analysis (graduate). Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University.
2003. Instructor. Phylogenetic Comparative Methods. (graduate). Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University.
1997. Teaching Assistant. Elementary Organismic Biology. Department of Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York, Stony Brook.
1993-1994. Teaching Assistant. Human Anatomy and Physiology. Department of Biology. University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS
2006. Instructor. Geometric Morphometrics Workshop. Middle East Technical University, Ankara Turkey (1-week workshop).
2006. Instructor. Geometric Morphometrics Workshop. Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa USA (1-week workshop).
2004. Instructor. Workshop in Geometric Morphometrics. Umeå University, Umeå Sweden. (1-week workshop).
2002. Instructor. “Seminario laboratorio di morfometria geometrica (Geometric morphometrics workshop).” Museo Civico di Zoologica, Rome, Italy. (1-week workshop).
2001. Instructor. “Morfometria geométrica: bases conceptuales y aplicaciones (Geometric morphometrics: basic concepts and applications).” Departmento de Ciencias Ecológicas, Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile. (1-week workshop).

HONORS AND AWARDS
2005-2010. National Science Foundation. CAREER Award.
2003. Iowa State University. Excellence in Education Award Nominee.
1999. Department of Ecology and Evolution, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Departmental Service Award.
1997. Sigma Xi. the Scientific Research Society, State University of New York at Stony Brook Chapter. Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research.

PUBLICATIONS
66. Adams, D.C. A. Cardini, L. R. Monteiro, P. O’Higgins, and F.J. Rohlf. 2009. Morphometrics and Phylogenetics: principal components of shape from cranial modules are neither appropriate nor effective cladistic characters. Journal of Human Evolution. (Accepted).

65. Deitloff, J., J.O. Church, D.C. Adams, and R.G. Jaeger. 2009. Interspecific agonistic behaviors in a salamander community: implications for alpha-selection. Herpetologica. 65:174-182. [PDF]

64. Escalona, T., D.C. Adams, and N. Valenzuela. 2009. Nesting ecology in the freshwater turtle Podocnemis unifilis: spatiotemporal patterns and inferred evolutionary explanations. Functional Ecology. 23:826-835. [PDF]

63.Adams, D.C., C.M. Berns, K.H. Kozak, and J.J. Wiens. 2009. Are rates of species diversification correlated with rates of morphological evolution? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B. 276:2729-2738. [PDF]

62. Butterworth, K.M., D.C. Adams, H.T. Horner, and J.F. Wendel. 2009. Initiation and early development of fiber in wild and cultivated cotton. International Journal of Plant Sciences. 170:561-574. [PDF]

61. Adams, D.C., and M.L. Collyer. 2009. A general framework for the analysis of phenotypic trajectories in evolutionary studies. Evolution. 63:1143-1154. [PDF] [Digital Archive]

60. Marsteller, S., D.C. Adams, M.L. Collyer, and M. Condon. 2009. Six sympatric cryptic species on a single host plant: morphometric evidence for possible reproductive character displacement. Ecological Entomology. 34:66-73. [PDF]

59. Myers, E.M., and D.C. Adams. 2008. Morphology is decoupled from interspecific competition in Plethodon salamanders in the Shenandoah Mountains. Herpetologica. 64:281-289. [PDF]

58. Berner, D., D.C. Adams, A.C. Grandchamp, and A.P. Hendry. 2008. Inferring natural selection from patterns of lake-stream divergence in stickleback foraging morphology. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 21:1653-1665. [PDF]

57. Olson, C.R., C.M. Vleck, and D.C. Adams. 2008. Decoupling morphological development from growth in periodically cooled zebra finch embryos. Journal of Morphology. 269:875-883. [PDF]

56. Deitloff, J., D.C. Adams, B.F.M. Olechnowski, and R.G. Jaeger. 2008. Interspecific aggression in Ohio Plethodon: implications for competition. Herpetologica. 64:180-188.[PDF] .

55. Condon, M., D.C. Adams, D. Bann, K. Flaherty, J. Gammons, J. Johnson, M.L. Lewis, S. Marsteller, S.J. Scheffer, F. Serna, and S. Swensen. 2008. Uncovering tropical diversity: six sympatric cryptic species of Blepharoneura (Diptera: Tephritidae) in flowers of Gurania spinulosa (Cucurbitaceae) in eastern Ecuador. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 93:779-797.[PDF]

54. Adams, D.C. 2008. Phylogenetic meta-analysis. Evolution. 62:567-572.[PDF]

53. Adams, D.C., and J.O. Church. 2008. Amphibians do not follow Bergmann's rule. Evolution. 62:413-420.[PDF]

52. Collyer, M.L., C.A. Stockwell, D.C. Adams, and M.H. Reiser. 2007. Phenotypic plasticity and contemporary evolution in introduced populations: evidence from translocated populations of white sands pupfish. Ecological Research. 22:902-910.[PDF]

51. Arif, S., D.C. Adams, and J.A. Wicknick. 2007. Bioclimatic modeling, morphology, and behavior reveal alternative mechanisms regulating the distributions of two parapatric salamander species. Evolutionary Ecology Research. 9:843-854. [PDF]

50. Adams, D. C. 2007. Organization of Plethodon salamander communities: guild-based community assembly. Ecology. 88:1292-1299. [PDF]

49. Adams, D. C. , and M.L. Collyer. 2007. Analysis of character divergence along environmental gradients and other covariates. Evolution. 61:510-515. [PDF]

48. Collyer, M. L., and D. C. Adams. 2007. Analysis of two-state multivariate phenotypic change in ecological studies. Ecology. 88:683-692. [PDF]

47. Adams, D.C., M.E. West, and M.L. Collyer. 2007. Location-specific sympatric morphological divergence as a possible response to species interactions in West Virginia Plethodon salamander communities. Journal of Animal Ecology. 76:289-295. [PDF]

46. Adams, D. C., and M. M. Cerney. 2007. Quantifying biomechanical motion using Procrustes motion analysis. Journal of Biomechanics. 40:437-444. [PDF]

45. Hollander, J., D. C. Adams, and K. Johannesson. 2006. Evolution of adaptation through allometric shifts in a marine snail. Evolution. 60:2490-2497. [PDF]

44. Hollander, J. M. L. Collyer, D. C. Adams, and K. Johannesson. 2006. Phenotypic plasticity in two marine snails: constraints superseding life-history. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 19:1861-1872. [PDF]

43. Myers, E. M., F. J. Janzen, D. C. Adams, and J. K. Tucker. 2006. Quantitative genetics of plastron shape in slider turtles (Trachemys scripta). Evolution. 60:563-572. [PDF]

42. Maerz, J. C., E. M. Myers, and D. C. Adams. 2006. Trophic polymorphism in a terrestrial salamander. Evolutionary Ecology Research. 8:23-35. [PDF]

41. Fedrigo, O., D. C. Adams, and G. J. P. Naylor. 2005. DRUIDS – Detection of regions with unexpected internal deviation from stationarity. Journal of Experimental Zoology (Molecular and Developmental Evolution). 304B:119-128. [PDF]

40. Adams, D. C. 2004. Character displacement via aggressive interference in Appalachian salamanders. Ecology. 85:2664-2670. [PDF]

39. Cerney, M. M. and D. C. Adams. 2004. Sequestering Size: The Role of Allometry and Gender in Digital Human Modeling. SAE Transactions Journal of Aerospace. 113:208-214. (republication of: Cerney and Adams, 2004. Proc. SAE Dig. Hum. Mod. Conf.). [PDF]

38. Valenzuela, N., D. C. Adams, R. M. Bowden, and A. C. Gauger. 2004. Geometric morphometric sex estimation for hatchling turtles: a powerful alternative for detecting subtle sexual shape dimorphism. Copeia. 2004:735-742. [PDF]

37. Swart, C. C., and D. C. Adams. 2004. The role of muscle mass and tooth number in ecological character displacement between Plethodon cinereus and P. hoffmani (Caudata: Plethodontidae). Herpetologica. 60:408-413. [PDF]

36. Kassam, D. D., D. C. Adams, and K. Yamaoka. 2004. Functional significance of variation in trophic morphology within feeding microhabitat-differentiated cichlid species in Lake Malawi. Animal Biology. 54:77-90. [PDF]

35. Loy, A., M. Corti, D. C. Adams, D. E. Slice, and F. J. Rohlf, editors. 2004. Proceedings of the Rome Geometric Morphometric Workshop. Homage to Leslie F. Marcus. Special Publication of the Italian Journal of Zoology, Mucchi Editore, Modena. 71(1). 88 pp.

34. Adams, D. C., F. J. Rohlf, and D. E. Slice. 2004. Geometric morphometrics: Ten years of progress following the ‘revolution’. Italian Journal of Zoology. 71:5-16. [PDF]

33 . Loy, A., M. Corti, D. C. Adams, D. E. Slice, and F. J. Rohlf. 2004. Introduction to the proceedings. Italian Journal of Zoology. 71:1-3. [PDF]

32 . Cerney, M. M., and D. C. Adams. 2004. Sequestering Size: The Role of Allometry and Gender in Digital Human Modeling. Proceedings of the SAE Digital Human Modeling Conference. Syracuse, Michigan. 2004-04DHM-38. [PDF]

31. Naylor, G. J. P., and D. C. Adams. 2003. Total evidence versus relevant evidence: response to O’Leary et al. (2003). Systematic Biology. 52:864-865. [PDF]

30. Kassam, D. D., D. C. Adams, A. J. D. Ambali, and K. Yamaoka. 2003. Body shape variation in relation to resource partitioning within cichlid trophic guilds coexisting along the rocky shore of Lake Malawi. Animal Biology. 53:59-70. [PDF]

29. Kassam, D. D., D. C. Adams, M. Hori, and K. Yamaoka. 2003. Morphometric analysis on ecomorphologically equivalent cichlid species from Lakes Malawi and Tanganyika. Journal of Zoology. 260:153-157. [PDF]

28. Valenzuela, N., D. C. Adams, and F. J. Janzen. 2003. Pattern does not equal process: Exactly when is sex environmentally determined? American Naturalist. 161:676-683. [PDF]

27. Ashlock, D., D. C. Adams, and D. Doty. 2003. Morphometric grayscale texture analysis using foot patterns. Proceedings of the 2003 Congress on Evolutionary Computation. 1575-1582. [PDF]

26. Cerney, M. M., D. C. Adams, and J. M. Vance. 2003. Image Warping of Three-Dimensional Scan Data. Proceedings of the SAE Digital Human Modeling Conference. Montreal, Canada. 2003-01-2231. [PDF]

25. Adams, D. C., and G. J. P. Naylor. 2003. A comparison of methods for assessing the structural similarity of proteins. in Mathematical Methods for Protein Structure Analysis and Design. Advanced Lectures. (C. Guerra, S. Istrail., eds.). Springer Verlag Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics. 2666:109-115. [PDF]

24. Jaeger, R. G., E. D. Prosen, and D. C. Adams. 2002. Character displacement and aggression in two species of terrestrial salamanders. Copeia. 2002:391-401. [PDF]

23. Adams, D. C. 2002. Review of: Morphology, Shape and Phylogeny. Biometrics. 58:694-695.

22. Adams, D. C., and C. K. Beachy. 2001. Historical explanations of phenotypic variation in the plethodontid salamander Gyrinophilus porphyriticus. Herpetologica. 57:353-364. [PDF]

21. Naylor, G. J. P., and D. C. Adams. 2001. Are the fossil data really at odds with the molecular data? Morphological evidence for cetartiodactyla phylogeny reexamined. Systematic Biology. 50:444-453. [PDF]

20. Rüber, L., and D. C. Adams. 2001. Evolutionary convergence of body shape and trophic morphology in cichlids from Lake Tanganyika. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 14:325-332. [PDF]

19 . Tavaré, S., D. C. Adams, O. Fedrigo, and G. J. P. Naylor. 2001. A model for phylogenetic inference using structural and chemical covariates. Pp. 215-225 in Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. (R. B. Altman, A. K. Dunker, L. Hunter, K. Lauderdale, and T. E. Klein, etc.). World Scientific. Singapore. [PDF]

18. Adams, D. C., and F. J. Rohlf. 2000. Ecological character displacement in Plethodon: biomechanical differences found from a geometric morphometric study. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. 97:4106-4111. [PDF]

17 . Rosenberg, M. S., D. C. Adams, and J. Gurevitch. 2000. MetaWin: Statistical software for meta-analysis. Version 2.0. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts. 128 pp.

16. Adams, D. C. 2000. Divergence of trophic morphology and resource use among populations of Plethodon cinereus and P. hoffmani in Pennsylvania: a possible case of character displacement. Pp. 383-394 in The Biology of Plethodontid Salamanders. (R. C. Bruce, R. J. Jaeger, and L. D. Houck, eds.). Klewer Academic/Plenum. New York. [PDF]

15. Adams, D. C., and G. J. P. Naylor. 2000. A new method for evaluating the structural similarity of proteins using geometric morphometrics. Pp. 120-121 in Currents in Computational Molecular Biology. Frontiers Science Series No. 30. (S. Miyano, R. Shamir, and T. Takagi, eds.). Universal Academy Press. Tokyo. [PDF]

14. Adams, D. C. 2000. Review of: Sampling and Statistical Methods for Behavioral Ecologists. Quarterly Review of Biology. 75:76.

13. Adams, D. C. 1999. Methods for shape analysis of landmark data from articulated structures. Evolutionary Ecology Research. 1:959-970. [PDF]

12. Jackson, J. F., D. C. Adams, and U. B. Jackson. 1999. Allometry of constitutive defense: a model and comparative test with tree bark and fire regime. American Naturalist. 153:614-632. [PDF]

11. Adams, D. C. 1999. Review of: Salamanders of the United States and Canada. Quarterly Review of Biology. 74:235.

10. Adams, D. C. 1999. Plethodon hoffmani (Valley and Ridge Salamander). Predation. Herpetological Review. 30:160. [PDF]

9. Adams, D. C., and M. S. Rosenberg. 1998. Partial-warps, phylogeny, and ontogeny: a comment on Fink and Zelditch (1995). Systematic Biology. 47:168-173. [PDF]

8. Caldecutt, W. J., and D. C. Adams. 1998. Morphometrics of trophic osteology in four ecotypes of the threespine stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus. Copeia. 1998:827-838. [PDF]

7. Adams, D. C., and D. J. Funk. 1997. Morphometric inferences on sibling species and sexual dimorphism in Neochlamisus bebbianae leaf beetles: multivariate applications of the thin-plate spline. Systematic Biology. 46:180-194. [PDF]

6. Adams, D. C., J. Gurevitch, and M. S. Rosenberg. 1997. Resampling tests for meta-analysis of ecological data. Ecology. 78:1277-1283. [PDF]

5. Adams, D. C., M. S. Di Bitetti, C. H. Janson, L. B. Slobodkin, and N. Valenzuela. 1997. An “audience effect” for ecological terminology: use and misuse of jargon. Oikos. 80:632-636. [PDF]

4. Adams, D. C., and J. F. Jackson. 1997. A phylogenetic analysis of the southern pines (Pinus subsect. Australes loud.): Biogeographical and ecological implications. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 110:681-692. [PDF]

3. Rosenberg, M. S., D. C. Adams, and J. Gurevitch. 1997. MetaWin: Statistical software for meta-analysis with resampling tests. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts. 65 pp.

2. Adams, D. C., and C. D. Anthony. 1996. Using randomization techniques to analyse behavioural data. Animal Behaviour. 51:733-738. [PDF]

1. Adams, D. C., and J. F. Jackson. 1995. Estimating the allometry of tree bark. American Midland Naturalist. 134:99-106. [PDF]

MENTORING

Graduate Theses Completed: Major or Co-Major Professor (6)
6. 2005. M.S. Saad Arif. “Community structure and distributions of two terrestrial salamanders: A pluralistic approach.” Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Iowa State University, Ames, IA. 52 pp.
5. 2005. Ph.D. Melinda Cerney. “From gesture recognition to functional motion analysis: quantitative techniques for the application and evaluation of human motion.” Human Computer Interaction. Iowa State University, Ames, IA. 115 pp. (co-advised with J. Vance).
4. 2003. M.S. Kara Butterworth. “Initiation and early development of wild and cultivated cotton fibers.” Botany. Iowa State University, Ames, IA. 38 pp. (co-advised with J. Wendel).
3. 2003. M.S. Aspen Garry. “Geometric morphometric analysis of shark teeth of the genus Rhizoprionodon: the modern, the ancient, and the hypothetical. Modern tooth shape analysis and test of ancestor prediction methods by comparison to fossil shapes.” Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Iowa State University, Ames, IA. 40 pp. (co-advised with G. Naylor).
2. 2003. M.S. Jennifer Donnelly. “Mortality in the Patagonian guanaco (Lama guanicoe): can skulls provide accurate estimates of juvenile mortality in the absence of other data?” Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Iowa State University, Ames, IA. 72 pp.
1. 2003. Ph.D. Tibisay Escalona. “Maternal effects on reproductive success in a river turtle (Podocnemis unifilis) in southern Venezuela.” Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. University of Missouri at St. Louis, St. Louis, MO. 97 pp. (co-advised with B. Loiselle).

Graduate Students In Progress: Major Professor or Co-Major Professor (4)
4. Chelsea Berns. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Ph.D., expected 2012).
3 . James Church. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Ph.D., expected 2010).
2 . Jennifer Deitloff. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Ph.D., expected 2008).
1 . Erin Myers. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Ph.D., expected 2008).

Member of Graduate Student POS Committee
Completed (8), In Progress (7)

External Graduate Student Committees
Completed (2), In Progress (1)

External Evaluator of Graduate Research
3. Current. Harling Caro Riaño. “Changements phénotypiques associés à la transition de la vie sylvestre à la vie domestique des vecteurs de la Maladie de Chagas.” Universite Montpellier, France.
2. 2007. Ph.D. H. George Wang. “Ecological interactions among diverse species and their implications for community dynamics.” University of Louisiana, Lafayette. 127 pp.
1. 2005. M.S. Juan Manuel Daza Roja. “Variabilidad morfométrica y su relación con el potencial reproductivo en la tortuga icotea Trachemys callirostris callirostris (Testudines: Emydidae) en la depresión momposina, norte de Colombia.” Biología, Facultad de Ciencias Extactas y Naturales Universidad de Antioquia Medellín, Colombia. 66 pp.

Undergraduate Honors Theses Completed (2)

2. 2007. Nicole Seda. “Head shape variation and ecology in Plethodon salamanders in the southeastern United States.” Undergraduate Animal Ecology Program. Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
1. 2006. Mary West. “Location-specific sympatric morphological divergence as a possible response to species interactions in West Virginia Plethodon salamander communities.” Undergraduate Biology Program. Iowa State University, Ames, IA.

Undergraduate Research Students (6)

Julie Perrett (2005)
Nicole Seda (2006 – 2007)*
Audri Weaver (2007 – present)
Mary West (2005 – 2006)*
Katherine Wiegert (2004 – 2006)
Meredith Zipse (2007 – present)
*Undergraduate Honor’s thesis project

Undergraduate Advisees
I advise 6-10 undergraduate biology majors per year.

Postdoctoral Associates
Dr. Michael Collyer (2003-2007)

Sabbatical Visitors
Dr. Marty Condon (2005)

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, American Society of Naturalists, Ecological Society of America, Herpetologist’s League, Sigma Xi, Society for the Study of Evolution, Society of Systematic Biologists

REVIEWER OF GRANT PROPOSALS FOR
National Science Foundation
Graduate Women in Science Fellowship

REVIEWER OF MANUSCRIPTS FOR
American Naturalist, Anatomical Record, Animal Behaviour, Annals of the Entomological Society of America, Animal Behaviour, Bioinformatics, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Bulletin of Entomological Research, Copeia, Ecology, Evolution, Evolutionary Ecology Research, Herpetologica, Herpetological Journal, Hydrobiologia, Infection Genetics and Evolution, Italian Journal of Zoology, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Journal of Fish Biology, Journal of Heredity, Journal of Microbiological Methods, Naturwissenschaften, Oikos, Paleobiology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Systematic Biology, Systematic Botany, Taylor and Francis Publishers, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, ZooTaxa