Email: wvermill@umail.iu.edu
Wesley graduated with his Master of Science degree from the Department of Ecosystem Science and Management. He studies the effects of climate change on the evolution of organisms, in particular chelonians (turtles). For his master’s thesis, he collected evidence of climatic influence on chelonian evolution through habitat modeling, phylogenetics and geometric morphometrics. He will continue these lines of research while incorporating other quantitative paleontological and paleoecological methods (such as stable isotopes) to study how chelonians responded to climatic changes over differing time scales, differing habitats/continents, and between taxonomic groups.