Tom Giarla
Ph.D. Candidate -- University of Minnesota
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

Tom Giarla
1987 Upper Buford Circle
113 Ecology Building
St. Paul, MN 55108

giarla@umn.edu

Check out our latest publication in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History! [PDF]

My research focuses on understanding the geographic and ecological forces that influence speciation and diversification, specifically in mammals.

As a Ph.D. student, I have worked on projects involving the phylogeography of nesomyine rodents native to Madagascar and the diversification of Muroid rodents as a whole. For my dissertation I am studying the systematics and phylogeography of Thylamys mouse opossums, a genus of small, New World marsupials distributed broadly in the open habitats of central and southern South America.

If you are interested in teaching science to elementary school students, check out Teaching SMART, a program that I am a part of here at the U of M.