Wiens lab

phylogenetic biology, herpetology, etc.

Daniel Moen

E-mail:dmoen@life.bio.sunysb.edu

Phone: lab: 631-632-1886

Dan is a third-year Ph.D. student, currently working on hylid treefrog phylogenetics and community evolution. Before coming to Stony Brook in the summer of 2004, Dan received his bachelor's degree at North Dakota State University in Fargo, ND (2003). Since the diversity of reptiles and amphibians in North Dakota (his home state) is quite paltry (lowest native herp diversity in the lower 48 states), Dan has traveled to both the Southeast and the Southwest to work on various research projects, examining the comparative physiology of U.S. Agkistrodon, conducting amphibian and reptile surveys of Chihuahuan Desert national parks, and doing fieldwork on pupfishes during a short stint as an ichthyologist.

Major Awards

Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation (2005)

Henri Seibert Award (2005), best student talk in Evolution & Systematics, Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles

Graduate Council Fellowship, Stony Brook University (2004)

3rd place, 1st annual Sunbutter™recipe contest (2003; total entries: 51 old ladies + me): Sunflower-butter ice cream with sunflower nuts and chocolate chips

Barry M. Goldwater Scholar (2002)

Publications

Moen, D.S., C.T. Winne, and R.N. Reed. 2005. Habitat-mediated shifts and plasticity in the evaporative water loss rates of two congeneric pitvipers (Squamata, Viperidae, Agkistrodon). Evolutionary Ecology Research 7:759-766. pdf

Moen, D.S. and C.A. Stockwell. 2006. Specificity of the monogenean Gyrodactylus tularosae, Kritsky and Stockwell, 2005, to its natural host, the White Sands pupfish (Cyprinodon tularosa, Miller and Echelle 1975). Comparative Parasitology 73:278-281.

Moen, D.S. 2006. Cope's rule in cryptodiran turtles: do the body sizes of extant species reflect a trend of phyletic size increase? Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19:1210-1221.

Wiens, J. J., C. H. Graham, D. S. Moen, S. A. Smith, and T. W. Reeder. 2006. Evolutionary and ecological causes of the latitudinal diversity gradient in hylid frogs: treefrog trees unearth the roots of high tropical diversity. American Naturalist (In press).