School of Geographical and Earth Sciences

Dr Alistair Mcgowan

Alistair J McGowan
  • Research Associate (School of Geographical and Earth Sciences)

telephone: 01413305449
email: Alistair.McGowan@glasgow.ac.uk


My major research focuses on the application of quantitative and statistical techniques to the fossil record. I have been involved in projects that have analyzed the evolution of a range of biological groups (flying vertebrates, dinosaurs, trilobites, ammonoids, plants) in space and time, as well as more theoretical projects aimed at developing computer tools for analyzing evolutionary patterns and processes.

I am currently an editor of Historical Biology and the palaeotological editor of the Scottish Journal of Geology. I contribute to the website 'Ask-a-Biologist' which aims to answer biological and palaeontological questions from the public.

Jump to: 2009 | 2008
Number of items: 8.

2009

Charlton, T.R., Barber, A.J., McGowan, A.J. , Nicoll, R.S., Roniewicz, E., Cook, S.E., Barkham, S.T., and Bird, P.R. (2009) The triassic of Timor: lithostratigraphy, chronostratigraphy and palaeogeography. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 36 (4-5). pp. 341-363. ISSN 1367-9120 (doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2009.06.004)

McGowan, A.J., and Dyke, G.J. (2009) A surfeit of theropods in the Moroccan ate cretaceous? Comparing diversity estimates from field data and fossil shops. Geology, 37 (9). pp. 843-846. ISSN 0091-7613 (doi:10.1130/G30188A.1)

McGowan, A.J., Smith, A.B., and Taylor, P.D. (2009) Faunal diversity, heterogeneity and body size in the early triassic: testing post-extinction paradigms in the Virgin Limestone of Utah, USA. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 56 (6). pp. 859-872. ISSN 0812-0099 (doi:10.1080/08120090903002839)

Barrett, P.M., McGowan, A.J. , and Page, V. (2009) Dinosaur diversity and the rock record. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 276 (1667). pp. 2667-2674. ISSN 0962-8452 (doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.0352)

Dyke, G.J., McGowan, A.J. , Nudds, R.L., and Smith, D. (2009) The shape of pterosaur evolution: evidence from the fossil record. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 22 (4). pp. 890-898. ISSN 1010-061X (doi:10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01682.x)

2008

Alroy, J. et al. (2008) Phanerozoic trends in the global diversity of marine invertebrates. Science, 321 (5885). pp. 97-100. ISSN 0036-8075 (doi:10.1126/science.1156963)

McGowan, A.J., and Smith, A.B. (2008) Are global Phanerozoic marine diversity curves truly global? A study of the relationship between regional rock records and global Phanerozoic marine diversity. Paleobiology, 34 (1). pp. 80-103. ISSN 0094-8373 (doi:10.1666/07019.1)

Smith, A.B., and McGowan, A.J. (2008) Temporal patterns of barren intervals in the Phanerozoic. Paleobiology, 34 (1). pp. 155-161. ISSN 0094-8373 (doi:10.1666/07042.1)

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McGowan, A.J and Dunn, C. J. 2010. Every contact leaves a trace: applying microwear analysis to extant and extinct cephalopod beaks infer diet and feeding behaviour, £1440 (Nuffield URB 38421)

McGowan, A. J. 2009-2014. Disentangling signals of regional biodiversity change from geological and sampling biases, (Royal Society of Edinburgh/Scottish Government Marie Curie Personal Post-doctoral Fellowship). 

  • 2010: Lab leader on Earth Sciences 1Y modules on Palaeontology and Maps
  • 2010: Teaching team, 2nd year geology fieldtrip to Isle of Arran