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Peter Adam
Assistant Professor
Education
- Ph.D.; University of California,
Los Angeles
- B.S.; University of Calgary
Courses Taught
- General Zoology (Bio 114)
- General Zoology Lab (Bio 115)
- Animal Anatomy and Physiology
(Bio 130)
- Wildlife Ecology and
Conservation Internship (Bio 303)
- Undergraduate Research in
Biology (Bio 306)
- Comparative Anatomy (Bio 322)
- Problems in
Morphological-Anatomical Biology (Bio 429)
- Biological Senior Seminar (Bio
491)
- Current Topics in Biology (Bio
510) - Advanced Microscopy, Etymology, Phylogenetic Systematics
- Advanced Current Topics in
Biology (Bio 610)
- Graduate Seminar in Biology
(Bio 680)
- Graduate Research in Biology
(Bio 691)
- Marine Mammals (COA 543/543L,
at Gulf Coast Research Lab, University of Mississippi)
Academic Interests
- Functional anatomy of
locomotion and feeding
- Marine mammals
- Evolution
- Phylogenetic systematics
- Paleontology
- Extinction
Scholarly Activity
- Adam, P.J.
2009. Hindlimb Anatomy. Pages 562-565 in
The Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals, 2nd Edition (W.F. Perrin, B.
Würsig, and H. Thewissen, eds.). Academic Press, San Diego, California.
- Adam, P.J.
2005. Lobodon carcinophaga. Mammalian
Species 772:1-14.
- Adam, P.J.
2004. Monachus tropicalis. Mammalian
Species 747:1-9.
- Deméré, T.A.,
A. Berta, and P.J. Adam. 2003. Pinnipedimorph evolutionary biogeography.
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 279:32-76.
- Adam, P.J. and
G.G. Garcia. 2003. New information on the natural history, distribution, and
skull of the extinct (?) West Indian monk seal, Monachus tropicalis. Marine Mammal Science 19:297-317.
- Adam, P.J. and
A. Berta. 2002. Evolution of prey capture strategies and diet in
Pinnipedimorpha (Mammalia, Carnivora). Oryctos 4:83-107.
- Berta, A. and
P.J. Adam. 2001. Evolutionary Biology of Pinnipeds. Pages 235-260 in Secondary
Adaptation of Tetrapods to Life in Water (J.M. Mazin and V. de Buffrénil,
eds.). Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München, Germany.
- Adam, P.J.
1999. Choloepus didactylus. Mammalian
Species 621:1-8.
Student Group Advisement
- Biology (Zoology emphasis)
- Marine Biology
- Pre-Professional Zoology
- Wildlife Ecology and Evolution
Other Professional Experiences
- Sociedad
Latino-americana de Especialistas em Mamíferos Acuático
- Society for
Integrative and Comparative Biology
- Society for
Study of Mammalian Evolution
- Society of Marine Mammalogy
- Society of Systematic Biologists
- Society of
Vertebrate Paleontology
