Rate My Professor Hayley Lanier

Lanier's research examines the role of global change in shaping mammal biodiversity across broad temporal and spatial scales, integrating data from museum collections, fieldwork, and genomics to predict responses to climate change, habitat loss, and other threats. Her lab's work spans biogeography, conservation, genomics, and mammals, with emphasis on small mammals including pikas, voles, marmots, and chipmunks. Notable publications include Marková et al. (2023) 'Local adaptation and future climate vulnerability in a wild rodent' in Nature Communications; Marske et al. (2023) 'Integrating biogeography and behavioral ecology to rapidly address biodiversity loss' in PNAS; Theriot et al. (2023) 'Harnessing natural history collections to detect body size change as a response to warming' in Methods in Ecology and Evolution; Allen et al. (2022) 'Competitive release during fire succession influences ecological turnover in a small mammal community' in Ecology; and Lanier et al. (2015) 'Colonization from divergent ancestors: glaciation signatures on contemporary patterns of genomic variation in collared pikas' in Molecular Ecology. Lanier has secured funding from the National Science Foundation, OU Research Council, Wyoming INBRE, and others. Awards include a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award for 2025–2026 to conduct evolutionary genomics research at the Czech Academy of Sciences, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Honorable Mention (2004), Alaska EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship (2005–2006), and Science Initiative Summer Institute for Scientific Teaching Faculty Fellow (2016). She co-chaired the IUCN/SSC Lagomorph Specialist Group from 2016 to 2020 and reviews for journals such as Evolution, Global Change Biology, and Conservation Genetics.