Kevin M. Middleton, Ph.D.
Email:
kmm
"at" brown.edu
Permanent Address:
Department
of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Box G-B204,
Brown University
Providence
RI 02912
Phone: 401
863 3804
Fax: 401 863
7544
Present Address:
Department
of Biology
University
of California, Riverside
Riverside CA
92521
Phone: 951
822 4654
Fax: 951 827
4286
Education:
1996-2003
Brown University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Ph.D. - May
2003
1992-1995
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
B.S.,
Biology - 1995
Postdoctoral Positions:
2005-Pres.
NIH National Research Service Award Fellow
Jointly
between University of California, Riverside (Ted Garland) and Brown University
(Sharon Swartz)
2002-2005
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Department
of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Brown
University, Providence, RI, USA
Honors, grants, and fellowships:
2002 Society
of Vertebrate Paleontology - Alfred Sherwood Romer Prize, Honorable Mention
2000
National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant
1999
Paleontological Society Grant-in-Aid of Paleontological Research - Outstanding
Student Scholarship Proposal
1999
Geological Society of America Student Research Grant - Exceptional Merit in
Conception and Presentation
1999 Sigma
Xi - Grant in Aid of Research
1997 NSF
Graduate Research Fellowship, Honorable Mention
1996
University Fellowship, Brown University
1995 Phi
Beta Kappa, Wake Forest University
1992-1995
Guy T. Carswell Scholarship, Wake Forest University
Publications:
Papers
Middleton, K.M. 2001. The morphological basis of hallucal orientation
in extant birds. Journal of
Morphology 250: 51-60.
Middleton, K.M. and S.M. Gatesy. 2000. Theropod forelimb design and
evolution. Zoological Journal of the
Linnean Society 28(2): 149-187.
Gatesy, S.M. and K.M. Middleton. 1999. Theropod hind limb disparity
revisited: a response. Journal of
Vertebrate Paleontology 19(3): 606.
Gatesy, S.M., K.M. Middleton, F.A. Jenkins, Jr., and N.H. Shubin. 1999. Three dimensional
preservation of foot movements in Triassic theropod dinosaurs. Nature 399:141-144.
Gatesy, S.M. and K.M. Middleton. 1997. Bipedalism, flight, and the
evolution of theropod locomotor diversity. Journal
of Vertebrate Paleontology 17(2): 308-329.
Book Chapters
Gatesy, S.M. and K.M. Middleton. in press. Limbs
into Wings: The Skeletal Foundation of Flapping Flight. in
Fins into Limbs, B.K. Hall, ed.
Published Abstracts
Middleton, K.M. and S.M. Gatesy. 2005. Wing design and disparity in flying
vertebrates. Integrative and Comparative
Biology 44(6):605.
Swartz, S.M., Kay, N., Middleton, K.M., and J.A. Blume. 2005. The role of thickness and curvature
in dictating subchondral bone stresses in mammalian joints. Integrative and Comparative Biology
44(6):649.
Swartz, S.M., Middleton, K.M., Iriarte-Diaz, J., Lee, M., Wofford,
J.M., Breuer, K.S., and D.A. Ritter. 2005. Can bats actively control the mechanical properties of the
wing membrane? Integrative and
Comparative Biology 44(6):751.
Middleton, K.M. and S.M. Gatesy. 2004. Reconstructing leg function from
osteology in Mesozoic birds. Journal of
Morphology 260(3):313.
Gatesy, S.M., Kenny, K.S., Middleton, K.M., Jenkins, F.A., Jr.,
and N.H. Shubin.
2003. Skin impression microtopography in Triassic theropod tracks. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(3):54A.
Middleton, K.M. 2002. Evolution of the perching foot in theropods.
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
22(3):88A.
Middleton, K.M. 2000. Influence of hallucal reversion on terrestrial locomotion in
birds. American Zoologist 40(5):303A.
Middleton, K.M. 2000. Comparative morphology and evolution of the
hallux in extant and fossil birds. Vertebrata
PalAsiatica 38 (supplement): 20.
Middleton,
K.M. 1999. Osteology and evolution of the avian reversed
hallux. American Zoologist
39(5): 17A.
Middleton, K.M.
1999. Morphological basis for hallucal orientation in fossil
birds. Journal of Vertebrate
Paleontology 19(3): 64A.
Middleton, K.M. and S.M. Gatesy. 1998. Theropod forelimb disparity and
functional evolution. Journal of
Vertebrate Paleontology 18(3): 63A.
Middleton, K.M. and S.M. Gatesy. 1998. The evolution of theropod forelimb
design and function. American Zoologist
37(5): 58A.
Gatesy, S.M. and K.M. Middleton. 1998. Reconstructing theropod foot
function using 3-D computer-animated track simulation. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(3): 45A.
Gatesy, S.M. and K.M. Middleton. 1996. Sinking dinosaurs: Sub-surface
preservation of foot kinematics in Greenlandic theropods. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16(3): 37A.
Gatesy, S.M. and K.M. Middleton. 1995. Sinking dinosaurs: Sub-surface foot
kinematics in Greenlandic theropods. American
Zoologist 35(5): 120A.
Published Book Reviews:
Middleton, K.M. 2003. Dinosaurs of the Air: The Evolution and Loss of Flight in
Dinosaurs and Birds and Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs. Palaeontologia Electronica 6(1): 5.
http://palaeo-electronica.org/2003_1/books/birds.htm
Invited Seminars:
University
of Chicago - March 2001
American
Museum of Natural History - April 2001