Vaughn M. Shirey, Ph.D.
Assistant Curator of Lepidoptera
My training is in global change biology, insect ecology, and data science. I am particularly interested in questions at cross-disciplinary intersections, especially those that involve biodiversity governance, stewardship, and the arts. My main research focus continues to be reconstructing historical butterfly and moth biodiversity on a changing planet and developing new statistical tools to do so from sparse data.
I focus the majority of my work in marginal environments, including the Arctic, alpine, boreal, and desert regions of the planet. In terms of taxonomic focus, our lab is broad, but I am particularly interested in the Papilionidae, especially the Parnassiinae.
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