Krister T. Smith
Department of Geology and Geophysics
Yale University
P.O. Box 208109
New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8109
USA

Krister Smith graduated with a B.A. from UC Berkeley in 2000. Since then he has been a graduate student in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Yale University. His primary research interests are (1) the evolution of squamate reptiles, especially Iguania, and (2) the ecology of species diversity. For his dissertation he is studying a series of squamate faunas from the early Eocene of Wyoming in relation to climate change; he is also researching the theory and measurement of spatial scaling of species diversity in modern and fossil biotas.