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Lindsey Leighton is a Professor at the University of Alberta in the Faculty of Science, specializing in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Her research interests lie primarily in the fields of evolutionary ecology, particularly focusing on predator-prey systems and the effects of biodiversity over time. She investigates organismal features that facilitate survivorship during mass-extinction events, with a strong emphasis on functional morphology and biomechanics of marine invertebrates. Her work often explores animal-substrate and animal-flow interactions. Given the urgent biodiversity crisis that the planet currently faces, she aims to bridge the gap between global, deep-time scales of paleobiology and the fine spatial and temporal scales of ecology. This research is critical for understanding the processes that influence biodiversity and for informing conservation paleobiology efforts. Additionally, she oversees the Leighton Lab, which focuses on these pressing ecological questions.
Department: Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Management