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Dr. Nick DowdyÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ

MilwaukeeWI53201United States of America

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Head of Zoology, Director of Collections Informatics - Milwaukee Public Museum

Education

B.S. (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology), 2011, University of Arizona, AZ

Ph.D. (Biology), 2017, Wake Forest University, NC

Postdoctoral Training, Purdue University, IN

Publications

• 2023. Sullivan, K.A., Tucker, E.M., Dowdy, N.J., Allen, J.M., Barve, V., Boone, J., Bush,
S. E., Evenhuis, N.L., Hastriter, M., Light, J.E., Mayfield-Meyer, T., O’Connor, B.M., Poelen, J.H., Racz, G.R., Seltmann, K.C., Zaspel, J.M. Building a community-based taxonomic resource for digitization of parasites and their hosts. Insect Diversity and Systematics.

• 2023. Chesshire, P.R., Fischer, E.E., Dowdy, N.J., Griswold, T.L., Hughes, A.C., Orr, M.C., Ascher, J.S., Guzman, L.M., Hung, K.J., Cobb N.S., McCabe, L.M. Completeness analysis for over 3000 United States bee species identifies persistent data gap. Ecography.
• 2022. Fernández, Y., Dowdy, N.J., Conner, W.E. High click rates generate the sonar-jamming strategy of tiger moths (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae). Journal of Experimental Biology.
• 2021. Dowdy, N.J. TaxoTracker: A collaborative platform for taxonomic resource maintenance. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards. 
• 2020. Dowdy, N.J., Keating, S., Lemmon, A.R., Lemmon, E.M., Conner, W.E., Scott Chialvo, C.H., Weller, S.J., Simmons, R.B., Sisson, M.S., Zaspel, J.M. A deeper meaning for shallow-level phylogenomic studies: nested anchored hybrid enrichment offers great promise for resolving the tiger moth tree of life (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae). Systematic Entomology. 45(4), p. 874-893.