Corinne Myers

Associate Professor

Photo: Corinne Myers
Education: 
Ph.D., University of Kansas, 2013
Email: 
cemyers@unm.edu

Related Website/s

Research Area/s:

Sedimentology/Stratigraphy/Paleoclimate/Paleontology

Research and Academic Interests:

Paleobiology, paleobiogeography/paleoecology, macroevolution, application of ecological niche modeling to the deep time fossil record. Research focuses on teasing apart the contribution of abiotic environmental vs. biotic factors in driving biogeographic and macroevolutionary patterns in the history of life. Some current projects include: paleoenvironmental reconstruction in the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway (WIS) and investigation of the impact of niche dynamics (specifically niche stability, niche breadth, and phylogenetic niche conservation) on macroevolutionary patterns of WIS marine fauna.

Recent Publications:

Note: *graduate student author; **undergraduate author; †postdoctoral author that I advised; last author position in bio/paleo-sciences designates Lead PI

Sudakow, I., C. E. Myers, A. Spiridonov, R. Stankevič, G. Feulner, and V. Livinia. 2026. Transitions between persistent climate-carbon regimes coincide with elevated Phanerozoic vulnerability. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-75655-9.

*Williams, C., †F. Machado Stredel, R. C. Martindale, and C. E. Myers. 2026. Integrating fossil data in Paleoecological Niche Models improves predictions of future habitat for key Caribbean reef corals. Conservation Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.70323.

*McCullough, J.M., C. M. Eliason, S. Hackett, C. E. Myers, and M. J. Andersen. 2025. Phylogenomics of a genus of ‘Great Speciators’ reveals rampant incomplete lineage sorting, gene flow, and mitochondrial capture in island systems. Systematic Biology bioRxiv 2024.08.28.610082; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.08.28.610082.

*Goodman, A. M., B. M. Anderson, K. D. Crowley, W. D. Allmon, D. J. Lunt, A. Farnsworth, M. J. Hopkins, and C. E. Myers. 2025. Global climate model comparisons of niche evolution in turritelline gastropods across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. Paleobiology. 51(3):452-474. https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2025.10050.

Larina, K. A. Woodhouse, A. Swain, C. M. Lowery, R. C. Martindale, and C. E. Myers. 2025. Impact of Climate Variability on Planktic Foraminifera: Unveiling Distinct Ecological Behaviors across the Pliocene-early Pleistocene. Nature Communications. 16:5056. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-60362-8.

Sosa-Montes de Oca, C., J. D. Witts, C. M. Lowery, L. Kearns, M. P. Garb, J. Naujokaityte, C. E. Myers, N. H. Landman, R. D. Pancost. 2024. Intense changes in the main source of organic carbon to the ocean following the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 39(8), p.e2024PA004887

Wostbrock, J. A. G., J. D. Witts, Y. Gao, C. Peshek, C. E. Myers, G. Henkes, and Z. D. Sharp. 2024. Reconstructing paleoenvironments of the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway, USA, using paired triple oxygen isotopes and carbonate clumped isotope measurements. GSA Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1130/B37543.1.

Flannery-Sutherland, J. T., C. D. Crossan, C. E. Myers, A. J. W. Hendy, N. H. Landman, and J. D. Witts. 2024. Late Cretaceous ammonoids show that drivers of diversification are regionally heterogeneous. Nature Communications, 15(1):5382.

Qiao, H., A. T. Peterson, C. E. Myers, Q. Yang, and E. E. Saupe. 2024. Ecological niche conservatism spurs diversification in response to climate change. Nature Ecology and Evolution.

*Purcell, C., L. Scuderi, and C. E. Myers. 2023. Faunal provinciality in the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway using a network modelling approach. Geology 51:839-844.

†J. D. Witts, C. E. Myers, M. P. Garb, K. M. Irizarry, E. Larina, A. Rashkova, N. H. Landman. 2022. Geographic and temporal morphological stasis in the latest Cretaceous ammonite Discoscaphites iris from the U. S. Gulf and Atlantic Coastal Plains. Paleobiology 49:153-175.

Sudakow, I., C. E. Myers, S. Petrovskii, †J. D. Witts, C. D. Sumrall. 2022. Knowledge gaps and missing links in understanding mass extinctions: can mathematical modelling help? Physics of Life Reviews 41:22-57.

Landman, N. H., N. L. Larson, J. K. Cochran, J. Brezina, C. E. Myers, and M. P. Garb. 2022. Chapter Two: Methane seeps in the Upper Cretaceous U.S. Western Interior. IN: Ancient Methane Seeps and Cognate Communities, A. Kaim, J. K. Cochran, and N. H. Landman (eds), Springer Geobiology Series.

*Naujokaityte, J., M. P. Garb, N. Thibault, S. K. Brophy, N. H. Landman, J. D. Witts, J. K. Cochran, E. Larina, G. Phillips, and C. E. Myers. 2021. Milankovitch cyclicity in the latest Cretaceous of the Gulf Coastal Plain, USA.Sedimentary Geology 421:105954.

†Witts, J. D., N. H. Landman, M. P. Garb, K. M. Irizarry, E. Larina, N. Thibault, M. J. Razmjooei, T. E. Yancey, and C. E. Myers. 2021. Cephalopods from the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary interval on the Brazos River, TX (USA). Bulletins of the American Museum of Natural History.

Ludt, W. B. and C. E. Myers. 2021. Distinguishing between dispersal and vicariance: A novel approach using anti‐tropical taxa across the fish Tree of Life. Journal of Biogeography 48: 577-589.