Geerat J. Vermeij

Geerat J. Vermeij is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these fields, their work extends into several subfields including Oceanography, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, and Paleontology.

The scientist's research topics include Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, Cephalopods and Marine Biology, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Physiological and Biochemical Adaptations, and Marine and Coastal Plant Biology.

Frequent coauthors in Vermeij's publications are:

• Ryosuke Motani
• Mathias Harzhauser
• Koen Fraussen
• Victoria M. Watson-Zink
• James A. Estes

Common publication venues where Vermeij's work appears include:

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• Ecology and Evolution
• Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
• Zootaxa
• Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Vermeij comprise:

• "Terrestrialization in gastropods: lineages, ecological constraints and comparisons with other animals," 2022, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
• "The ecology of marine colonization by terrestrial arthropods," 2020, Arthropod Structure & Development
• "Ecophysiological steps of marine adaptation in extant and extinct non-avian tetrapods," 2021, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society (coauthored by Ryosuke Motani)
• "History's legacy: Why future progress in ecology demands a view of the past," 2022, Ecology (coauthored by James A. Estes)
• "Deep resilience: An evolutionary perspective on calcification in an age of ocean acidification," 2023, Frontiers in Physiology (coauthored by David Gold)

Vermeij has authored books published by Princeton University Press, including A Natural History of Shells (2021) and The Evolution of Power (2023).

Awards recognizing Vermeij's contributions include:

• Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation, 1992
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1981
• Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1975