Kenneth M. Halanych is a professor in zoology at the Auburn University, Alabama.
According to the Web of Knowledge he has published 123 peer reviewed scientific papers, 43 of them cited 10 or more times.
The most widely referred to are: According to his web page, the goal of his research is to understand how extensive morphological variation came about by exploring questions on different time scales and with different type of information.
He is combining a molecular systematic and/or genomic approach with information from organismal evolution, and has helped him to study everything from major animal lineages to the recent biogeographic history of commercially important species.
Dr. Halanych has also been a collaborator from Auburn University regarding the possible consequences of and solutions to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill