Education

Sc.D. Johns Hopkins University (1972)
M. S. Florida State University (1968)
B.A. Florida State University (1966)

Research Interests

Current research interests: fossil avifaunas and paleoenvironments of Hawaii, Bermuda, and the West Indies. Biogeography of the avifauna of the archipelago and lowlands of Bocas del Toro, Panama. Phylogeny and systematics of Hawaiian and various other birds, mainly Neotropical.

Selected Publications

Olson, Storrs L. 2006. Birds, including extinct species, encountered by the Malaspina Expedition on Vava'u, Tonga, in 1793. Archives of Natural History, 33(1): 42-52.

Olson, Storrs L., and David B. Wingate. 2006. A new species of night-heron (Ardeidae: Nyctanassa) from Quaternary deposits on Bermuda. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 119 (2): 326-337.

Olson, Storrs L., Paul J. Hearty, and Gregory K. Pregill. 2006. Geological constraints on evolution and survival in endemic reptiles on Bermuda. Journal of Herpetology, 40 (3): 394-398.

Olson, Storrs L., David B. Wingate, Paul J. Hearty, and Frederick V. Grady. 2005. Prodromus of vertebrate paleontology and geochronology of Bermuda. Pages 219-232 in J. A. Alcover and P. Bover, eds. Insular Vertebrate Evolution: the Palaeontological Approach. Monografies de la Societat d'Història Natural de les Balears, 12. xiv + 390.

Olson, Storrs L., Martin Irestedt, Per G. P. Ericson, and Jon Fjeldså. 2005. Independent evolution of two Darwinian marsh-dwelling ovenbirds (Furnariidae: Limnornis, Limnoctites). Ornitologia Neotropical, 16: 347-359.

Olson, S. L. and Hiroshige Matsuoka. 2005. New specimens of the early Eocene frigatebird Limnofregata (Pelecaniformes: Fregatidae), with the description of a new apecies. Zootaxa 1046:1-15. [PDF]

Olson, S. L., R. C. Fleischer, C. Fisher and E. Bermingham. 2005. Expunging the “Mascarene Starling” Necropsar leguati: Archives, Morphology, and Molecules Topple a Myth. Bulletin of the British Ornithological Club 125:31-41. [PDF]

Hearty, P J., S. L. Olson, D. S. Kaufman, R. L. Edwards, and Hai Cheng. 2004. Stratigraphy and Geochronology of Pitfall Accumulations in Caves and Fissures, Bermuda. Quaternary Science Reviews, 23:1151-1171. [PDF]

Olson, S. L. and P. J. Hearty. 2003. Probable Extirpation of a Breeding Colony of Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) on Bermuda by Pleistocene Sea-level Rise. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 100(22):12825-12829. [PDF]