Amy McCune

Amy Reed McCune
Born1954
Alma materBrown University Yale University
Scientific career
FieldsEcology and Evolutionary Biology

Amy Reed McCune is an American ecologist and evolutionary biologist. She is a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell University. McCune specializes in the history of life through the study of fishes. Her lab focuses on evolution with methodologies including paleobiology, phylogenetics, genetics and morphology.

McCune was appointed Senior Associate Dean of the Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in 2017. McCune is also a Faculty Curator of Ichthyology at the Cornell Museum of Vertebrates.