Dr. Kappelman is interested in the evolutionary history of primates and especially hominoid evolution and hominid origins. He currently directs an ongoing field project in the latest Oligocene/earliest Miocene of northwestern Ethiopia and participates in field projects in Turkey and China. He is also the principal investigator on a web- based comparative primate osteological database, The eSkeletons Project, and also the PI on a project for developing customizable multimedia exam delivery software, The Virtual Exams Project. His research interests include paleoecology, functional morphology, stratigraphy, paleomagnetism, and computer imaging.