Congratulations to Katie Slenker for winning Best Student Presentation at this year’s Southeastern Biogeochemistry Symposium! Katie’s presentation was entitled “Values of oxygen-18 isotope enrichment of North American megaherbivore body water reflect a spectrum of evaporation sensitivity.”...
A huge congratulations to Sierra Bornheim, who earned an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! This is a huge accomplishment and will provide Sierra with funding to pursue her research for three years! As a result, Sierra will have the flexibility and time to pursue her research program to the fullest. Sierra has proposed to become...
Thanks to Katie Slenker, Julia Schap, and Amanda Hampton for representing SEPL at the Atlanta Science Festival this year. They showed the public the excitement of fossil discovery using fossils from Natural Trap Cave! The event was a roaring success and led to lots of new Fossil Friday participants!...
Congratulations to Julia Schap, who won a prestigious Stengl-Wyer Scholar position from UT Austin! This will provide her with funding to do a 3-year postdoc and additional funding for research expenses. Julia’s project is called “Of mice and men: Leveraging functional traits of small mammals across past, present, and future communities to anticipate conservation...
Congratulations to freshly minted, Dr. Julia Schap, who successfully defended her dissertation on Monday!...
A huge congratulations to Ben Shipley for winning the 2023 International Biogeography Society Doctoral Dissertation Award. Ben’s dissertation examined the drivers of global mammalian endemism. He will be presenting a plenary talk at the IBS Conference in Prague this January as a result of his success....
A huge congratulations to the latest SEPL PhD, newly-minted Dr. Danny Lauer. Danny successfully defended his dissertation in early July and officially received his PhD in August. SEPL is going to miss Danny a ton, but we are so excited for you to work in practical ways to make the world a more sustainable...
SEPL participated in two conferences this summer: the International Union for Quaternary Research Congress in Rome and the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists in Anchorage. Both conferences were a huge success, with a total of eight presentations and posters. Highlights included first-time meetups between longterm collaborators and a “family” mixer with...
A huge congratulations to Ben Shipley for being the first SEPL student to successfully defend their dissertation! Newly minted Dr. Shipley also just earned an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, and he will be joining Erin Saupe at Oxford to study range sizes through time. We’re going to miss Ben here at SEPL, but we wish...
Katherine just finished her master’s degree at Oklahoma State, and she will be joining SEPL to study adaptations to aridity in mammals. She plans to study how stable isotope geochemistry and morphology has shifted in the mammal communities at Natural Trap Cave. She also is interested in the implications of the presence of a...
