Congrats to PhD Candidate Julia Schap!!
A huge congratulations to Julia, who passed her qualifying exams today to become a PhD Candidate! Her proposal is super ambitious and exciting!!...
Congratulations to postdoc Yue Wang…
… who published her final dissertation chapter this week! Read her paper, entitled “Caught in a bottleneck: habitat loss for woolly mammoths in central North America and the ice-free corridor during the last deglaciation“. Find more information on our Publications page....
Congratulations to postdoc Rachel Short…
..for publishing the a really interesting paper evaluating the performance of ecometric methods. Check it out here. Abstract: Ecometrics is the study of community‐level functional trait–environment relationships. We use ecometric analyses to estimate paleoenvironment and to investigate community‐level functional changes through time. We evaluate four methods that have been used or have the potential...
African Herbivore Biodiversity Change Over Time
Danny gave a lightning talk at the GT’s Global Change Action Symposium. Watch it here!...
New Paper! Plant biomes demonstrate that landscape resilience today is the lowest it has been since end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions
Check out our new paper! I’m so excited to see this work out. Here is a summary of our findings: Resilient landscapes preserve terrestrial biodiversity despite environmental changes. Here, we analyze North American landscape resilience over 20,000 years by examining the residence and recovery times of plant biomes preserved in the fossil pollen record....
Rosbovidrio the River Otter
Look out for a very exciting skeletonization coming soon!! Thanks to Luis, Silvia & Andrew for this cool discovery....
Dermestid beetles!
We’d like to warmly welcome the latest addition to our lab, a new colony of dermestid beetles. These beetles primarily feed on carrion, and are referred to as flesh-eating beetles*. We plan to use these beetles to make some beautiful skeletons. We will use the skeletons of known species to compare with our fossils...
Fossil Fridays!!
have concluded for the Fall Semester. They will be starting back January 17 2:30 – 4:30 pm Fossil Fridays (formerly Fossil Wednesdays) will begin on Friday, January 17th from 2:30 – 4:30 pm: Become a fossil hunter and help discover how communities have changed through time. Experience what it is like to be a...
Fossil Wednesdays Will Resume Fall Semester
Fossil Wednesdays have ended for the Summer. We are trying to submit some papers & get some excellent work done in the meantime. Keep an eye here for when we officially start back! We look forward to exploring with you again soon!...
Fossil Wednesdays Begin Again!
Fossil Wednesdays! will resume January 23, 2019 3-5 pm 326 Cherry Emerson Building, Georgia Tech Resuming January 23rd: become a fossil hunter and help discover how communities have changed through time. Experience what it is like to be a paleontologist, finding and identifying new specimens. You will be picking 3,000- to 30,000-year-old fossil specimens...