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...
Ushering in CPiA
The leadership group for iCCB had our next-to-last meeting in Berlin in December to plan our next moves for creating a new project known as CPiA (Conservation Paleontology in Africa). We are scheduling a meeting in Nairobi for June to finalize the details of this exciting outreach initiative and begin collecting data that will...
David B. Jones funds Natural Trap Cave field work
In collaboration with Julie Meachen (Des Moines University), we have received funding to conduct two more seasons of field work at Natural Trap Cave. We plan to perform additional excavations, particularly to fill out our microvertebrate data. We will also do a survey of the microvertebrates living in the vicinity of the cave, both...
Abstracts accepted for IBS in Malaga, Spain
SEPL had 3 abstracts accepted to be presented at the International Biogeography Society Conference in Malaga, Spain in January. Yue will be presenting “Climate drives dynamic shifts in vegetation communities over the past 20,000”. Sílvia will be presenting “Changes in North American mammal niche preferences from the late Pleistocene to the present”. Jenny will...
Mechanistic modeling of environmental drivers of woolly mammoth carrying capacity declines on St. Paul Island
Congratulations to Yue Wang for publishing a paper in Ecology! This work was part of her dissertation, done in Jack William’s Lab at U. Wisconsin....
New Podcast about Fossil Wednesdays
Listen to a new radio show about Fossil Wednesdays made by “Lost in the Stacks,” Georgia Tech’s Library Radio show. Fossil Wednesdays will start back on September 26 from 3-5 PM in 326 Cherry Emerson. Come help us discover fossils & do some exciting science!...