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...
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...
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...
I’m pleased to announce that Allen Hyde and I have received a seed grant through Georgia Tech’s Climate Change Fellows program to allow us to work with students from the Climate Resilience class to write up our work on “An integrated analysis of climate resilience in social-ecological systems in the southeastern United States”. We...
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...
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....
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!...
SEPL warmly welcomes Ben Shipley (first year PhD student) and Sílvia Pineda-Muñoz (postdoctoral scholar). We are growing quickly, and these two are going to contribute such exciting research to our efforts! See more about them on our “SEPL People” page. Go Team SEPL!!...
This semester, Jenny will be teaching a graduate seminar about climate resilience. In it, we will explore how different fields define resilience to climate change and discover ways to define and identify resilient systems....
SEPL was well represented at ESA this year! We gave three talks in three days. Jenny gave a five-minute Inspire talk about using paleontology to inform conservation models on Monday. On Tuesday, Jenny presented current and upcoming work looking at climate connectivity. And on Wednesday, Yue presented her latest research exploring the residence time...
