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...
After several years in the works, a new special issue featuring 12 foundational papers about Natural Trap Cave research has been published in Quaternary International. Julia Schap’s initial analysis of the community composition of the small mammals off NTC is included in the special issue, and PI McGuire co-authors five of these papers, including...
Check out this article about our latest grant! We will study fossils in Africa to forecast how humans and climate affect wildlife. The study will build an understanding of the continent’s animals, physical traits developed, and their relationships/responses to environmental changes: http://b.gatech.edu/3I5iGYq This grant will fund grad student Danny Lauer’s dissertation research. Also, grad...
Kudos to Julia for a very successful collections visit to the Berkeley Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and University of California Museum of Paleontology. While there, she worked on two projects. For her Natural Trap Cave project, she photographed the teeth of 78 individuals from 35 species to begin to narrow down the identifications of...
A huge congratulations to Julia, who passed her qualifying exams today to become a PhD Candidate! Her proposal is super ambitious and exciting!!...
Julia joins the lab this fall as a SoBS PhD student. She has previously studied small mammal community responses to past climate, as well as their ability to estimate past climatic conditions. She is interested in expanding the understanding of how fossil communities have responded to past climate events to help inform us about...
