Summer Conference & Research Travel

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...

Welcome postdoc Dr. Leila Siciliano to SEPL, the Lawing Lab, and CPiA!

Leila joins us from a postdoc at Texas State University. She is a functional morphologist who will be exploring how carnivoran jaw structures are distributed with respect to environmental conditions on the landscape. She will be working with the Conservation Paleobiology in Africa project to improve our understanding of trait-environment interactions, particularly in East...

SEPL has moved!!

In January, renovations were finally completed on SEPL’s new office and lab spaces. SEPL has officially moved to the Ford ES&T Building, which is populated by ecologists and geologists. It’s a nice home for our program. We are really pleased with our lab renovations. We now have a “clean” space for imaging and computational...

Ben & Danny are now PhD Candidates

Congratulations to Danny Lauer and Ben Shipley who recently passed their qualifying exams and are now officially PhD Candidates! Ben is a second year graduate student in Biological Sciences studying the causes of endemism. Danny is a second year graduate student in the Quantitative Biosciences Program studying the implications of functional diversity for maintaining...

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