Congratulations to Julia Schap, who won a prestigious Stengl-Wyer Scholar position from UT Austin! This will provide her with funding to do a 3-year postdoc and additional funding for research expenses. Julia’s project is called “Of mice and men: Leveraging functional traits of small mammals across past, present, and future communities to anticipate conservation...
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...
A huge congratulations to Julia, who passed her qualifying exams today to become a PhD Candidate! Her proposal is super ambitious and exciting!!...
Jenny participated one of the Georgia Climate Project’s monthly webinars, entitled “What does changing climate mean for Georgia’s ecosystem.” She spoke about the implications of changing climates for the ranges and compositions of species and ecosystems as well as the implications and challenges for conservation in Georgia. Watch it here!...
Danny gave a lightning talk at the GT’s Global Change Action Symposium. Watch it here!...
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....
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...
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...
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....
At the beginning of May, Jenny had an incredible, productive trip to Cambridge, UK. There, she got to give a talk at the Museum of Zoology. She also worked with fellow iCCB leadership (Michelle Lawing, Jason Head, and Johannes Müller) to craft a plan for the next phase of research and outreach to be...
