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...
Congratulations to former SEPL undergrad Jadyn Sethna, who received an NSF GRFP! This is a fantastic accomplishment & will allow her a lot of flexibility in her graduate research at UNC!...
A huge congratulations to Ben Shipley, who was recently awarded an National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. He proposes to explore the drivers of endemism hotspots. This funding will allow Ben flexibility in pursuing his PhD research going forward....
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...
