Thanks to Katie Slenker, Julia Schap, and Amanda Hampton for representing SEPL at the Atlanta Science Festival this year. They showed the public the excitement of fossil discovery using fossils from Natural Trap Cave! The event was a roaring success and led to lots of new Fossil Friday participants!...
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...
Congratulations to freshly minted, Dr. Julia Schap, who successfully defended her dissertation on Monday!...
A huge congratulations to Ben Shipley for winning the 2023 International Biogeography Society Doctoral Dissertation Award. Ben’s dissertation examined the drivers of global mammalian endemism. He will be presenting a plenary talk at the IBS Conference in Prague this January as a result of his success....
A huge congratulations to the latest SEPL PhD, newly-minted Dr. Danny Lauer. Danny successfully defended his dissertation in early July and officially received his PhD in August. SEPL is going to miss Danny a ton, but we are so excited for you to work in practical ways to make the world a more sustainable...
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...
A huge congratulations to Ben Shipley for being the first SEPL student to successfully defend their dissertation! Newly minted Dr. Shipley also just earned an NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, and he will be joining Erin Saupe at Oxford to study range sizes through time. We’re going to miss Ben here at SEPL, but we wish...
Katherine just finished her master’s degree at Oklahoma State, and she will be joining SEPL to study adaptations to aridity in mammals. She plans to study how stable isotope geochemistry and morphology has shifted in the mammal communities at Natural Trap Cave. She also is interested in the implications of the presence of a...
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!...
