Listen to a new radio show about Fossil Wednesdays made by “Lost in the Stacks,” Georgia Tech’s Library Radio show. Fossil Wednesdays will start back on September 26 from 3-5 PM in 326 Cherry Emerson. Come help us discover fossils & do some exciting science!...
SEPL warmly welcomes Ben Shipley (first year PhD student) and Sílvia Pineda-Muñoz (postdoctoral scholar). We are growing quickly, and these two are going to contribute such exciting research to our efforts! See more about them on our “SEPL People” page. Go Team SEPL!!...
SEPL was well represented at ESA this year! We gave three talks in three days. Jenny gave a five-minute Inspire talk about using paleontology to inform conservation models on Monday. On Tuesday, Jenny presented current and upcoming work looking at climate connectivity. And on Wednesday, Yue presented her latest research exploring the residence time...
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...
**UPDATE** Position filled! Please see our Opportunities page for additional opportunities to become involved in SEPL. We are currently inviting applicants for a postdoctoral position to examine the microfauna of Natural Trap Cave. Postdoctoral researchers will work closely with Drs. Jenny McGuire (GT) and Julie Meachen (DMU). For this project, we are looking for...
Julie Meachen, Assistant Professor at DMU, visited SEPL over the last week to continue work on the Natural Trap Cave project. Julie, along with Dr. Alan Cooper of the University of Adelaide, is the principal investigator on the grant that opened up Natural Trap Cave for research over the last 5 years. The original...
Riannon worked extra hard last week to pull together a poster on the research she has been doing in the lab. She presented the poster in the 2018 Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Graduate Student Symposium. Last semester she digitized photographs of over 350 Microtus upper jaws. This semester she has been learning geomorph in R...
Wyoming PBS has done an episode of it’s “Main Street, Wyoming” series about Natural Trap Cave. This episode explains all about where we get the material that we look through at Fossil Wednesdays and really puts it into the broader context of the research being done at the site. Check it out above!...
Campus was closed on Monday, the first day of classes, due to “weather.” So tomorrow, Wednesday, January 9th, I will teach my very first class as an Assistant Professor. I’ve created my own course that explores the latest questions and methods in landscape ecology and biogeography. In this lecture + lab course students will...
iCCB (Integrative Climate Change Biology) is an incredibly successful program, funded primarily by the IUBS (International Union of Biological Sciences), to develop trait-based approaches that can make deep-time perspectives from paleontology applicable for understanding organisms’ responses to climate change. During its last round of funding, the IUBS tasked the iCCB with making inroads with...
