Congratulations to Dr. Schap!
Congratulations to freshly minted, Dr. Julia Schap, who successfully defended her dissertation on Monday!...
Natural Trap Cave Special Issue is Published!
After several years in the works, a new special issue featuring 12 foundational papers about Natural Trap Cave research has been published in Quaternary International. Julia Schap’s initial analysis of the community composition of the small mammals off NTC is included in the special issue, and PI McGuire co-authors five of these papers, including...
A huge welcome to Katherine Slenker, new PhD student!
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...
Julia Schap Visits Berkeley
Kudos to Julia for a very successful collections visit to the Berkeley Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and University of California Museum of Paleontology. While there, she worked on two projects. For her Natural Trap Cave project, she photographed the teeth of 78 individuals from 35 species to begin to narrow down the identifications of...
Congrats to PhD Candidate Julia Schap!!
A huge congratulations to Julia, who passed her qualifying exams today to become a PhD Candidate! Her proposal is super ambitious and exciting!!...
Fossil Fridays!!
have concluded for the Fall Semester. They will be starting back January 17 2:30 – 4:30 pm Fossil Fridays (formerly Fossil Wednesdays) will begin on Friday, January 17th from 2:30 – 4:30 pm: Become a fossil hunter and help discover how communities have changed through time. Experience what it is like to be a...
Fossil Wednesdays Will Resume Fall Semester
Fossil Wednesdays have ended for the Summer. We are trying to submit some papers & get some excellent work done in the meantime. Keep an eye here for when we officially start back! We look forward to exploring with you again soon!...
Fossil Wednesdays Begin Again!
Fossil Wednesdays! will resume January 23, 2019 3-5 pm 326 Cherry Emerson Building, Georgia Tech Resuming January 23rd: become a fossil hunter and help discover how communities have changed through time. Experience what it is like to be a paleontologist, finding and identifying new specimens. You will be picking 3,000- to 30,000-year-old fossil specimens...
David B. Jones funds Natural Trap Cave field work
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...
New Podcast about Fossil Wednesdays
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!...