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!...
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...
The Spatial Ecology & Paleontology Lab at Georgia Tech would like to invite applicants for a postdoctoral position to facilitate research on the NSF CAREER grant, “Do species track climate? Using paleoecology to disentangle niche dynamics.” This postdoctoral research associate would join a vibrant team of researchers who integrate modern, historical, and paleontological records...
In January, renovations were finally completed on SEPL’s new office and lab spaces. SEPL has officially moved to the Ford ES&T Building, which is populated by ecologists and geologists. It’s a nice home for our program. We are really pleased with our lab renovations. We now have a “clean” space for imaging and computational...
A huge congratulations to Julia, who passed her qualifying exams today to become a PhD Candidate! Her proposal is super ambitious and exciting!!...
… who published her final dissertation chapter this week! Read her paper, entitled “Caught in a bottleneck: habitat loss for woolly mammoths in central North America and the ice-free corridor during the last deglaciation“. Find more information on our Publications page....
Jenny contributed to a really interesting paper in One Earth, led by the Nature Conservancy, entitled “Lower cost and more feasible options to restore forest cover in the contiguous United States for climate mitigation”. Check it out here. This publication is linked with a set of maps, which can be found here. The citation...
..for publishing the a really interesting paper evaluating the performance of ecometric methods. Check it out here. Abstract: Ecometrics is the study of community‐level functional trait–environment relationships. We use ecometric analyses to estimate paleoenvironment and to investigate community‐level functional changes through time. We evaluate four methods that have been used or have the potential...
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!...
