African Herbivore Biodiversity Change Over Time
Danny gave a lightning talk at the GT’s Global Change Action Symposium. Watch it here!...
GPB: The Age of Nature
Georgia Public Broadcasting did an exclusive preview of a new documentary series, “The Age of Nature,” that explores humanity’s relationship with nature and wildlife as scientists from all over the world examine ways we can restore our planet. Guests were treated to excerpts from each of the three episodes, followed by an in-depth conversation...
New Paper! Plant biomes demonstrate that landscape resilience today is the lowest it has been since end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions
Check out our new paper! I’m so excited to see this work out. Here is a summary of our findings: Resilient landscapes preserve terrestrial biodiversity despite environmental changes. Here, we analyze North American landscape resilience over 20,000 years by examining the residence and recovery times of plant biomes preserved in the fossil pollen record....
Ben & Danny are now PhD Candidates
Congratulations to Danny Lauer and Ben Shipley who recently passed their qualifying exams and are now officially PhD Candidates! Ben is a second year graduate student in Biological Sciences studying the causes of endemism. Danny is a second year graduate student in the Quantitative Biosciences Program studying the implications of functional diversity for maintaining...
Ben gets an NSF-GRFP!!
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....
Rosbovidrio the River Otter
Look out for a very exciting skeletonization coming soon!! Thanks to Luis, Silvia & Andrew for this cool discovery....
Dermestid beetles!
We’d like to warmly welcome the latest addition to our lab, a new colony of dermestid beetles. These beetles primarily feed on carrion, and are referred to as flesh-eating beetles*. We plan to use these beetles to make some beautiful skeletons. We will use the skeletons of known species to compare with our fossils...
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...
Welcome to new PhD student, Julia Schap!
Julia joins the lab this fall as a SoBS PhD student. She has previously studied small mammal community responses to past climate, as well as their ability to estimate past climatic conditions. She is interested in expanding the understanding of how fossil communities have responded to past climate events to help inform us about...
Welcome to PhD Student, Danny Lauer!
Danny comes to us through the Quantitative Biosciences Program here at GT. He is interested in the interface between data science/machine learning and ecology, and looks forward to applying these disciplines to his PhD research. Daniel received his B.S. in Environmental Science and Policy from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2017....