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....
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...
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....
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...
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....
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!!...
