Congratulations to Dr. Schap!
Congratulations to freshly minted, Dr. Julia Schap, who successfully defended her dissertation on Monday!...
Congratulations to Dr. Ben Shipley, IBS Doctoral Dissertation Award winner!!
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....
Summer Conference & Research Travel
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...
Congratulations to Ben Shipley!
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...
Welcome postdoc Dr. Leila Siciliano to SEPL, the Lawing Lab, and CPiA!
Leila joins us from a postdoc at Texas State University. She is a functional morphologist who will be exploring how carnivoran jaw structures are distributed with respect to environmental conditions on the landscape. She will be working with the Conservation Paleobiology in Africa project to improve our understanding of trait-environment interactions, particularly in East...
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...
SEPL has moved!!
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...
SEPL’s Antiracism Statement
In an ongoing effort to combat racism and improve diversity in our field, SEPL has crafted a new antiracism statement. You can find this permanently stated in the sidebar of our home page, as well: As a lab, SEPL is committed to the cause of anti-racism and promoting equity in our everyday lives and...
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...