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...
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....
This semester, Jenny will be teaching a graduate seminar about climate resilience. In it, we will explore how different fields define resilience to climate change and discover ways to define and identify resilient systems....
Riannon worked extra hard last week to pull together a poster on the research she has been doing in the lab. She presented the poster in the 2018 Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Graduate Student Symposium. Last semester she digitized photographs of over 350 Microtus upper jaws. This semester she has been learning geomorph in R...
Campus was closed on Monday, the first day of classes, due to “weather.” So tomorrow, Wednesday, January 9th, I will teach my very first class as an Assistant Professor. I’ve created my own course that explores the latest questions and methods in landscape ecology and biogeography. In this lecture + lab course students will...
