On November 6th, 2020 lab member Bekah Stein defended her PhD dissertation entitled “Carbon and Water Dynamics in Modern and Ancient Plants and Soils.” Her final thesis was accepted late last week – congratulations Dr. Stein. Bekah’s next move will be the UC-Berkeley, where she’ll take up a post-doc with Dr. Daniel Stolper. The photo below is from a socially distanced celebration at our house (from left to right: Conroy and Bekah, Melanie, Zack, Becca and Nik, and Cecilia; center: PEPPR and GRiTS PIs and our tiny human. Solo cups for scale.