Rebekah Ann Stein

Nathan, Katy, Becca (talks) and Bekah (poster) all presented their projects for feedback and discussion at Geological Society of America’s 2017 annual meeting in Seattle, Washington!

Bekah Stein goes to China to collect Thuja from endemic regions with Molly Ng, a member of Dr. Selena Smith’s paleobotany lab, where they collaborate with Dr. Tao Su at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) as well as graduate students and professors at South China Botanical Garden (Guangzhou), Kunming Institute of Botany, Shanghai Botanical Garden, and Peking

Becca Dzombak receives the American Philosophical Society’s Lewis and Clark Grant for Exploration and Field Research. Bekah Stein receives funding to participate in an analytical and modeling training program through the NSF Research Coordination Network (RCN): “Improving Reconstructions of Cenozoic pCO2 Change.” She will work with Dr. Dana Royer at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, this

Bekah Stein presents her research on stable isotope ecology of modern conifers and implications for paleoclimate at Midcontinental Paleobotanical Colloquium, held at the University of Michigan.

Becca Dzombak receives a GSA Graduate Research Grant to fund her field work in Wyoming. Congrats, Becca!

Nathan and Becca go to India to collect paleosols from the Deccan Traps region with Kelly Matsunaga, a member of Dr. Selena Smith’s paleobotany lab, and Dhananjay M. Mohabey and Bandana Samant, collaborators at Nagpur University. Charlotte Connop receives the Singer Award and Tim Gallagher (’16) returns to the University of Michigan to receive the John

Nathan was part of the panel at the UM Museum of Natural History’s monthly Science Cafe on February 23rd. Along with Chris Poulsen from EES, Nathan discussed how we can use paleoclimatic data to understand the impacts of future climate change on both ecosystems and people. You can find the podcast for this Science Cafe

Becca Dzombak presents her first poster on the relationship between Iron and Precipitation in Soils at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in San Francisco.

Kevin Ortiz presents a poster on clumped isotope applications in the eastern Basin and Range to potential PhD students at Fall Preview Weekend at the University of Michigan.

  Katy Rico presents a poster titled “Carbon burial and metal accumulation in a low-oxygen Great Lakes environment” at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) conference in Long Beach, California. Katy also presents at Midwestern Geobiology Symposium at the University of Cincinnati.