April 2017
Becca Dzombak receives a GSA Graduate Research Grant to fund her field work in Wyoming. Congrats, Becca!
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March 2017
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
February 2017
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
December 2016
Becca Dzombak presents her first poster on the relationship between Iron and Precipitation in Soils at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in San Francisco.
November 2016
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.
October 2016
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.
September 2016
3 new first-year graduate students arrive. Welcome Becca, Bekah, and Kevin! Katy Rico goes to the Middle Island Sinkhole in Lake Huron to collect samples for her research.
