Congratulations to Katy Rico, PhD-Candidate, who won 1st place (including a cash prize) at Michigan’s Geophysical Union in the Climate, Oceans & Environments section on April 4th! And congratulations to Becca Dzombak for receiving GSA’s special “Charles A. and June R. P. Ross Research” award, as well as Bekah Stein for receiving a GSA Graduate […]

Rebecca Dzombak and Rebekah Stein have passed their preliminary exams and are now PhD candidate! Congrats Becca and Bekah! And congratulations to Clarissa Crist, who worked in the lab as an undergraduate, on her admittance and enrollment in Penn State’s graduate program!  

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Bekah made a second trip to Seattle to visit the Burke Museum‘s Paleobotany collection to collect fossils for research, prior to the museum’s big upcoming move this January.

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