Putting fossils to work to protect biodiversity
Last February, I gave a talk at AAAS in a session on conservation paleobiology, a field that leverages the fossil record to help inform the conservation and management of modern […]
Island BEASTs: congratulations, Mario, Kit, and Dulcinea!
Exciting news from BEAST Lab grad students doing island-related research! Masters student Mario Williams‘ thesis research has been successfully funded on Experiment.com. He’ll be working up a multi-proxy Holocene sediment […]
Magazines, TV, and podcasts, oh, my!
Check out this sobering article in Rolling Stone, on how the impacts of abrupt climate change are already with us. I had a really nice chat with Eric Holthous about […]
Are you #TeamWarrah or #TeamPenguin?
Our first week of crowd-funding has been a huge success — we’ve raised over $3000 towards our $10,000 goal, with over 75 contributors so far. Thanks to everyone who has […]
The BEAST Lab is heading to the southern hemisphere, and we need your help!
I’m thrilled to announce that two of my grad students, Dulcinea Groff and Kit Hamley, have launched a crowd-funding campaign to support their research to the Falkland Islands. The three […]
Poll: Help us name the Gill Lab!
As we’re finally designing my new lab website, we’re finally down to the wire: we need a name. In naming my lab something other than “Gill Lab,” my hope has […]
Guest Post at Open Quaternary: The once and future problems
I’ve got a guest post up today at Open Quaternary, blog for the editorial team of a brand-new Open Access journal focusing on the interdisciplinary research of the last 2.588 million […]
Announcement: Pollen Analysis Short Course
I’d like to announce an upcoming short course in pollen analysis, to be offered at the University of Maine this coming June. Come for the pollen, stay for our beautiful […]
New papers out in New Phytologist & Journal of Ecology
I’m happy to share two new papers that have recently been published. The first is an invited mini-review for New Phytologist, Ecological impacts of the late Quaternary megaherbivore extinctions. This […]
Conference announcement: Megafauna and Ecosystem Function
I’m excited to announce an upcoming conference at Oxford University on megafauna and ecosystems, past and present! I’ve pasted some details below, including the fantastic plenary lineup. There’s been a […]
