The BEAST Lab (Biodiversity and Environments Across Space and Time) is recruiting a highly motivated PhD student for a research project reconstructing late Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions, paleoclimates, and vegetation changes […]
If you’re in the area this Friday, come check out BEAST Lab postdoc Caitlin McDonough Mackenzie’s seminar on campus this Friday, December 1, at 3:00 pm in Norman Smith 101. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
