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PhD POSITION IN PALEOECOLOGY

January 19, 2018by Jacquelyn Gill 2 Comments

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 […]

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Postdoc Caitlin gives SBE seminar on climate change and phenology in Acadia

November 27, 2017by Jacquelyn Gill Leave a comment

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. […]

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Putting fossils to work to protect biodiversity

August 16, 2017by Jacquelyn Gill Leave a comment

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 […]

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Island BEASTs: congratulations, Mario, Kit, and Dulcinea!

June 26, 2017by Jacquelyn Gill 1 Comment

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 […]

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Magazines, TV, and podcasts, oh, my!

August 6, 2015by Jacquelyn Gill Leave a comment

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 […]

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Are you #TeamWarrah or #TeamPenguin?

November 10, 2014by Jacquelyn Gill Leave a comment

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 […]

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The BEAST Lab is heading to the southern hemisphere, and we need your help!

November 2, 2014by Jacquelyn Gill Leave a comment

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 […]

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Poll: Help us name the Gill Lab!

October 18, 2014by Jacquelyn Gill 1 Comment

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 […]

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Guest Post at Open Quaternary: The once and future problems

September 29, 2014by Jacquelyn Gill Leave a comment

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 […]

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Announcement: Pollen Analysis Short Course

February 11, 2014by Jacquelyn Gill Leave a comment

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 […]

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Most Recent paper

Bakker, E. L., J. L. Gill, et al. 2016. Combining paleo-data and modern exclosure experiments to assess the impact of megafauna extinctions on woody vegetation. PNAS 113(4): 847-855.

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Jacquelyn L. Gill
Assistant Professor
School of Biology & Ecology
Climate Change Institute
134 Sawyer Research Labs
University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469

jacquelyn.gill [at] maine [dot] edu
(207) 581-2305 (office)
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