December 01, 2021
Postdoc Nick Crouch in David Jablonski’s lab led an analysis by a multi-institutional team of researchers to test the effects of a basic assumption on how lineages diverge in evolutionary trees. The group assembled a new phylogeny for a group with a rich fossil record, the bivalves, inserted 86 time-calibration points from the fossil record, and quantified the distortions created by assuming that all lineages arise by bifurcations or “forks” rather than by allowing one lineage to branch from another. Click here for more details.
October 26, 2021
The Department of the Geophysical Sciences is accepting applications to join the faculty at the rank of Assistant Professor (tenure-track) or Associate Professor. Review of applications will begin November 1, 2021 and will continue until the position(s) are filled. [Originally posted on 27 August]. EOE/Vet/Disability
October 23, 2021
2021 PhD graduate Megan Mansfield (now NASA Sagan Fellow at the University of Arizona) led an analysis of exoplanet "Hot Jupiter" spectra that has been published in Nature Astronomy. Mansfield and her team (including University of Chicago Astronomy and Astrophysics Professor Jacob Bean) analyzed the strength of the water vapor feature in secondary eclipse data for Hot Jupiters as a function of temperature, finding trends that (when compared to models) suggest compositional variability between Hot Jupiters. Click here for more details.