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Research Spotlight
Professor Sue Kidwell uses the fossil record from the last thousand years to understand changes in biological baselines due to human populations.
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Stewart Edie is a paleobiologist who wants to understand why some groups of organisms are more diverse that others, and how extinction prunes the tree of life.
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Malte Jansen is a creative physical oceanographer with impressive mathematical chops and great taste in problems.
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Global Warming Outreach
June 12, 2019
For extra credit in Associate Professor Dorian Abbot's Global Warming class, students made outreach videos with a song, poem, or comedy sketch about global warming. Here's a YouTube channel with all the videos, organized by number of views:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI1b0LzdsyEoLczxr3otVK8Ze2NE2vnZO
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Graham Slater shakes up the sloth family tree
June 10, 2019
Assistant Professor Graham Slater is featured on UChicago News this week, talking about his recent paper on the evolution of sloths. Prof. Slater was part of an international team of researchers who used evidence from ancient proteins to reconstruct the relationships of living tree sloths to their giant extinct relatives. "Not only do our results rewrite sloth classification," said Prof. Slater, "they suggest much of what we thought we knew about how sloths evolved may be wrong."
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Malte Jansen awarded NSF CAREER Award
May 31, 2019
Assistant Prof. Malte Jansen was recently granted an NSF CAREER Award from the NSF's division for Ocean sciences for displaying outstanding potential as an early-career scientist and academic role model. Congratulations, Prof. Jansen!
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Clara Blättler featured in UChicago News!
May 29, 2019
Assistant Prof. Clara Blättler was interviewed in a UChicago News piece highlighting her recent paper on fluid flow through the Maldives carbonate platform. She and her co-authors determined that seawater from the Last Glacial Maximum is preserved in the edifice, and that it was heavier and saltier than previously thought. Congratulations, Prof. Blättler!
