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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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Geophysical Science News
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Trillions and Trillions: Coleman featured in UChicago News!
September 13, 2019
Assistant Professor Maureen Coleman was recently interviewed by UChicago News about her years of work cataloguing the microbiome of the Great Lakes. Congratulations, Prof. Coleman!
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TC Chamberlin Postdoctoral Fellowship Announced
September 03, 2019
Applications are now being accepted for the Department of Geophysical Science's TC Chamberlin Postdoctoral Fellowship. Click the link above for more information!
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Open Faculty Positions Announced
September 03, 2019
The Department of Geophysical Sciences is pleased to invite applications for open faculty positions. Please click the link above for more information!
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Jablonski Lab featured in UChicago News
August 30, 2019
Work by Prof. David Jablonski, and postocs Stewart Edie and Katie Collins was recently featured in UChicago News! The article featured two recent publications from the lab on latitudinal gradients in biodiversity. Congratulations!
UChicago News Article ■ Schumm et al. ■ Collins et. al.
