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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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Haynes Stephens Climate Change Blog
February 20, 2019
Haynes Stephens, a first-year grad student in the Department, has started a weekly blog on climate change and how it affects our daily lives. Give it a read!
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Haynes’s Climate Blog
February 20, 2019
Graduate student Haynes Stephens has a new climate blog (https://haynesstephenssciblog.wordpress.com/). Check it out!
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Prof. Clara Blattler made 2019 Sloan Research Fellow
February 19, 2019
Prof. Clara Blättler has been elected a 2019 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Ocean Sciences, for displaying outstanding potential as an early-career scientist. She joins 126 other scholars in leading the next generation of researchers working today in the US and Canada. Congratulations, Prof. Blattler!
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Prof. Nicolas Dauphas Elected Geochemical Fellow
February 13, 2019
Prof. Nicolas Dauphas of the Department was recently elected to be a Geochemical Fellow of the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry! The reward is bestowed upon outstanding scientists who have, over some years, made a major contribution to the field of geochemistry. Congratulations, Prof. Dauphas!