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June 7, 2026
Blois Lab Updates – Summer 2026
We’ve got some exciting transitions ahead of us in the Blois Lab!
June 5, 2025
Congrats to Reina on submitting her first PhD chapter!
Here in the Blois Lab we are fans of celebrating all the wins along the way, so congrats to Reina on a PhD milestone. Reina just recently developed and submitted her first PhD manuscript for review. Her project looks at the relationship between fire (plus vegetation and climate) and small mammals across the California Sierra…
March 21, 2023
Summer Research Opportunity: Surveying Small Mammals in Yosemite National Park
Application Deadline: April 9th, 2023 Anticipated Timeline: May 30th, 2023 – August 11th, 2023 Compensation: full time, $15.50-17.73/hour We are currently looking for an undergraduate research assistant to help during the summer of 2023! The research assistant will work directly with graduate student Reina Warnert on various projects related to small mammal communities in Yosemite…
January 16, 2023
Welcome to 2023 in the Blois lab!
Great news to start off the year! The Blois lab had two papers accepted over the winter break. The first was a paper led by former PhD student Nate Fox, working with a great team to examine correspondence between small mammal isotope values and past climate at the La Brea Tar Pits. Then, former PhD…
June 30, 2022
New postdoc opportunity! NSF-funded Postdoc Positions in Paleoecology and Species Distribution Modeling
Marta Jarzyna at Ohio State and I were just awarded a new NSF grant to investigate the spatial and temporal non-stationarity of processes structuring communities. The project will leverage the fossil record of small mammals across the late Quaternary, simulations and species distribution modeling techniques, and trait datasets for small mammals. It’s super exciting! We…