July 17, 2013
Postdoc opportunity in my lab
I am looking for a postdoc to join the lab! Check out the job ad for more info.
May 22, 2013
Space-for-time substitution can work!
I’ve got a new paper out in PNAS (here, open access) on testing space-for-time substitution using fossil pollen data. The main message: the assumption that they are substitutable is valid, at least over broader scales of space and time!
May 1, 2013
Opportunities for testing and improving biogeographic models that include biotic interactions
We are starting to ramp up planning for our new project capturing biotic interactions in community models. Matt Fitzpatrick and I have finished drafting up our job ads for new opportunities in our labs (PhD student in my lab at Merced, postdoc with Matt at UMCES), so if you know of any great candidates, pass…
May 1, 2013
Fantastic biogeography conferences coming up!
Wow, I just took a look at the IBS blog and there are some absolutely fabulous conferences coming up! There’s a small IBS meeting on “The Geography of Species Associations” in Montreal this November, and then an early-career conference in Canberra, Australia in January. The IBS is my favorite scientific society and I really love going…
April 26, 2013
Article accepted!
I woke up this morning to the good news that I have a paper accepted in PNAS! This is work I did as a postdoc, in collaboration with Jack Williams, Matt Fitzpatrick, Steve Jackson, and Simon Ferrier. We are springing for open access and I’m also now working to submit the data files to Dryad, so…
March 26, 2013
Spring break reflections
This week is spring break, which gives me a chance to reflect on the past few months. I’ve now been at this job for 2.5 months and I’m loving it! Here’s what I’ve been up to recently. Classes started at the end of January at UCM. I am teaching Paleoecology this semester and have a…
January 16, 2013
IBS 2013 recap
I just got back from the International Biogeography Society meetings. It was a great meeting- lots of fantastic talks and fantastic people! I highly recommend this meeting for any biogeographer. My highlights included the paleo symposium, the traits symposium, and many other individual talks. There were two days of invited symposia and one day of…