A few months ago, I was notified that I got an NSF CAREER award! I’ve been sitting on the news for a while, while the details got worked out. But here’s the official announcement from UC Merced and the link to the award within the NSF Earth Sciences Division. Many thanks to NSF’s Sedimentary Geology…
It’s been an exciting time in the Blois lab recently! * Jessica found out she was awarded tenure, which will become effective July 1st. * Eric recently had his first paper from his dissertation work accepted, forthcoming in the Journal of Biogeography. This paper explores the past potential range shifts among North American mammals, and…
We’ve got a new paper out! Collaborator Matt Fitzpatrick and Jessica, with other collaborators on our NSF-funded Community Paleomodeling project, co-lead a project to compare the estimates of future climate novelty with those from the past. Here’s a link to the paper. Spoiler alert: future climate novelty by AD 2100 meets or exceeds climate novelty…
We’ve got a new website up that aggregates the info on our La Brea food webs project! Check it out! https://labreawebs.wordpress.com/
I’ve got a new paper out today, in Nature*! Working with a large group of researchers as part of the Smithsonian ETE Community Assembly and Disassembly Through Time working group, we pulled together fossil and modern datasets spanning plants and animals, from many hundreds of millions of years ago, to thousands of years ago, to…