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RECENT LAB NEWS
- New paper led by Junbo Ren on oxygen isotope fractionation in wood was published in Chemical Geology!
- Congratulations to Ishita Pal for successfully defending her dissertation!
- We welcome Izamary Lara and Clinton Vincent to the lab!
- New paper on Patch Mosaics on the Deep Gulf of Mexico Seafloor was published in Marine Ecology!
- We had three abstracts accepted for presentation at the annual AGU meeting in Washington DC!
- Our work studying the effects of CO2 and soil water on carbon isotopes in plants was published in Communications Earth and Environment. Story here.
- Our work studying climate change in the Siberian Arctic was published in Scientific Reports. Learn the story of how this research in the Siberian Arctic came to be here.
- Work led by Kendall Fontenot (MS, LSU) on the "Underwater Forest" was published in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems! See Publications page for details. Kendall is next pursuing her PhD in Oceanography at the University of Washington.
- We launched a new website (TL;DResearch) for journalist-friendly summaries of current research papers on climate change. You can find it here: https://tldresearch.org.
- Brian presented a public lecture, "Global Warming: A Geologist’s Perspective," for Science on the Bayou in Downtown Lafayette.
- We welcomed Charles Jahren Conrad to the lab, all the way from Blindern High School in Norway, for some lab work and training in stable isotope analyses.
- Congratulations to Allison Higdon for successfully defending her thesis on reconstructing seasonal temperatures in Louisiana using high-resolution oxygen isotope measurements across Pinus palustris (Longleaf pine) tree-rings!
- Our research on oxygen isotope measurements of modern and fossil wood was written up as a news story for the University of Louisiana at Lafayette!
- Congratulations to Danielle Noto for successfully defending her thesis titled, "Seasonal Temperature Recorded in High-Resolution Oxygen Isotope Profiles across growth rings of Pinus pumila from Arctic Siberia"!
- Congratulations to Bárbara Almeida on being awarded 2023 UL Lafayette Outstanding Thesis Winner and Conference of Southern Graduate Schools Master's Thesis Award nominee!
- Junbo Ren's second paper from his PhD work was published in Chemical Geology (see Publications page for details)! Junbo is now a postdoc at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
- Brian visited St. Thomas More High School to talk about Climate Change in south Louisiana.
- Danielle Noto presented her thesis work at the 22nd Annual Graduate Student Symposium. You can find a link to her abstract here.
- We had four abstracts accepted for presentation at the annual AGU meeting in Chicago, IL. Check out the Abstracts page for details.
- Congratulations to Ryan Hood, who was honored as the Outstanding Master’s Graduate Finalist for the College of Sciences!
- Ryan Hood successfully defended his MS thesis on reconstructing seasonal rainfall in southwestern Louisiana. Congrats, Ryan!
- Danielle Noto presented her work to reconstruct seasonal temperature in Arctic Siberia at the annual Geological Society of America meeting. You can find more on the Abstracts page.
- Our work on "Possible Methane Release during the Middle Devonian: A New Carbon Isotope Record from Mimerdalen, Svalbard" was accepted for presentation at the CAGE International Conference on Methane in a Changing Arctic. You can find more on the Abstracts page.
- New paper published in Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry! The work describes efforts to measure position-specific stable carbon isotope values of serine, for application as a proxy for plant metabolic fluxes, including photorespiration. See the Publications page for details.
- Postdoc Jacob Warner will be presenting our research on Arctic temperatures during the Eocene at Goldschmidt 2022. You can find more on the Abstracts page.
- Our work, "A non-destructive technique for assessing fossil wood decay using ATR-FTIR spectroscopy," has been accepted for presentation in the GSA 2022 North-Central/Southeastern Joint Section Meeting. You can find more on the Abstracts page.
- We welcome Peyton Dardeau (undergraduate student) and Dr. Jacob Warner (postdoctoral scientist) to the lab!
- Danielle Noto, previously an undergraduate researcher, is now a Graduate Research Assistant working on her MS degree in Geology.
- Research based on Robert Narmour's thesis work was accepted for publication in Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences! You can find more on the Publications page.
- We had 4 abstracts accepted for the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting! Be sure to check out the presentations virtually or in-person in December.
- The first chapter of Junbo Ren's PhD work on fossil wood from China was published in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. See Publications page for details.
