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2024
11/27/24 MS student Marlene Violette's paper on microbially-induced carbonate precipitation in modern geysers was published in ISME Communications!
9/10/24 Our group presented 7 different papers at the GSA Annual Meeting in Anaheim, CA during a session (chaired by PI Hyland) on Cenozoic climate evolution in South America!
3/15/24 Our collaboration with UNC EMES using Mercenaria bivalves as proxies of seasonal seawater temperatures during the Plio-Pleistocene was published in Quaternary Science Reviews!
3/1/24 Our collaboration with U. Delaware and U. Rhode Island on modern wetland soils and their buried counterparts was published in Restoration Ecology!
1/4/24 MS student Katie Berry successfully defended her thesis on Holocene vegetation!
2023
12/15/23 PhD student Iffat Azmi presented her work on Miocene climate and vegetation in Argentina at the AGU Fall meeting!
12/10/23 Our collaboration with the PaleoCO2 RCN developing a high-resolution Cenozoic record of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations was published in Science and profiled by NC State!
10/15/23 MS student Ashly Padgett's paper on the paleohydrology of the Arctic during the Eocene was published in Paleoceanography & Paleoclimatology!
8/15/23 MS student Adam Moore joined our group!
6/23/23 PhD student Rebekah Rhodes defended her PhD! She is now a Dr. and will start a Visiting Assistant Professor position at UNC-Wilmington!
4/21/23 Our DELTA Teaching Grant and the educational technologies developed for the MEAS department analogue stream table was profiled in NCSU's DELTA News!
3/5/23 Our collaboration with NCSU Biology and Stellenbosch University constraining the timing and expression of the Greenhorn Transgression and OAE2 in the western USA was published in Cretaceous Research!
2/24/23 PhD student Iffat Azmi passed her qualifying exams and advanced to candidacy!
1/25/23 Our work compiling and interpolating global climate maps of the Cretaceous (including evaluations of latitudinal temperature gradients and the evolution of the ITCZ) was published as an Invited Research Article in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology!
2022
10/24/22 PhD student Rebekah Rhodes was awarded a Dissertation Completion Award by the NCSU Graduate School!
10/12/22 PhD student Rebekah Rhodes gave a talk at the Geological Society of America's Annual Meeting in Denver about her work on interpreting the isotopic record of stromatolites from the Eocene Green River Basin!
10/1/22 Our collaboration with NCSU Biology and NCSU Statistics using statistical models to discriminate between paleobiogeographic patterns was published in The Anatomical Record!
9/15/22 Our collaboration with the NCSU Herbarium developing paleovegetation records of key Piedmont ecosystems was published in Castanea!
8/15/22 PhD student Lillian Minnebo joined our group to work on using clumped isotopes to develop high-resolution seasonal temperature records in Atlantic coast bivalves!
8/15/22 PI Ethan Hyland was granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor!
6/22/22 Our collaboration with CONICET Argentina developing new paleosol-based paleoclimate records of Eocene greenhouse conditions in Patagonia was published in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology!
6/20/22 Our collaboration with Stellenbosch University and Kasetsart University reevaluating the stratigraphy, paleoclimate, and paleontology of the Khorat Group of Thailand was published in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology!
6/1/22 PhD student Iffat Azmi was awarded a Geological Society of America Graduate Student Research Grant for her work on the stratigraphy and paleoclimate of Miocene sections in northern Argentina!
5/1/22 PI Ethan Hyland was granted tenure and promotion to Associate Professor.
4/28/22 PI Ethan Hyland was awarded the Goodnight Early Career Innovator fellowship for his paleoclimate and paleoecology research at NCSU.
4/25/22 Undergrad student Liz Baron gave a virtual poster presentation at the inaugural MEAS Symposium on her work describing the OAE2 event in the Naturita/Tununk formations from the Late Cretaceous WIB!
2/1/22 Our collaboration with App State and University of Perugia examining fluid flow in low-angle normal faults (Altotiberina system) in Italy was published (open access) in Frontiers in Earth Science!
2021
12/14/21 Postdoc Landon Burgener gave a talk at the 2021 AGU Fall Meeting about his work on mapping Koppen climate zones throughout the Cretaceous!
10/10/21 PhD student Iffat Azmi gave a talk at the 2021 GSA Fall Meeting about her work on developing paleoclimate and paleoecology records of northwest Argentina!
8/16/21 MS student Katie Berry joined our group, to work on reconstructions of Holocene climate and vegetation changes on the Coastal Plain!
8/6/21 Postdoc Landon Burgener moved to his new position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geology at Brigham Young University!
6/30/21 PhD student Rebekah Rhodes won an International Association of Geochemistry (IAGC) Student Research Award for her work on "Variability in terrestrial climate during the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum: A study of the Green River Formation, southwestern Wyoming (USA)"!
6/10/21 Our collaboration with UW reviewing the rise of the Colorado Plateau and future opportunities for proxy refinement and uplift models was published (open access) in Frontiers in Earth Science!
5/25/21 Our collaboration with >20 labs worldwide on standardizing carbonate clumped isotope measurements and calcite reference materials was published (open access) in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems and highlighted in EOS!
2/1/21 Our work on Cretaceous climate gradients (and ecological pronvincialism) along the Western Interior Basin (in collaboration with NCSU's Drs. Mitasova, Griffith, Gates, and Zanno) was published online in GSA Bulletin!
1/1/21 Encyclopedia of Geology chapter on the geological consequences of climate change (in collaboration with MEAS's Dr. Arendt) is finally in press!
2020
12/16/20 PhD student Rebekah Rhodes presented her work on linking core and outcrop records of the EECO in the Green River Basin at the AGU Fall 2020 Meeting!
12/15/20 PI Ethan Hyland presented his work on developing paleo-Koppen climate zone maps of the Cretaceous at the AGU Fall 2020 Meeting!
10/28/20 Postdoc Landon Burgener presented his work on proxy biases in temperature seasonality estimates at the GSA Fall 2020 Meeting!
6/26/20 MS student Ellie Cardenal successfully defended her thesis, "Exploring the effects of rapid land use changes on the Piedmont landscape using plant microfossils and legacy sediment"!
6/16/20 MS student Ashly Padgett successfully defended her thesis, "Terrestrial paleoclimate and geology during unusual climate states – Utilizing isotope geochemistry across Ellesmere and Axel Heiberg Islands" !
5/20/20 TriCEM grant awarded to our interdisciplinary team at NCSU, studying isotopic methods for identifying pathologic and medullary bone in reptiles and dinosaurs!
5/5/20 Postdoc Landon Burgener presented his work on Late Cretaceous floral and faunal provincialism in the Western Interior Basin at the GSA Rocky Mountain Section Meeting!
2019
12/10/19 Postdoc Landon Burgener presented his work on continental-scale climate and environmental reconstructions of the Late Cretaceous at the AGU Fall Meeting!
11/4/19 Graduate Student Rebekah Rhodes passed her preliminary exam and advanced to PhD Candidacy!
9/16/19 NSF-GCR grant awarded to our interdisciplinary team at NCSU, studying exceptional fossil preservation in carbonates and links to carbon dioxide sequestration!
8/15/19 NSF-FRES grant awarded to our interdisciplinary team at NCSU, studying the fossil and climatic records of the Western Interior Seaway during the Cretaceous!
4/10/19 AC-21 grant awarded to our interdisciplinary team at NCSU, studying fossil conservation and paleontological intersections in Southeast Asia (Thailand)!
4/1/19 NSF-SGP grant awarded, studying the intensification of the South American Summer Monsoon and its impact on the rise of C4 grasses!
2/15/19 Postdoc Landon Burgener's paper about Late Cretaceous seasonality came out in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology!
1/30/19 PI Ethan Hyland's paper about Jurassic environments in the Navajo Sandstone came out in Sedimentology!
1/27/19 Postdoc Landon Burgener presented his work on Late Cretaceous clumped isotope records at the 7th International Clumped Isotopes Workshop (ICIW)!
2018
12/15/18 PI Ethan Hyland's comment on Andrews et al's PETM paper came out in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology!
12/14/18 Student Ashly Padgett presented her work on clumped isotope records of Paleogene arctic climate at the AGU Fall Meeting!
12/14/18 Student Rebekah Rhodes presented her work on isotopic records from Eocene lacustrine stromatolites at the AGU Fall Meeting!
10/11/18 Student Julia Kelson's paper about subtropical climate during the Paleogene came out in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology!
10/4/18 PI Ethan Hyland's paper about Early Eocene seasonality in the North American interior came out in Climate of the Past!
9/1/18 Landon Burgener joined the Paleo3 research group as a Postdoctoral Scholar!
8/15/18 Ellie Cardenal joined the Paleo3 research group as an MS student!
8/14/18 NSF-IES grant awarded, examining the depositional and climate history of the Green River Basin!
8/1/18 PI Ethan Hyland's paper on the evolution of C4 grasslands in Montana came out in GSA Bulletin!
2017
11/27/17 PI Ethan Hyland joined the Editorial Board of Geology!
8/15/17 Ashly Padgett joined the Paleo3 research group as a PhD student!
8/15/17 Rebekah Rhodes joined the Paleo3 research group as a PhD student!
1/2/17 PI Ethan Hyland's paper on constraining the EECO came out (and was the cover story) in GSA Bulletin!
1/1/17 Ethan Hyland founds the Paleo3 Research Group in the MEAS department at NCSU!
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