Shraddha is a paleoceanographer interested in biogeochemical changes in the ocean since the Pliocene. She uses geochemical and micropaleontological proxies from depth-stratified planktonic foraminifera from the sedimentary cores to reconstruct past vertical changes in ocean structure and biogeochemistry. 

In our lab, she is reconstructing Plio-Pleistocene geochemical and ventilation changes using foraminifera proxies from the western equatorial Pacific and exploring their impact on fish diversity.

Kazim is an Academia Sinica postdoctoral fellow also affiliated with the Ege University Natural History Museum in Izmir, Türkiye. His research centers on the systematics of fossil large rodents and their paleobiogeography across Eurasia. 

Currently, he is contributing to our lab by investigating the Plio-Pleistocene micromammal faunas of Taiwan and Türkiye to elucidate their Eurasian paleobiogeographical connections.

Dominick (Doms) is a paleoceanographer who uses fossils of calcareous nannoplankton (coccolithophores) from marine sediments as a biostratigraphic and paleoenvironmental tool.

He will study the response of calcareous nannoplankton to long-term (orbital) and short-term (millennial) climatic fluctuations from Plio-Pleistocene marine sediment cores in the western Pacific region, with potential implications on bottom-up impacts on ecosystem services.