Research Group
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Jane Damstedt: Wilkes Scholar (Spring 2024; Summer 2024) and Lab TA
Majors: Biology & Anthropology
Minor: Integrative Human Biology
Project Title: Using past ecosystems to understand modern climate change: A case study from Utah’s House Mountain Range
Auriana Dunn: Wilkes Scholar (Spring 2024; Summer 2024) and Lab TA
Majors: Biology & Anthropology
Minor: Ecology & Human Biology
Project Title: Comparing historical and modern mammal distributions in the Bear River Basin: Has climate had an effect?
Jessica Parsons: UROP Awardee (Spring 2024) and Lab TA
Majors: Biochemistry & Physics
Project Title: 3D-Printing bones: Using innovative technologies to create accessible and engaging learning experiences
Danielle Terry: Wilkes Scholar (Spring 2024)
Major: Biology
Project Title: Geometric Morphometrics of wolf cranial material from Owl and Porcupine Caves
2024 Undergraduate Cohort
Most students joining my lab are part of the Science Research Initiative (SRI; more information about the program found here: https://science.utah.edu/sri/).
Students will spend the spring of 2024 learning vertebrate osteology and developing student-led projects intersecting ongoing laboratory projects and their interests with the goal of a poster presentation during the fall of 2024 (* indicates SRI students).
*Emilie Bailey
*Thea Bernards
*Camille Butler
*Isabella Calhoun
*Hannah Canfield
Bennett Davenport
*Toby D’Avignon
*Emily Dodd
*Lily Felix
*Zie Hoang
*Giovani Mota
*Tristan Nelson
*Jailyn Primero
*Ethan Reid
Alissia Riddle
*Eden Schulz
Shaylee Whipple
Former Students
Spencer Moore, B.S. Anthropology, University of Utah 2024
Project Title: Ancient bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) in Utah's House Range Mountains.
Spencer is a current graduate student In the Department of Anthropology at Idaho State University, studying Biological Anthropology and Forensic Anthropology.
Maren Moffatt, B.S. Anthropology, and Certificates in GIS and Quantitative Analysis, University of Utah, 2023
Undergraduate Capstone Project: Assessing the standard precipitation index as a method of drought classification in northeastern California during the Holocene.
Learn about recent student success and news from our lab here.
Research Collaborators
Jack M. Broughton, PhD
Chair and Professor, Anthropology, University of Utah
Brian F. Codding, PhD
Director, Environmental and Sustainability Studies, University of Utah
Professor, Anthropology, University of Utah
Tyler J. Faith, PhD
Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of Utah
Chief Curator, Natural History Museum of Utah
Austin Green, PhD
Conservation Ecologist, SageLand Collaborative
Research Affiliate, SRI
Randall B. Irmis, PhD
Associate Professor, Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah
Curator of Paleontology, Natural History Museum of Utah
Hayley Kievman, MS
PhD Candidate, Anthropology, University of Utah
Mitchell J. Power, PhD
Professor, Geography, University of Utah
Curator of the Garrett Herbarium, Natural History Museum of Utah
Kathleen A. Ritterbrush, PhD
Associate Professor, Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah
Kurt M. Wilson, PhD
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Utah
Research Affiliate, University of Utah Archaeological Center