The Team

PalEON Settlement Vegetation Researchers in the McLachlan Lab at the University of Notre Dame

Undergraduate Research Assistants

We have had so many tremendous undergrads help us with this project - 42 to be exact. These students are:

Alec Helmke, Alex Muench, Amanda Buerger, Anna Levesque, Annie Han, Annie Pappas, Benjamin Foster, Bridget Bruns, Caitlin Broderick, Christina Wiech, Claire Mattison, Da Som Kim, Emily Mears, Emily Miller, Erin Nguyen, Garrett Blad, Grace Saalman, Hannah Legatzke, Ian Shuman, Isaac Evans, Jaclyn Cooney, Kaitlin Powers, Kate Augustine, Katheryn Barnhart, Kim Bauer, Kyle McAvoy, Luke Onken, Mairead Willis, Margaret Corcoran, Mariel Cuellar, Marissa Kivi, Matthew Donahue, Michael Spoltore, Michelle Mueller, Nicole Fantozzi, Nicole Micelotta, Quercus Hamlin, Rebecca O'Neil, Will Chronister, Will Tintor, Yerania Serrato-Bucio, and Zoe Volenec

Project Manager

Jody Peters

Jody joined the McLachlan lab in 2013 as the Project Manager for the PalEON Project where she coordinates a diverse group of paleoecologists, statisticians, and ecosystem modelers working to integrate historical ecological data into current ecosystem models to refine our understanding of global environmental change. Within the McLachlan lab, she works with graduate students and undergraduate researchers to reconstruct settlement-era vegetation in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois from Public Land Survey data. Currently, Jody is also the Program Manager for the Ecological Forecasting Initiative. Jody completed her PhD in aquatic ecology and invasion biology at Notre Dame in 2010. Prior to joining the McLachlan lab, she worked at Notre Dame's Career Center helping graduate students and post-docs with applications to academic and non-academic jobs.

Principle Investigator

Jason McLachlan

Jason is an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame and the captain at the helm of the PalEON Project. Read more about Jason on his faculty profile page or more about the research projects in the McLachlan lab on the lab website.