Student Research Highlights

Alex Apgar, MS, PhD Student

Earth and Planetary Sciences
Mentors: Jason Moore and Corinne Myers

Assessing Ecological Relationships Among Late Triassic Vertebrates in Petrified Forest National Park

Andreanna Roros, MS Student

Earth and Planetary Sciences
Mentors: Adrian Brearley, Jose Cerrato, and Eliane El Hayek

Analysis of metal-bearing particulate matter from aeolian transport at the Jackpile-Paguate Mine, Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico

Blair Mirka, PhD Student

Geography
Mentor: Christopher Lippitt

America's Next Top Model: 3D Modeling for Museums and AI

Ceara Purcell, PhD Student

Earth and Planetary Sciences
Mentors: Corinne Myers

Paleoecology of the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway

Charlotte Robinson, PhD Student

Biology
Mentor: Frances Hayashida

Amazonian Wetland Domestication: A Spatial Analysis of Pre-Columbian Fish Weirs in Lowland Bolivia

Danielle Land, MS Student

Biology
Mentor: Joe Cook

Evolutionary and demographic history of Eurasian long-tailed shrews (Genus Sorex; Eulipotyphla; Soricidae)

Erin Berkowitz, MS Student

Museum Studies
Mentors: Hannah Marx and Loa Traxler

Uncovering Over 150 Years of Herbarium Specimen Data to Examine the Impacts Of Climate Change On Alpine Plant Phenology In The Southern Rocky Mountains

Joseph Kleinkopf, PhD Student

Biology
Mentor: Hannah Marx

The alpine flora: Where do we go from here?

Kathleen Webster, PhD Student

Biology
Mentor: Lisa Barrow

Agamas, Iguanas, and the Vulnerability of Endemic Herpetofauna in the Comoros Archipelago to Environmental Change

Katie Gosss, PhD Student

Earth and Planetary Sciences
Mentors: Adrian Brearley and Charles Shearer

Nano- and microstructures of apatite and zircon in lunar samples: Implications for endogenous lunar volatile reservoirs and the age of the Moon

Larkin Chapman, MS, PhD Student

Anthropology
Mentors: Emily Jones and Bruce B. Huckell

Analysis of radiocarbon dates on Terminal Pleistocene horses from North America shows synchronous local extirpation and overlap with Paleoindian technocomplexes

Laurel Martinez, MS Student

Biology
Mentor: Thomas Turner

Shifting reproductive strategies in riparian plant communities after restoration

Lisa Garcia, MS Student

Biology
Mentors: Felisa Smith and Scott Collins

Can carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes from juniper found in Neotoma paleomiddens beused to reconstruct climate in Death Valley over 34,000 years?

Rhiannon Nolan, MS, PhD Student

Earth and Planetary Sciences
Mentor: Corinne Myers

Testing the Niche Center Hypothesis on Pleistocene Bivalves from the Gulf Coast

Quin Baine, PhD Student

Biology
Mentor: Ellen Martinson

Specialist arthropod symbioses as anchors of biodiversity: multitrophic diversification in gall-associated communities

The Museum Research Traineeship