Seth Jackson Graduate, Department of Chemistry Seth is a current 2nd year graduate student at the University of Utah in the chemistry department. He did his undergraduate at Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, where he studied the production of secondary organic aerosols in ozone reactions. He is currently studying conjugated polymers as organic mixed […]
Read MoreMadelyn Purnell Adapting to Change: Evolutionary History of Extremophile Nematodes in the Great Salt Lake Graduate, School of Biological Sciences I am currently a Graduate Student working with Dr. Michael Werner. I am researching past climate change on Great Salt Lake (GSL) and its effect on community structures and gene response in model eukaryotic organisms. […]
Read MoreKaedan O’Brien Researching prehistoric ecosystems and long-term climate change where modern humans originated Graduate, Department of Anthropology Kaedan O-Brien, PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology, is using Wilkes Center funding to analyze the carbon, oxygen, and strontium stable isotopes from drilled fossil herbivore tooth enamel from Kenya. These three elements allow us to reconstruct past […]
Read MoreAbby Baka How humans have adapted to earlier changing climates Graduate, Department of Anthropology Abby is a doctoral student in the department of anthropology. Her research explores how humans used stone tools and other subsistence technologies to adapt to the ecological transformations—and associated dietary pressures—of the Pleistocene-Holocene transition on the Colorado Plateau. Her research designs are […]
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