Congratulations to Dr. Davis and lab alumna Brianna McHorse who’s paper on  identifying the horses from Paisley Cave came out earlier this week. The paper was covered by the University of Oregon in an Around the O article. You can find the article here.
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Two More Senior Theses Presented!
Congratulations to our two remaining seniors who presented their senior theses this week! Eva Biedron successfully defended her senior thesis on fossil squirrels from a middle Miocene site in central Oregon through the Clark Honors College on Monday. Selina Robson presented her senior thesis to the Department of Geological Sciences on a new species of Miocene hyena from Kyrgyzstan today. Congratulations to both of them for finishing their degrees! Eva will be headed off to Vanderbilt University to work on her masters while Selina will be heading to the University of Calgary to work on hers!
Paper on new late Hemingfordain site published!
Congratulations to Win McLaughlin and Dr. Hopkins on the release of their paper, “A new late Hemingfordian vertebrate fauna from Hawk Rim, Oregon, with implications for biostratigraphy and geochronology” online early today in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology! This is the first publication from Win’s masters thesis work. Check out the paper here.
FIGURE 3. Simplified stratigraphic column as seen in the Main outcrop locality of Hawk Rim. All other localities are correlated to this stratigraphy, as shown on the right. Stratigraphic ranges of taxa taken for all localities.
Another Thesis Presentation!
Congratulations to Kendra Walters who gave a wonderful presentation of her Senior Thesis yesterday. Her research focused on testing the Species-Energy hypothesis for mammals in the United States over the last century. Kendra will be heading off to UC Irvine this fall to start a PhD studying Microbiology.
Senior thesis presentation!
Congratulations to Danielle Oberg who successfully presented her senior research project today! She worked on the insectivores from Cave Basin, a new site in central Oregon. Good Work Danielle! Danielle will be headed off to East Tennessee State University to work on her masters this fall.
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