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Congratulations to Aidan for his acceptance to the Richard Gilder Graduate School at the American Museum of Natural History! He will be working on a Master of Arts in Teaching, with a specialization in Earth Science. We wish him the best and can’t think of a better fit for the program!

Congratulations to Chris for receiving a Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Fellowship at the Bodega Marine Laboratory! This fellowship will fund his research at BML for a quarter, and allow him to develop a really exciting collaboration with local citizen scientists. I look forward to sharing more details soon!

I am thrilled to announce that our ex-postdoc, Roxanne Banker, has accepted a faculty job in the Department of Biology at Providence College. Congratulations Dr. Banker! Good luck on the big move and I know you have a wonderful career ahead! You can learn more about Dr. Banker’s work at https://roxannebanker.weebly.com/

Congratulations to Lena and Aidan for presenting posters at the 2024 UC Davis Undergraduate Research Conference. A great accomplishment for two young scientists!

Congratulations to Tessa for being accepted to the 2024 Stratigraphic Paleobiology Field Conference. This NSF-funded program is organized by paleontologists Mark Patzkowsky and Steven Holland, and teaches participants modern stratigraphic principles and quantitative analytical methods to study the fossil record. Have fun Tessa; I’m jealous I can’t come too!

Hannah Kempf has received her PhD! She will be sorely missed, but we are excited that she will be close by as she starts her postdoctoral fellowship with the San Francisco Estuary Partnership. Congratulations Hannah!

Last month, Dr. Gold initiated a UCD Crowdfund to bring a Tyrannosaurs rex skull replica to campus. We stomped past our goal thanks to 120 contributors, making us the most popular crowdfund! This is the first step towards a mini-museum sharing our UCD’s fossil collection.

Hannah has received a prestigious, postdoctoral California Sea Grant State Fellowship! As a fellow Hannah will be partnered with the San Francisco Estuary Partnership, learning how this government agency works and how to develop coastal environmental policy.

It’s a big milestone for the lab, as our first graduate student, Noemie Sierra, has received her PhD! Congratulations Dr. Sierra!