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/
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Congratulations to Lena and Aidan for presenting posters at the 2024 UC Davis Undergraduate Research Conference. A great accomplishment for two young scientists!
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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.
Read moreDr. Gold was recently interviewed by Quanta Magazine’s Yasemin Saplakoglu for her article on the discovery of abundant protosteroids in ancient rocks. You can read the story for free at Quanta’s webiste.
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It’s a big milestone for the lab, as our first graduate student, Noemie Sierra, has received her PhD! Congratulations Dr. Sierra!
Read moreFrom the UCD press release: In 2022, a team led by Yale University researchers used traces of biomolecules from fossils to measure metabolism in animals that died millions of years ago. Their data showed, they claimed, that endothermy evolved even before dinosaurs appeared, in the common ancestor of both dinosaurs and the flying reptiles, pterosaurs. Now a new analysis of the data by paleontologists from UC Davis challenges this interpretation. The study is published Sept. 6 in Nature.” A great collaboration from the whole paleo team at UC Davis–myself, Dr. Motani, Dr. Carlson, and Dr. Vermeij!
Read moreThe New York Times covered research on some of the oldest jellyfish fossils yet discovered. What does Dr. Gold think about this discovery? You can find out using this link.
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