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.
Read moreCongratulations to Liyu for receiving an NSF Jumpstart award! This award provides two months of funding to help her get started before she officially starts this fall in Dr. Alyssa Griffin’s lab!
Read moreCongratulations to Tessa and Chris for receiving Durrell awards for the 2023/2024 academic year!
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We are thrilled to announce that Malory Brown will be joining the lab as a new postdoctoral researcher this fall! Malory comes from the Welander lab at Stanford. We’re looking forward to adding her skills in protein functional analysis to the lab.
Read moreCongratulations to Tessa for receiving a Paleontological Society Research Grant! This will fund field work in the Wheeler Shale. So excited to see the results!
Read moreMany marine animals build their shells and skeletons out of calcium carbonate. When ocean water becomes more acidic–as happens when the climate warms–calcium carbonate should be harder to extract. This has many scientists worries about the fate of corals, molluscs, and other important marine life. Indeed, many studies have shown that certain species have trouble building their shells when their water is more acidic, but many other studies do not. What could explain this variation? Dr. Gold explores this question with Geerat Vermeij in a new paper, “Deep resilience: An evolutionary perspective on calcification in an age of ocean acidification.” It is available for free at Frontiers in Physiology. DOI link: https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2023.1092321
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