People of the Williams Lab
Congratulations to the following people on their recent awards!
Jacquelyn Gill received a 2008 Graduate Student Research Grant from the Geological Society of America and a special-distinction award for her project entitled:
"Is there evidence for a Younger Dryas impact event in lake sediment records from the Great Lakes region?"
Leila Gonzales was awarded the 2008 Denise Gaudreau Award for Excellence in Quaternary Studies from the American Quaternary Association.
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Dr. John (Jack) W. Williams
Bryson Professor of Climate, People, and Environment
Associate Professor
Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Background:
- Research Associate
Limnological Research Center, University of Minnesota 2003-2004
- Postdoctoral Fellow
National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis, 1999-2003
- Ph.D.,
Brown University, 1999
Research Areas:
- Vegetation dynamics
- Quaternary paleoecology and paleoclimatology
- Vegetation-atmosphere linkages
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Graduate Students
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Jacquelyn Gill
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- Ph.D. Student, Geography
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Investigating the ecological impacts of the North American megafaunal extinction on the late-glacial no-analog communities,
using palynology, the dung fungus Sporormiella, and vegetation-herbivore modelling."
Background:
- M.S., Geography
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007
"Investigating biotic drivers of Quaternary landscape change: Late glacial no-analog communities and the
North American megafaunal extinction."
- B.A. in Human Ecology
College of the Atlantic, 2005
Research Areas:
- Using Quaternary paleo-ecology to inform ecological theory
- Pollen & charcoal analysis
- North American megafaunal extinction, causes and consequences
- Late glacial no-analog vegetation
- Quaternary refugia and post-glacial migrations
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Karen Russ
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- Ph.D. Student, Geography
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Background:
- M.S., Geography
Northern Illinios University, 2002
"A GIS Analysis of the Paleoclimate of the Upper Midwest"
- B.S., Geography
Northern Illinois University, 1996
- B.S., Microbiology
University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, 1980
Research Areas:
- Global climate change
- Climate modeling
- Paleo-climatology
- Harmonization of regional plant macrofossil databases
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Leila M. Gonzales
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- Ph.D. Dissertator, Geography
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Reconstructing no-analog climates during the late glacial period in north-eastern Illinois
with the use of plant eco-physiological constraints"
Background:
- M.S., Geophysical Sciences
University of Chicago, 2004
"Vegetation Response to Changes in CO2 Concentration"
- Certificate of Advanced Study in Geographic Information Systems
University of Denver, 2000
- B.A. & S., Spanish & Mathematics
Regis University, 1995
Research Areas:
- Quaternary paleo-ecology
- Vegetation response to climate change
- Palynology
- Vegetation modeling
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Undergraduate Students
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Jeremiah Marsicek
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- Research Assistant
- B.A., Geography
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Background:
- 2007 Pathways Scholars Program
Research Areas:
- Loss-on-Ignition analysis of Spicer Lake, IN
- Climate science
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Luke Straka
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- B.S. Candidate
Institute for Cross-College Biology Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research Areas:
- Charcoal analysis of Spicer Lake, IN
- Biological conservation
- Climate change and megafaunal extinction
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Lucy Xue
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- B.S. Candidate
Economic and Finance & Investment Banking
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research Areas:
- Core Sediment Description
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Alumni
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Dominique Alhambra
B.A.in Anthropology & Spanish (2008)
Dominique is currently an Anthropology Collections Intern at the Chicago Field Museum in Acquisitions Collections curation.
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Katie Lininger
Katie completed her Honors Thesis in December 2007.
In Spring 2008, she participated in a tropical conservation study-abroad program in Ecuador.
She is currently an intern at National Geographic.
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David Silverman (Charcoal analysis, 2008)
Samuel Lucas (Summer Research Program, 2006)
Adianez Santiago (Summer Research Program, 2006)
Sherry Stuart (M.S., December, 2002)
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