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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• Faculty Affiliate, Center for Climatic Research
• Faculty Affiliate, Land Tenure Center
• Faculty Affiliate, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lucy Xue

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• • B.S. Candidate
    Economic and Finance & Investment Banking
    University of Wisconsin-Madison

Research Areas:

• Core Sediment Description

Dominique Alhambra
B.A.in Anthropology & Spanish (2008)

Dominique is currently an Anthropology Collections Intern at the Chicago Field Museum in Acquisitions Collections curation.

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.

David Silverman (Charcoal analysis, 2008)

Samuel Lucas (Summer Research Program, 2006)

Adianez Santiago (Summer Research Program, 2006)

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