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The Williams Lab studies vegetation change and its drivers, across diverse spatial and temporal scales, with an emphasis on the environmental changes of the last 20,000 years as a model system for global change research. Key research areas include no-analog climates and communities, the drivers of abrupt ecological change, and the interactions among vegetation, climate, disturbance regime, megafauna, and humans. We employ a diverse mix of tools (primary collection of paleoenvironmental data, data synthesis, and ecological and climate modeling) and seek to foster strong and productive collaborations, within and outside our research group. We share a strong commitment to advancing scientific communications, education, diversity, and mentorship from the undergraduate to postgraduate levels.

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Latest News

› Climatic analogs, climate velocity, and potential shifts in vegetation structure and biomass for Wisconsin under 21st-century climate-change scenarios

A report for the Environmental and Economic Research and Development Program of Wisconsin’s Focus on Energy and the Bryson Climate, People, and Environment Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been released. Check it out here.

› Access Neotoma through APIs in R

Simon Goring has released the first version of a Neotoma package for R with the ROpenSci team (here and here).

› Congratulations to Sam Munoz!

Sam passed his proposal defense on March 14th!

› Alejo is off to Denmark

Alejandro has accepted a position as a postdoctoral researcher at University of Aarhus (Denmark) at the Department of Bioscience - Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity in the Svenning lab. He will be working on the macroecological, long-term historical constraints on functional diversity and ecosystem functioning across continents [link]

› Yi-Fu Seminar Series talk by Simon Goring

Simon Goring provided the February 15th Yi-Fu Seminar with a talk entitled: Using the Past to Predict the Future: The Public Land Survey, 19th Century Climate and the PalEON Project. You can see the slides on figshare.

› Check out the Williams Lab contribution to Palaeo50!

What are the 50 most pressing questions in Paleoecology? Take a look at the Williams lab questions.

› Congratulations, Dr. Jacquelyn Gill!

Jacquelyn successfully defended her PhD on July 5th! She gave a great exit seminar, well attended by folks in person and online. She starts a postdoc at Brown University on August 1st.

 
 

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