Central Andean Altiplano (Peru)
Central Andean Altiplano (Peru)
Kailyn Zard completed her major in cellular, molecular, and developmental biology at UW in 2019. Kailyn has helped extracting phytoliths from modern plant material from Costa Rica. She was also awarded a Mary Gate Research Fellowship to study changes in grass phytolith size from the Santa Cruz formation during the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum.
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Claire Grant has graduated from the Honors program at UW in 2018, where she studied ecology, evolution and conservation biology. She is interested in the changing climate, and how conservation practices can best be implemented in the future.
Claire has helped me extracting phytoliths from modern plant material from Costa Rica in order to quantify phytolith production by different plant species and account for production biases in modern soil phytolith assemblages at Palo Verde . She is now an academic adviser in the Honors Program at UW. |
In 2016, during my PhD adviser's sabbatical year, I mentored "Team Grass", a team of 5 students (Brittany McManus, Casey O’Keefe, Anna Schorr, Ashly Senske, and Elie Aboulafia). In this picture, I am with Brittany, Elie, Casey, and Ana presenting their research “Tracking the evolution of grasses and grasslands: Using phytoliths to unravel evolution-ecology links in deep time” at the Marie Gates Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Washington.
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