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Jon Payne and students on field trip

Kemi was featured in Stanford Magazine!

A feature addressing Kemi's accomplishments as a published author of science fiction in addition to her scientific research.

February 29, 2024
Congratulations to Pedro Monarrez for receiving the Postdoc JEDI Champion Award!

September 22, 2022
Congratulations to Sandra Schachat for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation and for being selected as a 2021-22 Schmidt Science Fellow!

August 24, 2021
Our new paper, led by Andrew Bush at UConn, was selected as the Feature Article in the Winter issue of Paleobiology.

February 28, 2020
Our new paper, led by lab alum Matt Knope at the University of Hawaii Hilo, just came out in Science.

February 28, 2020
Our study of body size and extinction risk in the marine fossil record is now published in Paleobiology.

February 18, 2020
Welcome to new lab members!

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Pedro Monarrez as a post-doctoral fellow and Jood Al Aswad, Michael Pimentel, and Cecilia Thomas as graduate students in the lab.

September 20, 2019
Congratulations to lab alum Prof. Kimberly Lau (Univ. of Wyoming) for receiving the 2019 Doris Curtis Award from the Geological Society of America!

September 20, 2019
Congratulations to Will Gearty on passing his Ph.D. oral exam!

July 16, 2019
Caitlin Keating-Bitonti is a Congressional Science Fellow

Caitlin (Ph.D. '16) is currently working as the GSA-USGS Congressional Science Fellow in the office of Senator Tom Udall (D-NM).

July 03, 2019
Congratulations to Will Gearty for receiving the Centennial TA Award!

July 03, 2019
Pinsky paper on warming threats to marine animals is published.

The most recent publication to which we contributed, led by Malin Pinksy at Rutgers, is featured on the cover of Nature this week.

May 02, 2019
Congratulations to Xiaowei Li for passing his oral defense of his dissertation!

January 20, 2019
Our latest research on the Permian extinction has been published in Science.

December 07, 2018
Check out this video highlighting the wonderful research that former post-doc Paul Harnik is doing with his students at Franklin and Marshall College.

December 02, 2018
Noel's research on Cope's rule was used in a question on the PSAT! Several high school students have confirmed to us, and there is now evidence in discussions on Reddit as well.

December 02, 2018
Congratulations to lab alum Seth Finnegan for receiving the Charles Schuchert Award from the Paleontological Society!

November 08, 2018
Congratulations to lab alum Caitlin Keating-Bitonti for being selected as the GSA-AAAS Congressional Science Fellow for 2018-19!

November 08, 2018
Listen to Jon discuss science and other topics on People Behind the Science

October 09, 2018
We are pleased to welcome the 2018 cohort of high school interns to the lab. They will be working collaboratively to study controls on animal body size evolution in the oceans over the past 550 million years.

June 20, 2018