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Hypothesis Fund Grant awarded to Elizabeth Sibert

By Elizabeth Sibert | August 18, 2024
The Hypothesis Fund's logo, a chain of diatoms in a spiral are imaged at high magnification against a dark background. Text in the bottom left corner reads "Introducing the Hypothesis Fund: Nimble funding for nimble minds"

The Paleo-FISHES Lab is excited to share that PI Elizabeth Sibert was awarded a Seed Grant from the Hypothesis Fund! Her project, “Reconstructing ancient zooplankton dynamics from fish microfossils in deep-sea sediments”, will explore how fish tooth shape and relative abundance can relate to zooplankton dynamics in marine ecosystems, further developing the relationship between fish…

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Celebrating our Summer Undergraduate Students

By Elizabeth Sibert | August 18, 2024
Photo is of two female undergraduate research students standing in a poster session. They are standing between two posters, posing for the camera. The woman to the left is a white woman with blonde hair wearing a white jacket and black shirt. The woman to the right is a Hispanic woman with dark hair wearing a purple top. The research posters behind them show their summer research project results

The Paleo-FISHES Lab’s inaugural summer included two fantastic summer undergraduate interns, joining the lab through different summer internship programs. Arleth Martinez, a biology student from Berea College, and Elizabeth Pellegrini, a marine sciences student at Eckerd College joined the lab and became the first people to successfully process samples and complete projects in our new…

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Introducing the Paleo-FISHES Lab Logo!

By Elizabeth Sibert | August 12, 2024
The Paleo-FISHES Lab Logo is a circular logo that reads "Paleo-FISHES Lab" along the top, "Fossil Icthyoliths, Sedimentary History, and Ecological Studies" on the bottom, and has a food web with plankton, fish and a shark in the middle of the circle. Between the sets of words around the edge of the logo are a fossil fish tooth and a fossil denticle. All images are sketches of the organisms and fossils they represent. The logo is blue, with black text and the sketches are grayscale.

The Paleo-FISHES Lab had its first official summer at WHOI in 2024, and with it came a name and with that name came a logo! The logo was designed by Accessible Sharks 2024 student Elizabeth Pellegrini, a rising Junior at Eckerd College who, in addition to generating an excellent microfossil record of shark diversity during…

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