News
Below is a smattering of news items of recent happenings in the lab. Click on the articles for more information.
Hypothesis Fund Grant awarded to Elizabeth Sibert
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…
Celebrating our Summer Undergraduate Students
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…
Introducing the Paleo-FISHES Lab Logo!
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…