{"id":868,"date":"2026-05-26T15:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/paleofishes\/?p=868"},"modified":"2026-05-26T15:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:37:13","slug":"congratulations-to-elizabeth-pellegrini-on-her-successful-senior-thesis-defense-and-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/paleofishes\/congratulations-to-elizabeth-pellegrini-on-her-successful-senior-thesis-defense-and-graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Elizabeth Pellegrini on her successful Senior Thesis Defense and Graduation!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Pellegrini joined the PaleoFISHES Lab in summer 2024 as a summer intern between her sophomore and junior years of college at Eckerd College. During the summer, she learned the basics of ichthyolith micropaleontology and started a project looking at shark communities during the Early Eocene Climate Optimum. She was bit by the Denticle-bug and continued to work on this project for the next 2 years, expanding it to a second site, and eventually developing an incredible senior thesis, entitled &#8220;Sharks in hot water: Reconstructing an open ocean shark assemblage response to the Early Eocene Climate Optimum using microfossil dermal denticles&#8221;, which she successfully defended with a fantastic presentation in late April of 2026. Elizabeth also received the Eckerd Marine Science Academic Excellence Award, given to a graduating senior in recognition of their achievements in marine sciences at the institution.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to being an incredible scientist, Elizabeth P is also responsible for our amazing lab logo. We&#8217;re so proud to have been a part of her journey so far, and can&#8217;t wait to see what she does in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Elizabeth!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-869 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/paleofishes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/163\/2026\/05\/ElizabethPellegrini_2026_Eckerd_Graduation-200x300.png\" alt=\"Elizabeth Pellegrini is a white woman with long blonde hair. She is standing on a beach in full graduation regalia, and holding a diploma. \" width=\"298\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/paleofishes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/163\/2026\/05\/ElizabethPellegrini_2026_Eckerd_Graduation-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/paleofishes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/163\/2026\/05\/ElizabethPellegrini_2026_Eckerd_Graduation-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/paleofishes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/163\/2026\/05\/ElizabethPellegrini_2026_Eckerd_Graduation-768x1152.png 768w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/paleofishes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/163\/2026\/05\/ElizabethPellegrini_2026_Eckerd_Graduation-1024x1536.png 1024w, https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/paleofishes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/163\/2026\/05\/ElizabethPellegrini_2026_Eckerd_Graduation-1365x2048.png 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Pellegrini joined the PaleoFISHES Lab in summer 2024 as a summer intern between her sophomore and junior years of college at Eckerd College. During the summer, she learned the basics of ichthyolith micropaleontology and started a project looking at shark communities during the Early Eocene Climate Optimum. She was bit by the Denticle-bug and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/paleofishes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/paleofishes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/paleofishes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/paleofishes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/paleofishes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/paleofishes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":870,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/paleofishes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/paleofishes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/paleofishes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/paleofishes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/paleofishes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}