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New research and collaboration with Grinnell College
Dr. Betsy Swanner (website: geobiochem.ge-at.iastate.edu/) and Dr. Diana Thatcher will be working with Dr. Andrew Graham from Grinnell College to look at mercury in the… Read More

August 28, 2023
Congratulations to Heeyeon Sun on a successful MS defense!
Heeyeon defended her MS research (Using clam-based stable isotopes and growth histories to reconstruct the temporal oceanographic variability in the Southern Mid-Atlantic bight over the… Read More

April 21, 2023
Congratulations to Ryan Oeste!
Ryan defended their MS research (Marine Isotope Stage 4 Changes in Hydroclimate of Southern Portugal) on April 10, 2023! Congrats on a great presentation and… Read More

April 10, 2023
Congratulations to Alex Walton on successfully defending her MS research
Alex defended her MS research (Using the Growth and Geochemical Signatures of Arctica islandica from Jonesport, ME, USA to Document Environmental and Oceanic Variability… Read More

April 6, 2023
Dr. Thatcher leads new paper on hydroclimate in Portugal during last millennium
Congratulations to Diana on her new paper published in Climate Dynamics! Thatcher, D.L., Wanamaker, A.D., Denniston, R.F., Ummenhofer, C.C., Asmerom, Y., Polyak, V.,… Read More

November 14, 2022
Congratulations to Alaina Chormann on successfully defending her MS research
Alaina defended her MS research (Insights into the Hydroclimate during the Medieval Climate Anomaly, Little Ice Age, and Industrial Era from Annually Resolved Southern Portuguese… Read More

May 19, 2022
Current and former SIPERG members contribute to a discussion on recent changes to the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC)
Led by Dr. Hali Kilbourne, an international team of researchers, including Dr. Wanamaker, Dr. Mette, and Dr. Whitney, wrote a comment article in Nature Geoscience… Read More

February 24, 2022
SIPERG heads to Schiller Coastal Studies Center to set up Gulf of Maine tank experiment
Our latest project is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Marine Geology and Geophysics, and is titled “Collaborative Research: Using multi-proxy paleo data to… Read More

February 2, 2022
New lab group paper
Very exited to share some new research results. This was years in the making and was a real group… Read More

September 23, 2020
Colombia Caving and Climate
This summer, Dr. Al Wanamaker and MS student Juan Carlos Romero Gelvez visited 2 caves in the eastern Colombian Andes. The caves are in the… Read More

September 20, 2018