The Paleobiology and Paleoecology Group at the University of Minnesota focuses on evolutionary paleoecology. We primarily work on understanding the relative roles of biotic interactions and environmental change in driving the evolution of communities over geological timescales. This requires us to work on both paleoenvironmental reconstruction and ecological change in communities through time.

We use a variety of tools and approaches to reconstruct environmental and climatic change through time and to characterize the ecology of organisms. These tools include the stable isotope composition of sediments and the tissues of living and extinct organisms, the rock magnetic properties and elemental geochemistry of paleosols, ecomorphological measurements of teeth and skulls of mammals from high resolution microCT scans, and the biogeography of living and extinct organisms in relation to both climate and biome type.

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News and recent publications from the research group

1-12 June 2015
Field work in Meade, KS

19 May 2015
We have a website at last!

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