Research projects

As a (paleo)biologist, I am primarily interested in understanding how forest ecosystems functioned in the past, and how they responded and ultimately evolved in response to past climate change.

Potential graduate students please note that I am currently on leave and not taking new students.

I have three main geographical areas of focus; western Canada (AB & BC) and Arctic Canada, and Australia. My primary time focus is the Eocene geological Epoch, but I am also interested in the Cretaceous, Paleocene, Miocene and Pliocene Epochs. My paleobotanical research and that of group members and associates combines paleoecology and taxonomic analyses.

Summaries of my research program projects can be found by clicking on the links on the menu to the left. In these summaries I list key papers from group members from those projects.