@StrombergLab
 Seattle, WA
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Joined February 2016
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Annals of Botany@annbot21 Jun 2024
🎉Great news! The new paper ‘Palms of the past: can morphometric phytolith analysis inform deep time evolution and palaeoecology of Arecaceae?’ in @annbot by William Brightly and co-authors is now #free for a limited time. (1/8) 👉botany.fyi/ji8yrm #Paleobotany #AoBpapers
Palms of the past: can morphometric phytolith analysis inform deep time evolution and palaeoecology of Arecaceae?

ALT Palms of the past: can morphometric phytolith analysis inform deep time evolution and palaeoecology of Arecaceae?

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66 million years ago, an asteroid impact wiped out nearly 75% of life on Earth, including the non-avian dinosaurs. But a new paper finds that flowering plants weathered the cataclysmic close of the Mesozoic surprisingly well🌸☄️ My latest for @NYTScience: nytimes.com/2023/09/12/scien…

Wiping Out the Dinosaurs Let Countless Flowers Bloom (Published 2023)

While the extinction affected some flower species, most lineages survived and the catastrophe may have helped them become a dominant form of plant life.

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Zoe Kulik, PhD@PaleoZoek9 Jun 2023
PhDone!! Thanks for six great years @ChristianSidor and @UWBiology
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Peter Wilf@RadioGondwana10 Jun 2023
NEW The end-Cretaceous plant extinction: Heterogeneity, ecosystem transformation, and insights for the future — with Mónica Carvalho & Elena Stiles. @moccada @PSUEMS @Paleobot_Anist @umich_paleobot @CambridgePrisms #paleobotany cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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Happy to announce that @PaleoZoek passed her PhD defense this morning! Another synapsid paleontologist fledged. @UWPaleo @UWBiology @burkemuseum
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Zoe Kulik, PhD@PaleoZoek6 Jun 2023
From the very best nest!!
Christian A. Sidor@ChristianSidor6 Jun 2023
Happy to announce that @PaleoZoek passed her PhD defense this morning! Another synapsid paleontologist fledged. @UWPaleo @UWBiology @burkemuseum
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#UW Undergraduate Research Symposium last Friday and the Stromberg lab undergraduates came to represent! We had 17 undergrads presenting on 12 different topics. And special shoutout to @caestromberg for the Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award! #HuskyResearch
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Early break-up of eastern African forests shaped our ape ancestors newscientist.com/article/236…

Early break-up of eastern African forests shaped our ape ancestors | New Scientist

Forests in eastern Africa started turning into grassland 10 million years earlier than previously thought, which may have driven the evolution of upright apes

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Rahab Kinyanjui@rkinyanji14 Apr 2023
Wooded grasslands flourished in Africa 21 million years ago – new research forces a rethink of ape evolution theconversation.com/wooded-g… via @ConversationUS

Wooded grasslands flourished in Africa 21 million years ago – new research forces a rethink of ape...

Contrary to the idea that apes evolved their upright posture to reach for fruit in the forest canopy, the earliest known ape with this stature, Morotopithecus, lived in more open grassy environments.

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Dan Peppe@danpeppe14 Apr 2023
Corbin made the most beautiful illustration of Morotopithecus and the vegetation of the early Miocene! He was terrific to work with and his painting really helps bring the landscape to life. #fossilfriday
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Huge congratulations to this @UWBiology and @burkemuseum team including Strömberg Lab alum Will Brightly! Well deserved!!
Luke Weaver@lukenweaver13 Apr 2023
I am truly honored and humbled… and still can’t quite believe it! This paper was a HUGE team effort born and bred in @UWBiology’s superb paleo group. Shout out to @HZMFulghum, @_megwhit_, @PaleoZoek, @gpwilson11, Dave Grossnickle and Will Brightly ❤️
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Popular pieces highlighting our new collaborative work on African C4 grasses, vegetation change, and ape evolution in @ScienceMagazine: 🌾 washington.edu/news/2023/04/… theconversation.com/wooded-g…

Africa’s grassy habitats emerged 10+ million years earlier than previously thought | UW News

A pair of studies published April 14 in the journal Science paint a new picture about apes, ancient Africa and the origins of humans. Many scientists had once h

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Dan Peppe@danpeppe13 Apr 2023
I'm really excited to post about two papers published today in @ScienceMagazine on the oldest evidence of C4 grasses and open ecosystems in Africa and their implications for early ape evolution: science.org/doi/10.1126/scie… science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

The evolution of hominoid locomotor versatility: Evidence from Moroto, a 21 Ma site in Uganda

Fossils of Morotopithecus suggest that the more upright stance of hominoids in the Miocene was shaped by dry and open forests.

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Great summary of our collaborative work in @ScienceMagazine this week on C4 grassland evolution and early ape locomotion! @UWBiology @burkemuseum
Dan Peppe@danpeppe13 Apr 2023
Replying to @danpeppe
Laura MacLatchy, @mcnulty_lab, and I summarized the results of our findings in this piece @ConversationUS - "Wooded grasslands flourished in Africa 21 million years ago – new research forces a rethink of ape evolution" theconversation.com/wooded-g…

Wooded grasslands flourished in Africa 21 million years ago – new research forces a rethink of ape...

Contrary to the idea that apes evolved their upright posture to reach for fruit in the forest canopy, the earliest known ape with this stature, Morotopithecus, lived in more open grassy environments.

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Check out our 2 new papers in @ScienceMagazine on the emergence of C4 grassy habitats in the Early Miocene of East Africa and early ape evolution and ecology!! Great #paleobotanical #phytolith work by former @UWBiology @burkemuseum postdoc Alice Novello, @rkinyanji & others! 🌾
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Enjoying coffee hour under the cherry blossoms in the quad! 🌸
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This quarter we held our lab's annual #Undergraduate #Research Extravaganza! This year we had 17 undergraduates present on 12 different projects. We're so grateful for all of our undergrads, as our research would not be possible without them! @UWBiology @UW_ESS @burkemuseum
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Leaving Nagpur for our first fieldwork stop in Karnataka ⁦@NSF⁩ ⁦@burkemuseum⁩ ⁦@UMichPaleo⁩ ⁦@UWBiology⁩ ⁦@MichiganEarth⁩ ⁦@diapophysis⁩ ⁦@DinoMohabey⁩ ⁦@bandanabhu⁩ ⁦@Croc_nerd⁩ ⁦@DhobaleAnup⁩ ⁦@Wilson_KPg_Lab⁩
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Intertrappean deposits of Upparhatti, Karnataka. Visited with the family that helped me and my long time GSI colleague Anantharaman 16 yrs ago (car photo). Shared photos with them. What was outcrop is now mostly leveled and tilled farm land and housing.
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Despite little remaining outcrop of intertrap sediments we managed to find a slope with bits of turtle and clam shell that with closer inspection revealed a large deposit of more complete turtles in cross section that included other skeletal elements.
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