Yarrow Axford, Principal Investigator
Aidan Burdick, PhD Candidate
Research areas: Abrupt climate change in the Northeast and Midwest U.S. Water isotope proxies. Paleoecology.
Bailey Nash, Ph.D. Student, NSF Graduate Fellow
Research areas: Water isotope reconstructions from cellulose & other organic materials. Holocene hydroclimate of Arctic Canada and Greenland.
Peter Puleo, Ph.D. Candidate, NSF Graduate Fellow
Research areas: Paleoclimate of Greenland and the upper Midwest. Oxygen isotopes in organic and carbonate microfossils as climate proxies.
Mia Tuccillo, Ph.D. Candidate, Buffet Center Global Impacts Fellow
Research areas: Sediment organic geochemistry. Climate and primary production in Arctic lakes. Community-engaged research.
David Drinko, Undergraduate Student ('25)
Research assistant
Shayna Garla, Undergraduate Student ('24)
Research area: Links between climate and primary production in Greenland lakes.
Sophia Liu, Undergraduate Student ('24)
Research areas: chironomid paleoecology
Annika Macy, Undergraduate Student ('26)
Research assistant
Lab Alums:
Former postdocs and Ph.D. students
Prof. Melissa Chipman. Postdoctoral researcher. (Assistant Professor, Syracuse University.)
Prof. Andrew Medeiros. Research associate. (Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University.)
Dr. Laura Larocca, Ph.D. student (starting Jan. 2024: Assistant Professor, Arizona State University; currently NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow, Northern Arizona University).
Dr. G. Everett Lasher, Ph.D. student (Physical Scientist, USGS).
Prof. Jamie McFarlin, Ph.D. student (Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming).
Dr. Roseanna Mayfield, visiting pre-doctoral fellow. Southampton University, UK.
Undergraduate researchers
Regan Steigleder ’21 (pro soccer player, account manager at Beta Analytic)
Jeremy Brooks ’20 (PhD student in glaciology/glacial geomorphology, U of Wisconsin)
Annika Hansen ’20
Christine Lee ’20
Peter Puleo ‘19 (PhD student in paleoclimate, Northwestern)
Karalyn Berman ’18 (JD Candidate in environmental law, Vanderbilt)
Hannah Dion-Kirschner ’18 (PhD student in geochemistry, Caltech) (Primary adviser: Maggie Osburn)
Lucero Flores ’18 (education coordinator, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum)
Peter Kotecki ’18
Basia Gawin ’17 (park ranger, Mammoth Cave National Park)
Melissa Gardner ’16
Dana Johnson ’16 (soil scientist/microbial ecologist)
Margaret Isaacson ’15 (program coordinator and science educator, Evanston Ecology Center)
Anna Hopkins ’15
Andrew Pfeiffer ’15 (hydrologist, M.Sc. Colorado State University)
Henrik Westerkam ’15 (geospatial scientist)
Dr. Nora Richter ’14 (paleoclimatologist and organic geochemist, Ph.D. Brown University)
Margaret Koeppel ’14