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.
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 area: Tracing human impacts on Midwestern lakes using lake sediment geochemistry
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
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)
Prof. Peter Puleo, Ph.D. ’24 (Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater starting Fall ’24)
Prof. Laura Larocca, Ph.D. ’21 (Assistant Professor, Arizona State University)
Prof. Jamie McFarlin, Ph.D. ’19 (Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming)
Dr. G. Everett Lasher, Ph.D. ’19 (Physical Scientist, USGS Central Midwest Water Science Center)
Prof. Roseanna Mayfield, visiting pre-doctoral fellow (Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham, UK)
Undergraduate researchers
Shayna Garla ’24 (Ph.D. student in arctic paleolimnology, Syracuse University)
Sophia Liu ’24
Regan Steigleder ’21 (pro soccer player, account manager at Beta Analytic)
Jeremy Brooks ’20 (PhD candidate in glaciology, U of Wisconsin)
Annika Hansen ’20
Christine Lee ’20
Peter Puleo ‘19 (Northwestern PhD ’24)
Karalyn Berman ’18 (JD environmental law, Vanderbilt ’24; currently a law fellow)
Hannah Dion-Kirschner ’18 (PhD candidate 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 (manager, 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 at NIOZ, Ph.D. Brown)
Margaret Koeppel ’14