Summer news 2016

Fossil wood from the Museum of the Earth, Ithaca, New York

Over the summer, Dr. María A. Gandolfo and myself published a new paper entitled "Fruits of Juglandaceae from the Eocene of South America" in Systematic Botany. The accompanying data files are housed in the Dryad Digital Repository. This is part of a large ongoing research project on the Paleogene fossil floras of Patagonia. 

In August, I attended the 10th Annual Summer Symposium at the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, New York. I gave an updated presentation on the fossil record of water clovers, entitled "Fossil water clovers and wannabees."

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