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<lastBuildDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:54:11 -0600</lastBuildDate><item><title>Successful MS Defense</title><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2026-07-01T13:43:51-05:00</dc:date><link>https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/e593358ee21edda53a85c3888e1a92db-31.html#unique-entry-id-31</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/e593358ee21edda53a85c3888e1a92db-31.html#unique-entry-id-31</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Ethan Bley successfully defended his MS thesis, "Middle and Upper Ordovician encrinurid trilobites from the Maquoketa Formation (Katian) of Iowa and the Table Cove Formation (Darriwilian) of Newfoundland," on April 17th, 2026.  Congratulations Ethan!]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Successful MS Defense</title><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2025-12-19T18:17:08-06:00</dc:date><link>https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/332fa8d2ded0974181eb9a6eec116aac-30.html#unique-entry-id-30</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/332fa8d2ded0974181eb9a6eec116aac-30.html#unique-entry-id-30</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Sebastien Mure-Ravaud successfully defended his MS thesis, "Cambrian (Guzhangian) Trilobites from the Weeks Formation of western Utah, USA," on Friday, Dec. 19, 2025.  Congratulations Sebastien!]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New PhD Student</title><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2024-08-24T17:15:20-05:00</dc:date><link>https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/293aaf9e5295205149d0f0cf74ac2986-29.html#unique-entry-id-29</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/293aaf9e5295205149d0f0cf74ac2986-29.html#unique-entry-id-29</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Titouan Camus has joined the lab to do a PhD tentatively focused on bringing to bear new silicified material, particularly early life history material, to the problems of higher trilobite phylogeny.  Titouan did an MS split between Catherine Cr&ocirc;nier's lab at the University of Lille, France, and Graham Budd's lab at Uppsala University, Sweden.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New MS Student</title><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2024-08-24T17:13:38-05:00</dc:date><link>https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/03c8f34b23450bd4ec365264f5b8aaaa-28.html#unique-entry-id-28</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/03c8f34b23450bd4ec365264f5b8aaaa-28.html#unique-entry-id-28</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Ethan Bley, who has been in the lab for the past two years as an Office for Undergraduate Research Fellow, has joined now as an MS student.  Ethan will be working on the early Tremadocian silicified faunas of the Barn Canyon Member of the House Formation in western Utah.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>First Fieldwork Since Pandemic</title><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2023-05-05T14:30:22-05:00</dc:date><link>https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/a4a004b8379fb7bd1dc02806808e95c5-26.html#unique-entry-id-26</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/a4a004b8379fb7bd1dc02806808e95c5-26.html#unique-entry-id-26</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Myself, Fran, Ryan, and Ethan will be heading out June 06&ndash;26 in a dual-Suburban convoy to the wilds of the Great Basin for the first time we have been able to do fieldwork since October, 2019.  Three weeks seems like a long time, but I have way more things needing done than there'll be time to do them.  Energy permitting, I hope to post daily updates on the Field Work page.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New Post-Doc</title><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2023-05-05T14:21:37-05:00</dc:date><link>https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/a37f3a8b678a3cad5d57644d8f86e954-25.html#unique-entry-id-25</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/a37f3a8b678a3cad5d57644d8f86e954-25.html#unique-entry-id-25</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Francesc P&eacute;rez-Peris has joined the lab on a two year Swiss National Science Foundation post-doctoral fellowship.  Fran comes to us from the University of Lausanne, where he completed a PhD on cheirurid trilobite systematics and biogeography.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New MS Student</title><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2022-08-30T20:15:39-05:00</dc:date><link>https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/5d20b66a4f895520f9d5093be88cbd11-24.html#unique-entry-id-24</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/5d20b66a4f895520f9d5093be88cbd11-24.html#unique-entry-id-24</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Sebastien Mure-Ravaud has joined the lab group to pursue an MS.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New Iowa Center for Research by Undergraduates Fellow</title><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2022-08-30T20:14:24-05:00</dc:date><link>https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/bf555da01e484715bd74ea99920d6fbf-23.html#unique-entry-id-23</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/bf555da01e484715bd74ea99920d6fbf-23.html#unique-entry-id-23</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Ethan Bley has joined the lab group on an academic year ICRU fellowship.  Ethan will begin by working on the systematics of some Upper Ordovician cheiruroidean trilobites.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New Student Grant Award</title><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2022-03-30T16:19:00-05:00</dc:date><link>https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/68fb88739b9106977c8ba85fff18764c-22.html#unique-entry-id-22</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/68fb88739b9106977c8ba85fff18764c-22.html#unique-entry-id-22</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[PhD student Ryan Shanks received a student grant award of $3,000 from the Evolving Earth Foundation in support of his PhD project, &ldquo;Agnostoid arthropod taxonomy, ontogeny, diversity and higher phylogeny with new silicified material from the Great Basin.&rdquo;]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New PhD Student</title><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2021-07-16T21:22:01-05:00</dc:date><link>https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/93af7a4bd26d9ef5bc7c43794e331675-21.html#unique-entry-id-21</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/93af7a4bd26d9ef5bc7c43794e331675-21.html#unique-entry-id-21</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Joshua Laird is joining the lab in August, 2021, to do a PhD.  Joshua did an MS with Christina Belanger at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, the main result of which he published in senior authorship in <em>Paleobiology</em> in 2019.  He plans to work on various aspects of quantitative trilobite paleoecology and diversity.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Graduate</title><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2021-07-16T21:18:18-05:00</dc:date><link>https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/4a283ccdbd03a29f4f6f9b1559496cc3-20.html#unique-entry-id-20</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/4a283ccdbd03a29f4f6f9b1559496cc3-20.html#unique-entry-id-20</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Rebecca DeKoster successfully defended her MS thesis, "Revision of the trilobites of the Silurian Henryhouse Formation of Oklahoma," and will graduate this summer.  She is moving on to a PhD at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New PhD Student</title><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2020-07-31T12:55:59-05:00</dc:date><link>https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/0ef28a50659a17f9e5eb1b0cb6e11b8b-19.html#unique-entry-id-19</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/0ef28a50659a17f9e5eb1b0cb6e11b8b-19.html#unique-entry-id-19</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Ryan Shanks has joined the lab to do a PhD starting in Fall 2020.  Ryan recently completed an MS on trigonotarbid systematics with Paul Selden at the University of Kansas.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Graduate and PhD</title><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2020-07-30T13:07:55-05:00</dc:date><link>https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/08bbcab052e7fb37b3ed7ee696d76ad3-18.html#unique-entry-id-18</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/08bbcab052e7fb37b3ed7ee696d76ad3-18.html#unique-entry-id-18</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Alex Bradley successfully defended his MS thesis, "<em>Politicurus</em> and a related genus of hintzecurine trilobites from the late Skullrockian (Tremadocian: Early Ordovician) of western Utah and southeastern Idaho."  Alex is staying in the lab to do a PhD starting this Fall.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New PhD Student</title><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2019-09-05T13:28:08-05:00</dc:date><link>https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/a853b01a53b646f124c969f681dccf49-17.html#unique-entry-id-17</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/a853b01a53b646f124c969f681dccf49-17.html#unique-entry-id-17</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Rebecca DeKoster has joined the lab to do a PhD.  Rebecca has a BSc from the University of Kansas.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Graduate</title><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2019-09-05T13:26:42-05:00</dc:date><link>https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/0e7b8bc8658abe67c6a20fcce03aa2c0-16.html#unique-entry-id-16</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/0e7b8bc8658abe67c6a20fcce03aa2c0-16.html#unique-entry-id-16</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Reuben Ng graduated with an MS this summer.  His thesis was entitled "The Cambrian-Ordovician trilobite genus <em>Clelandia</em>, with phylogeny and morphology of new and revised species."  Reuben is off to the University of Chicago to do a PhD.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New MS Student</title><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2018-08-19T16:20:02-05:00</dc:date><link>https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/1f53a873851c073bb0bada47491b3537-15.html#unique-entry-id-15</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/1f53a873851c073bb0bada47491b3537-15.html#unique-entry-id-15</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Alex Bradley has joined the lab to do an MS.  Alex has a BSc from Virginia Tech and will be working on some aspect of the integrated Ibex/Garden City megaproject.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Graduate</title><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2018-08-19T16:17:50-05:00</dc:date><link>https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/4e9eae08b83e806645a1177c9683138e-14.html#unique-entry-id-14</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/4e9eae08b83e806645a1177c9683138e-14.html#unique-entry-id-14</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Sarah Losso graduated with an MS this spring.  Her thesis was entitled "A new genus of dimeropygid trilobites from the Great Basin of the western USA."  Sarah is off to Harvard University to do a PhD in Javier Ortega-Hern&aacute;ndez's new lab.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>October Fieldwork Trip</title><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2017-11-11T17:32:02-06:00</dc:date><link>https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/63cd82224f829fc378c88a39b95a7385-13.html#unique-entry-id-13</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/63cd82224f829fc378c88a39b95a7385-13.html#unique-entry-id-13</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Added a writeup of our recent sampling trip to <a href="../styled-2/styled-66/index.html" target="self" title="2018 October: Bear River Range">Utah and Idaho</a>.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New MS Student</title><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2017-09-09T09:52:43-05:00</dc:date><link>https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/c3cf8b796b6687f42577903c524b289a-12.html#unique-entry-id-12</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/c3cf8b796b6687f42577903c524b289a-12.html#unique-entry-id-12</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Reuben Ng has joined the lab.  Reuben has a BA in molecular biology from Goshen College.  He'll be working primarily on systematics of a group of Early Ordovician trilobites from Utah and Idaho.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New MS Student</title><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2016-11-09T10:04:42-06:00</dc:date><link>https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/10c397656d4fc7a6c9ddda67d5b46cde-11.html#unique-entry-id-11</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/10c397656d4fc7a6c9ddda67d5b46cde-11.html#unique-entry-id-11</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Sarah Losso has joined the lab.  Sarah has an undergraduate biology degree from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.  She&rsquo;ll be working on a group of Early Ordovician dimeropygids as part of the big Ibex project.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New Palaeo Cubed Paper</title><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2016-11-09T09:25:28-06:00</dc:date><link>https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/f19e7985854ee64a3faf3f49c6ea9d8b-9.html#unique-entry-id-9</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/f19e7985854ee64a3faf3f49c6ea9d8b-9.html#unique-entry-id-9</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="font:11px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">Adrain, J.M. & Westrop, S.R. (2016) Testing for taphonomic bias in deep time using trilobite sclerite ratios. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 463, 205&ndash;215. <br /></span><br />Our work on using multielement trilobite exoskeletons as proxies for taphonomic overprint in deep time has finally seen the light of day.  It can be downloaded on the <a href="../pubs/pubs.html" target="self" title="Publications">publications</a> page.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New paper on Irvingella</title><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2016-11-09T08:03:13-06:00</dc:date><link>https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/bfa1ae34ea2568aae40dce3ab9df7e87-10.html#unique-entry-id-10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/bfa1ae34ea2568aae40dce3ab9df7e87-10.html#unique-entry-id-10</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[This paper contributes to what has become something of a theme, debunking various ludicrous claims of globally distributed Cambrian index species.  Species of <em>Irvingella</em> have been abused in the same fashion as those of many agnostoid arthopod genera by fantasists championing supposed global distributions in the service of new Cambrian stages and their boundaries.  This is mostly unscientific nonsense.  Here we demonstrate that claims about <em>Irvingella tropica</em> and <em>Irvingella angustilimbata</em> don&rsquo;t pass the laugh test, once you actually take a modern look at the material.<br /><br />It can be downloaded on the <a href="../pubs/pubs.html" target="self" title="Publications">publications</a> page.]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New Geology Paper</title><dc:subject>News</dc:subject><dc:date>2015-10-03T13:04:41-05:00</dc:date><link>https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/01604052c68db947268f316d956c87ee-8.html#unique-entry-id-8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://adrainlab.org/blog/files/01604052c68db947268f316d956c87ee-8.html#unique-entry-id-8</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="font:11px Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">Saltzman, M.R., Edwards, C.T., Adrain, J.M. & Westrop, S.R. (2015) Persistent oceanic anoxia and elevated extinction rates separate the Cambrian and Ordovician radiations. Geology, 43, 807&ndash;810. <br /></span><br />It's available on the <a href="../pubs/pubs.html" target="self" title="Publications">publications</a> page.]]></content:encoded></item></channel>
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