New paper out this week in Scientific Reports including work from current Hren Lab postdoc Yvette Eley on molecular and isotopic evidence for millet processing in pottery vessels

Carl Heron, Shinya Shoda, Adrià Breu Barcons, Janusz Czebreszuk, Yvette Eley, Marise Gorton, Wiebke Kirleis, Jutta Kneisel, Alexandre Lucquin, Johannes Müller, Yastami Nishida, Joon-ho Son & Oliver E. Craig. (2016) “First molecular and isotopic evidence of millet processing in prehistoric pottery vessels”. Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 38767

http://www.nature.com/articles/srep38767

This month’s Nature Geoscience features a new article from Michael Hren on carbon cycle and climate feedbacks in the Paleozoic.  You can read the full text here.

Montañez, I. P., McElwain, J. C., Poulsen, C. J., White, J. D., DiMichele, W. A., Wilson, J. P., Griggs, G., & Hren, M. T. (2016). Climate, pCO2 and terrestrial carbon cycle linkages during late Palaeozoic glacial-interglacial cycles. Nature Geoscience 9:824-828

The upcoming Geological Society of America Annual Meeting (25-28 September) will see seven oral presentations and one poster from the Hren Lab and affiliated researchers:

Hren, Michael T., William B. Ouimet, D. P. Dethier, Kathleen Clancy, Chad Fagan, and Gregory Harris. “POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS PRESERVE SEDIMENTARY RECORDS OF WILDFIRE IN DIVERSE ECOSYSTEMS”

Truong, Katherine, Michael T. Hren and Yvette Eley. “CLIMATE, VEGETATION, AND STABLE ISOTOPES OF MODERN AND SEDIMENTARY N-ALKANES IN SEMI-ARID AND GRASSLAND ENVIRONMENTS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INTERIOR”

Eley, Yvette and Michael T. Hren. “CLIMATIC AND HYDROLOGIC CHANGE DURING THE EOCENE-OLIGOCENE TRANSITION IN THE NORTH AMERICAN INTERIOR”

Brittingham, Alex, Michael T. Hren, Andrew W. Kandel, Ellery Frahm, Boris Gasparyan, and Gideon Hartman. “CLIMATE IMPACT ON HUMAN BEHAVIOR IN THE UPPER PALEOLITHIC OF THE ARMENIAN HIGHLANDS”

Auerbach, David, Michael T. Hren, and Astrid Pacini. “A GLOBAL TERRESTRIAL CLIMATE SHIFT AT THE EOCENE-OLIGOCENE TRANSITION: EVIDENCE FROM MID-LATITUDE SOUTH AMERICA”

Loughney, Katharine, Michael T. Hren, and Selena Y. Smith. “PALEOENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTION OF THE BARSTOW FORMATION, SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, THROUGH THE MIDDLE MIOCENE CLIMATIC OPTIMUM”

Beard, Andrew J., Andrew M. Bush, Anjali M. Fernandez, Patrick R. Getty, and Michael T. Hren. “STRATIGRAPHIC REVISION AND FACIES ANALYSES OF THE FRASNIAN-FAMENNIAN BOUNDARY INTERVAL (UPPER DEVONIAN) IN NEW YORK AND PENNSYLVANIA”

Wilson, Johnathan P., Isabel P. Montanez, Joseph D. White, Jennifer C. McElwain, William A. Dimichele, Christopher J. Poulsen, and Michael T. Hren. “STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION IN DYNAMIC CARBONIFEROUS TROPICAL FORESTS: A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON PALEOZOIC PLANT FUNCTION AND PHYSIOLOGICAL FORCING OF CLIMATE”

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