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Neotoma is a collaborative database effort among a consortium of PIs and institutions around the world.
Executive Committee
John (Jack) Williams
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jack Williams is an earth system scientist, paleoecologist, and biogeographer who studies species responses to past and future climate change. His research themes include novel climates and communities, abrupt change, megaherbivore extinctions, paleoecoinformatics, and data-model synthesis. He is a professor in Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the former Director of the Center for Climatic Research.
Jessica Blois
Professor, University of California, Merced
Jessica Blois' research focuses on how environmental and biological drivers shape responses of North American mammals and vegetation to past, present, and future climate changes. She holds a B.S. in Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution from UC San Diego, a M.A. from Humboldt State University, and a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from Stanford University.
Thomas Giesecke
Associate Professor, Utrecht University
Thomas Giesecke analyses information on late Quaternary vegetation change as documented in pollen data to explore state changes in terrestrial vegetation, ecosystem resilience and threshold responses and uncover tipping points.
Sarah Ivory
Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences, Penn State
Sarah is an ecologist and geologist who uses fossil pollen records to better understand past ecosystem change in order to inform future conservation strategies. She also works with models and remote sensing data to observe the processes that drive tropical ecological change and vegetation responses to climate in the past. This work focuses on vegetation and climate history from the recent past to millions of years ago in order to evaluate future range changes and land-use impacts in hotspots of global biodiversity.
Leadership Council
Suzanne Pilaar Birch
Associate Professor, Anthropology and Geography, University of Georgia
Suzette Flantua
Researcher, Department of Biological Science, University of Bergen
Graciela Gil-Romera
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Ecology, Philipps-Marburg University
Claudio Latorre
Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Naoko Sasaki
Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University
Nichola Ann Strandberg
Postdoctoral Fellow, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Information Technology Working Group
Constituent Database Leads
Joaquín Arroyo Cabrales
Senior Scientist, Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia
Allan Ashworth
University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, North Dakota State University
Suzanne Pilaar Birch
Associate Professor, Anthropology and Geography, University of Georgia
Suzette Flantua
Researcher, Department of Biological Science, University of Bergen
Graciela Gil-Romera
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Ecology, Philipps-Marburg University
Claudio Latorre
Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Anne-Marie Lezine
Senior Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Naoko Sasaki
Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University