Kjellmark, K., Park Boush, L., Myrbo, A., Berman, M.J., Gnivecki, P., 2023. Paleoecological history of Eleuthera Island, The Bahamas based on pollen and charcoal analysis from two lakes. Journal of Paleolimnology 71:85-99. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-023-00303-x
Author: Park Boush, Lisa
Welcome to our New Lab Members!
The Park Boush Lab is pleased to welcome Julia Bradshaw and Zachary Clore to the lab! Julia will be pursuing a PhD, working on a project on Lake Tanganyika, Africa and Zach will be doing a MS project on blue holes in the Bahamas. We are really excited to have them join us!
We are recruiting new graduate students!
NSF Funded Graduate Degree Opportunity in Paleobiology
Park Boush Lab
Support for either a MS or PhD to work on NSF funded project—”Collaborative Research: BoCP-Implementation: The impact of climate change on functional biodiversity across spatiotemporal scales at Lake Tanganyika, Africa.“
This project involves testing hypotheses of food web response to climate change using ostracodes as proxies for depth and oxygenation. If you are interested in biodiversity and climate change, this might interest you.
Check out our graduate program in the Earth Science Department at UConn (https://earthsciences.uconn.edu)
Applications currently being accepted until January 1, 2024. 
Contact Dr. Lisa Park Boush (lisa.park_boush@uconn.edu) for further information.
Lake Tanganyika NSF Biodiversity Grant Awarded to Lisa Park Boush
As part of a multi-university team, Park Boush is the recent recipient of nearly $2.5 million in funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project that will track ancient oxygen levels and life within Lake Tanganyika in eastern Africa, illuminating how its biodiversity adapted to past climate change. With this knowledge, the team will be able to predict the effects of human-caused climate change on the ecosystem of the lake, on which millions of people depend as a food supply.
New book on Limnogeology just published!
Our new book “Limnogeology: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities: A Tribute to Elizabeth Gierlowski-Kordesch,” is published!
Our new paper, “Ecological Response of Ostracodes (Arthropoda, Crustacea) to Lake-Level Fluctuations in the Eocene Green River Formation, Fossil Basin, Wyoming, USA” is published as one of the chapters
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66576-0_7
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-66576-0