Author: Park Boush, Lisa

Check us out at GSA!

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Our lab will be presenting 2 posters at the GSA meeting in Pittsburgh. Stop by and say hi!

Tuesday, October 17; D 25: Recent Developments in Paleoecology; Booth 90

Rueckl, K, Park Boush, L., Cooley, K., Cohen, A., Blashak, A., Robakiewicz, E., and Hall, C. 2023. What makes the alae grow? Assessing morphological response in ostracods to increased stratification and declining benthic oxygen caused by climate change in Lake Tanganyika, East Africa. GSA Annual Meeting Abstracts with Programs, V. 55(6).

Wednesday, October 18; T128 Lakes of the World; Booth 266

Eaton, K., and Park Boush, L., 2023. Paleoecological response of ostracods and conchostracans to the end Triassic extinction event in the Hartford Basin, USA. GSA Annual Meeting Abstracts with Programs, V. 55(6).

We are recruiting new graduate students!

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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

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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!

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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