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We take a long-term view on ecological questions. Using paleorecords (especially from lake-sediment archives)
we reconstruct the environments of the late Pleistocene and Holocene to address the links between biodiversity,
climate, and disturbance processes (especially wildfire).
*** Recruiting a graduate student for Fall 2025 with an interest in reconstruction ecosystem change using the biological and chemical composition of lake sediments ***
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People in the lab [Lab alumni]
- Daniel Gavin - Professor
- Geoffrey Johnson - Ph.D. student. Vegetation and fire history from pollen and charcoal records in the western and eastern Cascade Range; quantitative vegetation reconstruction; application of paleoecological reconstructions to forest management.
- Niamh Houston (MS Student). Vegetation communities, fuel accumulation, and fire hazard in recent burns and re-burns in western Oregon.
- AJ Salzer - Laboratory technician
- Field assistants, vegetation and fuels plots, summer 2024
- Jesse Brodrick
- Ben Adams
- Joey Vierra
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Recent publications [News archive]
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Gavin, D.G., W. Struble, and M. Fonstad. 2024. Holocene lake sediments reveal alluvial fan history with links to climate, wildfire, and earthquakes. JGR Earth Surface.
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Hendricks, L.B., G.Z. Anshari, and D.G. Gavin. 2024. Fire in the rainforest: A 3,200 year history of fire in a West Kalimantan, Indonesia tropical rainforests. Ecosphere 14:e4918.
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Ruwaimana, M., G.Z. Anshari, and D.G. Gavin. 2024. Interplay of climate, fires, floods, and anthropogenic impacts on the peat formation and carbon dynamic of coastal and inland tropical peatlands in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Ecosystems.
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Gavin, D.G., P.J. Bartlein, and C. Mock. 2023. Historical archives reveal record rainfall and severe flooding in December 1867 resulting from an atmospheric river and snowmelt, Western Washington, USA. PLOS Climate.
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Late Glacial through Early Holocene environments inferred using pollen from coprolites and sediments recovered from Paisley Caves, Oregon. Study by Chantel Saban et al. in Quaternary Research.
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Current funding from:
Northwest CASC (via PNW CESU)
 
Coeur d'Alene Tribe & Idaho DEQ
Past funding from:
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