Oghale, or OG, is a Ph.D. student set to graduate in 2025. His research uses modern and fossil foraminifera in past environmental reconstructions and in comparison with modern conditions and…

Debarpita is the most recent PhD student addition to the lab! She is interested in how foraminifera are influenced by pollution and oxygen limitations. She will likely graduate in 2026.

Amanda is a new MS student who worked with me as an undergrad. She was an essential component to the creation and functioning of the VBM Microfossil Archive! In the collection there are an estimated…

Jessica is an undergrad considering an accelerated masters at OSU or other micropaleo related masters projects. She is set to graduate in 2024. Her present projects involve OOI SEA3s, foraminifera…

Josh is working on the most recent benthic foraminiferal extinction in samples collected during IODP 344 off Costa Rica.

Nic is working on foraminiferal ultrastructure with TEM, morphology with MicroCT, and geochemistry of the tests. He had the chance to go to sea in the Fall of 2023.

There are several students in the lab who are not pictured here. They are doing wonderful work and we are happy to have them!

Although we are sad to see them go, we are thrilled about their successes!

Lisa is a Masters student set to graduate in the Spring of 2023 working on foraminifera with mutations in the Puget Sound.

Melissa is being co-advised for her Masters by Dr. Burkett and Dr. Puckette. While an undergrad in Burkett's lab she worked on organizing and archiving materials form the 1980-90s from core…

Erin completed her Masters Thesis in the Summer of 2022. She identified several different types of mutated foraminifera from the Puget Sound.

Joshua is now at Caltech! While in the lab he worked a lot on foraminifera phylogenetics and is helping us publish a newly described genus and species of foraminifera.