Congratulations to Sebastian Barkett who was recently awarded the GSA Graduate Student Research Grant! Funds will support his work on ancient wildfires at the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), which occurred ~56 million years ago and climatic changes are analogous to what is happening today. Sebastian also received a travel grant from GSA to present his findings on microfossil charcoal and molecular marker proxies for paleowildfire at the GSA Connects 2024 Meeting in Anaheim, CA later this month.
Charcoal grains identified at the PETM along the paleo-continental shelf in present day Maryland. Photos by Sebastian Barkett.
The primary role of the GSA research grants program is to provide partial support of master's and doctoral thesis research in the geological sciences for graduate students enrolled in universities in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Central America.
