NEOTOMADB - Key Persons


Alison Smith

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Professor and Dean of Honors College, Kent State University

Allan Ashworth

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, North Dakota State University

Anne-Marie Lezine

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Senior Researcher, Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique

Annika Herbert

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Research Fellow, Australian National University

Bérangère Leys

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • CNRS Researcher, Aix - Marseille Université

Claudio Latorre

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Donald F. Charles

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Diatom Paleolimnology Data Cooperative ( DPDC )
  • the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University

Graciela Gil-Romera

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Ecology, Philipps - Marburg University

Jessica Blois

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Professor, University of California, Merced / ANTIGUA
Jessica Blois' research focuses on how environmental and biological drivers shape responses of North American mammals and vegetation to past, present, and future climate changes. She holds a B.S. in Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution from UC San Diego, a M.A. from Humboldt State University, and a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from Stanford University.

Joaquín Arroyo Cabrales

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Senior Scientist, Instituto Nacional De Antropologia E Historia

John (Jack) Williams

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • System Scientist
Jack Williams is an earth system scientist, paleoecologist, and biogeographer who studies species responses to past and future climate change. His research themes include novel climates and communities, abrupt change, megaherbivore extinctions, paleoecoinformatics, and data-model synthesis. He is a professor in Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the former Director of the Center for Climatic Research.

Jonathan Nelson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee

Naoko Sasaki

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee

Nichola Ann Strandberg

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, UiT the Arctic University of Norway

Quinn Asena

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee

Robert K. Booth

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Professor, Lehigh University

Sarah Ivory

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Department of Geosciences
Sarah is an ecologist and geologist who uses fossil pollen records to better understand past ecosystem change in order to inform future conservation strategies. She also works with models and remote sensing data to observe the processes that drive tropical ecological change and vegetation responses to climate in the past. This work focuses on vegetation and climate history from the recent past to millions of years ago in order to evaluate future range changes and land-use impacts in hotspots of global biodiversity.

Simon Goring

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee

Socorro Dominguez Vidana

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee

Stephen Crawford

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee

Suzanne Pilaar Birch

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Associate Professor, Anthropology and Geography, University of Georgia

Suzette Flantua

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Researcher, Department of Biological Science, University of Bergen

Thomas Giesecke

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Associate Professor, Utrecht University
Thomas Giesecke analyses information on late Quaternary vegetation change as documented in pollen data to explore state changes in terrestrial vegetation, ecosystem resilience and threshold responses and uncover tipping points.

Walter Finsinger

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • CNRS Researcher, Montpellier Université

Willy Tinner

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Professor of Paleoecology, University of Bern