{"id":147,"date":"2016-01-07T21:50:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T02:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/ztaylor\/?page_id=147"},"modified":"2017-06-01T15:04:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T20:04:19","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.berry.edu\/ztaylor\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

My research primarily centers on understanding the mechanisms and impacts of climate and environmental change. I use an interdisciplinary approach and a variety of techniques to study past climate changes, human-environment interactions, vegetation assemblages, and disturbance regimes. My work focuses on lakes and relies heavily on the analysis of lake sediments, which serve as a window to the past and provide context for modern environmental changes and possible analogues for future conditions.<\/p>\n

Current Research Projects<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fire, Vegetation, and Climate History in Western Colorado
\n<\/strong>My students are analyzing sediment from four lakes near Crested Butte, Colorado to reconstruct environmental conditions over the past 10,000 years.\u00a0 Thanks to the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory<\/a> and the homeowners at Nicholson Lake for their help with fieldwork.<\/p>\n

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Coring Nicholson Lake, CO with Doc Taylor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Fire Dynamics of the South Carolina Coastal Plain
\n<\/strong>In collaboration with Dr. Chad Lane<\/a> at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, Berry student Chelsea Anderson and I are using macroscopic charcoal to reconstruct Holocene fire dynamics at Clear Pond, South Carolina.<\/p>\n

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Coring Clear Pond, SC with Berry students Chelsea Anderson, Jamie Collier, and Dr. Chad Lane from UNC-W.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Late-Quaternary Environmental Change in the Mountains of West Virginia
\n<\/strong>My lab is partnering with Mitzy Schaney at West Virginia University to study peat cores from Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge<\/a> in the mountains of West Virginia.\u00a0 Using a multiple proxy approach, we will create an 18,000-year record of vegetation, fire, and climate.<\/p>\n

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Mitzy Schaney (WVU), Meghan Albritton, and Chelsea Anderson log a peat core from the Canaan Valley.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Spatial Variation in Compound-Specific Carbon and Hydrogen Isotopes
\n<\/strong>In collaboration with Dr. Chad Lane<\/a> at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington and Dr. Sally Horn<\/a> at the University of Tennessee, I am analyzing n-alkanes to assess spatial variation and sedimentation processes and the impacts of prehistoric agriculture from Laguna Zoncho, a small lake in Costa Rica.<\/p>\n

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Coring Laguna Zoncho with Dr. Sally Horn from the University of Tennessee and Greg Metcalf, a middle school science teacher.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Vegetation and Fire History of the Central Willamette Valley
\n<\/strong>I am working with Dr. Megan Walsh<\/a> at Central Washington University and former student Thomas Laird (Willamette University) to reconstruct pre- and post-settlement fire and vegetation regimes outside Salem, Oregon using a sediment core from Clear Lake, Oregon.<\/p>\n

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Coring Clear Lake, OR.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Disjunctions in Western Hemisphere Mammals
\n<\/strong>I used\u00a0GIS\u00a0to identify and quantify disjunctions in mammals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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