Kevin Uno is an Associate Professor in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. He is a paleoecologist whose primary research focus is on exploring the role of climate and environmental change on mammalian and human evolution.  To do this, he uses stable isotope and organic geochemical methods to reconstruct climate, vegetation, and mammalian diets from the Neogene (~24 Ma) to present. He has led or co-authored a series of papers that linked dietary changes in mammals and hominins to late Neogene vegetation change.  Over the last 10 years, he has focused on development and application of molecular biomarker analyses on terrestrial and marine sediments to reconstruct ecosystem structure, hydroclimate, and fire in ancient environments.