Kurt received his PhD from the University at Buffalo in 2025 where he studied Holocene climate-driven changes in Arctic vegetation communities and permafrost thaw using stable isotopes and lipid biomarkers. He then worked as an Instructional Support...
I am an archaeologist and geochemist who explores the role of fire in human evolution by combining proxies, concepts, and methods from various disciplines with archaeological data. I am particularly interested in the relationship between hominins,...
I am a paleobiologist who studies the past ecologies of African suids and primates (including hominins) in the Pliocene and the Pleistocene. I explore how these two communities responded to environmental dynamics in eastern Africa, particularly in the...
I investigate feedbacks between life and the environment on a changing Earth – particularly, long-term dynamics between fire, climate, and vegetation. To do this, I reconstruct ancient environments using organic molecular and isotopic geochemistry.
I am a terrestrial paleoecologist who explores the role of climate and environmental change on mammalian and human evolution. I do this using organic and stable isotope geochemistry on fossil teeth and ancient sediments on land and from the deep sea.
