Alexander Clarke '25 receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Alexander Clarke '25 has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

Alexander received the award for his future work in the interaction between macroecological and macroevolutionary phenomena in the fossil record. For the Fellowship, he proposed to examine whether the shape of the global latitudinal biodiversity gradient changed when the planet moved between ice-house and hot-house climate states. This work will improve our understanding of why biodiversity is concentrated in the tropics today and may help improve predictions about how anthropogenic warming will reshape the biosphere in the long term. Alexander is excited to begin this project in the Pincelli Hull lab (Yale Earth and Planetary Sciences) this fall with a preliminary study tracking the distribution of biodiversity in the Western Interior Seaway during the Cretaceous.

Alexander is currently completing his undergraduate honors thesis in Prof. Kevin Peterson's lab.  He will present his work in a public seminar on Tuesday, May 27 at 9AM in LSC 201. 

Kudos to Alexander!