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The SPATIAL group combines stable isotope techniques with field and laboratory data, modeling, and statistical/data science tools to tackle big-picture problems in the Earth and environmental sciences.

Our research activities are currently structured around four main themes:

• Paleoclimate
• Developing Bayesian statistical approaches to improve quantitative interpreation of proxy data
• Proxy development and proxy system modeling for continental deep-time climate archives
• Reconstructing coupled climatic, carbon/water cycle, and ecological change over timescales from the Holocene to the Cenozoic

• Hydrology
• Investigating how critical zone processes structure the terrestrial water cycle at scales from soils to cities to the globe
• Applying novel isotopic data to quantitatively partition evapotranspiration across ecosystem types and climate regimes

• Forensics & Migration Ecology
• Quantifying forensically-relevant patterns of isotopic variation in natural and human-dominated environmental systems
• Using field data and modeling to understand how environmental isotope sigantures are transferred to plant and animal tissues

• Informatics
• Exploring novel models for developing and populating community data archives
• Developing web-GIS interfaces enabling universal access to geochemical databases and models