Dr. Adam Benfield will present "Ice Age Relics or an Interglacial Success Story? Late Quaternary paleoecology of the mountain conifers of California, Indonesia, and Appalachia" as part of the Appalachian Laboratory's Visiting Scholar Seminar Series.
Adam Benfield is a Ph.D. candidate in Quaternary Paleoecology in the Dept. of Geosciences at Penn State, defending this summer. He is a broadly trained (paleo)ecologist, palynologist, and environmental Geoscientist specializing in montane and wetland ecosystems of the USA, Colombia, and southeast Asia from the Late Quaternary to the present day. His research centers around how plants, fire regimes, and animal populations changed across glacial-interglacial cycles, the most recent and largest magnitude climate change events prior to the Anthropogenic period.
Please note that seminars in the Visiting Scholars Series are open to the public but are intended for scientific audiences. To learn more about our programming for general audiences, please visit our outreach webpage.
