Support from the Paleontological Society

May 24, 2022

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Support from the Paleontological SocietyAloha everyone! 
I am very excited to announce that our project has been selected to receive a 2022 Student Research Grant from the Paleontological Society! Specifically, we have been selected to receive the Leo J. Hickey award, reserved for work involving paleoecology. Reviewers were very pleased with our proposal, and seem excited to read about our final findings, which we expect to submit to the Paleontological Society by December 2022. We also plan to publish our findings in a peer-reviewed scientific journal after completing our project. 
Very exciting times for our project! 

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Why did a prehistoric community of snails in Hawaii go extinct?

Hawaii Pacific University

After the last ice age, temperatures in the Northern hemisphere rose and precipitation levels were dramatically altered. We are beginning to understand how these changes impacted many areas, but what about Hawaii? We have dated shells from extinct, endemic Hawaiian snails to this period of global change, and we will use isotopes from these shells to examine how Hawaii's environment changed. We hypothesize that rising temperature and lowered precipitation led to the extinction of these snails.