Nathan A Jud
Dispatch from the field #4
After July 4th our team grew a bit. Eric Gorscak and Sasha Prokuda arrived in time for a fourth-of-July picnic in Powell, WY and on...
top of page
Search
Nathan A Jud
Jul 10, 20212 min read
Dispatch from the field #3
The goal this summer was to collect fossils and geologic data from a Cretaceous lake deposit so that we can estimate its age and...
58 views0 comments
Nathan A Jud
Jul 3, 20212 min read
Dispatch from the field #2
We spent the first morning gathering supplies and dealing with some emails. In Worland we visited with Mike Bies while we filled up our...
41 views0 comments
Nathan A Jud
Jul 2, 20212 min read
Dispatch from the field #1
I started collecting plant fossils in the Bighorn Basin in 2009, but this was my first summer back to collect since starting at William...
48 views0 comments
Nathan A Jud
Feb 20, 20211 min read
Cretaceous angiosperm trees
Back in 2018, along with a group of colleagues, I created a plot showing the age, size, and distribution of angiosperm woods from...
115 views0 comments
Nathan A Jud
Jul 22, 20193 min read
Two new species of aquatic ferns
Salviniales are an unusual group of ferns. Whereas most ferns are terrestrial or epiphytic, these are freshwater aquatic plants, and...
176 views0 comments
Nathan A Jud
Jan 5, 20181 min read
Flowers from the early Paleocene of Patagonia
Sixty-four million years ago, the east coast of Patagonia was much warmer and wetter than it is today. Fossil wood, leaves, and flowers...
54 views0 comments
Nathan A Jud
Jul 27, 20172 min read
Fossil buckthorn flowers from Patagonia
Sixty-five million years ago the Central American Seaway separated South America from North America, but the Drake Passage was not yet...
204 views0 comments
Nathan A Jud
May 2, 20173 min read
Fossil wood reveals changes in ancient forests
How did the initial diversification of flowering plants transform the world's forests? Flowering plants (angiosperms) comprise most of...
232 views0 comments
Nathan A Jud
Feb 25, 20173 min read
Piecing together the early Miocene forests of Panama
Plant fossils from the Panama Canal provide direct evidence of the ancient history of many common Neotropical forest trees. During the...
131 views0 comments
Nathan A Jud
Feb 12, 20173 min read
Aloha from Volcanoes National Park
Hawaii is a hotspot for scientific research. My first encounter with research on the islands was a seminar on the diversity of endemic...
96 views0 comments
Nathan A Jud
Oct 31, 20162 min read
Imaging leaves on herbarium sheets
Herbaria are vital sources of comparative data for botanists and paleobotanists alike, especially those of us interested in patterns of...
151 views0 comments
Nathan A Jud
Oct 29, 20162 min read
leaf-mining flies on early flowering plants
Leaf-miners are insects that dwell inside of leaves during their larval stage, where they feed on the leaf mesophyll and leave a...
20 views0 comments
bottom of page