Research Interests:
Cretaceous to Cenozoic Plants from the Northern Hemisphere: paleoecological and paleogeographical perspectives
Quantitative paleoclimatic reconstructions based on fossil plants (macrofossils such as leaves and fruits/seeds and pollen grains): - Coexistence Approach, CLAMP, Leaf Margin Analysis
Foliar and fruit/seed anatomy of fossil and living seed plants;
Micromorphology of fossil and modern pollen and spores;
Historical biogeography of selected seed plants (e.g., East Asian endemics, East Asian-Southeast North American disjuncts).
Lab (update October 17, 2011)
Research projects (currently I am working on the fossil fruits/seeds from the Gray Fossil Site in Tennessee and quantitative paleoclimate reconstructions on the Neogene floras from East Asia (NECLIME project). This involves with both graduates and undergraduates):
With Dr. Steve Wallace at the Gray Fossil Site (May 2006)