Liu Palebotanical Lab (updated September 10, 2012)

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Current undergraduate/graduate students and visitors:

• Undergraduate student
  • Sara Brandon (Fall 2011 - present): Honors Student. Project: Taxodium fossil leaves from the Gray Fossil Site
• M.Sc. students at ETSU
  • Aly Baumgartner (start Fall 2012): Neogene climate change of eastern North America: a quantitative reconstruction
  • James Phillips (start Fall 2012): Quaternary environmental change in Mongolia: diatom evidence 
  • Petra Seka (Spring 2012 - present): Carboniferous fossil seed bank from Virginia
• Ph.D. student at ETSU (co-advisor with Prof. Bainian Sun at Lanzhou University, China)
  • Wenlong He (Fall 2010 - present): Neogene plants from the southern Appalachian: paleoecological significance
• Ph.D. student in Thailand (co-advisor with Dr. Paul Grote)
  • Pitchanat Ngerndee (Spring 2010 - present): Estimation of paleoclimate from Cenozoic plant assemblages in Thailand

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Lab alumni

• Jing Hu (Fall 2011 - Spring 2012): undergraduate researcher
• Jessica Davis (Fall 2011 - Spring 2012): undergraduate researcher
• Nathan Noll (Fall 2010 - August 2012): graduate student in Geochemistry, ETSU
• Yongjiang Huang, Ph.D. [co-advised with Prof. Zhekun Zhou] (Fall 2009 - May 2012). Currently Assistant Professor of Paleobotany, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Ph.D. dissertation: The late Pliocene Fudong flora from Lanping, Yunnan, and the Neogene climates in Hengduan Mountains
• Tao Su, Ph.D. [co-advised with Prof. Zhekun Zhou] (Fall 2008 - Fall 2010). Currently Assistant Professor of Paleobotany, Paleoecology Research Group, Xishuangbanna Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Ph.D. dissertation: Fossil evidence for patterns of leaf-feeding from the Miocene of SW China
• Diana Ochoa-Lozano, M.Sc. (Fall 2009 - Summer 2011). M.Sc. thesis: Neogene palynology of the Gray Fossil Site: biostratigraphic and paleoecological implications (published in the Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology)
• Fade Gong, M.Sc. (Fall 2007- Summer 2009) - Ph.D. student at The University of Texas at Austin (since Fall 2011). M.Sc. thesis: Vitis seed remains from the Gray Fossil Site. (published in the Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. Download PDF)

(Mr. F. Gong)

• Lu Han, Ph.D. visiting scholar from China's Jilin University (2007-2008). Project: Oak acorns from the Gray fossil site.

(Ms. L. Han)

• Yaowu Xing, Ph.D. [co-advised with Prof. Zhekun Zhou] (2007-2009), currently postdoctoral research at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

• Dr. Cheng Quan [Associate Professor, Research Center of Paleontology & Stratigraphy, Jilin University, China] (Fall 2010 - Fall 2011): Paleogene thermal optimum - evidence from the Tertiary floras in East Asia

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