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Joanie Barnes (left) and Tom McFarland stand in the stacks of Love Library. The duo founded the Genealogy over Lunch group. February 27, 2023. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.

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Studio portrait of Liz Lorang, Associate Dean, University Libraries. February 15, 2023. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.

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Studio portrait of Gabriel Bruguier, Assistant Professor, University Libraries. January 26, 2023. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.

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Nebraska paleontologist Ross Secord and Judy Diamond pose next to a Mesohippus skeleton. The two are working together at Looking Back for Future Climate Clues. With a nearly $350,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, Secord’s pursuing a first-of-its-kind study that explores how climate change affected the environment, ecosystems and organisms during the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum. The EECO took place about 52 million years ago and was the warmest interval of the past 70 million years.   

 

Marked by a shift to high carbon dioxide levels, warm temperatures and increased precipitation, the transition from pre-EECO to the EECO is considered a good analogue for future climate change. Better understanding ecological changes during this time may provide clues to scientists trying to forecast future conditions. 

 

“Studying intervals in the geologic record where the global warming experiment has already occurred gives you a way of figuring out what the possible outcomes of climate change may be,” said Secord, associate professor of earth and atmospheric sciences.  

 

Secord and collaborators are analyzing fossil records from Wyoming’s Bighorn and Wind River basins, which have rich collections from the EECO. They will identify the types of forest structure that prevailed during that period. Their findings will clarify the interrelationship between climate change, forest structure and mammal evolution. 

 

Secord will analyze fossil teeth of EECO mammals to infer the types of habitats present in the environment. Mammalian tooth enamel preserves the different types of carbon found in the plants they consumed. This process is part of stable isotope geochemistry, one of Secord’s specialties.   

 

Nebraska’s Judy Diamond is leading an outreach plan that provides 50 rural and tribal libraries in Nebraska and across the nation with current information about climate change, water resources, mammal evolution a

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Nebraska paleontologist Ross Secord and Judy Diamond pose next to a Mesohippus skeleton. The two are working together at Looking Back for Future Climate Clues. With a nearly $350,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, Secord’s pursuing a first-of-its-kind study that explores how climate change affected the environment, ecosystems and organisms during the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum. The EECO took place about 52 million years ago and was the warmest interval of the past 70 million years.   

 

Marked by a shift to high carbon dioxide levels, warm temperatures and increased precipitation, the transition from pre-EECO to the EECO is considered a good analogue for future climate change. Better understanding ecological changes during this time may provide clues to scientists trying to forecast future conditions. 

 

“Studying intervals in the geologic record where the global warming experiment has already occurred gives you a way of figuring out what the possible outcomes of climate change may be,” said Secord, associate professor of earth and atmospheric sciences.  

 

Secord and collaborators are analyzing fossil records from Wyoming’s Bighorn and Wind River basins, which have rich collections from the EECO. They will identify the types of forest structure that prevailed during that period. Their findings will clarify the interrelationship between climate change, forest structure and mammal evolution. 

 

Secord will analyze fossil teeth of EECO mammals to infer the types of habitats present in the environment. Mammalian tooth enamel preserves the different types of carbon found in the plants they consumed. This process is part of stable isotope geochemistry, one of Secord’s specialties.   

 

Nebraska’s Judy Diamond is leading an outreach plan that provides 50 rural and tribal libraries in Nebraska and across the nation with current information about climate change, water resources, mammal evolution a

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Nicole Gray, Assistant Professor, University Libraries. New Faculty and Staff Orientation. August 17, 2022. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.

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Madelyn Thompson helps Daniel Stara with a question at the Help Desk in Love Library South. Behind them are anatomy models that can be checked out. April 6, 2022. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.

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Judy Diamond, Professor of University Libraries, is a 2022 IDEA award winner. Diamond is pictured in the library stacks. April 6, 2022. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.

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Studio portrait of Scout Calvert, Associate Professor for University Libraries. January 5, 2022. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.

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Studio portrait of Janel Simons, Assistant Professor of Practice, Humanities Librarian. 2021 New Faculty Orientation. August 18, 2021. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.

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Kwame Dawes, George Homes Distinguished Professor of English and Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner, and Lorna Dawes, Associate Professor in the University Libraries. July 23, 2021. Photo by Annie Albin / University Communication.

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Kwame Dawes, George Homes Distinguished Professor of English and Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner, and Lorna Dawes, Associate Professor in the University Libraries. July 23, 2021. Photo by Annie Albin / University Communication.

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David Macaulay, Assistant Professor, University Libraries. October 8, 2020. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.

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Studio portrait of Joel Pedersen, Courtesy Research Assistant Professor, University Libraries.

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Adele Coryell Hall Learning Commons in the Love Library, January 11, 2016. Photo by Greg Nathan, University Communications Photographer.

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Eleanor Avery, a freshman supply chain management major, studies in Love Library's new Adele Coryell Hall Learning Commons on its Jan. 11 opening day. The space offers a variety of study and collaboration options to UNL students and is open 24 hours every day. First day of UNL's new Adele Coryell Hall Learning Commons, located in Love Library.

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Studio portrait of Harriet Wintermute, Librarian, University Libraries, December 21, 2015. Photo by Greg Nathan, University Communications Photographer.

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Pictured; Leslie Delserone, Science Librarian, University Libraries. Academic Affairs, New Faculty Orientation, Studio Portrait. 100818, Photo by Greg Nathan, University Communications Photographer.

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Pictured; Kiyomi Deards, Assistant Professor, University Libraries. Academic Affairs, New Faculty Orientation, Studio Portrait. 100818, Photo by Greg Nathan, University Communications Photographer.

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