Team
The SAiVE Lab is a diverse, international group spanning institutions in the United States, Canada, France, Brazil, South Africa, and beyond. We are united by a shared interest in isotope geolocation and data-driven environmental science. Across his career, Dr. Bataille has supervised or co-supervised 8 postdoctoral fellows, 8 PhD students, 10 MSc students, and 29 undergraduate researchers—many of whom have earned competitive fellowships and awards and gone on to successful careers in academia, government, and industry.
Principal Investigator
Clement P. Bataille—Belcher Chair of Environmental Sustainability and Associate Professor, Department of Forestry & Natural Resources, Purdue University; Adjunct Professor, University of Ottawa. Dr. Bataille earned his PhD in Geology & Geophysics from the University of Utah and built an internationally recognized program in isotope geolocation, with more than 75 peer-reviewed publications including papers in Science, PNAS, Nature Communications, Science Advances, and Nature Geoscience.
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Postdoctoral Researchers
Megan Reich
Developing numerical tools and R packages to track insects using isotopes. (Purdue, FNR)
Yijie Tian
Habitat-suitability models for Beringian megafauna
(CAGT, University of Toulouse; co-advised with Ludovic Orlando)
PhD Students
Cooper Caputo
Isotope geolocation to trace migration between marine and freshwater environments.
(Purdue, FNR)
Isabela Souza
Isotope geolocation tools to track Amazon wood.
(University of São Paulo, Brazil; co-advised with Luiz Martinelli)
Eve Lindroos
Multi-isotope reconstruction of Beringian bison paleoecology.
(University of Toulouse; co-advised with Klervia Jaouen)
Marrissa Miller
Multi-isotope geolocation of migratory dragonflies across the Afro-Palearctic.
(Carleton University; co-advised with T. Sherratt)
Sarina Cotroneo
Lithium isotopes in natural systems.
(University of Ottawa; co-advised with I. Clark)
Zoe Landry
Beringian horse paleomobility.
(University of Ottawa; co-advised with D. Fraser)
Roger López-Mañas
Combining niche models and isotopes in insect migration.
(University of Barcelona; co-advised with G. Talavera and C. Domingo)
MS Students
Jess Devine
Strontium isotopes for retracing the origin of cycads.
(University of Cape Town; co advised with A. West)
Parker Przybylski
Dispersal and connectivity of Monarch butterflies on their eastern route.
(Purdue, FNR)
Denise Peacock
Chlorine and oxygen isotopes to trace chlorate explosives.
(University of Ottawa, EES)
Undergraduate Researchers
Margaret Schneere
Isotope geolocation of South American migratory butterflies.
(Purdue, FNR)
Shayna Morris
Deploying XRF to trace insect pests.
(Purdue, FNR)
Faye Tackett
XRF approaches for estimating vertebrate teeth diagenesis.
(Purdue, FNR)
Alumni
Postdocs:
Felipe Dargent, Lihai Hu, Alejandro Serna, Auguste Hassler, and Giacomo Capuzzo
PhD graduate:
Megan Reich
MS graduates:
Brent Holmes, Shanie Brault Nikolajew, Ghislain Laplante, Eve Lindroos, Sana Ghouri, Shelina Bhuiyan, Myunghak Kang, and Anaelle Fauberteau