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Team<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

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\u2014many of whom have earned competitive fellowships and awards and gone on to successful careers in academia, government, and industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Principal Investigator<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Clement P. Bataille<\/a>\u2014Belcher 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.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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Interested in becoming a lab member?<\/p>\n

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Postdoctoral Researchers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\"Megan<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Megan Reich<\/a>
Developing numerical tools and R packages to track insects using isotopes. (Purdue, FNR)<\/em><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\"Yijie<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Yijie Tian<\/strong>
Habitat-suitability models for Beringian megafauna
(CAGT, University of Toulouse; co-advised with Ludovic Orlando)<\/em><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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PhD Students<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\"Cooper<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Cooper Caputo<\/a>
Isotope geolocation to trace migration between marine and freshwater environments.
(Purdue, FNR)<\/em><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\"Isabela<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Isabela Souza<\/strong>
Isotope geolocation tools to track Amazon wood.
(University of S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil; co-advised with Luiz Martinelli)<\/em><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\"Eve<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Eve Lindroos<\/strong>
Multi-isotope reconstruction of Beringian bison paleoecology.
(University of Toulouse; co-advised with Klervia Jaouen)<\/em><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\"Marrissa<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Marrissa Miller<\/strong>
Multi-isotope geolocation of migratory dragonflies across the Afro-Palearctic.
(Carleton University; co-advised with T. Sherratt)<\/em><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\"Sarina<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Sarina Cotroneo<\/strong>
Lithium isotopes in natural systems.
(University of Ottawa; co-advised with I. Clark)<\/em><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\"Zoe<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Zoe Landry<\/strong>
Beringian horse paleomobility.
(University of Ottawa; co-advised with D. Fraser)<\/em><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\"Roger<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Roger L\u00f3pez-Ma\u00f1as<\/strong>
Combining niche models and isotopes in insect migration.
(University of Barcelona; co-advised with G. Talavera and C. Domingo)<\/em><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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MS Students<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\"Jess<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Jess Devine<\/strong>
Strontium isotopes for retracing the origin of cycads.
(University of Cape Town; co advised with A. West)<\/em><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\"Parker<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Parker Przybylski<\/strong>
Dispersal and connectivity of Monarch butterflies on their eastern route.
(Purdue, FNR)<\/em><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\"Denise<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Denise Peacock<\/strong>
Chlorine and oxygen isotopes to trace chlorate explosives.
(University of Ottawa, EES)<\/em><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Undergraduate Researchers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\"Person<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Margaret Schneere<\/strong>
Isotope geolocation of South American migratory butterflies.
(Purdue, FNR)<\/em><\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\"Shayna<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Shayna Morris<\/strong>
Deploying XRF to trace insect pests.
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\"Faye<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Faye Tackett<\/strong>
XRF approaches for estimating vertebrate teeth diagenesis.
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Alumni<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Postdocs:<\/strong>
Felipe Dargent, Lihai Hu, Alejandro Serna, Auguste Hassler, and Giacomo Capuzzo<\/p>\n\n\n\n


PhD graduate:<\/strong>
Megan Reich<\/p>\n\n\n\n


MS graduates:<\/strong>
Brent Holmes, Shanie Brault Nikolajew, Ghislain Laplante, Eve Lindroos, Sana Ghouri, Shelina Bhuiyan, Myunghak Kang, and Anaelle Fauberteau<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-106","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":80,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106\/revisions\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/bataille\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}