Student Summer Internships at the Yale Peabody Museum

Research Project: Paleobotany

Mentor: Shusheng Hu
Collections Manager, Division of Paleobotany,
Yale Peabody Museum
shusheng.hu@yale.edu
Division of Paleobotany Website

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My research interests are aimed at reconstructing the evolutionary history of flowering plants and ferns.

The study of angiosperm fossil flowers, fruits, and pollen grains is crucial to understand why angiosperms appeared suddenly and became dominant during the Cretaceous. It is also important to study pollination biology because the reproductive structures of flowering plants hold clues about the types of pollinators with which they were coevolving.

I am currently focusing on the study of fossil angiosperm flowers, fruits, and pollen grains from Cretaceous clay deposits in order to discover the reasons for the overwhelming diversity of the angiosperms and to understand the coevolution history between the angiosperm and their pollinators. My fern research concentrates on the fossil history of eusporangiate ferns and aquatic ferns by studying their morphology, phylogeny, and diversity.

Above top: Cretaceous angiosperm
pollen clump (scale bar = 10 microns).
Bottom: Cretaceous fossil fern.

To Apply

Interested? Send a one- to two-page project description, along with a letter of support from the mentor of this research project, to the internship program coordinator:

Eric Lazo-Wasem
Senior Collections Manager
Division of Invertebrate Zoology
Peabody Museum of Natural History
Yale University
P.O. Box 208118
New Haven, CT 06520-8118 USA

203.432.3784
Fax 203.432.9816
eric.lazo-wasem@yale.edu


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