Keynote Speakers
Dr. Rhiannon Stevens
Rhiannon Stevens is an associate professor at University College London.
She completed her D.Phil at the University of Oxford in 2004, before joining the University of Nottingham / NIGL in 2004 and the University of Cambridge in 2007 for post-doctoral research fellowships. In 2015 she joined UCL where she set up the biomolecular archaeology laboratories that include isotope and proteomic facilities. Her research focuses on isotope analysis for archaeological, palaeoecological and paleoclimate research. Her research has been funded by the Royal Society, NERC, the European Research Council, and the Leverhulme Trust.
Dr. Sora Kim
Sora Kim is an Associate Professor at the Department of Life and Environmental sciences at the University of California, Merced, where she also serves as Faculty Director for the Stable Isotope Ecosystem Laboratory of UC Merced. She received a PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2010. Sora’s research sits at the nexus of ecology, physiology, geology and chemistry, and can be described as diverse in both form and function spanning sharks, mammals, nutrient dynamics and lake ecosystem function.
Dr. Seth Newsome
Seth Newsome is an Associate Professor in the Biology Department at the University of New Mexico, where he is also an Associate Director of the UNM Center for Stable Isotopes. He received a PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2005. Seth’s research combines aspects of trophic ecology and physiology in order to develop better models of energy flow, from individual to ecosystem levels.
Dr. Fred Longstaffe
Fred Longstaffe is a Distinguished University Professor and Canada Research Chair in Stable Isotope Science at the Department of Earth Sciences in the University of Western Ontario where he also serves as Director of the Laboratory for Stable Isotope Science and the Western Academy for Advanced Research. He received a PhD from MacMaster University in 1978 and was appointed to the Order of Canada, one of the nation’s highest honors, in 2022 for his research contributions to stable isotope geochemistry. His research spans the atmosphere-hydrosphere-biosphere-lithosphere continuum examining Earth and ecological processes from the Pleistocene to modern day.