Abbreviated CV
Carson P. Hedberg
Education
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM
M.S and Ph.D., Biology
Graduate Advisor: Felisa Smith
Anticipated graduation: May 2024
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Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
B.A., Earth and Environmental Science
Undergraduate Advisor: Larisa DeSantis
Graduation: May 2016, cum laude
Grants & Awards
2018 National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship
2019 Paleontology Society, Poster Award (2nd place)
2019 International Biogeography Society, Travel Award
2020 University of New Mexico, Research Coaching Fellowship
2021 American Society of Mammalogists, A. Brazier Howell Award
2021 Biology Graduate Student Association, Research Award
2021 UNM Biology Department, Summer Research Award
2021 UNM Biology Department, Joseph Gaudin Award
2021 Sevilleta LTER, Summer Research Fellowship
2021 CPEG, Presentation Award (1st place)
2022 UNM Biology Department, Joseph Gaudin Award
2022 Sevilleta LTET, Summer Research Fellowship
2022 UNM Graduate Studies, Doctoral Conference Presentation Award
2022 American Society of Mammalogists, Grant-in-Aid of Research
2022 UNM Graduate Student Association, New Mexico Research Grant
2023 UNM Biology Department, Joseph Gaudin Award
2023 American Society of Mammalogists, Student Travel Award
Publications
Smith, F., Elliott Smith, E., Hedberg, C., Lyons, S., Pardi, M., & Tomé, C. (2023). After the mammoths: The ecological legacy of late Pleistocene megafauna extinctions. Cambridge Prisms: Extinction, 1-55. https://doi.org/10.1017/ext.2023.6
Hedberg, C. P., Lyons, S. K., & Smith, F. A. (2021). The hidden legacy of megafaunal extinction: Loss of functional diversity and resilience over the Late Quaternary at Hall’s Cave. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 31, 294– 307.
https://doi-org/10.1111/geb.13428
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Hedberg, C., & DeSantis, L. R. G. (2017). Dental microwear texture analysis of extant koalas: clarifying causal agents of microwear. Journal of Zoology, 301(3), 206-214. https://doi-org/10.1111/jzo.12413
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DeSantis, L. R. G., & Hedberg, C. (2017). Stable isotope ecology of the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus). Australian Journal of Zoology, 64 (5), 353-359. https://doi.org/10.1071/ZO16057
Presentations
Hedberg, C. P., S. K. Lyons, Smith, Felisa A., “Know thy neighbor: Unpacking patterns in mammal functional and phylogenetic diversity in the Anthropocene.” June 2022. American Society of Mammalogists Annual Meeting. Tucson, AZ.
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Hedberg, C. P., S.K. Lyons, Smith, Felisa A., “Know thy neighbor: Unpacking patterns in mammal functional and phylogenetic diversity in the Anthropocene.” June 2022. International Biogeography Society Biennial Conference. Vancouver, BC.
Hedberg, C. P., Smith, F. A. “Know thy neighbor: Unpacking functional and phylogenetic diversity gradients in the Anthropocene.” October 2021. International Biogeography Society Early Career Biogeographers Conference (virtual).
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Hedberg, C. P., S. K. Lyons, Smith, F. A. “The hidden legacy of megafaunal extinction: Functional diversity and ecosystem resilience loss over the Late Quaternary.” September 2021. 2nd Crossing the Paleontological Ecological Gap Conference (virtual).
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Hedberg, C. P., S. K. Lyons, Smith, F. A. “The hidden legacy of megafaunal extinction: Functional diversity and ecosystem resilience loss over the Late Quaternary.” June 2021. American Society of Mammalogists Annual Meeting (virtual).
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Hedberg, C. P., S. K. Lyons, Smith, F. A. “The hidden legacy of megafaunal extinction: A fine-scale examination of functional diversity over the Late Quaternary.” October 2020. Society for Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting (virtual).
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Rovelli, R. C., A. J. Cotter, C. H. Dwyer, N. A. Freymueller, K. H. Gaines, C. P. Hedberg, J. S. Keller, J. S. Silviria, J. D. Witts, J. R. Moore, and C. E. Myers. 2019. “Using PaleoENM to predict patterns of survivorship in the Hell Creek Formation across the K/Pg mass extinction”. September 2019. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting. Phoenix, AZ
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Hedberg, C. P., DeSantis, L. R. G “Clarifying causal agents of dental microwear formation as revealed by koalas.” October 2016. Society for Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT