The Strömberg Lab uses plant fossils to elucidate evolutionary and ecological links between the abiotic environment, plants, and animals through geologic time. Our work is inherently integrative, involving paleontological fieldwork, experimental work on living plants, phylogenetic comparative methods, and geometric morphometrics and image analysis, among other things. To make our research go farther and deeper, we collaborate with ecologists, geochemists, sedimentologists, vertebrate paleontologists, phylogeneticists, and plant physiologists. Grass and grassland evolution is one of the main foci in the lab.

Caroline Strömberg measuring section using a Jacob's staff at Gran Barranca, Patagonia, Argentina.

Land Acknowledgment:
The Strömberg Lab conducts research and teaching at the University of Washington, which stands on the lands of the Coast Salish peoples, whose ancestors have resided here since time immemorial. Many Indigenous peoples thrive in this place — alive and strong.
(adapted from the Burke Museum's Land Acknowledgement)

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