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Institution behind the study
Inside a coastal burial complex north of Lima, archaeologists found a naturally mummified hairless dog — the first physical evidence that Peru's hairless breed lived in the Wari Empire centuries before the Inca. Radiocarbon dating puts the specimen at least 1,200 years old, making it the oldest dated object yet recovered from Castillo de Huarmey.
Updated Oct 27
Partner institution on the grounding-zone ice-sheet model
Warm seawater pushes several kilometers inland beneath Thwaites Glacier, and a model that accounts for it doubles the glacier's projected contribution to sea level by 2100, to about 30mm. The study was published Oct. 12 in Nature Communications.
Updated Oct 22
Hosted the companion modeling study
A survey of 15,330 ice cliffs in Antarctica and Greenland found that tall cliffs break apart faster than ice-sheet models assume, then stop retreating. MIT and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution researchers published the results in Science on October 15, 2026.
Updated Oct 17
As of September 2026: Led the study
Dartmouth researchers analyzed 40 years of Landsat satellite imagery and found that alpine zones across the northeastern U.S. and Canada are turning greener. Vegetation increased significantly in 69% of the 35 zones studied, covering 88% of the region's alpine area.
Updated Sep 25
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