When we hear paleontology, we usually think about fossils like bones, teeth, and plant leaves. However, there is a diversity of microfossils in the rocks that can give us an even more detailed look into the world of the past. On this episode, Dr. Ingrid Romero joins us to chat about the study of palynology, which looks at the microscopic fossil world of pollen, spores, and dinoflagellates!

Ingrid Romero is a Colombian Biologist and Palynologist interested in understanding past environmental changes. She did her PhD at University of Illinois, and throughout her career she has been working with microfossils from the Neotropics, especially the last 65 million years. Her research includes a study about the marine incursions in the Cenozoic of northern South America and the application of machine learning on fossil pollen identification. She is currently a postdoctoral associate working on a project about fungi in a warmer world at Morehead State University.

Photo taken by Dr. Jen O'Keefe

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