Email: ajes@berkeley.edu

Phone: (510) 643-2109

Her research: Jessie is a new graduate student and is developing her research program. "I study macroevolutionary patterns and processes by integrating neontologic and paleontologic data," she says.

Why she loves paleontology: "I love paleontology because it helps us better understand evolution, and because it is humbling to study a field that gives me an appreciation for the long history of life on Earth and puts our little time of existence (as a tiny twig on the 'hugely arborescent tree of life,' as Stephen Jay Gould phrases it) into perspective."