Publications

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Academic Publications

2025

Yang, D., Podkovyroff K., Uno K. T., Bowen G. J., Fernandez D. P., Cerling T. E., 2025. Strontium isotope mapping of elephant enamel supports an integrated microsampling-modeling workflow to reconstruct herbivore migrations. Nature Communications Biology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07686-9

2024

O’Brien, K., Podkovyroff K., Fernandez D. P., Tryon C. A., Cerling T. E., Ashioya L., and Faith T.J., 2024. Limited herbivore migration during the Last Glacial Period of Kenya. Nature Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02413-9

2023

Yang, D., Bowen G. J., Uno K. T., Podkovyroff K., Carpenter N. A., Fernandez D. P., Cerling T. E., 2023. BITS: A Bayesian Isotope Turnover and Sampling model for strontium isotopes in proboscideans and its potential utility in movement ecology. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14218

O’Brien, K., Podkovyroff K., Fernandez D. P., Tryon C. A., Ashioya L., and Faith T.J., 2023. Migratory behavior in the enigmatic Late Pleistocene bovid Rusingoryx atopocranion. Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fearc.2023.1237714

Podkovyroff, K. and Fernandez, D. P. 2023. An Individual Migration Story: Comparing Strontium Isotope Analysis In Enamel, Ivory, And Food Sources From A Single Modern Elephant. Range: Undergraduate Research Journal University of Utah.

Science Communication Publications and Media Highlights:

Misha lived in zoos, but the elephant’s tooth enamel helps reconstruct wildlife migrations: Utah geologists show how strontium isotopes found in teeth or tusks reveal where large plant-eating animals have roamed. March 2025. University of Utah @theU.

Behind the Paper: How a zoo elephant helps us understand megaherbivore migration. February 2025. Springer Research blog.

UO National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellows. September 2023. University of Oregon Division of Graduate Studies.

A conversation with Charlotte Devitz on breaking barriers to accessibility in the field. July 2023. Journal Integrative and Comparative Biology blog post.

College of Arts and Sciences Humans of the U highlight. May 2023. University of Utah, College of Arts and Sciences.

Humans of the U: Katya Podkovyroff Lewis. May 2023. University of Utah @theU.

Covering climate change in 2021 and beyond. November 2020. International Journalists’ Network (ijnet).

How are newsrooms keeping readers informed on COVID-19? Here are some examples from around the globe. March 2020. International Journalists’ Network (ijnet).