Contact

Welander Laboratory
Green Earth Sciences Building
367 Panama St., Room 201
Stanford, CA 94305-4216

Email: welander@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 723-7341
Fax: (650) 723-5099

About Paula

Navigating the Academic Path as a First-Gen Latina Scientist

Watch Dr. Paula Welander trace her path in academia. This event is part of the #Stanford Earth Celebrates series honoring Latinx heritage month and the contributions of the Hispanic and Latinx community in the Earth and Environmental sciences.

Q&A: What does it mean to be Latinx in the geosciences?

Stanford Earth recently transitioned the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) into its new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative. As part an effort to celebrate and discuss identity, six Stanford Earth members share how their ethnic-cultural backgrounds have informed and impacted their careers.

Overlooked process in bacteria may shed light on ancient environments

Geologists assume when they find molecules called sterols in soils or rocks they indicate the presence of plants, animals or fungi in ancient environments. But discovering how some bacteria also produce and modify sterols could change those interpretations.

Microbes help solve a central mystery of ancient ocean temperatures

Paula Welander led a research team that studied archaea with the goal of understanding past global temperatures and Earth system dynamics.

A microbe's membrane helps it survive extreme environments

“Our model is that this organism evolved the ability to make these membranes because it lives in an environment where the acidity changes”

Bacterial discovery solves 20-year-old molecular paleontology mystery

A fatty molecule once thought to be unique to flowering plants has turned up in bacteria skimmed from the Adriatic Sea and may provide biotech insights.