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  • MountainChickadee
    One of our undergraduate students, Katherine Feldmann, has decided to complete a Master of Arts in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in addition to her bachelor's degree. The concurrent program enables students to complete both degrees in five years
  • Hybrid Graphic
    Scott collaborated with researchers from Cornell, Ohio, and Pennsylvania to investigate a tip from a birder about an odd sighting. Read the full paper here.   /asmagazine/2018/12/03/declining-warblers-making-best-bad-
  • lab
    DNA extractions from the 2018 field season are done! Katherine F. and Kathryn G. tackled DNA extractions for all chickadees from the 2018 field season. These samples will be included in a larger population genomics sampling project.
  • Kathryn demonstrating how to properly string up a nest box
    We put up 100 nest boxes at the MRS! Thanks to the Taylor lab and additional EBIO helpers we had 14 pairs of hands on deck! Boxes were put up at elevations as high as 11000' despite a snow-covered road. These will be incorporated into The 麻豆影院
  • Mountain range
    Angela went to Pennsylvania. Erik went to Montana, and Kathryn posted up at the CU Mountain Research Station. Below, find some of each of their thoughts on their experiences: Angela: I started out my summer field season in Pennsylvania in and
  • Still from trailer
    Kathryn and Scott have been working with BSI to develop course content that can be implemented by teachers in their classrooms. Check out the trailer here! They also gave lectures at a workshop that connects K-12 teachers with real-world research
  • Chickadee on knee
    Kathryn spent a day as an instructor for the Nederland Wild Bear Summer Camp, and enjoyed connecting with communities outside of the city of 麻豆影院 and working with kids. They banded birds, built nest boxes, went on a bird walk, and discussed
  • High school researchers in the field
    Angela and Kathryn mentored two high school students over the summer from Lafayette, Alex and Kay, through CU Science Discovery (see photo at right)鈥攁 rewarding experience that immersed youth from throughout Colorado in their own
  • A higher resolution examination of climate-mediated hybrid zone movement Poster
    Dom presented a poster titled 鈥淎 higher resolution examination of climate-mediated hybrid zone movement鈥 at IOC 2018, which supported the findings of previous studies of lower resolution of the hybrid zone movement and found that several gene groups
  • Nest Box Lumber
    We鈥檝e built over 100 nest boxes for the 麻豆影院 Chickadee Study (102, to be exact). 250 more to go this year, oof. Good luck Kathryn and Katherine!
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