After almost three years at UC Merced, with two postdocs, four graduate students, and many undergraduate students doing exciting work in the lab, our research descriptions were a bit outdated. A major fall project for me and the lab has been to update the descriptions of what we do, and it’s finally (mostly) done! This…
Kaitlin Maguire will be leaving the Blois lab at the end of this week! Kaitlin got a job as an Ecologist and Statistician for the USGS in Boise, Idaho. She will be joining the Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center and primarily working on a project modeling the effects of fire and other ecosystem disturbances on communities….
And here are the entries for Danaan and Eric. We’ve got a good mix of final predicted winners in the lab. Jessica, Sarah, and Kaitlin all predict Amphicyonidae to win (hmmm…coincidence that the most senior folks have the same final prediction? I think not- surely it’s the wisdom of age), Eric predicts the Rougarou, Danaan the…
The Blois lab is gearing up for the 2015 edition of Mammal March Madness! We are so excited about this years competition. Last year, we participated as a lab group. This year, we’re ramping up the intra-lab competition and each filling out our own brackets. Entries so far are pretty consistent: Jessica, Kaitlin, and Sarah…
This Presidents’ day, the Blois lab decided to put the day off school to good use—to get a jump on some research! We will soon be starting a project sampling small mammals at the Vernal Pools reserve, located right behind UCM. This project will have two purposes: to give the reserve managers an idea of…