…For winning the best early career poster award at the International Biogeography Society Meeting! Jessica, Kaitlin, and Eric attended this year’s IBS meeting in Bayreuth, Germany to present posters on various research projects. Kaitlin’s poster, entitled “Community level models outperform traditional species distribution models in no analog climates” won the award for best early career poster….
We are excited to welcome Hillary Young to UC Merced today. Dr. Young is speaking in the Quantitative and Systems Biology seminar today on her work linking biodiversity to zoonotic pathogens. Information about Dr. Young and her talk: Cascading Effects of Biodiversity Loss Across Spatial Scales Friday, 9/19 1:30-2:45pm COB 267 Abstract: Biodiversity loss is…
Today marks the transition from summer to fall (in terms of the school year, at least) and wow, it’s been a busy summer. Jessica was involved in a variety of projects- working to get papers off her desk and into review, working up in Yosemite with an awesome REU intern, and at the end of summer,…
We had a lab party on Sunday, with all lab members and their families. We had much to celebrate: Eric finished his first year at UC Merced, Kaitlin got settled into the lab (and it was her birthday!), Juliane finished her B.S. in Human Ecology, and Zara, Joceline, Stefanie, and Tyonia joined the lab this past…
It’s spring break here at UC Merced, which gives me a chance to cross off a whole host of to-do items that have been lingering on my list all semester (including these website updates). Life has been busy, productive, and happy here in Merced. I’m teaching an awesome class this semester- Ecosystems of California- which…