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- Mia Larrieu, a graduate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will be joining the Taylor lab as a NSF Graduate Research Fellow and PhD student this fall. Prior to starting her PhD in our lab, Mia spent a few years as a field research
- Congratulations to Cori and Erik who were recently funded by the Denver Field Ornithologists. Cori will use this grant to sequence nestling chickadee fecal samples collected during the summer 2020 field season around ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ.
- What follows is a modified statement about the recent deaths of Black Americans, including George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and David McAtee, at the hands of white policemen and vigilantes, and the recent racist interaction between a
- Despite operating on a smaller scale than usual (to avoid COVID-19 spread), the second year of the ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Chickadee Study is going strong with almost 50 nests! Cori, master data wrangler, has managed nearly 1200 data submissions from community
- Scott recently had the pleasure of giving one of three plenaries at the 2020 meeting of the Ontario Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution Colloquium (held virtually) hosted this year by Scott's alma mater the University of Guelph. This graduate student
- In spite of several big snowfalls in the past week, chickadee breeding in ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ is off to a roaring start. Thanks to community scientists monitoring 118 ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ backyard boxes, we've identified 7 newly constructed chickadee nests, 23 excavated
- Each year the CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Office of Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement solicits nominations for Equity and Excellence Awards for faculty, staff and students. Scott was nominated by his colleagues Dr. Julian Resasco and Dr. Deane Bowers and is
- With this grant, Cori plans to sequence nestling fecal samples collected in the 2019 field season around ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ to determine what insects chickadee adults are feeding their nestlings. In conjunction with insect surveys conducted around nesting
- Dom, Scott and collaborators Nancy Chen (U Rochester), Bob Curry (Villanova U), and Irby Lovette (Cornell Lab of Ornithology) just published a new paper on chickadee hybridization in Evolution. In this study we used temporal samples and a high-