Landscape Ecology of Insects
We’ve recently welcomed a few new members to our lab group. Here is a short introduction. Olivia Bernauer joined the lab in June as a lab technician. She is a 2014 graduate of UW–Madison and recently finished her M.S. degree at the University of Maryland in the lab of Dennis van Engelsdorp. Can you tell …
Bees are among the most frequently studied animals, and yet there remains a vast amount of knowledge to be gained about these important pollinators. In this exclusive interview, Kiley Friedrich from the Gratton Lab and Agroecology Master’s program at UW–Madison discusses her research on wild bees and their interactions with native plant communities. …
We had a little fun during our lab meeting this week – take a look at our insect-clad gingerbread house!
A few weeks ago, Gratton Lab member Kaitlin went out to Boulder, CO to participate in a geospatial data hackathon sponsored by the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) and Data Carpentry. The goal of the workshop was to develop a 2-3 day Data Carpentry workshop focused on working with spatial data in R. In particular, …
Gratton Lab member Kaitlin recently gave a research talk as part of the Ecology Seminar series for the Associated Colleges of the Chicago Area, a consortium of 15 private liberal arts colleges in and around Chicago. The schools share a biology colloquium. This fall, the seminar series is located at Benedictine University in Lisle, Illinois. …