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. …