Landscape Ecology of Insects
As summer approaches, here’s a preview of the our fieldwork projects… Pollinators in bioenergy landscapes: This project is trying to understand the impact pollinator conservation strips around switchgrass plantings have on native pollinator communities. Fieldwork will be conducted at study sites throughout Central Virginia working with partners in the biofuel industry as well as a groups …
Intrepid post-doc alum David Hoekman, who is now a staff scientist at NEON Inc., the NSF-funded center for continental scale ecology and monitoring recently wrote this piece for their blog on his research in Iceland. Thanks David for the great summary! Tracking isotopes to illuminate Nature’s grand recycling program by David Hoekman January 22, 2013 …
With the Autumnal Equinox just around the corner (Saturday the 22nd in fact…) we find the Fall semester here at UW–Madison well under way. The Gratton Lab has is saying “Farewell!” to our postdocs David, who has already left for NEON, and Heidi who will be leaving us shortly for Sewanee. We’ve also added a …
Interested in graduate school? Want to work at an exotic, remote field site near the arctic circle? Interested in the linkages between lakes and land. Then read on! PhD Research Assistantship in Terrestrial Food Web Ecology University of Wisconsin – Madison We are looking for a motivated student interested in pursuing a PhD at the …
This is probably one of the most frequent questions I get when I tell people about the work we do here in Iceland. How does someone who has worked mainly in temperate areas, mostly in agricultural systems and salt marshes, with no general propensity for nordic climates (the southern European thing, you know), end up …