Landscape Ecology of Insects
Kaitlin just produced and aired another Perpetual Notion Machine science radio show for WORT 89.9 FM in town, this time interviewing recent UW–Madison Entomology PhD recipient Dr. Sai Suryanarayanan and his current collaborator, Dr. Daniel Kleinman, about colony collapse disorder. They’re actually in the Department of Community and Environmental Sociology, which may sound surprising. But! …
The Gratton Lab recently went bowling together in Union South to thank Amanda for her years of hard work and positive energy as a lab assistant with us. She recently accepted a position with the WI Department of Natural Resources related to deer management. Amanda was a Wildlife Ecology graduate of UW–Madison in 2011. Thanks …
Gratton lab members just attended Emma’s skit, as part of the fourth annual Agroecology Plays. Emma is a Masters student in the UW–Madison Agroecology program. Her group’s skit was about seed saving, genetic modification, and multinational corporations’ role in plant genetics and farm futures. Agroecology-affiliated professors Michael Bell and Jack Kloppenburg made …
During the past week, the Gratton Lab members attended the annual Entomological Society of America national conference in Knoxville, TN. We had two car loads drive the 12 hours down to TN , with both presenters and non-presenters in attendance. This was the first time some of us (Maddy, Emma, Kaitlin) had been to this …
Hannah and Kaitlin joined several other Zoology program graduate students for the annual fall retreat at the University of Wisconsin’s Trout Lake research station a few weekends ago. Zoology graduate students are spread across campus in at least five different buildings, so the fall retreat is a great opportunity to meet other students, learn about …