University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Outreach

A year in the life of a field ecologist

  Check out this story by Krista Eastman about bioenergy fieldwork in the Gratton lab! Fieldwork Season Nets Insects, Explores Bioenergy Crop Impacts-By Krista Eastman On a lightly overcast morning in early June, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) and UW-Madison entomologist Claudio Gratton’s team of researchers and technicians file into a passenger van and …

Pollinator Resources – Check it out!

We have put together a special page for pollinator specific resources!  This page points farmers, other scientists, and anyone interested in pollinator protection to a collection of resources available both online, and in-text that can help YOU protect bees regardless of where you live! Check it out here!

Article on ecosystem service tradeoffs

Check out the nice article that the GLBRC Communications folks put together regarding a recent Gratton Lab paper about ecosystem service tradeoffs that come with working perennial energy crops into agricultural landscapes.

Midwest Food Processors – Pollinator Talk

This week, lab member Hannah Gaines Day presented a talk about pollinators for the 109th Midwest Food Processors Association’s Annual Convention in Milwaukee.  To view her presentation slides, please see below.  For more information on pollinator conservation, please visit our Pollinator Resource Page.  

Gratton Lab @ ESA 2013

Last week, the Entomological Society of America held their annual meetings in the Texas capital of Austin.  Record attendance (over 3,200 people!) marked this as a great opportunity for members of the Gratton lab to share their research, and share they did!  Several of us presented works there, including Hannah, who placed second in the …