Landscape Ecology of Insects
Last week, members of the Gratton lab attended a Waterfowl Production Area (WPA) public meeting. The WPA project is a multi-scale collaboration between US Fish and Wildlife Service Leopold Management District and UW Madison and the goal of the project is to understand how harvesting grassland vegetation for habitat management and bioenergy production influences waterfowl, …
Jade Kochanski, an undergraduate in the Gratton lab, was recently awarded two prestigious scholarships from the UW College of Agriculture and Life Sciences: the Howard P. Gutgessell Agricultural Scholarship, and the Norman F. Olson Family Scholarship. These are awarded in recognition of outstanding academic performance and contributions to the missions of the department. Jade has …
Two papers, written by Gratton lab members, were recently accepted. Both are modeling papers that use GIS to examine the causes and consequences of land-use change. In Tim and Claudio’s paper, they model tradeoffs of multiple ecosystem services (e.g., carbon sequestration, nitrous oxide emissions, pest control, and pollination) from converting annual cropping systems …
See a video made about the Gratton Lab’s research on native bees, land-use change and agricultural management. This video was created and published for UWRightNow, a multimedia project that aims to capture as much about UW-Madison life as possible through videos, stories, and images collected in a 24-hour period. Link to video: http://uwrightnow.wisc.edu/posts/2522
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 …