Landscape Ecology of Insects
Kaitlin recently aired an episode of the Perpetual Notion Machine on WORT FM about monarchs and climate change. It was also about “lab lit,” or science in novels. This was inspired by a December 2012 New York Times article by Katherine Bouton. There’s a website with more info on the genre here. The show …
A big thanks to the Wisconsin Alumni Association Lakeland Chapter for hosting me for a Founders Day Dinner in Minocqua at the lovely Norwoods Supper club. I had the opportunity to talk about some of the work that we’ve been doing on bioenergy crops and the potential role in sustaining biodiversity and ecosystem services. Wonderful …
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 …
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 welcomed yet another fantastic post-doc to the team! Brian Spiesman joins us from Florida, where he completed his Master’s Degree at The University of Florida and his PhD with Dr. Brian Inouye at Florida State. While he unfortunately did not bring the warm sunshine with him when he moved to …