Lab News

Zoology retreat 2012

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 …

Oh the places you’ll go

  The Center for Culture, History, and Environment graduate group recently hosted a place-based storytelling slam.  10 or so graduate students in a range of environmental fields shared stories of their work or life where place was pivotal. Full audio will be up soon, but in the meantime, here’s the link to a story that …

Claudio to present in departmental seminar

Join us on Friday, October 26th to hear Claudio’s talk “Sustainable bio-energy landscapes: can we balance our needs for biodiversity and production?” 2 – 3pm, 184 Russell Labs (1630 Linden Drive), as part of the Department of Forest & Wildlife Ecology seminar series.

Mentoring women in STEM

Kaitlin is co-leading Women in Technology Sharing Online (WitsOn!) today, an online open source six-week course and discussion for women, from middle school through graduate school, in STEM fields. She’s writing about her non-linear path to a career and higher education in ecology, as well her experience as a female scientist in the workplace.  Join …

Going away party for Heidi, Chase and Forrest

The Gratton Lab crew used the sad occasion that our postdoc Heidi is leaving us for Sewanee to have a party at la casa di Gratton. We also had to say goodbye to our LTEs Chase and Forrest who were a great help to us especially during the field season.