Landscape Ecology of Insects
What does square dancing have to do with water quality? Potentially lots! Earlier this semester Kaitlin received an Emerging Interfaces Award from the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery (WID) to explore the role that hand-holding could have on peoples’ ability to work together to solve environmental problems. In particular, she was interested in working with …
Recently, Claudio was interviewed by the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences about our research related to native bees. Listen to the clip here: claudio_gratton_native_bees. Audio and photo courtesy of Sevie Kenyon. Posted by Hannah Gaines
Last week I had the great fortune to be invited to Cornell University to give some lectures. I say “some” because I had the privilege to talk about our Iceland work to the Ecology and Evolutionary biology program and then a few hours later I gave a talk on our bioenergy-related landscape work to the Entomology …
Claudio Gratton, associate professor of entomology, is among eleven young UW-Madison faculty to receive a 2012 Romnes Faculty Fellowship. The Romnes awards recognize exceptional faculty members who have earned tenure within the last four years. Winners receive an unrestricted $50,000 award for research, supported by WARF. Gratton works on the landscape ecology of insects in …
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTmtoyeo8J4] Courtesy of Nicole Miller, CALS A CALS grad student’s research on whether native bees can take over the job of pollinating Wisconsin’s commercial crops is the topic of this new YouTube video slideshow. CALS science writer Nicole Miller produced the slideshow, in which Hannah Gaines, a Ph.D. student in the entomology department, talks …