Landscape Ecology of Insects
A large part of the Gratton Lab recently made a trip across the border to Minneapolis for this year’s annual Entomological Society of America meeting. It was a great time to catch up with old friends, alums and to hear great talks as well. Jeremy Hemberger and Kaitlin Stack-Whitney were in the student competition and got runner’s …
Videographers had a chance to catch up with Kiley at her poster to get her research story from this summer. Check it out below!
A few weeks ago, Gratton Lab member Kaitlin went out to Boulder, CO to participate in a geospatial data hackathon sponsored by the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) and Data Carpentry. The goal of the workshop was to develop a 2-3 day Data Carpentry workshop focused on working with spatial data in R. In particular, …
Gratton Lab member Kaitlin recently gave a research talk as part of the Ecology Seminar series for the Associated Colleges of the Chicago Area, a consortium of 15 private liberal arts colleges in and around Chicago. The schools share a biology colloquium. This fall, the seminar series is located at Benedictine University in Lisle, Illinois. …
Recently, members of the Gratton lab (Tania Kim, Savannah Bartel, and Natalie Hernandez) and Doug Landis lab at MSU (Bill Wills) visited the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History to view specimens from their ant collection. Ants play important roles in perennial grasslands. As natural predators, they eat …