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Kathryn and Scott have been working with BSI to develop course content that can be implemented by teachers in their classrooms. Check out the trailer here! They also gave lectures at a workshop that connects K-12 teachers with real-world research
Kathryn spent a day as an instructor for the Nederland Wild Bear Summer Camp, and enjoyed connecting with communities outside of the city of Boulder and working with kids. They banded birds, built nest boxes, went on a bird walk, and discussed
Angela and Kathryn mentored two high school students over the summer from Lafayette, Alex and Kay, through CU Science Discovery (see photo at right)—a rewarding experience that immersed youth from throughout Colorado in their own
Dom presented a poster titled “A higher resolution examination of climate-mediated hybrid zone movement” at IOC 2018, which supported the findings of previous studies of lower resolution of the hybrid zone movement and found that several gene groups
We’ve built over 100 nest boxes for the Boulder Chickadee Study (102, to be exact). 250 more to go this year, oof. Good luck Kathryn and Katherine!
Katherine spoke at the REU meeting on her research into plumage variation between two social bird species. She has been busy mapping chickadee sightings and collecting data from captured birds at the Mountain Research Station, and is gearing up to
Scott was the keynote speaker at the 2018 CFO convention and gave a talk on his recent work on chickadees, redpolls, and warblers titled, “Insights into avian evolutionary ecology from genomes and citizens.” Scott had a great time at the convention
The latest edition of The Auk: Ornithological Advances will contain a paper by our very own Erik Funk, which is the product of his work as a Masters student at San Diego State University under the supervision of Dr. Kevin Burns.Erik reconstructed
Dom’s Cheddar Herb Bread really took the cake at the first annual Great Taylor Lab Bakeoff. He properly proved both his bread and his baking skills. Good bake!The rest of the competition was as stiff as a good sourdough starter, and we applaud
Congrats to Katherine Feldmann, one of our undergraduate researchers, for fully funding her upcoming research with a UROP Individual Grant, an NSF funded REU, and an EBIO Hesse grant! She recently presented a poster on her plans for the summer at an