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October 25 |
Erin Spevak and Dan
Strain will be joining our lab in the spring. Erin has
worked for the past two seasons in Ellen
Ketterson / Val
Nolan's lab (Indiana University) on immune function and
symmetry in juncos. Dan comes to us from Barry
Sinervo's lab (UC Santa Cruz) where he worked on escape
behavior and its relationship with maternal hormone
investment and cryptic coloration in side-blotched lizards. |
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October 04 |
It rained today at
Hastings! The first real precipitation since April 2nd. The
6-month drought has ended. |
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September 23 |
Our acorn harvesting
paper was published in Evolutionary Ecology Research today. |
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September 16 |
Walt finishes up the
acorn survey and heads back to Cornell. |
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September 16 |
Not to be outdone by
Kyle, Anna saw her first mountain lion today. |
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September 8 |
Kyle saw his first
mountain lion today. Not bad for only being here a week! |
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September 5 |
Our pigeon
die-off paper was published in the Wilson Journal of
Ornithology today. |
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September 2 |
Walt & Jean begin
the annual California Acorn Survey. |
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September 1 |
Kyle Funk joins the lab
as one of our winter field assistants, after recently
working on American Coots in Bruce Lyon's lab at UC Santa Cruz. |
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August 30 |
Lab alum Doug Morin
reports that he has accepted a position working in Irby
Lovette's lab at Cornell University. |
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August 27 |
Lab alum Archer Larned
leaves to begin her PhD research on bowerbirds with Gerald
Borgia (University of Maryland) at their study site at Wallaby Creek, NSW,
Australia. |
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August 23 |
Anna Brownson joins the
lab as one of our winter field assistants. Anna is currently
an undergraduate at Hope College in Holland, MI; where she
has been working in Kathy
Winnett-Murray's lab studying aggression
behavior in Eastern Bluebirds. |
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August 16 |
Dean Bogart leaves to
resume his studies at Prescott College. |
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August 11 |
Walt presents at the
ISBE meeting in Ithaca, NY. |
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August 5 |
Walt presents at the
AOU meeting in Portland, OR. |
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August 1 |
Farewell party at MVZ
for Walt. After 36 years at Berkeley, he's starting a new
position at Cornell University. |
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July 24 |
Margaret Kellogg leaves
to return to Cornell University. |
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July 22 |
Catherine Dale leaves
to start a PhD program at Queen's University in Kingston,
ON. |
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July 16 |
Ian Taff leaves to
return to Marlboro College (Marlboro, VT) where he is finishing up
his undergraduate thesis on the evolution of avian
characters in Galapagos avifauna. |
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July 15 |
Hastings is evacuated
due to the proximity of the Basin Complex fire. |
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July 14 |
Andrea Gear leaves for
a new position in Mauritius where she will be studying the
Mauritius Kestrel. |
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July 10 |
Dean Bogart starts as
our summer field assistant. Dean is currently an
undergraduate at Prescott College (Prescott, AZ). |
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July 9 |
Our acorn harvesting
paper is accepted to Evolutionary Ecology Research. |
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July 8 |
Acorn Woodpecker 2056
takes over the all time age record (16 years and counting).
He was banded June 1st, 1992 as a nestling at group Plaque. |
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May 10 |
Catherine Dale begins
work on a study of mate guarding, freshly graduated with her
MSc from Dalhousie University (Halifax, NS), where she
studied the Ipswich Sparrow on Sable Island, NS. |
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April 17 |
Eric accepts a position
as Reviewing Editor for Condor. |
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April 15 |
Ian Taff moves down
from Spokane to join us at
Hastings to begin work as one of our spring field
assistants. |
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March 16 |
Emma Moran leaves to
take a position as head tech in Tom Miller's lab at Florida
State University (Tallahassee, FL). |
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March 15 |
Andrea Gear joins us at
Hastings to begin work as one of our spring field
assistants. |
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March 15 |
Doug Morin leaves to
take a position with Elaina Tuttle (Indiana State
University), studying white-throated sparrows at Cranberry
Lake, NY. |
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February 1 |
Ian Taff starts working
with Joey Haydock at Gonzaga University (Spokane, WA), helping to analyze
our woodpecker parentage data. Ian previously worked in Corey Freeman-Gallant's lab
(Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY) studying Common
Yellowthroats. |
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January 11 |
Our Molecular Ecology
paper was accepted. |
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January 3 |
Eric speaks to the
Mount Diablo Audubon Society in Walnut Creek about our
woodpecker research. |
