Irby appointed as Fuller Professor of Ornithology: This is old news in some ways, but the Cornell Chronicle just ran an article about the new Fuller Chair of Ornithology: http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/10/fuller-gift-keeps-lab-ornithology-soaring. I’m very proud to be associated in this role with Larry and Nancy Fuller, who have long been such staunch…
Postdoc Leo Campagna’s new paper on dissecting the complex demographic and phylogenetic history of the Sporophila seedeaters is just out in Molecular Ecology. In addition to revealing new insights into this avian rapid radiation, Leo and his collaborators also make some useful but sobering points about the potential for spurious…
107 years of avian ecology: (from Irby) I’m enjoying a double pilgrimage to two of the most historically important touch-stones of avian ecology in North America. Earlier in the week I was in Acadia National Park in Maine, where Bik Wheeler (a graduate student at nearby College of the Atlantic)…
Travelogue video from our Spring 2015 Galapagos courses for freshmen — these include a trip through the archipelago as well as intensive coverage of evolutionary biology (BioEE1780, 5 credits) and the humanities (through a writing course centered on the perspectives of different travelers on Galapagos, WRIT1430, 3 credits). Courses and…
Irby just returned from the Galapagos after helping to lead the 2015 ‘Galapagos Curriculum’ for 12 Cornell freshmen, in partnership with grad students Nick Mason and Lina Arcila. As the students returned to campus, Irby stayed on to lead two very fun voyages around the archipelago for Lab of Ornithology…
Nick is back from Galapagos along with the 12 freshmen in our “Galapagos curriculum,” an 8-credit series of Humanities and Science courses that includes the Spring Break trip to the Galapagos. Irby carries on in Galapagos leading two back-to-back trips for Lab of Ornithology members.
Irby and Nick are spending the first week of April (i.e., Spring Break) in Galapagos along with the 12 Cornell freshmen enrolled in our two-course Galapagos curriculum. Boobies, tortoises, finches, penguins, iguanas, and much more await!
Irby and Leo will co-lead a new undergraduate seminar and field course entitled “Ecology and Conservation of Wildlife in the Neotropics” in Fall 2015. The course will meet throughout the Fall semester, and then have a two-week field learning component in wildlife-rich coastal Patagonia in January 2016. Students who want…
This all-species phylogeny for the nine-primaried oscine passerines (a clade of about 800 species of warblers, orioles, blackbirds, tanagers, cardinals, sparrows, and related birds) is the result of a long collaboration between our lab and colleagues at three other institutions.
I (Irby) just returned from leading a trip to Galapagos for 12 Lab of Ornithology members, including our recently retired lab manager Laura Stenzler. My video highlight reel from this trip is at http://youtu.be/7iSRASwRbaQ. Most special natural history moments this time around included swimming with orcas at VERY close range,…
A warm welcome to Fausto, who is the in-country leader and organizer of all of our Galapagos courses for Cornell students and trips for Lab of Ornithology members — and who is also an exceptional Galapagos naturalist in general. This is Fausto’s first visit to Cornell, though he already has…
Irby has just been promoted to the rank of full Professor at Cornell.
Irby Lovette, Becca Brunner, and Nick Mason are in Galapagos over Spring Break with the 12 freshmen enrolled in their semester-long Galapagos curriculum: a 5-credit version of the Introductory Evolution course and a 3-credit Freshman Writing Seminar.
Irby has been elected by the Cornell faculty to a three-year term as a member at large of the University Senate.