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Month: April 2015

Back from Galapagos…

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…

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Irby Lovette April 29, 2015 - 1:28 pm April 29, 2015Courses, Irby Lovette, Nick Mason, Travel, Undergraduate

Stepfanie gets a grant for flicker hybrid zone genomics

Congrats to first-year grad student Stepfanie Aguillon for being awarded a research grant from the Wilson Ornithological Society in support of her exploration of the Northern Flicker hybrid zone using genomic tools.

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Irby Lovette April 29, 2015 - 1:24 pm April 29, 2015Awards, Grants, Research, Stepfanie Aguillon

Ben and Alexa teach our first-ever Advanced Tropical Ornithology course

Grad student Ben Freeman and postdoc Alexa Class are in the final week of teaching Cornell’s first-ever Advanced Tropical Ornithology course this semester to a group of juniors and seniors, including a very successful expedition to Costa Rica over Spring Break where the students conducted a series of robust independent…

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Irby Lovette April 29, 2015 - 11:32 am April 29, 2015Courses, Travel, Undergraduate

Paper on crows by Postdoc David Toews

David mentored the first author, a UBC undergraduate, on this project that used remote field recordings near an urban roost in Vancouver to estimate roost departure time. They found that northwestern crows seemed to maintain a semi-natural circadian rhythm in their roost departures, even with strong variation between days in…

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Irby Lovette April 29, 2015 - 9:21 am April 29, 2015David Toews, Publications

Galapagos update

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.

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Irby Lovette April 9, 2015 - 6:00 pm April 9, 2015Courses, Irby Lovette, Nick Mason, Travel, Undergraduate

Becca sees the (western) light!

Congratulations to Becca Brunner (former undergrad and more recently our jack-of-all-trades teacher, course developer, editor, etc. while also a MS student in the Webster Lab) for deciding to head west to Berkeley for her PhD studies starting this Fall!

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Irby Lovette April 9, 2015 - 4:41 pm April 9, 2015Academic achievements, Becca Brunner

Double congratulations to Kate Bemis!

Congratulations to Kate on finishing her last semester at Cornell with a string of successes, including an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for her forthcoming PhD studies and for being the senior selected for the CALS Academic Excellence Award in the Natural Resources major!

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Irby Lovette April 8, 2015 - 5:27 pm April 8, 2015Awards, Grants, Undergraduate
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