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Month: April 2018

Stepfanie and grad diversity preview weekend featured by Grad School

The Cornell graduate school just posted an nice article about this year’s EEB graduate student diversity preview weekend, which was co-led by Stepfanie Aguillon from our lab group. This event is a stellar example of the graduate students self-organizing to work together in a targeted, highly effective way to increase…

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Irby Lovette April 17, 2018 - 1:21 pm April 17, 2018Uncategorized

Great talks and posters from our lab at AOS!

Cornell researchers past and present were everywhere in this year’s presentations at the American Ornithological Society meeting in Tuscon, including these strong contributions by current or very recent members of our own core lab group: Graduate student Stepfanie Aguillon led off with her strong talk on how “genomic data provide…

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Irby Lovette April 14, 2018 - 6:54 pm April 14, 2018Uncategorized

Nick Mason wins Jenkins Award at AOS!

Warmest of congratulations to recently degreed Dr. Nick Mason for being recognized with the 2018 Marion Jenkins Award by the AOS! This award recognizes “an early or mid career ornithologist who has performed continued extensive service to the society, which includes holding elected offices but emphasizes volunteered contributions and committee…

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Irby Lovette April 14, 2018 - 6:04 pm April 14, 2018Uncategorized

Our paper wins inaugural ‘best paper’ Kessel award

We were surprised and delighted to find that our 2015 phylogeny paper in the Auk has won the first Brina Kessel Award, which will be given every two years to recognize “an outstanding paper published in the four preceding years in The Auk.” A fun element of the backstory is…

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Irby Lovette April 14, 2018 - 5:56 pm April 14, 2018Uncategorized

Dr. Jen Walsh and others are AOS Elective Members!

Congratulations to Dr. Jen Walsh, a postdoc in our lab group, for being voted in as an Elective Member of the American Ornithological Society. This professional honor is based on having made “significant contributions to ornithology,” which Jen has certainly done through her large body of research and through mentoring…

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Irby Lovette April 14, 2018 - 5:41 pm April 14, 2018Uncategorized

Scott Taylor wins Johnson Award

Congratulations to Dr. Scott Taylor, until recently a postdoc in our lab and now an assistant professor at U. Colorado, for winning the 2018 Ned K. Johnson Young Investigator Award, which recognizes “outstanding and promising work by a researcher early in his or her career in any field of ornithology.” Scott’s…

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Irby Lovette April 14, 2018 - 5:33 pm April 14, 2018Uncategorized

Birds and Festivities in southern Arizona

Many members of our greater lab group spent yesterday birding in and around Sierra Vista in far southern Arizona. After enjoying Painted Redstarts, Arizona Woodpeckers, Buff-breasted Flycatchers, Vermilion Flycatchers, and dozens of other great birds, we gathered for the afternoon at the Aguillon family home for a wonderful BBQ, with…

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Irby Lovette April 11, 2018 - 4:49 pm April 11, 2018Uncategorized

Retracing Darwin in the Galápagos

Irby Lovette, Natalie Hoffmeister, and Liz Clayton Fuller just returned from teaching the field component of our three-course Galápagos curriculum, now in its 7th year. This year’s trip seemed to be characterized by sexual selection in action: giant tortoises loudly mating, blue-footed boobies dancing, marine iguana females battling over nesting…

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Irby Lovette April 9, 2018 - 7:17 pm April 9, 2018Uncategorized
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