Field crew in action...

A big thank you to Ella Cole & Ben Sheldon for giving us a lovely tour of Wytham woods. A dream come true for Dave & I. They even put up with very poor toddler behavior.... Thank you for a memorable day.

Way to go ladies! Movement ecology of the Colorado checkered whiptails / all females studying all female lizards (parthenogenetic species)

Congratulations to Caylee Falvo, fully fledged MS student out of the #AubryPopECOL lab, on her first scientific publication @Ecol_Evol ! https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.5000" target="_blank">Seasonal climate effects on the survival of a hibernating mammal

Thank you to Doug and his army of volunteers and field technicians for some great work in the field! We can now proceed with data analyses and learn more about their behaviour, health and demography. 

LINK TO ARTICLE https://source.colostate.edu/move-in-2018-traipsing-for-whiptails-and-other-tales-of-undergraduate-research/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=t0816" target="_blank">HERE

Who successfully defended her Master's thesis!

Although I don't have a picture of her defense, I do have a picture of her favorite study organism!

Restoring the West conference talk available https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TAsBuDVQNY" target="_blank">here!

Raithel, J.D., Reynolds-Hogland, M.J., Koons, D.N., Carr, P.C., & Aubry, L.M. (2016) Recreational harvest and incident-response management reduce human-carnivore conflicts in an anthropogenic landscape. Journal of Applied Ecology, Published 29 November 2016.

Jarod's Black Bear research covered in:

• The British Ecological Society: check out the press release!
• Phys Org
• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/161129153839.htm" target="_blank">Science Daily
• Utah Public Radio

Restoring the West conference talk available https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TAsBuDVQNY" target="_blank">here!

Just returned from a stimulating and fun meeting http/evodemo2016.weebly.com/

Learned more about stochastic demography (Hal Caswell)

and transient population dynamics (Iain Stott)

Caught up with some old friends and colleagues, and made new friends in the process.

See you next year in Lyon France (Organized by Jean-Michel Gaillard)!

Kari will be moving to Berkeley as a PhD student in the Boettiger Lab. Congrats Kari!