Congratulations to Brad van Paridon – winner of the …
Zach Dempsey was awarded a grant from the Alberta Conservation Association Grant in Biodiversity for his work on endangered land snails (and their parasites!).
Another spring and another season of following ruffed grouse. This year, Nick is largely responsible for recording ruffed grouse drumming and completing playback experiments with them. So far, we have a lot of birds in a very small area, which is making fieldwork considerably easier than previous years. Read more about Drumming season 2015
This year, two students were successful in obtaining both summer NSERC and summer AIHS scholarships to continue to work in the lab. Congratulations to both Nathan and Lauren!
The focus of the past couple of weeks has been trapping ground squirrels. Juliana and I have been out trapping them in Lethbridge for her MSc project. Read more about Ground squirrel season is upon us
Sir Terry Pratchett wrote dozens of novels, but was also an important advocate for neuroscience, right-to-die legislation and science education. He provided satirical and novel insight into evolutionary biology, physics and chemistry in ways that few other people could provide and the world is a less interesting place without him. Read more about R.I.P. Terry Pratchett
Powell BJ, Leal M (2012) Brain evolution across the Puerto Rican anole radiation. Brain Behav Evol 80: 170-180.
This week, we are reading:
Yopak KE, Lisney TJ, Collin SP (in press) Not all sharks are "swimming noses": variation in olfactory bulb size in cartilaginous fishes. Brain Struc Func
Danielle successfully defended her MSc today, after some rather rigorous questions from her examination committee. As is the tradition, we went to Two Guys for celebratory beers and pizza.
