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2024 field season updates!

June 30, 2024

The 2024 field season has been a busy one - here are some updates from members of the lab currently in the field: Sara: It has been a wild and exciting field season so far! With the addition of our new nestboxes on flagstaff mountain it is gearing up to...

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Sheela is a double Early Career award winner!

June 26, 2024

Congrats to Taylor Lab alum Dr. Sheela Turbek who just received TWO early career awards! Sheela is a 2024 awardee of the Early Career Research Award from the American Society of Naturalists as well as an Early Professionals Award from the American Ornithological Society. Sheela completed her PhD in the...

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Georgy publishes in Current Biology!

April 17, 2024

Georgy's most recent work on the genetics of variation in spatial cognition in food-caching chickadees was just published in Current Biology . This work is the product of a collabroation with Dr. Valdimir Pravosudov and his lab at the University of Nevada Reno , with contributions from other lab members...

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Additional research grants for Nikki and Will!

April 11, 2024

The good news keeps coming! Nikki (Documenting responses to experimental and natural nest intrusions in two species of cavity-nesting chickadee) and Will (Using acoustic and genomic data to evaluate the taxonomic status of Northern Pygmy Owls) were recently notified that they will receive funding for their work from the Colorado...

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Sara is awarded a 2024 NSF GRFP!

April 8, 2024

Congrats to Sara Padula, a second-year PhD student in the lab, who was granted a 2024 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship! The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing full-time research-based master's and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) or in STEM education...

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Scott visited Jay in Panama!

April 2, 2024

Scott recently spent part of his sabbatical visiting Jay in Gamboa, Panama. During his visit, Scott gave the Tupper Seminar at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and spent some time with the RaMP-UP Fellows . Other than eating delicious food, Jay and Scott also spent time observing a white-necked jacobin...

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Sara, Nikki, and Will awarded research grants!

April 2, 2024

Congrats to Sara, Nikki and Will for their recently awarded research Grants! Sara was awarded the Zena Hunter Andrews Graduate Student Award for her project "Comparing the genetics of spatial memory in two species of food caching chickadee" Nikki was awarded a Denver Field Ornithologists research grant for her proposal...

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Upcoming Workshop: An Inclusive Future for Scientific Fieldwork

Feb. 13, 2024

Scott will be participating as a panelist in an upcoming workshop focused on inclusion and diversity in scientific fieldwork at Yale University on May 13 and 14, 2024. The brief schedule is below and you can follow the link to register! https://peabody.yale.edu/events/workshop-inclusive-future-scientific-fieldwork

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RFID feeder array is up and running at the MRS!

Feb. 2, 2024

The "smart feeder" arrays up and running at the Mountain Research Station!

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Summer 2024 - field courses at the MRS

Jan. 18, 2024

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