This October PhD Student Maria Alejandra Hurtado-Materon participated in the symposium “Por trás da riqueza dos mamíferos: O papel das características funcionais para os serviços ecossistêmicos e a conservação” (Behind the richness of mammals: The role of functional traits for ecosystem services and conservation) in Buzios, Brazil.
Pictured: Dr Ben Igielman (University of Birmingham), Laura Chilver (PhD Student University of Cambridge), Prof Jason Head (University of Cambridge), Dr Alexandra Howard (Texas A&M University) This October postdoc Dr. Alex Howard presented her research at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Minneapolis. She presented her……
Members of the lab both past and present contributed to a publication in Ecology and Evolution on Carnivora ecometrics, lead by lab alum Dr Siciliano-Martina. They investigate the use of relative blade length of the carnassial tooth as a tool for reconstructing the relationship between taxa and their environment, even……
PhD Candidate Breann Richey and Undergraduate Audra Hicks presented their research at the Texas Herpetological Society Fall Symposium here in Bryan, Texas. Congratulations to both on two excellent presentations Breann presented: “Behaving Invasively: Tracking behavioral syndromes across invasion scales” Audra presented: “Habitat selection coefficients shift in a transient population of……
Members of the lab were celebrated this Friday for their successes at the ECCB Department Award Banquet. Congratulations to everyone! We are so proud of you! From left to right:
Congratulations to grad student Breann Richey for being awarded the EEB award in Graduate Student Teaching. These awards are given to students in the EEB (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology) Program that go above and beyond in their dedication to EEB and selfless service to their students. Pictured: Dave Bapst (Faculty……
Breann Richey, new Lawing lab PhD student Loris Di Vozzo, and two undergraduate researchers, Audra Hicks and Taylor Leader spent 2 months collecting data in Italy. This data will support Breann’s dissertation and Audra’s undergraduate research project. While in the field, the team was joined by Dr. Lawing for lizard collection. This……
Breann Richey and Audra Hicks attended the “Transdisciplinary Nature Research Workshop” co-hosted by the University of Lausanne and the IUCN.
This Summer researchers from the Lawing lab and colleagues trekked across the State Parks of South Texas looking for spiny lizards. Alex Howard writes: We use these field seasons to gather data about habitat use and population density in different species of Sceloporus spiny lizards. This involves using fishing poles……
On April 4th-5th, TAMU hosted the annual Ecological Integration Symposium. EIS is a interdisciplinary event run by TAMU graduate students, bringing together a diverse group of scientists and students from the fields of ecology, evolutionary biology, and conservation. This year the PEC lab was out in force, graduate students Maria……
