In terms of 2020 updates:

– A proposal we submitted to the Sea Duck Joint Venture with colleagues Hannah and Todd was recommended for funding.  We anticipate this project will start in late 2020. More details then..

– A new …

Wow, it’s been a while since our last post. The UMCES labs (including CASIF) are closed for covid-19, so we have been teleworking since March 16. During this time Robin has been updating SOPs, entering data, and communicating with …

We had a great time collecting sediment cores in Michigan and Indiana last week with Jack Williams, Bryan Shuman, Angie Perrotti, Claire Rubbelke, and Sydney Widdell. We had a chance to chat with some of the local residents came at …

The lab, along with colleagues at the University of Wisconsin and University of Wyoming, recently received a new grant from NSF. This project will investigate factors driving the collapse of mesic tree populations in eastern North America during the middle …

We have a few new 2019 publications to report.

The first publication is the outcome a collaboration with Bob Booth and Ryan Peters from Lehigh University. For his undergraduate honors thesis Ryan was interested in determining how light intensity influences …

Congratulations to Juliet for passing her dissertation proposal defense this past December!…

In what is probably our last publication for 2018 in Biological Conservation we review the use of isoscapes to address questions in wildlife management and conservation and provide a how-to guide (with examples) for use of isoscapes in a conservation …

We haven’t updated our blog for a couple of months, which means we have a backlog of new publications to announce.

The first is a paper in The Journal of Wildlife Management in which we used genetic data to identify …

Caitlin successfully defended her M.S. thesis (entitled “Refining assessment of the geographic origins of animals inferred from stable isotope data”) today!  We look forward to seeing her results submitted for publication and future success as a Ph.D. student in the …

Joel was notified that his proposal (entitled “Downpour dynamics: amounts, sources and drivers of nitrate export during precipitation events”) was selected to receive a Graduate Research Support Grant from Maryland Sea Grant. Nice job, Joel!…