In honor of the June 10, 2020 #ShutDownSTEM, we would like to share a document created by E3B MA alum Brandi Cannon that provides resources on unlearning racism. Please see the link below.
Brandi Cannon’s “Unlearning Racism: Anti-racist and and Equity Resources” document: http://tinyurl.com/unlearning-racism
Congratulations to graduating E3B PhD student Thomas Bytnerowicz and postdoc Shana Caro on being awarded the Stengl-Wyer Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin!
The Stengl-Wyer Postdoctoral Scholars Program only gives out 3 awards, 2 of which were awarded to members of E3B.
Aria Pereira (left), Sian Kou-Giesbrecht (middle), and Palani Akana (right) celebrated a successful harvest of the rooting system of a Robinia pseudoacacia tree sapling.
The harvest was the end of the Menge lab‘s NSF-funded experiment, for which the Black Rock staff were instrumental.
Congratulations to E3B Professor Duncan Menge on being named one of this year’s Lenfest Distinguished Columbia Faculty awardees!
The Lenfest Distinguished Columbia Faculty Awards recognize the excellence of faculty as teachers and mentors of both undergraduate and graduate students withing and outside of the classroom setting. Duncan Menge was one of eight faculty who received this award.
Members of the Cords lab swept the poster awards at Northeastern Evolutionary Primatology meetings on November 8th and 9th.
Rachel Donabedian (center) won first prize, and Holly Fuong (left) and Amanda Johnston (right) tied for second.
E3B Professor Maria Diuk-Wasser and Postdoctoral Research Scientist Pilar Fernandez discuss fighting ticks with a tap of your phone.
The Tick App, created by Diuk-Wasser, is a free app aimed at combatting Lyme disease. You can track when and how you are exposed to ticks, while Diuk-Wasser and her team learn more about tick activity to identify areas of high tick risk and help prevent exposure.
Check out our E3Botanists!
PhD student Patrick McKenzie and MA student Jared Meek spent their summer doing fieldwork in the Hengduan Mountains of China and Tibet for Professor Deren Eaton‘s lab.
Our PhD student Stefanie Siller is out in Fargo, ND working on the impacts of intergenerational stress on house sparrows.
First, they color the house sparrow chicks to keep track of them in their nest. They then take measurements of the birds until they are 10 days old (as pictured above), the age at which they begin to fledge. Finally, they band them and hope the birds come back as adults!
Congratulations to E3B PhD students Pooja Choksi, Sarika Khanwilkar, and Vijay Ramesh who received an Early Career Grant from National Geographic Society’s Committee for Research and Exploration for ‘Project Dhvani: Eavesdropping on Biodiversity for Ecological and Social Benefits’!
This grant will aid the Project Dhvani team to carry out fieldwork in central India during 2019 and 2020.
To find out more about Project Dhvani (Dhvani is the Sanskrit word for sound) and to stay updated on their work, click here!
Our PhD students Vijay Ramesh, Pooja Choksi, and Sarika Khanwilkar have received a grant from Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict, and Complexity (AC4) for Project Dhvani!
Emily has been selected as a resident scholar for summer 2019 at the New York City Urban Field Station, which is jointly run by the USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Emily will work on her project studying white-tailed deer vigilance behavior in response to coyote presence in New York City parks. For her project, she is working with faculty at E3B, at the American Museum of Natural History, and with scientists from the Gotham Coyote Project.
Dr. Sara Kross, Director of the Master’s program in E3B, recently co-authored a publication for farmers about ‘Supporting Beneficial Birds and Managing Pest Birds.’
This freely-available resource was launched with two farmer field days in Northern California in March, where Dr. Kross spoke to row-crop farmers in Yolo County and to grape-growers in Napa County. Dr. Kross also recently wrote an article about beneficial birds for Organic Farmer Magazine.