Faculty News

Dr. Diana Tomback along with Summer Merrell and Chariss Thexton, (Biology undergraduate independent study students in the Tomback Forest Ecology Lab), attended the February 22 Colorado Wildlife Commission meeting, at Waymire Dome, Adams County Fairgrounds. This was the last opportunity for public comment on the Draft Colorado Wolf Restoration and...

Dr. Diana Tomback has been a tireless champion for the conservation of the whitebark pine, working through the non-Profit Organization, Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation that she and colleagues founded in 2001. In December 2022, her efforts were rewarded when the tree was provided protection as a threatened species under the...

Diana Tomback is interviewed in this current article in the HighCountry News; “We’re relying on the bird,” said Diana Tomback, a professor at the University of Colorado Denver who studies whitebark pine. “It will take multiple human lifetimes for whitebark pines’ range to be re-established, and Clark’s nutcrackers’ seed dispersal...

Dr. Diana Tomback , Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology, CU Denver, is a pioneer in research on Whitebark Pine, a widely distributed western forest species in the U.S. and Canada that is facing multiple threats, including exotic disease and climate change. In 2001 Diana became founding director of...

Dr. Michael Moore was interviewed in a light-hearted article about a serious problem in the November 28, 2022 edition of The Washington Post. The article “Less attractive, less picky; How mating is changing in a hotter world ” (Leave it to climate to teach us that looks aren’t everything), is...

In this article featured on “ The Long Now Foundation ” website, Michael Moore , Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology, CU Denver, talked about his first experience finding data for his research on the iNaturalist app - Not surprisingly, scientists have already published more than 2,800 studies...

Supporting graduate field leadership through community-sourced advice, action, and policy" Katherine Hayes, Trevor Carter, Phoebe Cook, Erin Twaddell, Brian Buma (*Hayes, Carter, and Twaddell are all CU Denver grad students) Ecosphere Putting More Fuel on the Fire...Or Maybe Not? The southernmost end point of pre-industrial human expansion found on Isla...

Joe Ricketts has supported an on-going collaborative research project among University of Colorado Denver, Yellowstone National Park, and Ricketts Conservation Foundation since 2019. He has also supported the production by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology of two spectacular videos about whitebark pine and Clark's nutcracker. The latter will be shown...

"Clark's Nutcrackers and whitebark pine have deeply intertwined lives. If and when the pine is listed under the Endangered Species Act, the tree's recovery could depend on its birdy best friend”. Dr. Diana Tomback is one of many dedicated people, including Integrative Biology Alum, Elizabeth Pansing , featured in a...

Assistant Professor Sara Branco along team of scientists at Duke University and the University of Wisconsin received funding from the Joint Genome Institute/Department Energy to develop the project ‘ Functional Roles of Secondary Metabolites in Ectomycorrhizal Fungi ’. The study will be led by Dr. Lotus Lofgren (Duke University) and...