Student News

The Department is pleased to announce and congratulate our 2019 Fall Semester Graduate Student Travel Awardees! David Bertolatus - Dr. Alan Vajda's lab Julie Byle - Dr. Greg Cronin's lab Marianne Davenport - Dr. Greg Ragland's lab Adam Duster - Dr. Hai Lin's lab Katherine Hayes - Dr. Brian Buma's...

Congratulations to Elizabeth (Libby) Pansing, PhD candidate in Dr. Diana Tomback’s lab, for her nomination as the Integrative Biology’s nominee for the 2019 Fall CLAS Outstanding PhD Student Award. Fall and Spring awards recpients will be honored at the CLAS Dean's Awards Reception on Friday, May 1st. Call for Spring...

Katherine Hayes , PhD. candidate in Dr. Brian Buma's lab , was awarded a GRIN (Graduate Research Innovation Grant) to expand her PhD work focusing on vegetation succession and in particular how changes in the post-fire communities alter flammability, testing the overall strength of negative feedbacks associated with the transition...

Andrés Andrade (PhD candidate in Dr. Diana Tomback's lab) was recently elected as the new student representative of the Vegetation section of the Ecological Society of America (ESA). Andrés and the new section chair were introduced to section members last week during the 2019 ESA meeting in Louisville, Kentucky. The...

Scott Yanco (PhD candidate in the Wunder Lab) was recently featured on the Wild Animals podcast, produced by the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. The podcast series shares stories of individual animals told by researchers. Scott discussed his research on Flammulated Owl movement ecology and the story of one...

Raven Radio - Researchers conducting landslide studies in Sitka’s forests Dr. Adam Booth, Kyle Turchick, Bryce Vascik and David de Guzman joined KCAW’s Rich McClear in the studio for “The Morning Interview” to discuss their various landslide projects. The teams are conducting “ecosystem dynamics research”- examining how characteristics of the...

On April 23 – 25, 2019, Marianne Davenport , Department of Integrative Biology graduate student, in Dr. Gregory Ragland’s lab, presented her research at the 69 th Western Forest Insect Work Conference in Anchorage, Alaska. The title of her poster was “Variability in Adult Reproductive Diapause of the Spruce Beetle”...

Student Spotlight: Kyle Turchick Posted on May 31, 2019 by coastalmargins1 Meet Kyle Turchick . Kyle is a Master’s student in the Buma Lab at the University of Colorado Denver. With his advisor, CRMRN steering committee member Brian Buma , he is studying disturbance ecology on Baranof Island in Southeast...

Congratulations to our Outstanding Student and Smilodon Awardees The Department would like to congratulate the following awardees of the 2019 Spring Outstanding Student and Smilodon Awards: Smilodon Outstanding Underclassman Anthony Rubalcaba Smilodon Outstanding Upperclassman Joseph Soukup 2019 Spring Outstanding TA Gabrielle Rietz 2019 Spring Outstanding Undergraduate Research Hannah Abroe 2019...

Maria Nikulkova , Integrative Biology MS student in Dr. Chris Miller's lab, was recently awarded a competitive Research Capstone Fellowship from the American Society for Microbiology. This award provides up to $2000 in travel support to attend the selective ASM Microbe Academy for Professional Development, and to present the results...