News Archive

​2014

• Fall semester definitely kept us all busy. Lots of class taking and teaching, research, field work, and general business. NSF fellowship applications and a few other grant proposals were the focus of the semester.
• Halloween 2014: BEST LAB EVER 
• September 2014: Fall semester has started! Classes (and mammal trapping) are on!
• September 2014: First manuscript from Jaime’s thesis submitted to Southwestern Naturalist
• August 2014: Jessica’s tenure-promotion talk is coming up. Attend if you can!
• August 2014: Manuscripts, manuscripts! Working on several different ones simultaneously, hoping to have a big publication year in 2015
• August 2014: Louse conference in beautiful Park City, Utah. Jessica, Nina, and Oona attended and presented.
• August 2014: NSF Full proposal submitted. That was hard work. Brain..hurts..ouch.
• July 2014 there was field work, lab work, field work, lab work. ASP 2014 in New Orleans (I believe the lab had a good time!)
• Busy, busy summer! Jessica and Adrian went to the Mammal Meetings in OKC (June 2014)
• The lab is bustling - so many PCRs and sequencing reactions!  Go lab Go! (May 2014)
• NSF pre-proposal with Sarah Hamer, Micky Eubanks, Pete Teel, Bill Grant, and Rose Wang has been invited to be submitted as a full proposal.  Let the summer of grant writing begin! (May 2014)
• Congrats to Caitlin, awarded Outstanding Master’s Student by the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences (April 2014)
• Congrats to Jessica, awarded Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award by the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences (April 2014)
• FUNDED BY NSF! A proposal with gopher collaborators Jim Demastes and Theresa Spradling to investigate the genetics of range expansion has been funded by the National Science Foundation! April/May 2014) 
• Welcome to the states, Nina!  New post-doc Nina has arrived to begin her postdoctoral researcher (April 2014)
• Congrats to Sarah Hamer on the birth of her daugher, Tabitha (April 5, 2014).
• Jessica had a great trip to DC in March 2014.
• Congrats to Adrian again!  Winner of best graduate poster at TAMU’s Ecological Integration Symposium.  Jaime presented an awesome talk at the symposium as well. Check out tweets from the event at #EIS_2014
• Trip to El Sauz was a great success the few days I was there. Here are some highlights: High trapping success 2/3 nights - Total diversity tally when I left was 9 rodent species, 1 bat species, 1 skunk (Mephitis mephitis), and 1 raccoon. We also saw an ocelot (Texas A&M Kingsville group caught one and we got to see them work with her), tons of nilgai, bison, peccaries, and tons of birds. Mist netting my last night was so much fun! ~30 eastern pipestrelles hit the nets. Nothing like hands-on learning. Can’t wait to hear how the rest of the trip went (February/March 2014)
• I’m off to the field with Aleyda and Justin today - El Sauz. Excited for my first visit there, hope we catch lots of cool things (February 2014)
• Congrats Whitney! She just landed funding to travel to Costa Rica this summer. She’ll be examining parasite diversity in small mammals (February 2014)
• Aleyda and Justin just returned from a successful trip to South Texas. Gator caught on fire, but everything else was pretty great (February 2014)
• Congratulations to Adrian! Winner of the Vernon Bailey Award for best poster presentation in classical mammalogy at the 2014 Texas Society of Mammalogists Annual Meeting (February 2014)
• New laboratory space acquired for ancient lab work. Time to clean it out and start purchasing! (February 2014)
• The lab renovation is done!  We’re moved in and enjoying the new space. Lab work is slowly starting up (January 2014)
• Shameless self-promotion! Check out my @BreakingBio interview here: http://bit.ly/1iH0vqY (January 2014)
• Another year.....