Online talk by Dr. Chhaya Werner

Alex Buerkle posted on Aug 26, 2021

Here is another talk by one of our consortium members, Dr. Chhaya Werner. In this 12 minute talk she presents a collaboration with consortium members Dr. Lauren Shoemaker and Dr. Topher Weiss-Lehman, and Dr. Lauren Hallett. They use sparse modeling to learn about direct and indirect causes of variation in population growth rates and advance our understanding of community ecology.…

Online talks by Dr. Bella Oleksy and Dr. Lauren Koenig

Alex Buerkle posted on Jul 22, 2021

Check out 10 minute talks by two of our consortium members: Dr. Bella Oleksy https://isabellaoleksy.weebly.com/ and Dr. Lauren Koenig https://laurenkoenig.weebly.com/. They both gave highly informative and clear online talks at the virtual summit in “Incorporating Data Science and Open Science in Aquatic Research”. The results are very encouraging and both talks are inspiring! Dr.…

UW’s Shoemaker Named ESA Early Career Fellow

Alex Buerkle posted on Mar 25, 2021

From Mar 25, 2021 UW press release http://www.uwyo.edu/uw/news/2021/03/uws-shoemaker-named-esa-early-career-fellow.html. Lauren Shoemaker, a University of Wyoming assistant professor in the Department of Botany, has been selected as a 2021-25 Early Career Fellow of the Ecological Society of America (ESA). The ESA is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of professional ecologists,…

Fewer butterflies seen by community scientists across the warming and drying landscapes of the American West

Alex Buerkle posted on Mar 05, 2021

Warming autumns, fewer butterflies Many recent studies have revealed sweeping declines in insects over the past few decades. Butterflies are no exception. Forister et al. used three different datasets, collected by both experts and community scientists, and found that the number of butterflies has declined over the past 40 years. Although the drivers of decline are complex, the authors found that climate change—in particular, warmer months in the autumn—explain a large portion,…

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