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The Bug Geek meets Spider Man
Prof. David Wise, from University of Illinois at Chicago, visited our laboratory yesterday. David Wise is a very well known community ecologist, and is also an influential spider ecologist. On a...
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Professors take the summer off (another myth of Academia….)
The academic term is over, and so are my teaching duties (until September). This is the time of year that I sometimes get asked how I am going to spend my summer off from work. Many people think that...
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Help Build an Arctic Food Web
A couple of weeks ago I was fortunate to be able to attend a workshop about monitoring terrestrial arthropod biodiversity in the Arctic. In advance of that workshop, I offered to prepare a draft of a...
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Reflections: how social media has changed my life
About a year ago I started to write blog posts regularly – this was partially because I was invited to give a talk on social media in Academia at the annual meeting of the Entomological Society of...
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Seasonality of Arctic Beetles
I’m excited to report on paper written by Crystal Ernst, PhD student in my lab, and well known as the “Bug Geek“. This paper is a product of the Northern Biodiversity Program (yes, it sure is great...
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Social media, mobile technology and an outdoor classroom
Last year, my field biology course took part in an amazing project – we used mobile technology in a field setting, and combined that with social media tools. This was done in collaboration with...
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Meet the lab: Crystal Ernst
This is the first in a series of posts where each Arthropod Ecology lab member can introduce themselves. First up is PhD student Crystal Ernst: I’m a Ph.D. candidate in the final stages of my program:...
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An ode to graduate students
Last week I saw two of my graduate students successfully defend their PhDs. This is wonderful and exciting, and I am delighted that they are both moving on to post-doctoral research positions in other...
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Beetles from the North
I’m super-excited to announce new research from the lab, published yesterday with lead author Dr. Crystal Ernst. Crystal’s paper focused on taxonomic and functional diversity of beetles across 12 sites...
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Monitoring northern biodiversity: picking the right trap for collecting...
Ecological monitoring is an important endeavour as we seek to understand the effects of environmental change on biodiversity. We need to benchmark the status of our fauna, and check-in on that fauna on...
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