Amazingly, everyone (particularly the exam-laden undergraduates) made an effort to squeeze in a bit of holiday social time just before the Christmas semester break. A great feast was provided through the combined efforts of the group. A special thanks goes to Cheryl for helping with the herculean task of creating yet another Morton Thompson – Pierre Burton blackened turkey. Sköld!
Congrats to Jill and Jared for getting their undergraduate capstone project on snake diets published in The Northwest Naturalist (2016, 97(3): 181-189). Jill and Val also saw an undergraduate summer project appear in print, this one focusing on the diet of the highly-invasive eastern grey squirrel (Canadian Field-Naturalist 2016, 130(3):202-206). Jill is currently working on her MSc in Pat Gregory’s lab at the University of Victoria, while Jared is here in our lab at TRU. Val is completing her undergraduate degree in natural resources at TRU. Congratulations to these three for the large amount of effort they put into getting their work into press – a great learning process.
The snake crew puts on a show earlier this summer for World Snake Day.
VIDEO: Rattlesnakes — misunderstood and maligned, says snake biologist
What are the things that journal editors look for? Here’s one take on the process: click HERE
This summer (2016), our lab travelled to the shores of the mighty Mississippi: Shorf presented a poster on his elephant conservation work at the 96th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. About a week later, Stephanie and Jared both gave oral papers on their work at the Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in New Orleans, Louisiana. I also chipped in presentations at both conferences, including a co-authored paper with Jessica.
The 3M competition at our university was won this year by Jared. Everyone loves snakes.
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I am delinquent in posting congratulations to Amy Duncan and Dexter Hodder, who both successfully defended their theses this past academic year.
On November 17th Jessica successfully defended her thesis on ‘thermal landscapes’ and rattlesnake migration”. Congratulations, Jess.
Amy, JoAnne and Sasindu presented their research at the 27th International Congress of Conservation Biology in Montpellier, France . I am pleased to add we also survived an excrutiating return trip that included an accidental tourist stop in New York City.
Jared’s & Stephanie’s work on rattlesnakes was featured on Global TV. Click here.