In honor of the upcoming holiday of World Penguin Day, let’s meet the latest graduate student in the Abrahms Lab studying penguins — Meredith Honig! What inspired you to pursue graduate studies in ecology?I have always enjoyed spending time outside and been curious about the living things around me. Growing up, my interest in animals and the outdoors led me […]
The Abrahms Lab has a new PhD student – Kyra McClelland! Kyra will be researching climate impacts and population-level adaptability on whooping cranes (Grus americana). Here’s a bit more about the Center’s newest member: Kyra is broadly interested in the intersection of animal behavior, habitat use, movement, and anthropogenic impacts. She is particularly interested in the dynamics between sociality in
Welcome to Meet CES, where we get to meet the people behind the Center for Ecosystem Sentinels. In this first post we are meeting one of the newest members of the team, Marie-Pier Poulin. She received her BS in Biology from the Université du Québec in Rimouski in 2019, where she tracked arctic foxes in the Canadian tundra for her
Congratulations to Leigh West, Dr. Abrahms’s graduate student, who just recently published her first article as lead author. Her research article, “Droughts reshape apex predator space use and intraguild overlap,” was published in the Journal of Animal Ecology on October 4th, and also serves as the second chapter of her dissertation. This is an exciting milestone for Leigh as she
