Lab News
Salomé WINS Biodiversity logo design contest!
Cool Boulder has selected Salomé's logo as the winner of their logo contest for International Day of Biodiversity! Check out her bio and read more about the contest here. There's a lot to love about this logo; I find it remarkable that the mountains are still unmistake-ably the flatirons in such a clean, sparse style. I also love that all the wildlife and people all appear to be looking intently at the same point. Congrats Salomé!
Cool Boulder has selected Salomé's logo as the winner of their logo contest for International Day of Biodiversity! Check out her bio and read more about the contest here. There's a lot to love about this logo; I find it remarkable that the mountains are still unmistake-ably the flatirons in such a clean, sparse style. I also love that all the wildlife and people all appear to be looking intently at the same point. Congrats Salomé!
SafLab at the AOS Conference
Becca, Sara, Gray, Heather, Gina, and SafLab alumn Iris attended the 2024 meeting of the American Ornithological Society in Estes Park, CO. With over 1000 attendees this was AOS's biggest meeting to date. We had a great time catching up on all the new research in bird world, including some truly inspiring plenary talks. Some highlights of the trip include:
Becca, Sara, Gray, Heather, Gina, and SafLab alumn Iris attended the 2024 meeting of the American Ornithological Society in Estes Park, CO. With over 1000 attendees this was AOS's biggest meeting to date. We had a great time catching up on all the new research in bird world, including some truly inspiring plenary talks. Some highlights of the trip include:
- Sara Garcia presented their work on Barn Swallows along Urban-Rural Gradients, knocking it out of the park at their first-ever talk at a science conference
- Heather Kenny-Duddela's talk on how female plumage and space use affect extra pair mating in Barn Swallows was awarded the Mark E. Hauber Award for best presentation on animal behavior
- Chilling at the Live-Laugh-Love Cabin with the Uy lab, which provided a lot of peer networking, mentorship, yummy group meals, some crazy stories and a thousand stupid jokes
SafLab at the GREEBs Conference
Heather and Salomé presented at the 2024 meeting of the Guild of Rocky Mountain Ecologists and Evolutionary Biologists this September! This is a very cool regional meeting that is often hosted at CU's own Mountain Research Station. Salomé presented a poster and Heather gave an oral presentation.
Heather and Salomé presented at the 2024 meeting of the Guild of Rocky Mountain Ecologists and Evolutionary Biologists this September! This is a very cool regional meeting that is often hosted at CU's own Mountain Research Station. Salomé presented a poster and Heather gave an oral presentation.
Salomé is finalist in Biodiverse Boulder design contest!
We in the lab know of Salomé Carrasco's incredible talent for
illustration, and are so proud that her design was chosen as a finalist
for Cool Boulder's celebration of International Day for Biodiversity.
The final winner is yet to be announced but we know who we
voted for : ) Cool Boulder is a local climate action partnership, you
can read more about their organization here. Salomé's design is
the only finalist to feature a Barn Swallow, making it inherently
the best.
We in the lab know of Salomé Carrasco's incredible talent for
illustration, and are so proud that her design was chosen as a finalist
for Cool Boulder's celebration of International Day for Biodiversity.
The final winner is yet to be announced but we know who we
voted for : ) Cool Boulder is a local climate action partnership, you
can read more about their organization here. Salomé's design is
the only finalist to feature a Barn Swallow, making it inherently
the best.
Natalie's cool GIS barn swallow story map!
Natalie made this cool story map on the Barn Swallow breeding range in California for their GIS final project. Check it out here:
Natalie made this cool story map on the Barn Swallow breeding range in California for their GIS final project. Check it out here:
Grace draws a visual abstract of her project at UROP
Sidewalk Symposium
Grace's summer fieldwork included a project studying the relationship between Barn Swallows' pair bond strength and the time to relay eggs. She presented this work at the Sidewalk Symposium on Oct. 17th; you can read more about the Symposium here. Stay tuned for more as Grace develops her Honors Thesis following up on this very cool work!
Sidewalk Symposium
Grace's summer fieldwork included a project studying the relationship between Barn Swallows' pair bond strength and the time to relay eggs. She presented this work at the Sidewalk Symposium on Oct. 17th; you can read more about the Symposium here. Stay tuned for more as Grace develops her Honors Thesis following up on this very cool work!