Stony Brook University Ecology and Evolution

Please support our graduate student research today during #SBUGivingDay! All donated funds go directly to support graduate student research. More info and donate here: tinyurl.com/SBUGD3Ecology

PI Dávalos will give this year's Margolin lecture @Middlebury! Register now for "Forests, bats, guerrillas: A systems approach for thought and action in the Anthropocene" on Thursday evening! http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/es/news/margolinlecture

Support our graduate student research during #SBUGivingDay on Wednesday April 21. All donated funds go directly to support graduate student research. More info and donate here: tinyurl.com/SBUGD3Ecology Thanks for donating!

Check out the new article by our own Jessica Gurevitch (@GurevitchJessi1) and collaborators: Potential ecological impacts of climate intervention by reflecting sunlight to cool Earth https://pnas.org/content/118/15/e1921854118 ... @sbuEcoEvo @SBUArtsSciences @stonybrooku @StonyBrookBIO @PNASNews

History is in the making with Dr. Heather Lynch’s work studying poop from outer space! Did you know the location and color of penguin poop seen in photographs t...aken from space shares information about the size and number of penguin colonies, as well as the penguins’ diet over time? Dr. Lynch began her training in physics and applied math, and switched to studying ecology as a graduate student to tackle some of the problems associated with climate change. She shares: Today I'd probably be considered a ‘data scientist,’ which means my skills revolve around the collection and management and analysis of data. I'm actually happiest in front of my computer analyzing the data and using satellite imagery to survey Antarctica for wildlife. In my work, I'm always trying to answer questions that will lead to better conservation and management, and that means working closely with non-scientists like policymakers to make sure we are asking the right questions. Dr. Lynch is now a professor and researcher at Stony Brook University Ecology and Evolution. Dr. Lynch’s research will be featured alongside work of several other scientists in a new exhibit opening next month titled Slow Down! Explore A Journey to the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and Antarctica. This exhibit takes a close look at the findings of our own Claire Flynn, LICM’s STEM Initiatives Program Director, on her recent expedition to the Southern Hemisphere with National Geographic Education and Lindblad Expeditions as a Grosvenor Teacher Fellow. #womenshistorymonth #slowdownexplore #projectpenguin #gtf19 #antarctica #playlicm

Check out this panel discussion by E&E alum Niamh O’Hara.

New paper from alum Joe Kelly and the Thacker lab uses RADseq to delimit 7 undescribed species of Ircinia sponges in the Caribbean, with each species hosting a unique microbiome. https://www.frontiersin.org//10.3389/fmicb.2021.607289/full

Check out this upcoming talk by E&E Alum Alicia Lamb!

Read all about it: New study by E&E PhD student Michael Wallstrom uses mitochondrial DNA barcoding to investigate seafood mislabeling in restaurants, groceries, and sushi bars in Hawai'i. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsir.2020.100154

E&E Prof Tara Smiley joins a team of SBU and extramural experts working in East Africa to investigate the roles that climate and tectonics played in the evolution of mammals. https://news.stonybrook.edu//turkana-basin-researchers-t/

Please donate today to support graduate student research! Today is Giving Day at Stony Brook University! The goal of our giving day is to support graduate student research in the Department of Ecology and Evolution. Visit our giving day page, where we have highlighted some of the graduate student research going on in our department:... https://givingday2020.stonybrook.edu//ecology-evolution-gr Please share this link with your friends, families, and associates. And please, donate if you can! Help us reach our goal. #SBUGivingDay

Interested in a PhD in computational biology? Funding opportunities in #genomics and #conservation! https://iacs.stonybrook.edu//fellowsh/Graduate-Fellowships If you're eligible, the #NSF is also an option in evolution & #genomics! http://nsfgrfp.org