Tag Archives: Field Biology

Sun, Sand Dollars, and the Huts: My Summer at Friday Harbor Labs

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This piece is reposted from the Friday Harbor Laboratories newsletter. by Ceri Weber Expected B.S. in Biology at the University of Washington, June 2013 Undergraduate researcher in the Swalla lab 2012 FHL BEACON/BLINKS/NSF REU Intern I had the wonderful opportunity … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: A Tiny Teal Tale

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Jessica Caton. Birds are everywhere! With 10,000 species living on every continent, you are bound to have come across a bird in your lifetime with possibly a … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Making and breaking species

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Alycia Lackey. The world’s biodiversity represents a balance between the formation and extinction of species. To understand what drives diversity, scientists study what generates, maintains, and degrades … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: The tale of the tail-less sea squirt

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Washington graduate student Max Maliska. I have found my work as a PhD. candidate in Billie Swalla’s lab at University of Washington in Seattle to be highly integrative; spanning … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Does sociality influence disease resistance?

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Katy Califf. I’m generally interested in how genetic diversity and behavior influence each other in wild populations of mammals, particularly in the realm of disease ecology. More … Continue reading →

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