Tag Archives: Field Biology

BEACON Researchers at Work: Mating behavior in treefrogs

Posted on September 8, 2014 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by NC A&T undergraduate Darian Mollock, who worked as an Undergraduate Research Apprentice (URA) at MSU’s Kellogg Biological Station in summer 2014. My name is Darian Mollock, I am a junior … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Notes from the field

Posted on June 30, 2014 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Kenna Lehmann.  It never ceases to amaze me how returning to place after years away results in this dizzying contradiction: so much has changed, but everything feels the … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: The role of resource mutualisms in plant adaptation to abiotic environments

Posted on June 23, 2014 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Tomomi Suwa.  When you get thirsty, what do you do? You simply get something to drink, right? Plants don’t have the ability to move like animals, so … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Patterns and processes of community assembly of plants in oceanic and alpine island ecosystems

Posted on May 6, 2014 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Idaho graduate student Hannah Marx. “I love my job.” – written by me, at 12,009 feet in the summit log on Hyndman Peak, Pioneer Mountains, Idaho. Although I … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Measuring natural selection in flowers

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Raffica La Rosa.  Novel traits differ qualitatively from the characters from which they arise, and are generally thought to be adaptive. I study adaptive novel traits by combining … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Extreme science in Siberia

Posted on December 17, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Paul Wilburn. A cold shiver and briefly clenched teeth are common quick reactions displayed by new acquaintances when informed that I drill lake ice in Siberia for … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: BEACON on the Beach

Posted on November 11, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Washington graduate student Bryan Bartley. Like some kind of planktonic larva, I drifted through my formative years, until I finally settled in Seattle 14 years ago. Seattle belongs to … Continue reading →

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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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