EBIO student, Carley Rutledge, set out to document stories of everyday people and the effects a shifting climate has had on their lives. The cumulation of her interests in the sciences and film are summarized in her project, Hotspot Interviews.

Painted ladies, Vanessa cardui migration continues through Colorado their 70-mile swarm was detected by weather radar. Professor Jeff Mitton shares insight and photos of the migration.

You are what you eat, at least in the case of caterpillars. Tobin Hammer, an EBIO doctoral candidate's research was recently published demonstrating the scarcity of gut microbial communities in caterpillars. The findings were published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 

Fairy Circles are generally described to be circular patches of land, devoid of vegetation and lasting between 30 and 60 years. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology scientists Lauren Shoemaker, Nichole Barger and Holly Barnard visited Namibia on a two-week trip to better address the long-standing question - How and why do these unique patterns form?

Miss last week's colloquium? An archive of talks at the EBIO Colloqiuium Series is now hosted on our Vimeo site.

Assistant Professor Erin Trip receives $2.9 million grant to begin digitally archiving more than 1.7 million plants across the southern Rocky Mountain range.