Chickadee News
Congratulations to our three recently graduated stellar undergrads Sam, Eva, and Nate! All three completed impressive honor's thesis projects that they will be presenting this summer at various scientific meetings and that they are all writing up
Lab members recently attended the 2026 annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution in Cleveland. Sara, Sam, Lucas, and Nate all presented their work during the poster sessions. Congrats to Sara for receiving honorable mention for her
Congrats to Lucas who was awarded the Chapman Research Grant from AMNH and a $10,000 postgraduate scholarship from the NCAA. Lucas will use his Chapman Research Grant, which is an ornithology grant for projects focused on the evolutionary
It's the time of year where folks in the lab apply for as many small grants as they can to support their independent research. Thanks to the many funding agencies who have provided grants this year!Nate received a Beverley Sears Award to fund his
Closing out the Research & Innovation week at CU Boulder is the UROP Sidewalk Symposium. This year Sam and Eva both participated, sharing drawings of their honors thesis work, which was funded with UROP grants last summer. Awesome to see
Congratulations to Kathryn and her co-authors for the recent acceptance of her final thesis chapter in Evolution. The manuscript, titled Extensive local introgression despite rare contemporary hybridization between two backyard
A recent article in Living Bird magazine featured Olivia Taylor's honors thesis work (published in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology) that was a collaboration between Olivia, Kathryn, and Carrie Branch. So awesome to see a
The 2025 summer field season has flown by with the last chickadee nests at the Mountain Research Station of the season scheduled to be banded on July 12. Folks have been busy collecting data for their individual projects along with our annual
Congrats to Sam, Nate, and Eva for receiving individual UROP awards to support their summer research! All three are collecting data for their honors thesis projects. Sam will be studying pox virus in our local chickadee populations, Nate will be
Congrats to Nate, Sam, and Sara for being awarded research grants from the Denver Field Ornithologists! Nate will use his funds to study incubation patterns and differences between black-capped and mountain chickadees. Sam will