Congratulations to Lizzie Troyer for having her manuscript "Density dependence or climatic variation? Factors influencing survival, recruitment, and population growth rate of Virginia opossums" accepted for publication in the Journal of Mammology. This work is Lizzie's first chapter of her MS thesis - way to go!

& a belated congratulations to Lizzie for her presentation in June at the American Society of Mammologists meeting and the FOUR (!) travel grants she received to travel to the meeting in Philadelphia

Congratulations to Juliana for her recent Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Research Award from I-cubed (An NSF funded project at the University of Florida). Juliana will be working  in collaboration with Mingjian Zhu & Viviana Castro on a project entitled "Using Geospatial Techniques to Plan for Coastal Habitats and Ecological Connectivity in Response of Sea Level Rise in St. Johns and Flagler Counties, Florida". Way to go!

Our paper "Intraspecific variation of common species predicts ranges of threatened ones" led by Trevon Fuller at UCLA in now In Press at Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Our lab's paper “Impacts of a half century of sea-level rise and development on an endangered mammal”, will be recognized at the 6th Annual UF/IFAS Research Awards Ceremony as a "high impact" paper for 2012. This paper was co-authored by Susan & former postdoc Jennifer Seavey, along with colleagues from Dr. Bob McCleery's lab.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.12024/abstract

Online Early version available. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mec.12196/abstract

on her successful defense of her MS proposal!!

on her successful defense of her MS proposal!!

The report co-authored by former postdoc Jennifer Seavey and PhD student Sieara Claytor is available from http://floridaclimate.org/docs/biodiversity.pdf