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Quick update--CHAPTER ONE OF MY THESIS IS PUBLISHED! After two rounds of edits (the first of which was pretty rough), my manuscript "An invasive insect, hemlock woolly adelgid, indirectly impacts L...
Better late than never...
Wow, it has been a quick minute since I've added a new note...oops. In all this coronavirus craziness, I figured some good news was in order. It's a little late in announcing this but...I'm publish...
The perfect bookend
One of my favorite parts of graduate school was presenting my research at 12 different ornithological society conferences. From Washington, DC to Iguazu Falls, Argentina, to Tucson, AZ, eastern hem...
3 years in the making
Well guys, I did it. On March 12, 2018, I presented a public seminar and successfully defended my master's thesis! While the diploma won't come till May, I have officially 'passed' and am now a Mas...
Father's Day is for birds, too!
Soo...this note is 3 months overdue...but it's never too late to acknowledge how great dads are. Of my 19 banded males who successfully raised young, the #1 Dad award goes to Hopscotch. He fledged ...
Banding our first nestlings
The season is moving along and May 1 brought our first nestling banding. The process is swift and the nestlings are out of the nest for as little time as possible, I aim for 15 minutes at the most....
42 days of nonstop field work
Wow, so this field season has been C-R-A-Z-Y. I have a moment to breath (while the rain pours) so here is an update on the season thus far :)LOWA were first heard at Tremont on March 14. Of course,...
Team LOWA expands
Thanks to my amazing backers, I was able to hire a field assistant for the upcoming season--April Williamson, a Smokies area local from North Carolina! Here's a little blurb from April about her in...
Meet the volunteers!
Volunteers are my project's [not so] secret ingredient :) I am so grateful from the depths of my soul for the time, sweat, scrapes, and waterlogged boots these folks endure. Their energy keeps me g...