Congratulations to Emily Xie, who today was named as one of the two Fall Rausser College of Natural Resources Honors Symposium 2021 winners of the Melis Medal at UC Berkeley. Her honors thesis with the lab is entitled, Investigating the Likelihood of Seed and Plant Interactions in Relation to Seed Functional Traits and Adult Plant…

Learn more about our Tucson-based leadership role, and apply at: https://arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/4/home/requisition/7850?c=arizona. The position is open until filled. The UA Sky School provides science education programs (1-4 days) to Arizona students in grades 4–12. We deliver 30+ programs to 1000+ students annually, via strong partnerships with area teachers and school districts. Programs are taught by instructors…

When did woolly mammoths go extinct, and when and how did humans drive this extinction? We have a new lab paper out on this subject, led by Damian Fordham and with other senior colleagues from the Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, in Copenhagen. I made a fairly minor methodological and writing contribution. You can…

Who belongs in the mountains and towns of the intermountain west? I just wrote a long-form essay for Colorado Magazine exploring these themes, centered around the town of Gothic, where we now do work at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory. It also touches on my personal history and the long history of political violence that…