Spotlights:
Using isotopes to track nutrients
Intrepid post-doc alum David Hoekman, who is now a staff scientist at NEON Inc., the NSF-funded center for continental scale ecology and monitoring recently wrote this piece for their blog on his research in Iceland. Thanks David for the great summary! Tracking isotopes to illuminate Nature’s grand recycling program by David Hoekman January 22, 2013 [...]
Current Researcher Spotlight: Brian Spiesman
The Gratton Lab recently welcomed yet another fantastic post-doc to the team! Brian Spiesman joins us from Florida, where he completed his Master’s Degree at The University of Florida and his PhD with Dr. Brian Inouye at Florida State. While he unfortunately did not bring the warm sunshine with him when he moved to [...]
Two ama-ZZZ-ing papers!
There has been a lot of buzz in the lab about two papers examining the relationships between habitat diversity (at local and landscape scales) and arthropod diversity. The first paper (Bennett and Gratton 2013) examines the relationships between floral diversity and the diversity of beneficial arthropods which includes insect pollinators and predators. Ashley and Claudio [...]
Latest:
WAA Founder’s Day
A big thanks to the Wisconsin Alumni Association Lakeland Chapter for hosting me for a Founders Day Dinner in Minocqua at the lovely Norwoods Supper club. I had the opportunity to talk about some of the work that we’ve been doing on bioenergy crops and the potential role in sustaining biodiversity and ecosystem services. Wonderful [...]
Gratton Lab research featured in UWRightNow
See a video made about the Gratton Lab’s research on native bees, land-use change and agricultural management. This video was created and published for UWRightNow, a multimedia project that aims to capture as much about UW-Madison life as possible through videos, stories, and images collected in a 24-hour period. Link to video: http://uwrightnow.wisc.edu/posts/2522
Claudio promoted to full professor
Congratulations to Claudio who was recently promoted to full professor! This week we interviewed Claudio to learn a little bit more about him. When did you decide you wanted to be a professor? I was probably 8 years old. My dad was a professor. He worked in an underground lab with lasers and I thought [...]
