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Congratulations to Haley Kenyon who was recently awarded a Stearns Prize from the European Society for Evolutionary Biology and the Journal of Evolutionary Biology for her paper examining the influence of between-species color pattern differences on chickadee mate choice. You can read the paper here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jeb.14058

What do bison, beaver, wolves and sea otters all have in common? They’re keystone species. That means they have an outsized impact on their ecosystem. It took humans driving some of these to near extinction to realize just how important they are. Now animals like the American Bison and North...

The British Ecological Society's Journal of Ecology Editors awarded EBIO's Dr. Katherine Suding as Eminent Ecologist award recipient for 2023 !

Situated in the Alpine tundra in the hills above Boulder, Colorado, Niwot Ridge’s Tundra Lab is among the highest research laboratories in the continental United States. The lab is a squat, hardened, concrete structure perched on stilts on the side of a mountain, more military bunker than college building. Yet...

By: Jacob Watts, EBIO PhD Student During May 2023, undergraduate and graduat e students at the University of Colorado-Boulder’s Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Museum and Field Studies programs had the opportunity to traverse the state during a camping-style field biology course. This course, Colorado Field Botany, emphasizes the biodiversity,...

CU Boulder study shows that 96% of all carbon offset credits from U.S. forestry projects were issued for improved forest management practices, not tree planting or forest protection While cars, airplanes and factories are busy spewing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, trees spend much of their time absorbing this harmful...

Mike Gil, a CU Boulder marine biologist, led research now honored by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Mike Gil, a researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder, is one of six scientists nationwide to be honored for outstanding research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy...

The award will fund small exhibits created by high school students that will tour museums and birding festivals throughout the Americas, raising awareness about climate change and promoting STEM diversity Can the common barn swallow help promote awareness of climate change while encouraging greater diversity in STEM? A group of...