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Biology major Mamo Waianuhea was among College of Science students attending the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) national conference in Salt Lake City in October. She also presented a poster showcasing her research.
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By all accounts, 2017 shaped up to be a bad year for ocean hypoxia according to Francis Chan. He's been studying these "dead zones" for many years.
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Sarah Gravem is lead author on a paper published in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution. She takes aim at government funding procedures that require scientists to state at the proposal stage how their projects will be "transformative."
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Congratulations to the 115 Biology and Zoology undergraduates who received department, college and/or university scholarships totalling $288,600 for the 2017-18 academic year. Awards range from $500 to $8,200 and come from 22 different scholarship funds. We're grateful to the generous donors.
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Congratulations to Kyle Coblentz (PhD candidate in the Novak Lab) for receiving the E.C. Pielou Award for his talk "Quantifying individual diet specialization using Bayesian hierarchical models" presented at the Ecological Society of America's annual meeting held August 6-11 in Portland, Oregon.
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George Poinar has discovered a new species of tree whose flowers were preserved in Burmese amber. He said the flowers were so well preserved "they look like they were just picked from the garden."
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Erin Abernethy, PhD student in Integrative Biology, is part of a team that analyzed photos to measure scavenger efficiency, species composition, size, habitat type and season. "It's kind of like spying on wildlife," she said.
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Francis Chan has found pH values so low just off the Oregon coast that it's not only difficult for shellfish to build a shell, but it actually dissolves the shell.
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Sarah Henkel's team conducted surveys on ocean floor sediment, which will help inform offshore energy projects.
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Coral researcher Virginia Weis is one of eight researchers selected for a new $14 NSF program aimed at helping scientists better understand the relationship between gene function and the physical and functional characteristics of organisms.
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