Category: Conservation

Welcomes, fieldwork, and research updates

10/7/2018

As the fall semester gets into swing, the lab is having a lot of fun and making progress on research. Several milestones should not go unnoticed, and there are photos to boot. In no particular order:

A big WELCOME to the lab for PhD student Courtney Reed! Courtney joined us this summer, having recently completed a Masters at Harvard in Hopi Hoekstra's lab.
CONGRATULATIONS to PhD candidate Bianca Brown, who passed her qualifying exams and advanced to candidacy last week!
We had a wildly fun and successful field team representing our lab and others from Brown University in Kenya this summer, including Loren Albert (Voss postdoc fellow, Kellner lab), Patrick Freeman, Courtney Reed, Jesse Tarnas (Mustard lab), and Molly Magid (Voss undergrad fellow).
Ashley Bang's summer research was featured on the NOAA website for Estuary Week in September.
Brian Gill spent a month interfacing with Conservancy managers to address conservation challenges in Kenya, where he lost count of rhino sightings and yet still managed to submit an excellent manuscript for publication while on the road.

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Conservation lessons from large-mammal manipulations in East Africa

5/16/2018

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An extensive review by Goheen et al. was just released as a contribution to The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology series. The paper details major conservation lessons learned through large-scale and long-term experiments involving large-mammal communities in Kenya -- an important set of lessons for ecologists and conservation biologists provided by an inspirational team of researchers and collaborators.

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ENVS Lunchtime Seminar - March 15th

3/8/2018

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ENVS Lunchtime Seminar with Tyler Kartzinel
Thursday, March 15th, 12:00-12:50PM
UEL 106 Classroom, 135 Angell Street
Lunch will be provided!

Tyler Kartzinel is an Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology & Environment and Society. Brown students will learn about new courses being offered, including Conservation Biology in the Genomics Age, and unique research opportunities focusing on conservation biology in the Kartzinel Lab.

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In the Field with Biodiversity Initiative

1/13/2017

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Thanks to a new, inspiring conservation organization — Biodiversity Initiative — for inviting our lab to join research and conservation efforts in the understudied tropical forests of Equatorial Guinea.

Highlights from a brief visit include:

A workshop with government officials (and other stakeholders) to discuss opportunities to better conserve wildlife and protected areas.
Hiking with a bushmeat hunter to learn about the first links in the wildlife trafficking chain—the way legal trapping of wildlife by local subsistence hunters can feed into international crime through the trade of endangered species, like pangolin. (Importantly, hunting was forbidden during my visit.)
The magnificence of a primary Congo Rainforest on Equatorial Guinea's mainland.

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Welcomes, fieldwork, and research updates

Conservation lessons from large-mammal manipulations in East Africa

ENVS Lunchtime Seminar - March 15th

In the Field with Biodiversity Initiative

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