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Montana Stone's award-winning photo featured by Brown's Medical School

2/28/2025

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The magazine Medicine@Brown featured Montana Stone's award-winning photo of "Zorro" -- a culpeo fox -- taken at our long-term ecological research site in Fray Jorge National Park in Chile. It's a fantastic shot of an amazing, and poorly known predator. As the BioMed communications team said, this image from Montana's field work is a poignant way to remind people that our mission in the Division is to advance the "health of people AND planet." We always love to remind people that our health is intimately, and inextricably, linked to what's happening in nature and around the planet.
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In spring 2024, I spent a month collecting data for my doctoral research as part of the longest-running ecological experiment of its type in Fray Jorge National Park, Chile. One evening, after a long day of fieldwork under the intense Chilean sun, an Andean zorro (Lycalopex culpaeus) emerged near our field station. The fox, both curious and cautious, watched us intently as we wrapped up for the day. Sensing the rare opportunity, I quickly captured a photo before it vanished into the brush. Experiences like this fuel my determination to understand the cascading impacts on ecosystems if remarkable creatures like the Andean zorro were to face extinction
​-Montana Stone

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Field workshop with Save the Elephants

12/24/2024

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Earlier this month, Mary Burak led a workshop together with Save the Elephants and the National Museums of Kenya. The meeting convened at the Save the Elephants headquarters at Samburu, and the team spent a few days learning to collect voucher plant specimens for DNA barcoding. In a very short period of time, they added an important chunk of regional plant diversity to the collections available for barcoding. The training and work completed will dramatically increase our ability to precisely characterize the diets of elephants across Kenya. It was super gratifying to see such a great group of scholars, conservationists, long-time collaborators, and all-around quality people coming together to do such important work. Mary shared some great photos of the team in action: Paul Musili, Rispa Kathurima, Gideon Galimogle, and Evans Nawasa.
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Hannah wins a grant for her work at Yellowstone!

5/16/2024

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Congratulations to Hannah Hoff for being awarded the 2024 James Reveal Eriogonum Project Grant from the Eriogonum Society! Among Hannah's many ambitious endeavors, she is leading the development of a comprehensive plant DNA barcode library and nutritional database so that we can understand what fuels the migrations of large herbivores across Yellowstone. These little buckwheats are turning out to be big contributors, and the grant will help ensure we can account for all of them. We are all so excited to get back out and botanizing in Yellowstone this summer!
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Maddy Florida wins prestigious Caleel '87 Memorial Undergraduate Biology Research Fellowship

3/27/2023

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Congratulations to Maddy for being one of only two undergraduates to be recognized with a prestigious Caleel '87 Memorial Undergraduate Biology Research Fellowship from the Division of Biology and Medicine at Brown in 2023! To prepare for her senior thesis next year, Maddy plans to spend the summer studying the health and nutrition of sloths in Costa Rica where she'll be based at La Selva. Exciting work will come from this incredible opportunity ahead!
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Ezequiel helps capture and study the first Giant Armadillos in Argentina

1/30/2023

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Late last year, Ezequiel participated in the capture of the first two Giant Armadillos from Argentina. The animals were sampled and outfitted with tracking devices to understand more about the health and ecology of their population. This amazing species is very rare, and its global population is listed as Vulnerable and Declining on the Red List of Endangered Species.

An article was published entitled, "Rosenda, la primera tatú carreta monitoreada en el Chaco"

Great work, Ezequiel! 
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Welcome Hannah Hoff!

9/23/2022

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We were lucky to get to work with Hannah over the summer at Yellowstone, but now with the start of a new semester it's official... Welcome to the lab, Hannah! 

Hannah arrives in the lab to start her Ph.D. work as a plant community ecologist with interests in understanding how the activities of large mammals at Yellowstone influence the long-term composition of plant communities. Hannah plans to connect field observations with manipulative experiments and DNA barcoding to understand the complex food web of this incredible system. Hannah will be working closely with the National Parks Service in the field. Here at Brown, she will be engaged with EEOB, IBES, and DSI via her participation in an NIH T32 grant that focuses on scientific communication. We feel so lucky to have Hannah join us and so excited to see how the amazing work she is doing will pay off!
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Hannah scouting field sites at Yellowstone, summer 2022
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Leo Malingati appears on an episode of Wildlife Warriors!

8/3/2022

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Collaborator and University of Wyoming PhD student, Leo Malingati, appears on an episode of the documentary series Wildlife Warriors and shares his experience studying the small mammals of Mpala Research Centre!

The conversation featuring our work to analyze small mammal diets -- poop science!

​Short video available on 
YouTube. Episode on Vimeo.
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Lab in action at Yellowstone

8/3/2022

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It feels good to have more of the lab getting back into the swing of fieldwork after the worst years of the early pandemic!

The lab has always maintained some field activity throughout the pandemic. Ezequiel has been remote from field sites across Argentina, Robert and Peter have been keeping active at Mpala in Kenya, and Colin (and the lizard team) as well as Amanda (and the terrapin team) had managed to keep active around the northeastern US. But a lot of us had to cut back or go it alone more than we would have liked. The tide is turning, though!

This summer we have had a group led by Beth (postdoc), Hannah (incoming grad student), and Maddy (UTRA student) at Yellowstone -- collecting dung, surveying plants, coordinating with collaborators -- with support from our scientific partners at the National Park Service and the Brown University Herbarium. Amidst the ongoing recovery from disastrous flooding along the Yellowstone River, we were able to get out into the field together to advance a number of priority projects for the lab. 

We are super grateful to funders: NSF (CAREER & EPSCoR award), Department of Interior (Cooperative Agreement), Brown University (UTRA & IBES).

The quintessential group photo of the team:
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Beth, Maddy, and Hannah at the north entrance to Yellowstone in Gardiner -- weeks after the 2022 floods (and moments after meeting a Prairie Rattlesnake at the Arch)!
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Congratulations Eze on a Rufford Award

10/5/2021

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Congratulations to Dr. Ezequiel Vanderhoeven for your Rufford Foundation Grant! Ezequiel plans to study infectious diseases circulating in populations of armadillo species native to the Argentinian Chaco. The goal of the study is to understand how diseases impact populations of these species for the benefit of conservation and to support local governments and communities in the adoption of environmental practices that minimize the risk of spillover. It is an extremely important and ambitious project. The Rufford award not only provides crucial financial support, but also represents a valuable endorsement of the work from a leading international authority on applied conservation biology. 
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Summer research ramp up and welcomes

6/10/2021

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While everyone in the lab continues to be impacted by the global pandemic, we also pause to appreciate our increased opportunity to begin resuming research and to extend our welcome to the new lab members who are joining us this summer.
  • Welcome to Ezequiel Vanderhoeven, D.V.M., Ph.D., and congratulations on your CONICET international postdoctoral fellowship!
  • Welcome and congratulations to Fabiola Meyer-Garza who has earned a Voss Undergraduate Research Fellowship to conduct a thesis in the lab!
  • Welcome to Caroline Dressler, an undergraduate researcher and musician who plans to do senior research in the lab!
  • ​Welcome to Andy Luo, a rising junior who is starting research on lizard thermal ecology in the lab!
  • Welcome to Camela Moore and congratulations on your award from the Leadership Alliance!
  • Welcome to Logan Torres from the Brown Presidential Scholars Program!
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