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Congrats to Lucas who was awarded the Chapman Research Grant from AMNH, which is an ornithology grant for projects focused on the evolutionary biology of birds and specimen-based research. Lucas was awarded this project for his proposal “
It's the time of year where folks in the lab apply for as many small grants as they can to support their independent research. Thanks to the many funding agencies who have provided grants this year!Nate received a Beverley Sears Award to fund his
Closing out the Research & Innovation week at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder is the UROP Sidewalk Symposium. This year Sam and Eva both participated, sharing drawings of their honors thesis work, which was funded with UROP grants last summer. Awesome to see
The 52nd Annual meeting of the Guild of Rocky Mountain Ecologists and Evolutionary Biologists took place at the University of Colorado Mountain Research Station Sept 26 - 28, 2025. Surrounded by yellow and orange aspens, the
Congratulations to Kathryn and her co-authors for the recent acceptance of her final thesis chapter in Evolution. The manuscript, titled Extensive local introgression despite rare contemporary hybridization between two backyard
Several members of the lab attended the 2025 AOS meeting in St. Louis. Always an excellent meeting, it was great to catch up with colleagues and see the latest and greats in ornithological research.Congrats to Maria for her early
A warm welcome to Lucas Florsheim and Nate Neal - the most recent PhD students to join the Taylor Lab! Lucas plans to expand on work investigating hybridization between black-capped and mountains chickadees using broader
A recent article in Living Bird magazine featured Olivia Taylor's honors thesis work (published in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology) that was a collaboration between Olivia, Kathryn, and Carrie Branch. So awesome to see a
The 2025 summer field season has flown by with the last chickadee nests at the Mountain Research Station of the season scheduled to be banded on July 12. Folks have been busy collecting data for their individual projects along with our annual
Congrats to Sam, Nate, and Eva for receiving individual UROP awards to support their summer research! All three are collecting data for their honors thesis projects. Sam will be studying pox virus in our local chickadee populations, Nate will be