What’s Happening in our Lab: News and Events!

8/15/16 - Gaby with her emu buddies.

3/1/16 - After two years as a technician in the Nevitt Lab, Logan has fledged to the Khavari Lab at Stanford University. We wish her the best of luck in all her future endeavors!

2/20/16 - Hannes gives a fantastic presentation on body temperature changes of kangaroo rats in response to rattlesnakes at the Ecology Graduate Student Symposium at UC Davis. And Corey’s poster on contaminant loads in Southern California seabirds takes home the Best Poster Award. Way to go!!!

2/13/16 - Sarah, Chris, and Corey present their research in Hawaii at the at the 43rd annual meeting of the Pacific Seabird Group. Corey takes home Honorable Mention for the Best Student Poster Award. Awesome work team!

2/8/16 - Sarah passes her qualifying exam and is now a PhD candidate!!! Congratulations Sarah, we are all super stoked for you and all the exciting work you’re doing!

10/20/15 - Brian leaves for the World Seabird Conference in Cape, Town, South Africa to present his work on disassortative mating in Leach’s Storm-Petrels.

10/1/15 - The Nevitt Lab welcomes a flock of new graduate students: Eric Tymstra and Carrick Rice as well as Joint Doctoral Students Hannes Schraft and Corey Clatterbuck. Welcome to the team!

2/25/15 - The Nevitt Lab had a strong showing at the Pacific Seabird Group meeting in San Jose, California last week. On 2/19, Grant Humphries chaired a fantastic session on: using seabirds as predictors of climatic events. On 2/20, Matt Savoca gave a talk on his dissertation research that received Honorable Mention for the Best Student Paper Award. And on 2/21, Josh Hincks and Amy Miles won the Best Student Poster Award for their NSF REU-funded research conducted last summer. Great work team!!!

2/21/15 - Nevitt Lab undergraduate researchers, Josh Hincks and Amy Miles win the Best Student Poster Award at the 42nd annual meeting of the Pacific Seabird Group!!! A well-deserved award for an excellent research project funded by the NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates program. This is just the beginning for these two superb young researchers. Keep up the great work!

   

12/5/14 - Josh Hincks is awarded the Schilling Undergraduate Research Award from the College of Biological Sciences at UC Davis. This honor is bestowed upon an undergraduate demonstrating excellent research and investigative abilities as well as a superb attitude towards their education. The whole Nevitt Lab is overjoyed that the awards committee picked such a deserving candidate in Josh.

9/21/14 to 10/5/14 - Brian, Matt, Michelle, and Sarah attend the amazing Sensory Ecology course hosted by the Vision Group at Lund University in Sweden. Read about some of the amazing things they learned here and here.

9/1/14 - The Nevitt Lab welcomes two new post-doctoral researchers, Grant Humphries and Michelle Kappes as well as a new graduate student, Chris Tyson. Welcome to the team!

8/15/14 - Gaby heads out to Nova Scotia to conduct behavioral experiments and help out on the Leach’s Storm-Petrel MHC project.

8/11/14 - Matt gives an outreach presentation in Sausalito, CA for Winged Ambassadors in collaboration with Jenny Stock.

7/5/14 to 9/1/14 - Sarah, Brian, Josh, and Amy Miles conduct fieldwork for the Leach’s Storm-Petrel MHC project.

6/15/14 - Lab undergraduate technicians, Sukhjot Sandher, Hong Sun, Natasha Reus, and Michael Chou graduate from UC Davis. Congratulations on this major life accomplishment; they are now all fledglings in the real world!

5/2/14 - Sarah, Brian, and Matt receive Henry A. Jastro Research Fellowships from the Graduate Group in Ecology. Awesome job!!!

5/1/14 - Hong and Sukhjot receive merit citations in the College of Biological Sciences. Years of hard work pays off!

4/25/14 - Nevitt lab undergraduates Michael, Josh, and Hong give awesome poster presentations at the UC Davis Undergraduate Research Conference for their projects on crow social behavior, storm-petrel genetics, and blackbird odor profiling, respectively. Impressive work!

4/22/14 - Sarah and Matt organize and present at an Earth Day outreach event on the Ecological Effects of Global Anthropogenic Change hosted by Folsom Lake College. Read a Matt’s write up of the event on his blog.

4/10/14 - Matt receives an Outstanding Student Presentation Award for his poster at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in late February and is awarded a Natural Reserve System Research Grant from UC Davis. You’re on a roll, Matt!

3/25/14 - Brian is awarded a College of Biological Sciences Dean’s Mentorship Award. Awesome job, Brian!

3/20/14 - Matt and Gaby’s PNAS paper featured on the UC Davis homepage! Read the write-up here.

2/7/14 Rob Raguso visits UC Davis and the Nevitt lab!

2/5/14 - Matt and Gaby got their paper accepted into PNAS!!!

1/29/14 - Matt is awarded a SICB Grant-in-aid of Research. Way to go Matt!

1/15/14 - Avian Olfaction gets featured in Audubon Magazine! 

1/5/14: Gaby got back from Kerguelen safely!  Brian and Matt change phenotypes as a welcome home surprise!!!

10/27/13:  Gaby leaves for fieldwork with Henri Weimerskirch to study Black-browed Albatross.

10/17/13: Sukhjot turns 21!

10/1/13:   New blood in the lab: Natasha and Josh join the genotyping team!!

9/20/13: Brian FINALLY returns from Bon Portage after a successful field season.

7/12/13: Sarah and Gaby go to Bon Portage with our undergraduate assistant, Amy Miles

6/25/13:  Sarah and Matt pull off a successful ‘Winged Ambassadors’ Workshop with Jennifer:  check it out!

5/25/13:  NSF came through!! Yea!!!!