We just completed 2 days of winter monitoring for the endangered Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit looking for burrows and fecal pellets. Happy to be able to bring 6 dedicated U of I students to help out. Also there was much good news because Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is finding double the number of active burrows this year.
Congratulations to Manuel Santiago Plata (grad student) and Svenja Markley (undergrad student) from the Waits lab who were among the 50 students at the UI honored at the Alumni Awards for Excellence banquet.
Congratulations to Elise Stacy who just defended her PhD and had her first chapter accepted for publication in Journal of Mammalogy
Today we helped Washington Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks and the USFWS trap the endangered Columbian Basin pygmy rabbit in the captive breeding enclosures and moved kits between enclosures to reduce inbreeding for future matings.
Congratulations to Elise who received the outstanding graduate student in Environmental Sciences Award