New paper out today in Methods in Ecology and Evolution showing how we can use drones to 3-D model large groups of free-living animals! Check out how to track energy dynamics in wildlife using #dronesforgood with this awesome team: Duke Marine Lab UAS DFO Maritimes National Geographic Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Have you ever wondered what exactly your favorite bird species eats? 🦅🐭🐛🐞🐸🦌🦗🐟🐇🦆 🤷‍♀️ Presenting the Avian Diet Database synthesizing 993 published studies on 759 species and counting! UNC College of Arts and Sciences college.unc.edu/2021/10/bird-f… 🧵

🚨Excited to announce new publication comparing uncertainty associated with different body condition estimates of baleen whales 🚨 Uncertainty does not scale linearly across 1, 2, and 3D measurements. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Shaken, not stirred: blue whales show no acoustic response to earthquake events. Check out our publication on the topic, out today in Royal Society Open Science! A fun question evolved into a project and now resulted in a paper. Excited to see this one published!

.@clarabirdferrer, PhD candidate @GemmLabOSU, uses #drones to study gray whale behavioral ecology in order to understand how their behaviors vary across habitats, seasons, & individual characteristics including morphology, body condition, demographic unit. #WomeninDronesWednesday

You may know Tom Calvanese as the manager @osuportorford. He's also a researcher on an Oregon Sea Grant-funded project in which divers collect emaciated sea urchins from the wild. Then researchers feed them seaweed in tanks to fatten up their gonads & improve their market value.

Read here to learn about the role of kelp & how the GEMM lab’s Gray Whale Foraging Ecology internship is impacting our future scientists 🐳

Come work with us! We're searching for a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to support the development of new & existing research & conservation programs. Position is funded for 3yrs & based in Durham NC. Official description & application link: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/22094

And at long last, the second chapter of my Master's is finally published!!! 🥳 Super excited for this paper to be out and I am so tremendously grateful to all the past, present, & future interns of TOPAZ/JASPER for making it all happen: mmi.oregonstate.edu/gemm-lab/jaspe…

Interested in using drones to study ocean color? Check out Patrick Gray's new paper in ASLO #ASLO_Methods for details! Robust ocean color from drones: Viewing geometry, sky reflection removal, uncertainty analysis, & survey of the Gulf Stream front aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lo…

Want to learn how to integrate #drone technology into your environmental science work? Join a virtual info session on our UAS Applications and Operations in Environmental Science course sequence on September 20, 5 p.m. ET. Register here: duke.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Check out the latest Caterpillars Count! newsletter where @lewbells23 explains what it's like to monitor #bugs at three @InstBirdPop MAPS banding stations! mailchi.mp/6ff9da7ff74e/c… #citizenscience #birdfood #phenology

Unicorns are real! This Unicorn Caterpillar is a leaf edge feeder, settling in to the chewed portion and looking like the edge of a leaf.

For those interested in learning how to apply drones effectively in the environmental sciences, we have a few spaces left in our UAS Applications and Operations course sequence starting next week. Details and registration link here: marineuas.net/uas-applicatio…

Proud of these two @GemmLabOSU undergraduate poster award winners at #AmericanCetaceanSociety 2022 conference. Also big shoutout to the random guy at my hostel who said “…but you don’t look like a scientist!” #WomenInSTEM

Join us in person or online June 7th @ 5:30 PM for a Community Update to learn more about the Oregon Kelp Alliance and mingle with other kelp forest enthusiasts. Everyone is welcome, we hope to see you there! Click here for more details: mailchi.mp/oregonkelp/com… #ORKA #HelpTheKelp

Feeling immense #firstgen pride after a successful MSc defense yesterday. So thankful for my @GemmLabOSU family for supporting me on this journey.

Are 🐛🕷️🐞🦋🦗 declining? Are they becoming active earlier in the year? How are they impacted by -climate change? -urbanization? -non-native plants? Help answer these and more with caterpillarscount.unc.edu #CitSciMonth #CitSciTC #phenology 1/3

Please share! I'm looking to hire 2 PhD students to join my lab Clemson CAFLS as part of a landscape scale grassland #bird and habitat monitoring project funded through USDA RCPPs awarded to National Bobwhite and Grassland Initiative. jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id=9…