Congratulations WECOS Lab member Laura Whipple for receiving the Wildlife Graduate Student of the Year Award from TWS_NCS. Your dedication to wildlife science, enthusiasm for community engagement, and commitment to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in STEM is inspiring!

Exciting presentation TWS_NCS conference this past week by WECOS Lab member Justin Pinero about the impact of tourism on brown bear stress physiology at Lake Clark National Park and Preserve in Alaska!

Congratulations Laura Whipple for successfully defending her Master’s thesis! Laura creatively wove together #SnapshotUSA and iNaturalist data to advance species distribution modeling with undergrad ecological curriculum infused with Indigenous ecological knowledge. Inspiring!

Congratulations to Justin Pinero for successfully defending his thesis today! Justin’s research was an elegant collaboration with scientists from WSU Pullman, Lake Clark NPS, and Northern Michigan University to advance bear ecology and management.

Please RT. Very soon I will be posting three positions. 1) Field Research Leader for a NOBO study. ~$40k + benefits. 2) Field Research Leader for a NOBO study. ~$50k + benefits. 3)In collaboration with Mike Chamberlain, a data scientist for acoustic data. ~$50k + benefits DM me.

One of the biggest moments of my life ✨

Let's talk about #periods while doing #fieldwork. How do you handle them? Tampons and ziploc bags? Menstrual cups? Period panties? Suppressing them? My inquiring mind wants to know... Breaking the menstruation taboo to make fieldwork more inclusive nature.com/articles/d4158…

#NewPaper: Working with a huge team of 220 co-authors representing 102 projects in 21 countries, we analyzed data from 5400 #cameratraps to ask how #wildlife behaviours changed during the COVID-19 “anthropause” nature.com/articles/s4155… ..1/

Exciting new paper led by Cole Burton with 220 co-authors representing 102 projects across 21 countries highlighting the complexity of #wildlife behaviors relative to variation in human activity patterns during the COVID-19 "anthropause": nature.com/articles/s4155…

A few months back, I had the honor of being interviewed for an Audubon Magazine article on the negative impacts of free-roaming cats on birds and other wildlife. They did a great job covering such a complex and contentious topic! Please share! audubon.org/news/why-it-so…

Ohhhh yes. Another one! Field Inclusive is happy to offer ONE $2000 FALL Travel Award for a marginalized or historically excluded student to attend any conference, workshop, or training opportunity in a natural sciences field. This application will close August 1, 2024 at

Quick history lesson about #Juneteenth ironic that this 1 and a half min video probably wouldn’t be allowed in a lot of schools across the country in 2024

Reminder to join us tomorrow night on Zoom for a discussion of Chapters 4-5! See you there!

Happy Birthday, Rosalind Franklin! We celebrate her work and influence in science. Thanks to her, we have the historic Photo 51, which revealed that DNA has a double-helical structure!

We have a great list of ongoing award, fellowship and grant opportunities that we thought our members might be interested in. Check it out here: docs.google.com/document/d/1-x… #conservation #funding #fellowships #awards

Students from NMU FWA Club club led by undergraduates Cassie Stitzman and Owen VanAntwerpen began camera deployments this weekend for the 6th annual #SnapshotUSA project. I’m so grateful our team of students welcomes participants of all ages to contribute to #SnapshotUSA.

Congrats Laura Peirson, MS student BioNMU in the WECOS Lab, for winning the South Africa Centre for Proteomic & Genomic Research Shotgun Metagenomics Competition! This award will extend Laura’s research beyond Namibian carnivore gut microbiome dynamics to include other species.

Congratulations to WECOS Lab member @ryleejayphoto for successfully defending her MS thesis. It's been an honor to work with you and to learn from you for the past 2 years. #Bioinformatics #Wildlifephotography #Microbiomes