January 2009, Christina Booher and Wendy Hood gave presentations at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Meeting in Boston.
December 2008, Bryan Lee, AHS student working in the lab, offered early admission to MIT. Congratulations Bryan!
November and December 2008, Ed Parsons and Travis Scott successfully defended their masters theses at Coastal Carolina -Congratulations Ed and Travis!
Fall 2008, Christina won department t-shirt design contest.
Fall 2008, Amy Skibiel joined the lab for her PhD and received a Sigma Xi research award.
2008-2009, Christina awarded Alabama EPSCoR fellowship.
New and upcoming publications:
Published: Booher, CM. 2008. Effects of calcium availability on reproductive output of big brown bats. Journal of Zoology 274: 38-43 (MS thesis research completed at Indiana State Univ)
In press: Skibiel, AL, FS Dobson, and JO Murie. 2009. Maternal influences on reproduction in two populations of Columbian ground squirrels. Ecological Monographs (MS thesis research completed in Dobson lab) Hood, W.R, M.B. Voltura, and O.T. Oftedal. 2009. Methods of measuring milk composition and yield in small mammals. In T.H. Kunz and S. Parsons (ed) Ecological and Behavioral Methods for the Study of Bats
Kunz, T.H., R.A. Adams and W.R. Hood. 2009. Methods for Assessing Size and Birth and Postnatal Growth and Development in Bats. In T.H. Kunz and S. Parsons (ed) Ecological and Behavioral Methods for the Study of Bats.
Accepted: Hill,G.E., W.R. Hood and K. Huggins. A multifactorial test of the effects of carotenoid access, food intake, and parasite load on production of ornamental feather and bill coloration in American Goldfinches. Journal of Experimental Biology.
Dr Hood serves as the secretary and webmaster for the Comparative Nutrition Society. Find out more about CNS at www.cnsweb.org
nd received a Sigma Xi research award.