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Our lab studies the evolution & eco-physiology of wetland animals (and other critters).
Lab News
2026
June
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2025
December
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October
September
August
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June
- Serene's article in Ecological Entomology chosen as Editors' Choice Article for the June Issue
May
- Martha Young successfully defends her MS Thesis!
April
- Martha wins the 2025-2026 Graduate Student Excellence in Research Award from CU Denver's Department of Integrative Biology!
- Martha wins the 2026 Outstanding Masters Award from CU Denver's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences! More details soon!
- Mike, Sarah, and friend-of-the-lab Noah Leith have review article about reproduction, climate change, and local extinctions published in Current Opinion in Insect Science
March
- The lab is excited to announce that we will be welcoming Megan Mokriski from Davidson College as a new PhD student starting in Fall 2026!
- The lab is excited to announce that we will be welcoming Anna Brasket from the University of Washington as a new PhD student starting in Fall 2026!
- Sarah presents her research on post-fire dragonfly assemblages at the 2026 Rocky Mountain National Park Biennial Research Conference
February
- Mike wins the 2026 Excellence in Research Award for tenured/tenure-track faculty from CU Denver's College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
January
- Sarah, Martha, and Mike present about the lab's research at SICB 2026
2025
December
- Mike has paper accepted to Journal of Experimental Biology with Ragland lab
- High-school student extraordinaire, Serene Park, has first-author paper accepted to Ecological Entomology!!!!
- PhD student Sarah deftly defends her proposal and advances to candidacy!
November
- Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology selects Mike for the 2026 George A. Bartholomew Award -- the annual prize given to the top young investigator in integrative biology
October
- Sarah talks to 9News about her paper in Nature Climate Change!
- Sarah & Mike talk about their recent Nature Climate Change paper on NPR!
- Martha expertly defends her thesis proposal!
September
- Sarah gives a fantastic talk at GREEBs 2025
- CU Denver News highlights Sarah's research and journey to our lab!
- PhD student Sarah Nalley publishes first-author paper in Nature Climate Change, showing that ornamented dragonflies are disappearing from parts of the US that have had more warming and wildfires over the last 40 years
August
- The lab is officially looking for 1 new fully funded PhD student to start in 2026. Details here!
- Mike and friend-of-the-lab Paula Cushing (Denver Museum of Nature & Science) have article accepted to Insect Conservation and Diversity about the elevational limits of Colorado's wolf spiders.
July
- Mike gives seminar about mating and species' environmental limits at Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory. Watch the recording here
- Lab awarded >$643,000 from NSF to test if low oxygen is a barrier to elevational range shifts. More details and advertisements for positions soon!
