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The Evolution &
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Our lab studies the evolution & eco-physiology of wetland animals (and other critters).
Lab News
2025
November
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2024
December
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September
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!
June
- PhD student Sarah Nalley has first-author paper accepted to Nature Climate Change! More details soon!
April
- Research associate My-Lan Le wins CU Denver College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Outstanding Master's Student for her thesis work on reproduction in alpine plants!
March
- Incredible journey of lab alum Jami Helmig featured in CU Denver's CLAS News!
February
- PhD student Sarah Nalley presents her research about wildfires and dragonfly mating behavior at the Front Range Student Ecology Symposium
January
- Mike presents on research about aerobic constraints and dragonfly mate competition at high elevations at SICB 2025
- Post-doc extraordinaire Alli talks to Scientific American about migratory birds!
2024
December
- Congrats to lab alum Jami Helmig for winning the CU Denver College of Liberal Arts and Science Outstanding Undergraduate Award!!
October
- Paper about the correlated evolution of ornamentation and thermal tolerance is published in special issue of Frontiers in Ethology about sexual selection and compensation. Led by friend-of-the-lab Noah Leith!
September
- PhD student Sarah Nalley's natural history note about mating behavior after a wildfire published in Southwestern Naturalist!
