News

Recent lab PhD recipient Ana Miller-ter Kuile collaborated with EEMB graduate student Austen Apigo and Dr. Young to explore whether surface contamination alters diet DNA metabarcoding results from small-bodied invertebrates on Palmyra Atoll. 

Ruby's work is featured in the article "False Forests" by Sonia Fernandez 

Devyn completed her dissertation defense titled: Interactions among multiple drivers of global change: climate-mediated effects of wild and domestic herbivores on plant communities and ecosystem function in southcentral California. 

Last week Ana completed her dissertation defense titled: Demystifying Species Interactions: Conservation and Theory from the Model Island System of Palmyra Atoll. 

Elizabeth will join Dr. Oz Schmitz's Lab this fall!

The past quarter brought new successes and new faces to the Young Lab!

Young Lab graduate student Michelle Lee's article on the politics of climate change was published in The Daily Nexus. 

Ana's work on cascading effects of rodent eradication on island ecosystems and above ground biomass featured in the Economist and other venues.

Dr. Titcomb successfully defended her dissertation on the role of watering holes in concentrating parasites in changing climates.

To save this palm-filled paradise, biologists must kill the trees