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Georgia Titcomb is the lead author of a new paper in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Elizabeth Forbes was awarded a Schmidt family foundation Research Accelerator grant.

Michelle Lee received a Coastal Fund grant to further last year's project with undergraduate, Megan Oza.

Caroline Owens recently received a grant from Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserve (VESR)

March 2019 - A new paper out in Microbial Ecology, which Dr. Young coauthored, explores the drivers of variation in microbial communities on western gulls across their California range, including from the local Channel Island gull community.

February 2019 - Dr. Young worked with visiting Pakistani scholar Dr. Noreen Khalid to understand effects of road proximity on heavy metal accumulation in plant communities here in California. The paper was published in Environmental Science and Pollution Research.

With the removal of invasive rats from Palmyra Atoll, its native vegetation is making a grand comeback

New research published in PLoS ONE this week demonstrates dramatic positive benefits for native trees following rat removal at Palmyra Atoll, a magnificent National Wildlife Refuge and natural research laboratory located about 1000 miles south of Hawaii.

Forty million miles of major roads crisscross the Earth's continents -- enough to circle the planet 1,600 times. For humans, these thoroughfares are a boon, enabling them to move with ease from place to place. But for migrating animals who are also hemmed in by dams, rivers, shipping lanes, urban development and agriculture, they create another barrier.

The elimination of the biting pests was an added bonus after researchers unleashed a rat-eradication endeavor on the tiny islands.