Undergraduate researcher Fanny Riand won the Eagle Hill Undergraduate Student Poster Award at the NENHC/WOS conference in April 2021 for her poster titled “Correlations Between Free-ranging Domestic Cat Activity and Land-Cover Type across an Urban Gradient.” Congratulations, Fanny! She plans to continue with the research project and hopes to present a further update at the Ecological Society of America meeting in August 2021. Fanny’s research is jointly supervised by PhD student Sebastian Moreno as well as Dr. Susannah Lerman (USDA Forest Service), with warrenecologylab PI Paige Warren assisting.

Congratulations to two Warren lab alumnae who are pursuing Master’s research starting in Fall 2021.

Lucy Yifei Zhang, who conducted research on House Wrens in the Warren lab as a high school student has been accepted to the Duke Kunshan University Master’s program in environmental policy, with a focus on ecology and conservation.

Jodie Berezin, will be starting her Master’s degree at Smith College. Jodie completed a senior thesis at UMass, based on her research in Tanzania on elephant social behavior and she assisted with multiple Warren lab projects including the work with both House Wrens and Wood Thrush. We’re excited to see what the future holds for both Lucy and Jodie!

Sebastian Moreno presented his research – “Motivations and Barriers: What Brings People to Citizen Science Programs?” at the NENHC/WOS conference in a session on Urban Ecology and Environmental Justice, led by alumnus Dr. Aaron Grade. Aaron also presented warrenecologylab-based research on sampling biases in eBird checklist postings – “Where We eBird Matters: Sample Selection Bias in eBird Checklist Locations by Race and Income in the Boston Metropolitan Area.”