Undergraduate Research Opportunties

Now that we’re back from our field research on the sage-grouse in Wyoming, we are turning our attention to the rest of the year in Davis. Towards that end, we would like to invite motivated students to join our lab this summer to participate in our research. These projects would involve measuring behaviors of male and female sage-grouse using videos of courtship interactions on the lek. Other projects may involve analyzing vocalizations using multichannel sound recordings we collected this spring. Either way, it’s a good chance enjoy some Storer Hall air conditioning while participating in exciting projects.

If you are interested, email me, and I can provide more information. The next step would be to attend an information session to answer your questions. We hope to have one or more of these within the next week or two.

For more information, please see the links provided at the top of the “Undergraduate Research Page

 

Undergraduate Research Conference Participants

A brief (and tardy) note of congratulations to two of the students in our lab – Tawny and Marty, who both presented at this year’s Undergraduate Research Conference. Tawny is working on a senior practicum,  and has been investigating lateral biases in aggressive behaviors in the sage-grouse. Marty came in last summer through a special research program (the FASTRAC program), and has been looking at male responses to robot females presenting either interested or disinterested behaviors.

You can check out an article about it here. Gail and Tawny were both interviewed for this article!