Lab News

May 7, 2020
The Biodiversity Dashboards, a collaboration between the Map Of Life and the Field Museum, were officially released last week. These dashboards provide the land managers of...
April 23, 2020
Please join us for the launch of a new Map of Life and Field Museum tool designed to speed the work of land managers in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. This free web service...
February 19, 2020
New study in Nature Communications simulated global bird migrations during scenarios of past climate conditions. The paper, product of an international collaboration within ...
December 20, 2019
The newest episode of SEEKER “How Close Are We to Discovering All Life on Earth?” features Map of Life research and its contribution to biodiversity science and conservation...
December 4, 2019
A new Jetz Lab paper, led by post-doc Nathan Upham, was published in PLOS Biology describing efforts to build an improved evolutionary tree of life for all ~6,000 species of...
Jetz Lab Group Photo
November 7, 2019
This November the annual two day lab retreat took the group to western Connecticut, just an hour from New Haven. After spending the day with science talks, a brainstorming...
October 25, 2019
Melodie McGeoch and Walter Jetz published a Commentary in Cell’s new journal ‘One Earth’ calling for an improved approach to biodiversity targets on invasive species.  ...