Lab News

Nate Upham and Ryan Powers join Lab
April 15, 2015
Ryan is a freshly minted PhD from Nicholas Coops’ excellent remote sensing and ecology lab in UBC. He is joining the larger Map of Life research team and plans to tackle past...
Congrats: two lab members accept faculty positions
February 2, 2015
Postdoc Adam Wilson has accepted an assistant professor position in ‘global environmental change’ in the Geography Department of the State University of New York at Buffalo...
Google Research Blog features Map of Life and Jetz Lab research
January 8, 2015
A new Google Research Blog, posted to ca. 1M subscribers, features a pre-relase of new Map of Life functionality addressing species conservation. Check it out here.
New VertLife project will sprout a forest of family trees
September 19, 2014
A Yale-led effort to bring “big data” to the study of biodiversity has received a $2.5 million boost, courtesy of the National Science Foundation. The grant is part of a...
Deploying lightweight GPS tags on hornbills in East Africa
September 19, 2014
Walter Jetz, KT Mertes, Ben Carlson, and Gwen Antell recently returned from field work at Mpala Research Centre in Laikipia, Kenya. The team tackled several field priorities...
Ignacio Quintero awarded SSB Research Award
August 31, 2014
2nd Year Graduate Student Ignacio Quintero has been awarded a Graduate Student Research Award from the Society of Systematic Biologists. Congrats, Ignacio!
Marta Jarzyna awarded YCEI Fellowship, joining group in Fall 2014
August 31, 2014
Marta Jarzyna has been awarded a YCEI Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on ‘Impacts of Climate Change on Functional and Phylogenetic Vertebrate Assemblage Structure’.  Marta...