Award winners!
Time to celebrate in the Carnaval Lab! Amanda and Maria were both awarded the Rosemary Grant Award from the Society for the Study of Evolution this year! Danielle received a grant from the Explorers’ Club to visit new study sites in South America targeting Mabuya species! Maria received an award from the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund to study Caparaonia itaiquara in Brazil. She also received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Danielle also won a travel award t
Summer Events
A lot is going on for the Carnaval Lab this summer! Amanda and Barbara presented posters at the Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease Conference at Penn State in May. Ana presented at ATBC in Costa Rica. Barbara just got back from a week-long EcoHealthNet workshop in Minnesota focused on One Health approaches to preventing zoonotic disease. Ivan is finally back from a long field season in Amazonia! Zoe, Barbara, and Amanda received tuition scholarships to attend the SIS