This year's Front Range Student Ecology Symposium was another wonderful community-building event filled with exciting research, insightful workshops, and excellent presentations. This event is always a highlight of the year, and it's a joy to connect with so many peers over a shared love of ecology!

It's time for the Front Range Student Ecology Symposium! This symposium brings together students from all across the front range to share their research, attend professional development workshops, and build their networks. Check out the keynote speaker and workshop lineup below!

We are delighted to be joined today by Dr. Paul CaraDonna of the Chicago Botanic Garden and Northwestern University for his seminar, "Time, flexibility, and the importance of plant-pollinator interactions." We hope to see you there!

In this recent study, GDPE faculty Dr. Melinda Smith and Dr. Alan Knapp reveal how extreme drought impacts productivity and species richness differently in Eurasian vs. North American grasslands. Learn more at the link below! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In this study, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, GDPE faculty affiliate Dr. Anping Chen and a team of researchers find that replacing the same amount of forest lost cannot restore the resilience diminished by that loss: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congratulations to Dr. Tom Hobbs, Dr. David Cooper, and Dr. Danielle Johnston, as well as GDPE alumni Dr. Kristin Marshall and Evan Wolf, for having their research featured in Nature Ecology and Evolution's Year in Review collection! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The woodpecker in question, pecking away.

Ecology@CSU went up to Rocky Mountain National Park last weekend, or one of us did, anyway. ;) We saw a weasel!!! OMG the cutest thing ever. White, long tail, black tip. And a woodpecker. Hairy? Tap tap tapping away.

Happy New Year, bluesky-ers! We wish you health and happiness, and hope your year ahead will be a good one, personally and professionally.

Ecology is a "special academic unit," an SAU as Colorado State University calls them. We cut across multiple colleges and departments. This is great! So much diverse expertise, so many great collaborations and opportunities.

Ecology is in the house!