Category Archives: Burke

Matt’s work explained by Botanist

The UW biology graduate student blog Science Positive is posting a 2-part switcheroo. Earlier this year Pat Lu-Irving of the Olmstead lab and Matt McElroy of the Leaché lab crossed paths in the possible 51st State while conducting very different fieldwork. … Continue reading

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Sea Turtles

“All glazed up and ready to rock” – Shane Armstrong, Herp Collections Manager

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Arizona

Our collecting trip to Arizona was a huge success! We caught tons of lizards, found some neat snakes, and even turned up some interesting toads.  The photos are all posted on our Flickr site.  Undergraduate researchers Michael, Anna, & Madison … Continue reading

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Jared Wins Stoye Award

Congratulations to Jared for winning the prestigious Stoye Award at the World Congress of Herpetology meetings in Vancouver, B.C. for the best student oral presentation in herpetology for his talk, “Species delimitation using Bayes factors applied to the Sceloporus scalaris … Continue reading

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Cloudy with a chance of horned lizards

Many people go to Mexico for a relaxing beach vacation. But Burke scientists spent their recent “summer vacation” searching the desert for signs of the elusive horned lizard… Read more at the Burke Blog: http://burkemuseum.blogspot.com/2012/08/cloudy-with-chance-of-horned-lizards.html

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