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All good things must, unfortunately, come to an end. It's been a great joy to have @gabbspalomo in our lab the last couple of years. Sad to see her go, but happy to have made a friend and future collaborator.

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Stick around today for Adam Pekor's talk on Conservation Incentive Payments to mitigate lion conflict in Tanzania at 4pm in Key 4

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Out lab's talks continue today with @gabbspalomo talking about potential human-deer interactions with an eye towards SARS-Cov-2 spread. Come check out their talk at 2:45pm in Key 2.

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Later today, at 2pm in Key 11, come check Colleen O'Donnell's talk on red wolf and mexican wolf growth rates and allee effects

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It's Tuesday! Come check out @HerreraWildlife's talk at 11:30 in Peale A-C. A fun study pairing audiomoths with cameras in Washington, D.C. to understand how noise and light influences urban wildlife vigilance

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Finally, to close out the conference, Adam Pekor will be presenting Wednesday at 4pm in Key 4 on Conservation Incentive Payments to mitigate lion conflict in Tanzania

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This year our lab will have 5 (!) talks and a poster at #TWS2024! Come check them out! First up today is Szandra Peters 1:45pm Key 2 talking about deer-human interaction and potential disease transmission. Szandra is not technically in our lab, but a major collaborator with us

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Onto Wednesday! @gabbspalomo will be presenting on landscape characteristics that can predict spatial-temporal interactions between deer and humans using data from 9 cities associated with the #UWIN. 2:45pm in Key 2

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Excellent exit seminar by @HerreraWildlife! One step closer to finishing up his PhD!

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New paper alert from our postdoc extraordinaire! A cool study from their last postdoc (we can't take credit for the cool study).

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🚨NEW PAPER ALERT!🚨Check out our new paper (and thread) led by PhD candidate @HerreraWildlife! Looking at the correlation between historic urban park planning and modern day bird communities.

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Cograts to Alexia for passing her M.S. defense! Another grad student in the lab finishes their grad school journey - persisting through the COVID era of grad school!

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Congrats to Dr. Merri Collins who successfully defended their dissertation today!! The Lab’s first grad student is officially done!

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And @HerreraWildlife also past his comprehensive exams and advanced to candidacy!

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It’s been a busy few months in the lab. Time for some lab accolades!! Merri received the Outstanding Student in Wildlife at the MD-DE chapter of the Wildlife Society Meeting and @HerreraWildlife received Honorable Mention for the same award.