Juliemar Cuevas-Hernandez joins the Wright Lab!
August 2024
Juliemar Cuevas-Hernandez has recently joined the lab to begin her master's program in FWCE. Coming all the way from Florida, Juliemar will be studying grasslands birds at the Jornada Experimental Range. Welcome!
Congratulations to Victor Baquera!
August 2024
We are proud to announce that Victor Baquera will be starting his master's studies at Hokkaido University in Japan this October. Victor has been awarded the prestigious IGP MEXT scholarship to fund their studies. We wish him all the best in his future endeavors!
Alexander Allison is awarded 2 grants!
May 2024
M.S. student, Alexander Allison, was awarded the Richard Bischoff Memorial Scholarship from the Mesilla Valley Audubon Society and a Student Research Grant from the American Ornithological Society this spring. The two grants will support his research on Great Green Macaw vocal development and variation. Thanks to both societies!
Dylan Osterhaus gives presentation to Audubon Society chapters of Arizona and New Mexico
May 2024
Dylan Osterhaus and Kelley Boland presented their talk entitled "Avian Migration and Artificial Light at Night: Impacts and Solutions" to a large group comprised of members of Audubon Society chapters from Arizona and New Mexico. The focus of the talk was the migration of birds through the American Southwest, threats posed to these migrants by artificial light at night throughout the region, and solutions to limit these threats.
Whitney Watson awarded grant from Tracy Aviary Conservation Fund
February 2024
Whitney Watson has received a grant from the Tracy Aviary Conservation Fund to conduct research on vocal differentiation of and impacts of human recreation on brown-capped rosy-finches during the breeding season. This grant will fund fieldwork involving the deployment of autonomous recording units across the brown-capped rosy-finch breeding range in the Rocky Mountains of New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming.
Whitney Watson nominated for BioOne Ambassador Award
January 2024
Whitney Watson has been nominated for a BioOne Ambassador Award by the American Ornithological Society for her 2023 publication on barred owl juvenile dispersal in the journal Ornithological Applications. This publication resulted from research she conducted in completion of her master's degree at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
https://bioone.org/2024-bioone-ambassador-awards-nominee-research
Dylan Osterhaus co-authors new paper published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution
January 2024
Dylan Osterhaus worked with a research group led by Benjamin Van Doren of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology on a recent publication in Methods in Ecology and Evolution, detailing Nighthawk, a new deep-learning model for the detection and classification of nocturnal flight calls in acoustic recordings. Nighthawk improves on preceding models in performance and is trained on flight calls from a broad geographic area. The core Nighthawk model is freely available on github- https://github.com/bmvandoren/Nighthawk/
URCAS and Biosymposium 2023
April 2023
This year at URCAS, the Wright Lab was represented by Kayla Moehn, who gave an excellent talk on how stress affects stress hormone receptor expression, and Victor Baquera, who showed off all of his hard with a poster on budgie backpacks and QR codes!
Congrats to Kayla Moehn, Alondra Villalba, and Victor Baquera on their excellent posters at Biosymposium (pictured below)! Dylan Osterhaus and Whitney Watson also gave wonderful talks on the affects of artificial light on avian migration and the monitoring of expanding barred owls populations, respectively.
Whitney Watson is Awarded the Richard Bischoff Memorial Scholarship! Congrats!
April 2023
Congratulations to Whitney Watson on being awarded the Richard Bischoff Memorial scholarship by the Mesilla Valley Audubon Society!
Congrats to Valeria Perez on being Awarded the NDSEG Fellowship!
April 2023
Lab alum, Valeria Perez, has been awarded the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) fellowship, which will help her fund her PhD at Syracuse! This is a very competitive program. Congrats and excellent job!
Congrats to Kayla Moehn for Receiving the NMSU Alumni Association's Highest Honor for a Student!
April 2023
Kayla Moehn will be the NMSU Alumni Outstanding Graduate for the College of Arts and Sciences 2023! This is considered the highest honor for a student. Excellent work in achieving this title! We’re all proud of you! Follow this link to learn more!
Dr. Grace Smith-Vidaurre Starts her Tenure Track at MSU!
A Successful Start to a Field Season in Costa Rica!
April 2023
Congrats to lab alum, Dr. Grace Smith Vidaurre, who has just accepted a tenure track faculty position at Michigan State University! She will be working with the departments of Interactive Biology and Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering! We are very proud of you!
A Successful Start to a Field Season in Costa Rica!
March 2023
Alexander Allison and his field team in Costa Rica have collared their first 3 birds with the help of Dr. Tim Wright, then went on to collar 4 more! They’ve also placed recorders in several nests.
Tim speaks on Love Bird Style for a Valentine's Day Piece with PRX's The World.
Februrary 2023
Andy Lawrence and Bushra Moussaoui Graduate!
December 2022
Tim had the pleasure of hooding Dr. Andy Lawrence and cheering on Master Bushra Moussaoui as they graduated. Oh, the places they’ll go!
Applications Open for New Avian Migration Program
December 2022
Interested in understanding avian migration? Applications are now being accepted for undergraduate and graduate research positions in the Avian Migration Program at NMSU. Visit the website here or contact Dr. Wright, program director, with any questions. Visit Program website: https://migration.nmsu.edu/
New $7.1 Million NIH Building Grant!
October 2022
NMSU celebrates the awarding of a $7.1 million grant from NIH to build a new Biomedical Research Building and vivarium. The grant was spearheaded by Tim. Congrats!
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