January 9, 2012
The Wichita Eagle featured the Biodiversity Institute's ornithology collection recently and talked with Mark Robbins, collection manager for ornithology.
December 29, 2011
Snowy owl sightings in Kansas and Missouri have been the subject of several recent news articles. Ornithologist Mark Robbins has been fielding many calls and emails about possible appearances of the...
November 10, 2011
A. Townsend Peterson, curator of ornithology, and Mark Robbins, collection manager of ornithology, have received a grant of $25,000 from the National Geographic Society. The society's Committee for...
July 6, 2011
KU Ornithology staff and students have spread out around the world for summer field work, including five (count 'em!) collecting expeditions. We are on four continents ... Here is the list:
July 6, 2011
Ornithology graduate student Lynnette Dornak's proposal to the National Science Foundation for support for her dissertation research was recently recommended for funding. These awards are highly...
April 29, 2011
Town Peterson and Jorge Soberon are launching a first effort to assemble an online curriculum of training materials for biodiversity informatics. A very rough prototype is available at ...
February 28, 2011
Several KU Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity Institute students will be involved in the next C-CHANGE IGERT Program.
January 12, 2011
In December 2010, KU Biodiversity Institute graduate student, Mike Andersen, and curator of birds, Rob Moyle, completed a three-week expedition to Fiji. This effort marked Ornithology’s third...
January 10, 2011
KU Ornithology graduate Monica Papes has just accepted a position in the Department of Zoology at Oklahoma State University as Assistant Professor. Mona finished her degree at KU in 2009, and has...
December 9, 2010
Ornithology graduate student Michael Andersen and Curator Rob Moyle are presently in Fiji, carrying out their third sampling trip across the Fiji Archipelago. They are focusing their time on Taveuni...
