The Taylor lab welcomed its first graduate student this fall!
Kathryn Grabenstein,聽a new PhD student in the lab,聽is a graduate from Cornell University聽where she studied Biology. As an undergraduate, Kathryn worked at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology with Dr.聽Mike Webster & Dr. Irby Lovette examining聽anthropogenic disturbances in some of the world's largest tracts of tropical聽savannah聽and their effects on the social structure of a group-living passerine. For her Honor鈥檚 Thesis, Kathryn worked with Dr. Sara Kaiser assessing the effects of food supplementation on offspring sex ratio adjustment in a North American songbird. After graduation, Kathryn worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory's聽Climate Change Science Institute with Dr. Alison Boyer on a PhenoFusion project aimed at resolving spatial and temporal trade-offs between in situ and remote sensing phenological data products. Welcome to the lab, Kathryn!