Adam Hadley was recently broadcast on the BBC Radio program Nature (alongside William Laurence) talking about tropical deforestation and his (along with Matt Betts') hummingbird work.

FES graduate students Adam Hadley, Tana Ellis and Mikhail Yatskov have received lottery scholarship funds.  Oregon State University awards Oregon Lottery Scholarship funds in accordance with guidelines established by the 2005 Lottery Legislation, and in accordance with the guidelines and intent of the Oregon University System and Oregon State University.

Congratulations to Bryan Black and Tory Bennett, FES researchers who each had proposals approved for funding from the General Research Fund (GRF) 2010 Spring solicitation.  Professor Black's proposal is titled "A Tree-Ring Approach to Developing Growth Chronologies for Marine Mammal Species".  Professor Bennett's proposal is titled "Do Rare Species Perceive Habitat Features as Barriers Where Common Species Would Not: A Comparative Study to Explore Landscape Permeability among a Local Butterfly Community?"

A study suggests that a new level of international coordination is needed to monitor global vegetation and help address many challenges facing the Earth by the growth of what’s being called the “technosphere” – the full impact of human-made objects and their interactions on the planet.  A new system should be set up under the auspices of the United Nations or other organization to accomplish the type of monitoring that is needed, said David Turner, an OSU associate professor of global change biology, in a new publication in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.