Interested in joining the lab as an undergraduate or Master's student?! Email Zach (zstahlschmidt@pacific.edu).
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Summer 2022
Paul, David, Garrett, Allegra, Sonia, and Zach's paper ("Reproduction of a field cricket under high-intensity artificial light at night and a simulated heat wave") was accepted at Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology! This was another big team effort that spanned the pandemic.
Kat was awarded the 2022 Hunter Nahhas Fellowship, which supports summer research for M.S. students in the Department of Biological Sciences at Pacific. Now the fun part: urban field work!
Jacob, Cindy, Daniel, Phillip, and Zach's paper ("Pesticides in a warmer world: Effects of glyphosate and warming across insect life stages") was accepted at Environmental Pollution! This was truly a team effort that spanned the pandemic.
Spring 2022
Alyssa did a great job defending her thesis ("Developmental plasticity of stress tolerance and life-history strategy to artificial light at night")!
Cricket racin'. Is there a better way to spend the last day of the semester? Justin wrangled his cricket for a blistering final race (>10 cm / sec.!) and took home the gold medal, followed by Jacob and Jessica.
The lab had a great time at the Pacific Undergraduate Research & Creativity Conference, which showcased students' work from across campus. Jacob and Justin presented their work related to warming and glyphosate, and William, Daniel, and Jessica presented about the effect of mating calls on the tradeoff between flight and reproduction.
Zach's paper ("Flight capacity drives circadian patterns of metabolic rate and alters resource dynamics") is in press at Journal of Experimental Zoology A!
Winter 2021-2022
One of Sugjit's thesis chapters ("Evaluating the effects of water and food limitation on the life history of an insect using a multiple-stressor framework") was just published at Oecologia! Sugjit earned his M.S. in our lab at Pacific, and he's now working on his Ph.D. at Penn State.
Part of Sugjit's thesis research published in the Journal of Experimental Biology was chosen by the journal's editors to be on the short-list of articles for the Outstanding Paper Prize for 2021!
Alyssa did a great job presenting her thesis research at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in Phoenix. Zach also presented work that included Suheyla, Justin, and Sonia as coauthors.
Fall 2021
On behalf of the lab, Zach participated in Pacific's Faculty Showcase, where faculty from across our three campuses presented their scholarly and creative efforts.
Zach and Cindy's paper ("Spatial bet-hedging, thermal tradeoffs, and glyphosate: Crickets integrate multivariate information during oviposition") was accepted for publication in Animal Behaviour! Cindy Vo earned funding for and nationally presented part of the study, and she is currently in the Pharm.D. program at the Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
*** NEWS ***
Summer 2022
Paul, David, Garrett, Allegra, Sonia, and Zach's paper ("Reproduction of a field cricket under high-intensity artificial light at night and a simulated heat wave") was accepted at Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology! This was another big team effort that spanned the pandemic.
Kat was awarded the 2022 Hunter Nahhas Fellowship, which supports summer research for M.S. students in the Department of Biological Sciences at Pacific. Now the fun part: urban field work!
Jacob, Cindy, Daniel, Phillip, and Zach's paper ("Pesticides in a warmer world: Effects of glyphosate and warming across insect life stages") was accepted at Environmental Pollution! This was truly a team effort that spanned the pandemic.
Spring 2022
Alyssa did a great job defending her thesis ("Developmental plasticity of stress tolerance and life-history strategy to artificial light at night")!
Cricket racin'. Is there a better way to spend the last day of the semester? Justin wrangled his cricket for a blistering final race (>10 cm / sec.!) and took home the gold medal, followed by Jacob and Jessica.
The lab had a great time at the Pacific Undergraduate Research & Creativity Conference, which showcased students' work from across campus. Jacob and Justin presented their work related to warming and glyphosate, and William, Daniel, and Jessica presented about the effect of mating calls on the tradeoff between flight and reproduction.
Zach's paper ("Flight capacity drives circadian patterns of metabolic rate and alters resource dynamics") is in press at Journal of Experimental Zoology A!
Winter 2021-2022
One of Sugjit's thesis chapters ("Evaluating the effects of water and food limitation on the life history of an insect using a multiple-stressor framework") was just published at Oecologia! Sugjit earned his M.S. in our lab at Pacific, and he's now working on his Ph.D. at Penn State.
Part of Sugjit's thesis research published in the Journal of Experimental Biology was chosen by the journal's editors to be on the short-list of articles for the Outstanding Paper Prize for 2021!
Alyssa did a great job presenting her thesis research at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in Phoenix. Zach also presented work that included Suheyla, Justin, and Sonia as coauthors.
Fall 2021
On behalf of the lab, Zach participated in Pacific's Faculty Showcase, where faculty from across our three campuses presented their scholarly and creative efforts.
Zach and Cindy's paper ("Spatial bet-hedging, thermal tradeoffs, and glyphosate: Crickets integrate multivariate information during oviposition") was accepted for publication in Animal Behaviour! Cindy Vo earned funding for and nationally presented part of the study, and she is currently in the Pharm.D. program at the Thomas J. Long School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
