Interested in joining the lab as an undergraduate or Master's student?! Email Zach (zstahlschmidt@pacific.edu).
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Spring 2023
Good news! The paper on Alyssa's undergraduate research project "Spatiotemporal variation in water availability drives insect community dynamics in an urban riparian zone") was accepted by Urban Ecosystems.
Despite some chilly weather, the lab's annual cricket race was a hit. Kat took gold, followed by Harnoor and Daniel with silver and bronze.
Breena, Harnoor, Jenna, Jodie, Prynces, and Will did an amazing job at the 23rd Annual Pacific Undergraduate Research and Creativity Conference. Check out their posters here, here, and here.
Grads in our lab-- Austin and Jacob-- were elected to the Masters of Biology Society here at Pacific. Congrats to you both as you take on these important leadership roles.
Fall 2022
Alyssa's M.S. thesis ("Stress tolerance is influenced by artificial light at night during development and life-history strategy") was accepted at Journal of Experimental Biology, and Zach and Jessica Chen were coauthors. Alyssa is now a research associate at Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research.
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!
*** NEWS ***
Spring 2023
Good news! The paper on Alyssa's undergraduate research project "Spatiotemporal variation in water availability drives insect community dynamics in an urban riparian zone") was accepted by Urban Ecosystems.
Despite some chilly weather, the lab's annual cricket race was a hit. Kat took gold, followed by Harnoor and Daniel with silver and bronze.
Breena, Harnoor, Jenna, Jodie, Prynces, and Will did an amazing job at the 23rd Annual Pacific Undergraduate Research and Creativity Conference. Check out their posters here, here, and here.
Grads in our lab-- Austin and Jacob-- were elected to the Masters of Biology Society here at Pacific. Congrats to you both as you take on these important leadership roles.
Fall 2022
Alyssa's M.S. thesis ("Stress tolerance is influenced by artificial light at night during development and life-history strategy") was accepted at Journal of Experimental Biology, and Zach and Jessica Chen were coauthors. Alyssa is now a research associate at Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research.
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!
