This past month I moved back to Turkey, where I was living before starting my PhD at Northeastern. My husband lives here, and as he also works in ecology and evolution research, the summer often presents some opportunities to get into the field. This time we are looking for blue crabs, which are an invasive species in the Mediterranean. Researchers from the University of Texas … Continue reading Blue Crabs a la Turka
As part of our effort to build a robotic bee, we’re trying to learn how these guys control their flight: We come up with hypotheses as to how a bee’s brain controls its behavior and the next step is to translate those ideas onto this guy: A few months ago I wrote about the toy helicopters that we’re using as part of this process. Since … Continue reading Can a bee brain control a helicopter?
Yesterday, Genevieve “G” Bernatchez defended her thesis on “The consumptive and nonconsumptive effects of the invasive green crab (Carcinus maenas) on macroinfaunal diversity, abundance and ecosystem functioning in a New England salt marsh”. Her work demonstrated that species interactions and their cascading effects can depend on the environmental conditions in which they are found; highlighting the importance of examining species interactions across time and space. … Continue reading Congrats to the latest MSC graduate!
Between Northeastern Tides 