The iEco lab welcomed the first of four postdoctoral researchers, Dr. Jason Gleditsch, in January 2020. Jason completed his Ph.D. in Natural Resources and Environmental…
Dr. Helmus presented the iEcoLab’s work on predicting the spread and impacts of the spotted lanternfly planthopper to the USDA at the Center for Plant…
OK so we picked a lizard to highlight in this post because it is adorable. This one is the Turnip-Tailed Gecko (Thecadactylus rapicauda) that we…
Yes! Spring is finally here. The birds are singing, the windows are open, and spotted lanternfly will be soon emerging from their eggs. It has…
A new paper by the iEco Lab and led by Dr. Behm in collaboration with Gerard van Buurt (a respected naturalist on Curacao) reports on…
This semester, iEcoLab welcomes two new graduate students working with Dr. Behm. Timothy Swartz did his MS at the University of Illinois on the impact of…
Evan Zangakis presented a poster at Temple University’s annual undergraduate research symposium on his work scripting a spotted lanternfly risk-of-spread map application. His poster elicited a…
Nick Huron, a graduate student with Dr. Helmus, won this year’s best student conservation presentation award at the Annual meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists…
iEcoLab was awarded funding from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture to research the spotted lanternfly invasion. The focus of the research is to model and predict the…
New work by iEcoLab and colleges from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on Carribean reptiles has found that as islands develop, more exotic species are able to establish. Wendy…