Summer SLF Fieldwork Successful
This summer, our field crew has been busy counting Spotted Lanternflies (SLF) across Temple University’s campus. Twice a week, we’ve carefully surveyed flowerbeds and street…
Anya and Lilah Present at SERC’s Summer Research and Leadership Symposium
On Thursday, August 1st, two of our undergraduate researchers, Anya Frazier and Lilah Shtino, presented at the Science Education and Research Center’s Summer Research and…
iEcoLab goes to West Laurel Hill Cemetery!
On Friday, July 19th, the iEcoLab team visited West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, PA, to collect arthropod samples and conduct bird point counts.…
iEcoLab Welcomes New Lab Managers – Both Named Hannah!
This summer, the iEcoLab hired two new lab managers/research assistants to oversee daily operations and help conduct research. Coincidentally, both new lab managers are named…
Isabella Pursues Her Master’s Degree!
It is a bittersweet day at the iEcoLab, as Isabella Smith, who has been a member of the lab since 2021, leaves to pursue a…
New Insights on Non-Native Herpetofauna in the Carribean
Last week, the iEcoLab published a new paper titled “Non-native herpetofauna of Aruba island (Caribbean): patterns and insights.” The paper was authored by Gianna Busala,…
Payton Successfully Defends Her PhD Dissertation
On Monday, Payton Phillips successfully defended her doctoral thesis titled “Understanding the influence of anthropogenic habitat modification on urban animals: case studies of Caribbean lizards…
Applied Math Collaborators featured in SIAM News
Dr. Benjamin Seibold (left) and Jacob Woods (right) examining rose bushes on Temple’s campus for SLF iEcoLab’s collaborators at the Temple University Mathematics Department were…
Sam Defends His Master’s Thesis
Congratulations to iEcoLab’s Sam Owens who successfully defended his Master’s thesis titled “Multiscale Modeling of the Spotted Lanternfly Lycorma delicatula (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae) Reveals Enduring Risk…
Urban Development Effects Lizard Dispersal
Payton Phillips and iEcoLab members and collaborators made the cover of Diversity and Distributions with their article titled “Dispersal restriction and facilitation in species with…