Biodiversity Blog

Monday, 02 October 2023

Animal Weapons

October's Science Under the Stars event features 2021 Stengl-Wyer Scholar Ummat Somjee in a talk titled: Animal Weapons: The evolution of horns, tusks, antlers and other signals   Thursday, October 12th, 7 pm Brackenridge Field Lab, 2907 Lake Austin Blvd, Austin, TX 78703   Ummat studies the evolution of exaggerated sexually selected trai...

Friday, 24 February 2023

Meet Stengl-Wyer Fellow: Sam Smith

Sam and singing mouse (Scotinomys teguina) caught in Costa Rica Sam Smith is one of our 2022 Stengl-Wyer Fellows. Sam studies rodent vocal mechanisms in the lab of Dr. Steven Phelps. In this blog, she talks about her wide interests in biology, the fascinating way rodent vocalizations work, and how her fellowship is assisting with her research. T...

Monday, 07 February 2022

Meet Stengl-Wyer Scholar: Harry Siviter

 Doing work in Senegal with baboons  Harry Siviter is one of our 2021 Stengl-Wyer Scholars and is researching how environmental factors contribute to bee decline. As part of the Stengl Wyer Endowment, the Stengl Wyer Postdoctoral Scholars Program provides up to three years of independent support for talented postdoctoral researche...