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In our department we value science and education grounded in the natural history of organisms, and strive to understand the patterns and processes that structure communities and ecosystems, and drive evolutionary change over all geographical and time scales. As new methods provide insight into ecological and evolutionary mechanism and function, we seek to refine fundamental concepts, integrate findings into novel theory, and address environmental challenges. As a department we are committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, justice and belonging - values that underlie all we do.
Cornell’s Experimental Ponds Facility is a research and teaching resource operated by our department. For over 50 years, a broad range of field and experimental projects have utilized the Ponds facility. Past and ongoing studies provide valuable insights and solutions into a variety of topics including: conservation of migratory birds; and a broadened understanding of nutrient and chemical pathways in aquatic environments. Research teams from EEB's Holgerson and Vitousek Labs are currently using the Ponds facility for their research programs.
EEB grad Marisol Valverde Montellano spent the summer focused on freshwater soundscapes and species community structure and dynamics with a focus on fishes, primarily through work at the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve in the Brazilian Amazon.
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Steph Tran is a second year doctoral student in our department. Steph earned a B.S. in general biology at the University of Texas at Arlington and now studies how organisms adapt to rapid environmental changes in the Gordon Lab. Steph is broadly interested in natural history and how organisms adapt ...
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EEB's Flecker, McIntyre and Power research programs among six funded by Cornell Atkinson’s annual Academic Venture Fund. Seed funding will support research teams across five colleges and 11 departments, many with external partnerships that strengthen research and speed pathways from innovation to im...
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EEB's chemical ecologist prof, Andre Kessler, makes an argument for plant intelligence in a recent paper in the journal Plant Signaling and Behavior. Goldenrod can perceive other plants nearby without ever touching them, by sensing far-red light ratios reflected off leaves. When goldenrod is eaten b...
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Coming from the University of Toronto, where he was the director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Loewen began his five-year appointment as the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Aug. 1.
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EEB prof and CUMV curator Bemis co-authors study with fellow Cornell researchers: Foxes’ sharp snouts penetrate snow during "mousing" with little resistance, minimizing potential tissue damage during headfirst dives. When mousing in snow, the fox’s long snout also allows it to reach its prey earlier...
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EEB's research and teaching resource, The Cornell Museum of Vertebrates (CUMV), one of 18 institutions taking part in the oVert (openVertebrate) Thematic Collection Network project: a venture to digitize vertebrate collections in museums and make them freely available online for anyone to access
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An avid lepidopterist since childhood, Nabokov was known to spend most of his free time on campus in the Cornell University Insect Collection.
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