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Life After Alaska

By Susan Foster Posted on October 2, 2010 Posted in Stickleblog Tagged with Alicia

I spent three weeks in AK driving to lakes, emptying traps full of stickleback, fertilizing innumerable clutches of eggs by dissecting those stickleback, and then sending mass shipments of embryos back to our lab at Clark University (among other things). …

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The Final Days in British Columbia

By Susan Foster Posted on September 30, 2010 Posted in Stickleblog Tagged with Josh

  A belated post this might be, but I felt it necessary to share with our readers the last days of the 2010 expedition to the north. After a week in Alaska, the strangest thing about British Columbia was that …

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Being a Journey Across the Border

By Susan Foster Posted on June 11, 2010 Posted in Stickleblog Tagged with Joshua

The Canadian border, that is. Team Animal Behavior departed for British Columbia on Tuesday night. The flights landed in Seattle at 5:30 AM, but there was no rest even then. The car had to be picked up (a monstrous Jeep, …

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Going Rogue. Sort of.

By Susan Foster Posted on June 7, 2010 Posted in Stickleblog Tagged with Alicia, Colin

After our fifth day in Alaska we are still not used to the lack of darkness! Our typical Alaskan day starts at eight in the morning, the sun just rising from its laze on the horizon; it never fully sets! …

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Being an Expedition to Seward

By Susan Foster Posted on June 7, 2010 Posted in Stickleblog Tagged with Joshua

Yesterday was an early start for the animal behavior group. We had a two and a half hour drive to Seward and Resurrection Bay planned to catch some fish! Along the way, we stopped many times to take pictures of …

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The “Sunshine” Coast

By Susan Foster Posted on June 4, 2010 Posted in Stickleblog Tagged with Lily

Dianne and I arrived up in Alaska a few days ago, after two weeks with Justin and Shannon in British Colombia. It was absolutely beautiful there, despite rather dismal weather (Sunshine Coast? I think not.) It did put a damper …

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Being a Tale of Success

By Susan Foster Posted on June 3, 2010 Posted in Stickleblog Tagged with Joshua

A successful day for Team Animal Behavior! This was especially exciting after a washout yesterday. Our primary objective was to dive in Willow Lake to gather courting and parental males and observe color patterns on them. But with the wind …

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On Stickleback & Socializing

By Susan Foster Posted on May 31, 2010 Posted in Stickleblog Tagged with Daniella

As a certain mustache-ioed lab member recently put it: “The problem with Alaska is there are too many Alaskans!” Miguel & I have been trapping for stickleback in the Mat-Su Valley for a week now and what strikes us is the …

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Daniella Swenton has just accepted a position!

By Susan Foster Posted on March 14, 2010 Posted in Blogs

Daniella Swenton has just accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor at Clark University. She will step in for Justin Thackeray who will be on sabbatical leave, and will thus teach a portion of Biology 102, Genetics (Biology 118) and …

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Sophie Valena accepted as a Ph.D. student

By Susan Foster Posted on March 3, 2010 Posted in Blogs

Sophie Valena (09) has just been accepted as a Ph.D. student in the Evolution, Ecology and Behavior Program in the Department of Biology, Indiana University, begining in the Fall Semester of 2010. This is an excellent program and was her …

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Daniella Swenton has just joined the Foster/Baker Laboratory

By Susan Foster Posted on January 15, 2010 Posted in Blogs

Daniella Swenton has just joined the Foster/Baker Laboratory in a post-doctoral position. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Vermont and conducted her Ph.D. research at the University of New Mexico on the ecological and behavioral maintenance of …

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