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Diving into Biodiversity

by March 27, 2014

By WILL FERGUSON Office of Communications and External Relations
Victoria Erb stood in the back of the boat with her classmates and watched three sharks cut through the crystal clear water of Belize’s Great Blue Hole. The senior biology major then did the one thing the vast majority of people in this Read more »

Drones to Add Flying Eye on Our Ecosystem

by February 12, 2014

From the Charlotte Observer, Feb 9, 2014 by Reid Creager
Sure, it resembles a spider on steroids. But a recently developed flying robot – soon to hover over the Peruvian cloud forest for the first time – has potential benefits for everyone.
About a year and a half ago, a small team Read more »

From One Forest to Another

by December 18, 2013

Several news agencies have published stories recently about unique research conducted by Max Messinger and Miles Silman in the Department of Biology. Dr. Silman’s group is making use of “flying robots” to photograph and measure data from the forest canopy.  Messinger is the local expert on how to turn these Read more »

Deacon Profile: David Anderson

by November 11, 2013

The Old Gold and Black recently ran a short piece on Professor David J. Anderson.  Dr. Anderson answers questions about why he is at Wake Forest, what he enjoys about teaching, and some interesting facts from his prolific research career.
Since 1982, I have been studying a population of seabirds called Read more »

Silman: Amazon Rainforest is Home to 16,000 Tree Species

by October 22, 2013
Amazon rainforest picture

An article focusing on the work of Miles Silman and his collaborators work on species diversity in the Amazon Rainforest was featured in UK news resource The Guardian.  It references an important paper his group published in the journal, Science.
Almost four hundred billion trees belonging to 16,000 different species grow Read more »

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