Insect diversity @ McGill
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I like the Tombstone Mountains
The Dempster Highway is a 750 kilometer, gravel, narrow, bumpy, dusty, muddy, rutted washboarded road with one gas station at the beginning, one in the middle and a couple near the end. It runs from near the Klondike gold fields … Continue reading
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Tagged arctic, Northern Biodiversity Program, science culture
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Another year – autumn in the lab
As always, fall is a busy time in the museum. We have a few personnel changes (fairly standard for this time of year), a pile of upcoming conference talks, and some big ongoing research projects. Amélie Grégoire Taillefer, who has … Continue reading
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Tagged Coleoptera, conferences, Diptera, Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Northern Biodiversity Program, students
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Drowning in Diptera
Sometimes I think there might be such a thing as too much data. I expanded my research program a few years ago from just taxonomy and systematics, into community ecology of insects. This meant I had to change the way … Continue reading
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Tagged arctic, collection, Diptera, ecology, Northern Biodiversity Program, taxonomy
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Conference round-up
Conferences are a great opportunity to let colleagues know about the work we’re doing, and also to see what research is going on in other labs. They’re a chance to catch up with colleagues that we usually only interact with … Continue reading
High flies: arctic to alpine
It’s a widely known pattern in biology that higher latitudes are similar to higher elevations in many ways – as we go toward the poles or toward mountain summits we see similar changes in life zones, we cross a tree … Continue reading
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Tagged alpine, Bombyliidae, Diptera, ecology, fieldwork, flies, Northern Biodiversity Program, Syrphidae
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Conference Season
Conferences are a great opportunity to present research before the papers appear in print and to showcase the work we do in the lab. Of course, they’re also a great way to see what other labs and researchers are doing. … Continue reading
Notes from the field – Banks Island, NT
Our most remote field site in 2011 was Green Cabin, in Aulavik National Park on Banks Island. Five Northern Biodiversity Program team members (Terry Wheeler and Anna Solecki from the Lyman, Doug Currie, Brad Hubley and Ruben Cordero from the … Continue reading
Chasing northern insects
Several Lyman people spent much of the summer in the Canadian arctic as part of the Northern Biodiversity Program. We collected flies, ichneumonid wasps, spiders and beetles to examine ecological patterns in arthropod communities across the north, long-term change in … Continue reading
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Tagged arctic, Diptera, fieldwork, Northern Biodiversity Program
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Summer in the museum: beginnings and endings
Summer is a busy time for research in the museum, especially this year. Two teams from the Wheeler and Buddle labs are within days of heading north for an arctic field season that will see us collecting in Yellowknife, Kugluktuk, … Continue reading
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