Ecology and evolution: from molecules to minds

We use ecological and evolutionary principles and data for understanding why populations are the way they are, how populations change over time, and what happens in populations. Our current populations of interest are the denizens of freshwater springs in southwestern North America, prairie dogs living in grassland habitats of Colorado, a couple of species of critically endangered freshwater fishes (Greenback cutthroat trout and Ash Meadows pupfish), and students inhabiting college science courses.

News 
​Sean and Pat awarded a grant from Open Space for spatial analysis of prairie dog communities using aerial data (summer 2020)

Pat awarded UROP and Alexander and Verderber funds for her work on spatial analysis of prairie dog colonies (summer 2020) 
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Andy is the lead organizer for a conference in Estes Park in October 2020 focused on ecology and evolution education (Link)

Andy and Derek Sweeney went to Galapagos with 15 CU students...(see People page for photo from Amazon basin) 

Abbey's manuscript on the ecological communities of Ash Meadows published in  Oecologia, December 2019 with the cover photo

Andy presented at the Gordon Research Conference on education in Maine, Summer 2019

Carscadden et al. published the "building bridges" lab activity for evolution in Journal of College Science Teaching, May 2019 (email Kelly)

20 years of colony growth for a prairie dog colony in Boulder County estimated from archival satellite imagery (Todd and Streich, June 2019)