Summer 08
Jon gives a presentation at the Gordon Conference on Metabolic Ecology.
Jon's paper on reproductive scaling comes out in Functional Ecology.
Mike goes semainr' at Brown and the Cambridge Ent Society. Jon and David earn Adams summer scholarships.David heads to Ecuador; Jon to the Respirometer.

Spring 2008
Mike arrives at The Harvard Forest for a 6-month sabbatical. Re-discovers winter.
Mike goes a seminarin', first to Entomology at UIllinois Champagne-Urbana (where the jammin' was excellent), then to Zoology at UFlorida (where the post talk reception was out of this world).
Kaspari, Yanoviak and Stevenson submit an NSF proposal to study how the microbial ecology of brown food webs.
Kaspari gets $47K from NSF to fund the third Gordon Conference on the Metabolic Basis of Ecology. Mike is co-chair with Bob Sterner.
The press gets wind of Yanoviak, Kaspari, Dudley and Poinar's forthcoming paper in The American Naturalist on a nematode that turns Cephalotes atratus gasters bright red.

2007
National Geographic awards us $21K to study the biogeography of salt
Steve Yanoviak visits to confab with Brad Stevenson, Jeff Kelly and Mike on a NSF proposal.
Ecology Letters accepts "Multiple nutrients limit litterfall and decomposition in a tropical forest."
Mike and Jon, travel to BCI for 10 days with Debby Kaspari and Brad Stevenson to begin studies of microbial responses to the Gigante Fertilization Project.
Nate Sanders from UT-Knoxville visits to give a seminar and collaborate on a review of ant diversity for Ecography
Alum Michael Weiser begins a postdoc with Robb Dunn and Nate Sanders at NC State to study global warming and ant communitis
Alum Steve Yanoviak begins his professorship at UArkansas-Little Rock.
Kaspari blogs again. Check out Getting Things Done in Academia
Donoso and Shik earn Adam's scholarships
Ysabel Milton's honor's thesis on micropatchiness in Brown Food Web's comes out in Oecologia.
Kaspari lead's our second study of the Size Grain Hypothesis in this paper in Ecological Entomology.
Congrats to Jon Shik for passing his Orals and becoming a Ph. D. candidate
Kaspari receives a Bullard Fellow for Spring Sabbatical '08 at Harvard Forest
Sean O'Donnell leads in J. Animal Ecology, the second manuscript to come out of the National Geographic 4-forest study of army ants

Timeless
Sept 06-Just back from a trip up the Rio Napo, Peru, with Steve Yanoviak and Robert Dudley (thats me on the canopy walkway). Check out the virtual refrigerator door or this panorama to get a hint. We should be updating this soon with photos from Field Season 2006
Jan 06--Steve Yanoviak leads this Nature paper on the wonderful story of the gliding ant, Cephalotes atratus. Kaspari explores the consequences of size gradients in ant communities in PNAS.

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