Jim Rivers

Mark Kerstens of the @ForAnimEcolLab won the Les Eberhardt Award for Best Student Presentation at the 2022 meeting of The Oregon Chapter of the Wildlife Society. Way to go Mark!

Now accepting applications for M.S. student to evaluate the response of forest bees to fuel-reduction treatments in working forest landscapes. Position details and application instructions can be found here: people.forestry.oregonstate.edu/jim-rivers/pos…

WVBS is coming up this Saturday...registration is FREE and all registrants will be entered for some great door prizes. What's preventing you from stopping by virtually?

Northern Pygmy owls are some of the smallest, and arguably the cutest, predators in western NA. Hear more about these neat birds Jan. 29th by registering for WVBS today!

We are looking for a postdoc to work in California with our long-term study of cooperatively breeding acorn woodpeckers. Please circulate. hera.odurf.odu.edu/careers//Caree…

Experimentally induced flight costs do not lead to increased reliance on supplemental food in winter by a small songbird doi.org/10.1111/jav.02… @WileyEcolEvol @NordicOikos @ForAnimEcolLab #ornithology #feather #clipping #bird #feeder #chickadee #Poecile #feedthebirds #ecology

Our new paper testing songbird feeder dependency is out. Despite having experimentally increased flight costs, chickadees had little change in their use of feeders and don't appear dependent on supplemental food. Please RT! doi.org/10.1111/jav.02….

Join us on Thursday, May 27th @ 11am PST for: Promoting Safe Field-Based Research: A web panel discussion about prevention of sexual harassment and assault in the field. The panel discussion will be delivered via Zoom and registration is required; tinyurl.com/fieldsafepanel

Better than the cover of the Rolling Stone. Thanks to the journal Ornithology for selecting a murrelet for their cover shot this month (paper by @JonathonValente) @OregonMurrelet @ForAnimEcolLab @AmOrnith

New #ornithology research! Simulating conspecific presence tends to positively influence #bird settlement rates across species, but we know little about how and where to apply management treatments. #AOSMember @MattBetts11 @ForAnimEcolLab @annamtucker_ academic.oup.com/condor/advance…

Our new paper in Oecologia looks at how fire severity influence bee demography. We found more intense wildfire led to greater offspring production and female-biased sex ratios in the blue orchard bee. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Registration is open for the 2021 virtual Willamette Valley Bird Symposium (January 23). The event brings together professionals, students, and amateurs to learn about birds! And best of all, its FREE! eventbrite.com/e/willamette-v…

Excited to report that earlier today I received the 2019 Research Award from the Oregon Society of American Foresters...quite the honor (and surprise)!

@OregonStateExt has been getting your calls about how bees are fairing with the forest fires in the state. We teamed up with @ForAnimEcolLab to explain what's going on and how you can help bees and protecting your property from future fires. extension.oregonstate.edu/forests/fire/w…

@niiicole_bell will be holding her Honors College defense seminar next Friday (July 17th) at 13:00 Pacific. She'll be talking about her research examining mason bee pollen use in post-fire forest. Please RT!

@CodeyMathis Congrats!!

Tune in tonight!

As a woman of color I am extremely fortunate to be working in an amazingly diverse and supportive environment at @OregonState being surrounded by great friends, colleagues and collaborators since 2016 when my husband and I moved to the US with hopes dreams and desires to succeed.

So grateful to have received tenure @COFOregonState Huge thanks to my mentors, collaborators, colleagues, & students that have always pushed me to be a better scientist and educator. I'm especially grateful to my family @TeamBladon, who sacrificed the most so I can do what I love