Team Marmot

Marmots on ollogies. Dan had a GREAT conversation with Alie Ward. Enjoy! alieward.com/ologies/marmot…

Xochitl was on SciFri talking about adversity in marmots! sciencefriday.com/segments/early…

There is a system for measuring adverse childhood experiences in humans. But what about wild animals? @xortizross, a PhD student at @UCLAEEB, joins us to discuss research on measuring adverse events animals experience. sciencefriday.com/segments/early…

Dan just came back from giving a keynote the Zombie Apocalypse Medicine Meeting (zombiemed.org) where guess what, a zombie marmot was the logo that occupied the full back of the t-shirt. Artist Neil Smith shared the marmot (sans the logo). Happy Halloween!

It's Halloween so it's time to understand our fears and what a better way than to listen to our inner marmot...the marmots are featured on NPR's Short Wave podcasthttps://www.npr.org/2024/10/30/1211596886/halloween-horror-science-scream

GREAT PBS piece about the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab: youtube.com/watch?v=ZkMzdZ…

Wild animals can experience trauma and adversity too − as ecologists, we came up with an index to track how it affects them theconversation.com/wild-animals-c… via @ConversationUS

Hardship early in life can affect health and longevity -- even for marmots sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/…

My first dissertation chapter has been published!! 🎉 Read about cumulative adversity indices and how they lower lifespan. Cumulative adversity and survival in the wild - Ortiz‐Ross - 2024 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el…

An episode of The Wild podcast on fear featuring Dan open.spotify.com/show/6fjDWY0im…

Most of Team Marmot 2024 at our first pot-luck this year. Training is well underway and we're doing well!

Madison's microbiome paper gets written up in The Scientist! the-scientist.com/exploring-the-…

Thanks to Rocky Mountain PBS for a great feature on Team Marmot's Spring 2024 work! rmpbs.org/blogs/rocky-mo…

academic.oup.com/jmammal/issue/… A mamma marmot alarm calling graces the Feb 2024 issue of the Journal of Mammalogy!

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Our marmots are one of the many species that have contributed to this important paper.