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Walters Lab 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇩🇴🇦🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼🇳🇱🇱🇰🌈
@Walters_Lab
The Walters Lab at Old Dominion University. We study cooperatively breeding acorn woodpeckers, functional rarity, living shorelines, longleaf pine, & more...
Norfolk, VA; Carmel Valley, CA شامل ہوئے Ekim 2017
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Chi is speaking this Friday!
ODU Biology Dept.@BIOLOGYatODU
Please join us Friday, October 3 at 3 pm in MGB 101 for our research seminar to hear from graduate students Chi and Ferris on “Dispersal Decisions in the Cooperatively Breeding Acorn Woodpecker” and “Splitting Hairs: the Biomechanics of Gray Whale Baleen”.
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The Marsh Mistress (aka @EllaOutdoors) outside the @ElizRiverProj Ryan Resilience Lab. Ella serves as the Environmental Project Manager and was giving @ODUSCI @BIOLOGYatODU @ODU Biology Professor Eric Walters, her PhD Advisor, a behind-the-scenes tour of this incredible facility.
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Our @BIOLOGYatODU Social Vertebrates of California class was out at Año Nuevo State Park today. We had great looks at elephant seals, harbor seals, California sea lions, pigeon guillemots, western grebes, pelagic cormorants, and a host of other species.
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Our lab is leading a @BIOLOGYatODU study away @oduabroad class on the Social Vertebrates of California. Today’s field trip to Point Lobos State Natural Reserve included a chance to view sea otters, seals, sea lions, Brandt’s cormorants, and a host of other species.
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Very honored to have been recognized by the Virginia Society of Ornithology. Thank you so much. 💚
ODU Biology Dept.@BIOLOGYatODU
Dr. Eric Walters was awarded the Virginia Society of Ornithology's 2025 Mitchell A. Byrd Award for outstanding scientific achievement in the field of ornithology, recognizing the research he has done on birds in Virginia. Congratulations to Dr. Walters!
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Congratulations to @Wei_Chii and @OleksiiDubovyk, who were awarded conference awards from @ODUSCI and @BIOLOGYatODU to attend the @AmOrnith annual conference in St Louis and the @ESA_org annual conference in Baltimore, respectively.
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Congratulations to @Wei_Chii who has been awarded the Harold G. and Vivian J. Marshall Scholarship in Biology (awarded to a full-time graduate student who demonstrates scholarship and/or service in the area of Biological Science with a specific concentration in ecology)!!!
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@EllaOutdoors will be presenting "Advancing Regional Living Shoreline Knowledge Transfer" at the Institute for Coastal Adaptation & Resilience next week.
ODU Biology Dept.@BIOLOGYatODU
We are excited to announce the Spring 2025 Virtual Seminar Series highlighting graduate students from Biology! This seminar series will be on Monday March 24, 2025 at3:30 pm EST. Please reach out to Dr. Wie Yusuf (JYusuf@odu.edu) to register for the Zoom link.
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Congratulations to Irosh & @OleksiiDubovyk who received Bob Ake Scholarship Awards from @cvwobservatory; Irosh won the Virginia Society of Ornithology Murray Award; @EllaOutdoors received Best Grad Student Oral Presentation at the 2025 Atlantic Estuarine Research Society meeting!
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Our woodpeckers are featured on @nbc The Americas Sunday March 2nd at 8:00 pm. Episode 3 “The Wild West”, narrated by Tom Hanks with music by Hans Zimmer.
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It’s the end of an era at @HastingsReserve . Jaime del Valle has retired after 20+ years 😢 We are looking for a new steward. Please spread the word. #reserve-steward-hastings-natural-history-reservation-uc-berkeley" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">ucnrs.org/jobs/#reserve-…
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Walters Lab 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇩🇴🇦🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼🇳🇱🇱🇰🌈 ری ٹویٹ کیا
Faculty Spotlight - Dr. Eric Walters, a behavioral #ecologist who studies cooperatively breeding acorn #woodpeckers. His woodpeckers are featured in an upcoming nature docuseries, The Americas, airing this spring on NBC & narrated by Tom Hanks.
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We are hiring 2 quantitative biologists at @BIOLOGYatODU. I am on the search committee. DM me if you have any questions. Applications due 31 Oct. jobs.odu.edu/postings/21792
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How to Get Into Grad School.
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I am currently discussing this subject with a number of undergrads in my own lab and sent this blog post to them. It might also be of use to others.
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Very excited to see @ladybiologist dissertation work out. She documents active facilitation of helper dispersal by parents and siblings in acorn woodpeckers, an unrecognized pathway to increased direct fitness. link.springer.com/article/10.100…
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Not sure what to make of a statement like this: ‘no applicant fulfills the requirements for the position as stated in the job description’. Maybe it’s just me but this seems like a problem… 🤷
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