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Hooray! I (Tess) am back for blog post part two!

My time at Blandy Experimental Farm has sadly come to a close, but I wanted to give a quick debrief on my last few weeks!

Ethan and I have been side...

I (Ethan)  was lucky enough to attend the 42nd Annual Cullowhee Native Plant Conference on scholarship provided by the Virginia Native Plant Society. What. A. Week.  A week of natural beauty in the...

Liz, Ethan, Tess, and Emma E spent a few days coring some (over 100) red oaks at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute’s ForestGEO plot. Over two very humid days we collected over 300 ~3cm...

Hanna presented her work at the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution this summer in Copenhagen, Denmark! She learned a lot about the use of genomic offset models and then took some personal...

Yippee, my first BUDS blog post!!

Hi, my name is Tess, and I am a rising 3rd-year undergrad in the lab! This summer, I am completing an REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) at Blandy...

Saying hey from Quebec City!  For the past week, members of the BUDS lab travelled to Quebec City for the biannual North America Forest Genetics Society Conference.  Hosted by Laval University in...

First things first: we ate dinner next to Amanda Seyfried.  Let that one simmer.  The scene: a pizza place in the mid-Hudson Valley outside of the Catskills.  She is as effervescent in real life as...

Greetings from down south!  Ethan, Emma E, and Tess headed down for a quick circuit of field work right after finals ended for the semester.  We drove a nice little loop from Charlottesville to...