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May 2009
POSTER AT NATIONAL MEETING:
Matt Trawick gave a poster presentations
about his research at the North American Benthological Society meeting in Grand Rapids, MI.
GRADUATION:Colin, James and Scott successfully graduated from Southwestern University.
IN THE PIPELINE:We submitted two papers this month: lab oviposition to Biological Invasions and field
oviposition to Hydrobiologia!
ACCCEPTANCE:Description of population structure of snails at Armand Bayou has also been accepted for publication
in The Texas Journal of Science
April 2009
Dr.
Burks earns tenure!!
March 2009-
Lab travels to Texas Academy of Sciences
meeting in Junction, Texas. Colin Kyle,
James McDonough and
Matt Trawick gave oral presentations
about their research(Abstracts Available).
In addition, Dr. Burks was named a Fellow in the Academy and elected as Vice President for 2009-2010.
The field site at Texas Tech in Junction proved to be a great site.
February 2009-
Dr. Burks and applesnail research featured
on new applesnail blog. The author of the website,
Jess Van Dyke, and Dr. Burks will continue to work together on a presentation
for the Ecological Society of America (ESA) meeting in New Mexico in August.
The talk will focus on the rise of interest in applesnails and the amount of
new findings that have taken place over the short period of just five years.
November 21, 2008 - January 15, 2009
Through a grant from Southwestern, Dr. Burks finished up
the Fall Semester in Uruguay. In addition to a talk and two posters at the 2008 International
Shallow Lakes meeting, Dr. Burks, Colin and James set up a field experiment to test oviposition preferences of
the native applesnail, Pomacea canaliculata. Pictures from Uruguay and a few days in Argentina
can be found on a Picasa site. In addition, we hope that
we found a native population of Pomacea insularum. For more details, see a
blog about the finding.
July 15 2008 -
Dr. Burks completes her training as
a part of the BioSciEd Network (or BEN).
BEN is the Biology Pathway to the NSDL (National Science Digital Library).
Now that she knows about the advantages of digital libraries, her role as
a BEN Scholar
starts through planned outreach, targeted submissions and increased use of the portal.
April
21 2008 - Matt
Barnes receives word of acceptance regarding his manuscript on applesnail fecunity to The Journal of the North
American Benthological Society!
April 18
2008 - Dr.
Burks gives "Wonders of Chocolate" talk in Midland,
Texas
April
17 2008 : Sarah
Hensley defends her senior capstone on juvenile snail
growth and consumption of 3 different aquatic plants.
April
14 2008: SMArTeams
Spring 2008 has its poster presentation day - for first time at Southwestern.
March
2008: Colin
Kyle, James McDonough and Dr. Burks received University
funding for a November/December trip to Uruguay!
March
9: Texas
Parks and Wildlife TV Show premiered and included the Burks
lab in a feature about "Exotic Aquatics. "
March
7: Colin,
James and Sarah give research presentations at the Texas Academy
of Sciences meeting. Sarah wins an "Honorable Mention" for
best oral presentation!
February
14: Dr.
Burks appears on Channel 8 News - Austin to talk with
anchor Paul Brown about the chocolate class.
January
27: Dr. Burks goes to San Antonio to present
lecture about "The Wonders of Chocolate"
January
2008: Colin Kyle and James McDonough submit Texas
Academy of Sciences Grant for continued research on oviposition.
January
2008: The
lab publishes the first paper comparing Pomacea
insularum in Texas with Pomacea canaliculata in
Uruguay in The
Journal of Molluscan Studies. This work represented
Brandon Boland's ('07) capstone.
October 2007: Abby Youens '07 and Dr. Burks publish a paper
entitled "Comparing applesnails with
oranges" in Aquatic Ecology
about the most consistent way to measure juvenile and adult Pomacea.
September 15 2007: The Burks Lab successfully completes another collecting trip at Armand Bayou!
No alligators this time.
June 2007:
Applesnail colleagues Tim Rawlings and Tim Collins
from Florida International along with Rob Cowie and
Ken Hayes from the University of Hawaii publish the definitive work naming Pomacea
insularum as its own species distinct from P. canaliculata. For
a PDF of this publication, contact Ken Hayes ("Ken Hayes" khayes@hawaii.edu).
May 2007: Colin Kyle, James McDonough and Dr. Burks battle nature
at Armand Bayou. High water levels made it very difficult to collect snails,
not to mention the two alligators that liked to
cruise in the middle of the channel. They are hard to see in the pictures but
we didn't want to get too close!
(See the Field Gallery).
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