Win Dean Manderscheid's Money

Rachel Bormann, a student in BIOS 103, won Dean Manderscheid's money for her essay on being in Chad Brassil's class. Watch the video here.

Best Undergraduate Oral Award

Joe Phillips, an undergraduate researcher in the lab, won the Best Undergraduate Oral Presentation award determined by the Student Section at the 2012 Ecological Society of America meeting in Portland, Oregon. His talk was titled "Complex responses to environmental temperature fluctuations in populations of Lemna minor".

Goldwater Scholar

Joe Phillips, an undergraduate Biology major conducting research in the Brassil Lab, is a 2012 Barry M. Goldwater Scholar for his commitment and outstanding potential to make a significant contribution in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology.

Seminar

Chad Brassil presented a seminar in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology at Iowa State University titled "Understanding temporal fluctuations: theoretical, population & community ecology"

Starting Student

Jean Philippe Gibert joins the lab as a graduate student.  He plans on doing a theoretical thesis.

Ecosphere Publication

TJ Bliss, a former graduate student in the Brassil Lab, published his MS thesis in the journal Ecosphere, "The spatial influence of aboveground diversity on belowground communities".

Volterra Award

Ben Nolting, a graduate student in the Brassil Lab, was a co-winner of the Volterra Award for the best student talk in theoretical ecology at the 2010 Ecological Society of America meeting in Pittsburgh.  His talk was titled "The role of environmental stochasticity in reducing the amplitude of population fluctuations"