CSULB Stankowich Lab: Behavioral Evolution

SoCal folks! We are holding our huge annual FREE open house event "Sharks at the Beach, Science in the Hall" this Saturday (7/20) 10am-3pm at CSU Long Beach! Bring the family to tour the shark and marine labs, our mammal and bird skeleton and pelt collections (you can touch the specimens!), fossil digging, our co**se flower, and physics, geology, chemistry, and math activities and demos. I and my team will be showing the collections, so please come and visit and definitely say hello if you come. There will be food trucks and areas with free parking. Get out of the heat in our cool buildings and nerd out on the science! Check out the event page for details: https://www.csulb.edu/college-of-natural-sciences-and-mathematics/event/sharks-at-the-beach-and-science-the-hall-2024

Excited to get my official award letter that I've been promoted to Full Professor of Biological Sciences at CSULB! I think this makes me a Jedi Master, right? Drinking a very $pecial bourbon to celebrate!

Congratulations to Erin Weiner .w81 for successfully defending her MS thesis on wildlife responses to wildfire! Incredible job on both your thesis and your seminar! Thanks to the lab members that came to support you and celebrate! 🎉🎉
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Congratulations to former lab MS student Hannah Hobson for publishing her thesis research on squirrel and rabbit responses to human approachers! The study examined how they assessed risk dynamically, using approach trajectory and walking path use to determine the level of threat and when to flee. Great job!