February 2012
Grad news - Crumsey's Climate Science Day adventures on Capitol Hill
 EEB graduate student Jasmine Crumsey joined nearly 30 other scientists from across the country in Washington, D.C. to brief congressional staff members about climate change research.
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Research feature: In bubble-rafting snails, the eggs came first
 It's "Waterworld" snail style: ocean-dwelling snails that spend most of their lives floating upside down, attached to rafts of mucus bubbles. Scientists have known about the snails' peculiar lifestyle since the 1600s, but they've wondered how the rafting habit evolved. What, exactly, were the step-by-step adaptations along the way?
Graduate student Celia Churchill and coauthors believe they've found the answer to that intriguing question. In a cover story published in the Oct. 11 issue of Current Biology, they show that bubble rafting evolved by way of modified egg masses.
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Picture perfect
 Congratulations to our new Honorary Photographer at Large, Susanna Messinger, who came in first place with "A fleet of dragonflies." Watch a slide show of all entries to the 2011 Honorary Photographer at Large Photo Contest.
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Rapid rise in wildfires in Canada? Ecologists show for first time threshold value for natural wildfires
 Large forest regions in Canada are apparently about to experience rapid change. Based on models, scientists can now show that there are threshold values for wildfires just like there are for epidemics.
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Goldberg wins Sarah Goddard Power Award
 EEB is delighted to announce that Professor and Chair Deborah Goldberg is one of the 2012 winners of the prestigious Sarah Goddard Power Award from the U-M Academic Women's Caucus.
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9 a.m., Sunday, March 25, Palmer Commons, Forum Hall Auditorium. Presenters are pursuing cutting-edge approaches to biodiversity sciences that integrate and/or synthesize informatics resources, including genomic/genetic, phylogenetic, morphological, geographic, and ecological datasets and those who are leveraging information from natural history collections.
Penguins leap above the surface of the water while they are swimming. Known as porpoising, this coats their feathers with small bubbles that reduce friction, and they reach speeds of up to 20 mph! 