Achived News
Nov '11: Assessing ecosystem vulnerability to species invasions. New paper in Ecological Applications.
Oct '11: National parks serve as potential protected areas for freshwater fishes ... the paper is out in Conservation Letters!
Sep'11: The FEC lab welcomes new MS students Polly Gibson and Laura Twardochleb.
Sep'11: AFS National Meeting in full effect. Check out our special symposium "Crayfish In Western North America: Research Opportunities and Management Challenges"
Aug '11: Smallmouth bass - Friend or foe? New paper and coverage.
July '11: Julian gives keynote address at the Annual Meeting of the Fisheries Society of the British Isles, and then travels to the University of Toulouse to visit the lab of Julien Cucherousset.
July '11:Post-doc Angela Strecker is starting a faculty position at Portland State University. Congrats Ang!
June '11: Get with the program ... some non-native species have conservation value. (link) ... and an article by Carl Zimmer (link)
April '11: Julian recently gave a keynote address to the Canadian Aquatic Invasive Species Network entitled "Invasive species and alternative global futures for freshwater ecosystems" (link)
April '11: New Outreach materials posted to communicate our science (link)
Feb '11: Our crayfish work is highlighted in OPB Oregon Field Guide (link)
Feb '11: Two recent papers are published in Fisheries addressing the issues of crayfish and aquarium trade in the Pacific Northwest.
Dec '10: Julian joins a new interdisciplinary team examining climate change, land use modification and fish habitats across the US (link)
Dec '10: New paper in Ecosphere exploring the decoupling of niche conservatism in an invasive crayfish PDF
Dec '10: Congrats to Meryl for defending her Master's thesis!
Dec '10: New paper in Ecosphere exploring the decoupling of niche conservatism in an invasive crayfish PDF
Nov '10: Thomas and Julian's paper "Environmental drivers of fish functional diversity and composition in the Lower Colorado River Basin" is published in CJFAS PDF
Sept '10: The Olden Lab welcomes Oscar Belmar Diaz who is visiting from Universidad of Murcia until the end of December.
Sept '10: Julian along with other Faculty Fellows in the UW Climate Change and Global Health Joint Initiative: Adaptive Solutions for Human Health and the Environment, present their research at the Consortium of Universities for Global Health 2010 Annual Meeting. (link)
Sept '10: Eric receives 2010 NABS award for Runner-Up Oral Presentation in Basic Research. Congrats!
Aug '10: A bunch of recent pubs, including Meryl's first thesis chapter. Rock and roll.
July '10: Eric and Julian's paper "Latent extinction and invasion risk of crayfishes in the southeastern United States" is published in Conservation Biology PDF
July '10: Julian receives the 2010 Early Career Conservationist Award from the Society for Conservation Biology (link)
June '10: Julian is awarded the 2010 UW College of the Environment Outstanding Researcher Award
June '10: Our EPA-funded research is highlighted in the Columbia River Bulletin (link)
May '10: Crayfish research by Eric and Julian leads to changes in the WA Fishing Regulations (link)
May '10: Paper from the INTECOL symposium is published in Diversity and Distributions
Apr '10: Meryl receives NSF Graduate Fellowship to conduct PhD studies in the lab. Congrats!
Mar '10: Julian just returned from Utah State University where he gave 2 seminars in the Ecology Center. He was also interviewed by Utah Public Radio (link)
Mar '10: The Olden Lab welcomes new post-doc Kris Jaeger.
Jan '10: Paper recording the occurrence of invasive Orconectes virilis is published in Northwest Science. Also asking for your help in providing additional data. Please complete this survey (link).
Jan '10: New special issue of Freshwater Biology covering the science of environmental flow management. Check out Olden lab pubs!
Dec '09: New lab publication on predator-prey interactions between crayfish and invasive Chinese Mystery Snail. Congrats to Eric and Meryl!
Nov '09: Julian participates in the first millennium conference of ESA on "Water-Ecosystem Services, Drought and Environmental Justice"
Oct '09: The Olden Lab welcomes new post-doc Angela Strecker and research associate Mariana Tamayo!
Sept '09 Julian and Chris Konrad (USGS/TNC) are leading a new NCEAS working group: http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/projects/12374.
Aug '09: Julian recently returned from the INTECOL meeting in Brisbane where he organized a special symposium on global fish biogeography (click here)
Aug '09: The Olden Lab welcomes Julien Cucherousset who is visiting from Bournemouth University from July 22nd to the 31st.
Jul '09: We welcome Francis Lin and Kerry Ung - American Fisheries Society Hutton Scholars - who are working on our Washington crayfish project. See paper in Fisheries (click here)
Jan '09: Our project that is forecasting the spread of aquatic weeds in Washington was featured in the Seattle Times (click here)