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David K. Skelly
Yale University
School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
370 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511 USA

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We are ecologists interested in understanding patterns of animal distribution and abundance.  While most of the members of the lab work on amphibians, some of us do not.  For all of us, the base motivation for our work lies in conceptual issues, but we are all field biologists.  By combining theoretical and empirical approaches, we seek to develop and then evaluate ways of understanding and predicting natural patterns. 

WATCH "SEX & THE SUBURBAN FROG"

NSF GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS
Lily Twining (co-advised by David Post and David Skelly) was awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from NSF. She was joined by Katie Boronow who completed her undergraduate thesis in the lab and is now working on her Ph.D. at Harvard with Jonathan Losos. Max Lambert received an Honorable Mention and will take another swing at it next year. Congratulations to all!

VIDEO: STEVE BRADY'S RESEARCH FEATURED ON NYU'S SCIENCELINE

No exit: How humans are changing salamanders from Scienceline on Vimeo.

RESURRECTION ECOLOGY
May 1, 2012 - See Mary's crowdsourcing request on RocketHub.com in partnership with #SciFund Challenge.

Book release for David Skelly

 

RECENT NEWS & MEDIA

[24 Mar 2013] NorthJersey.com News -- Road salt alters ecosystems: Can the wood frog survive?

[12 Oct 2012] Wall Street Journal -- As Wolves Return to the West, Greens Go to Court by Postdoc Arthur Middleton

[25 Jun 2012] EnvironmentYale -- Humans Driving Evolution of the Spotted Salamander

[22 Jun 2012] Dave and Phoebe's Science paper is available online: Biotic Multipliers of Climate Change

[21 Jun 2012] Science Daily-- Top Predators Key to Extinctions as Planet Warms

[29 May 2012] NY Times Green -- Young Scientists Embrace Crowdfunding

[08 May 2012] NYU's Scienceline -- VIDEO: No exit: How humans are changing salamanders

[26 Mar 2012] Connecticut Wildlife -- An Ecological Spring Awakening in Our Vernal Ponds, by Jonathan Richardson & Hank Gruner

[27 Feb 2012] NY Times Green -- Salamanders Learn to Live With Pollution

[09 Feb 2012] Forbes -- Over-Regulation Fever at the White House

[Jan/Feb 2012] Mother Jones -- The Frog of War

[07 Feb 2012] New Haven Register -- There's gonna be an evolution. Wait, there already was for these Connecticut salamanders

[01 Feb 2012] Science Daily -- Road Runoff Spurring Spotted Salamander Evolution

[01 Feb 2012] UPI Science News -- Salamanders adapting to toxic ponds

[26 Jan 2012] Steve's new publication in Scientific Reports is released, read it here. See related press in natureasia.com and the Yale F&ES website.

[19 Oct 2011] NY Times Green -- The Ecologists of Tomorrow Talk Shop, featuring Samantha's SCCS talk and photo by Hannah

[08 Jul 2011] -- Samantha & Hannah featured in CT Audubon Society blog post Belly Rubs and Frog Slime

[30 Jun 2011] -- Tracy Langkilde (Skelly Lab Post Doc, 2005-07) receives 2011 Mercer Award!

[17 Mar 2011] Wired.com -- NCAA Basketball Tourney more like ecology than madness... more

[14 Mar 2011] WNPR CT Public Radio -- What UConn Huskies and crows have in common... more

[09 Mar 2011] NBC Connecticut -- College hoops are like the jungle... more

[22 Feb 2011] NY Times Green -- On Our Radar: Frog deformities tied to pharma-ceuticals and plastics... more

[21 Feb 2011] Yale E360 -- Unraveling the mystery of the bizarre deformed frogs... more

[09 Feb 2011] Yale Daily News -- Basketball study refutes science methods... more

PAST NEWS & MEDIA
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