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Recent research led by current graduate student and lab member, Rebecca Ducay, on the impact of vehicular noise on acoustic indices was published today in Bioacoustics. Turns out cars have a big impact on estimates of species richness when using acoustic indices!

Shasta Corvus successfully defended their thesis, “Passive Acoustic Monitoring: considerations for recording units, BirdNET settings, and filter methods for long-term avian population monitoring”. Congratulations, Shasta! Shasta is headed to Texas A&M University to Pursue a PhD.

The Chicago Tribune recently published an article, “During next month’s solar eclipse, these scientists won’t be looking up” that features the PEASE Lab’s effort in Eclipse Soundscapes.

Rebecca Ducay successfully defended her thesis, “The Impact of Vehicular Noise in the Effectiveness of Acoustic Indices”. Congratulations, Rebecca! Rebecca has secured a position with Iowa DNR as a Wildlife Research Specialist.

Recent research led by Dr. Pease on the economic impact of vagrant bird species - namely, the steller’s sea eagle - in North America was published today in People and Nature.

Lab members Elaine Metz and Rebecca Ducay received awards for their presentations at the recent Illinois Chapter of The Wildlife Society in Champaign, Illinois. Elaine won best overall graduate presentation and Rebecca placed second in the poster contest.

Working with NC State University and the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, new research article recently published highlighting results from a study on wild turkey gobbling chronology in North Carolina. Check out the open-access article here.

Kelly Crandall, graduate student at SIU and PEASE Lab member, is studying mesopredator movement in the Florida Keys. Recently, an unfortunate ending for an opossum may be a promising path forward for invasive Burmese Pythons in the Keys.

Dr. Brent Pease spoke with WSIU’s Dr. Fred Martino about Biodiversity loss, threats, and recoveries in and around the region. The segment aired on WSIU’s Eye on Education and can be viewed online.

Brent and Lainey are headed to Spokane for The Wildlife Society’s annual conference. Lainey will be presenting a poster Monday evening, 5-6:30pm, on her Master’s research: Large-Scale Nocturnal Bird Monitoring of Two Nightjar Species Using Autonomous Recording Units