Wow, what a busy year! Since my last update I completed my summer fellowship with USFW (see previous post). You can find more information about my fellowship on my blog posts here. After finishing my fellowship, I started working on my doctoral dissertation and preparing to graduate. I also managed two quick trips for field work in March and April to conduct the experiment I originally set up in January 2020. Obviously covid-19 hit shortly after our trip in January so we were unsure if we would be able to complete my final project. Luckily I was able to squeeze in trips this year and successfully complete the experiment! These trips were just a mere couple of months before I was set to defend my dissertation and graduate!
I successfully defended my dissertation and graduated in May with my PhD in Biology. We then submitted my last experiment for publication and it was just published in Ecology Letters! The paper is titled "Transplant experiments demonstrate that larger brains are favoured in high-competition environments in Trinidadian killifish". UTA also released a news story about our experiment and findings - you can read it here.
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