Lab News
10/01/2015 Our paper on the importance of tropical riparian corridors for seed-dispersing forest birds in a fragmented landscape is out. You can download it here.
08/27/2014 Sekercioglu is the first ecologist to receive Turkey's highest science honor, equivalent to the USA National Medal of Science.
08/01/2015 The Editors of Biological Conservation selected our article on the world's most bird-friendly coffee as their must-read choice for their August issue. The article is free to download here.
08/03/2014 Our Current Biology paper on the effects of selective logging on tropical biodiversity is in the news.
06/03/2014 Our paper and Sekercioglu's photos have been chosen for the cover of Ecology Letters.
05/02/2014 Sekercioglu receives the University of Utah's Inaugural Citizen Science Award.
04/28/2014 A good story about our new Ecology Letters paper on, "What makes birds of a feather flock together?"
04/10/2014 We received one of four inaugural Foundation Segré-Whitley Fund partnership grants for our research on Landscape Conservation of Large Carnivores in Turkey.
03/20/2015 Robert College Quarterly recognizes Dr. Sekercioglu as the youngest recipient of Science Award.
02/20/2014 We are hosting the world-renowned conservation biologist Prof. Stuart Pimm who is giving the Department of Biology Seminar on Extinctions today.
01/07/2014 Our new paper is a global analysis of the effects of forest fragmentation on the world's birds.
12/03/2013 Sekercioglu was invited to an hour-long private meeting with Turkey's President Abdullah Gul to discuss his conservation and ecological research efforts in Turkey.
11/15/13 Our lab's bird conservation ecology research is in Audubon.
10/1/13 Our lab's work on effects of climate change on birds is featured in Audubon magazine.
9/4/13 Our lab's bird conservation work in Turkey is featured in Audubon magazine.
08/20/2013 Our research on using citizen science data to study the effects of climatic change on birds is in New York Times
08/02/2013 Sekercioglu's efforts to save eastern Turkey's richest wetland for birds is in Science. Read Listen
07/29/2013 Evan Buechley and Cagan Sekercioglu co-author a chapter on endangered species in Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia.
7/13/2013 New paper out in PLoS One: Using citizen science data to model the distribution of common songbirds of Turkey under different global climatic change scenarios.
06/17/2013 New paper out in Plos One on identifying the world's most climate change vulnerable species.
6/1/2013 We have a new paper on Colombian birds with visiting professor Raf Aerts.
05/22/2013 Mark Chynoweth recently published a paper on the impacts of feral goats on Pacific islands.
05/03/2013 Cagan Sekercioglu receives the Whitley Gold Award from Princess Anne.
05/01/2013 Cagan Sekercioglu is chosen as a National Geographic Risk Taker.
04/15/2013 Congratulations to Evan Buechley and Mark Chynoweth for getting NSF and TGLL fellowships.
03/25/2013 Documentary features conservation efforts of Evan Buechley.
02/20/2013 Prof. John Terborgh visits the University of Utah and holds a special seminar: Is Janzen-Connell a special case of keystone predation?
02/05/2013 Cagan Sekercioglu is giving a seminar at Harvard University Center for the Environment on "Turkey's Globally Important Biodiversity in Crisis."
02/04/2013 Sekercioglu is giving the monthly talk at the Nuttall Ornithological Club.
02/01/2013 Sekercioglu is in Boston to give 5 talks at Boston, Harvard, and Wellesley universities on the conservation ecology of the world's birds and Turkey's biodiversity crisis.
01/07/2013 Sekercioglu is teaching Ornithology this semester.
01/05/2013 Our lab's Red Butte bird banding and the visiting UU Shoshone-Goshute Youth Language Program (SYLAP) was on Turkish National TV (TRT).
01/01/2013 New paper out in Trends in Parasitology: Guineafowl, ticks and Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever in Turkey: the perfect storm?
11/30/2012 Birds may spread, not halt, ticks carrying the deadly Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever
11/02/2012 Sekercioglu interviewed on Park City Television's Mountain Morning Show
10/29/2012 New paper out: Balancing biodiversity with agriculture: Land sharing mitigates avian malaria prevalence
10/15/2012 Banding birds in the Harenna Forest of the Bale Mts National Park of Ethiopia
10/3/ 2012 New paper out: North American transmission of hemosporidian parasites in the Swainson's Thrush (Catharus ustulatus), a migratory songbird
9/18/2012 Tracking brown bears & wolves, putting on Turkey's first Crittercams, and shooting Turkey's first National Geographic documentary in Kars, Turkey
9/1/2012 New paper out: Mapping Functional Traits: Comparing Abundance and Presence-Absence Estimates at Large Spatial Scales
8/17/2012 For the first time in Turkey, we are satellite-tracking globally endangered Egyptian vultures
08/01/2012 New Ph.D. students Evan Buechley and Mark Chynoweth join the lab. Welcome to the U!
07/25/2012 Shoshone-Goshute Youth Language Program visits our lab's bird banding station at the Red Butte RNA and Native American students learn about bird ecology and conservation.
07/25/2012 Turkey's National Television (TRT) sends a TV crew to Salt Lake City to film the lab's bird research to be shown on the country's main news channel TRT Haber.
07/10/2012 Sekercioglu is interviewed by Current Biology for a Turkey biodiversity feature.
06/30/2012 New paper published in The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology entitled Correlates of elevation specialisation in Southeast Asian tropical birds.
05/14/2012 Sekercioglu gave a talk on Turkey's biodiversity at the Turkish Embassy in Washington DC.
05/03/2012 Colleague Prof. Bill Laurance visits our lab and gives an excellent talk on tropical conservation.
04/26/2012 Our colleagues Prof. Josip Kusak and Dr. Dan Wenny visit the Sekercioglu Lab.
04/23/2012 Sekercioglu talks at the National Geographic Society: Turkey's First Wildlife Corridor: Connecting the Anatolian and Caucasus Biodiversity Hotspots.
03/26/2012 Cagan Sekercioglu is honored as a "Star Turk" by the Assembly of Turkish American Associations.
03/22/2012 Prof. Richard Primack visits the U to give a seminar.
03/20/2012 Our recent papers on the effects of climate change on tropical birds and Turkey's biodiversity are among the most downloaded Biological Conservation articles.
03/05/2012 Our new paper on tropical birds and climate change is on BBC Nature News.
03/04/2012 We are interviewing the first PhD students for the lab. A great and inspiring group.
03/02/2012 Turkey's first wildlife corridor is the lead story on the Christian Science Monitor.
03/01/2012 Our lab's research is the spring 2012 cover story of Continuum, the University of Utah magazine.
02/29/2012 Our wetland ecology and restoration collaborator Prof. Sean Anderson visited us from California State University Channel Islands.
02/28/2012 The Daily Utah Chronicle - Birds serve as a warning of dangers in climate change.
02/24/2012 Our new paper on tropical birds and climate change is in the New York Times.
02/23/2012 Departmental seminar speaker Prof. Rodolfo Dirzo was hosted by the Sekercioglu lab.
02/16/2012 Our new paper on the effects of climate change on tropical birds is out.
02/13/2012 Turkey's First Wildlife Corridor project on National Geographic website.
02/09/2012 Collaborator Prof. Ravinder Sehgal visits the lab.
02/01/2012 New paper on bird dietary guild richness worldwide.
01/26/2012 Collaborator Prof. Peter Raven visits the lab.
01/09/2012 Cagan Sekercioglu is teaching Conservation Biology (Bio 3960) this spring.
01/01/2012 New paper on global paterns of specialization and coexistence in bird assemblages.
12/31/2011 Sekercioglu's National Geographic article on biodiversity conservation in Turkey.
12/29/2011 Our book "Winged Sentinels: Birds and Climate Change" is the "Book of the Year".
12/23/2011 Sekercioglu publishes in Science on Turkey's conservation crisis.
12/22/2011 Our Biological Conservation paper on biodiversity conservation in Turkey is in the New York Times.
12/03/2011 Our first lab visitor is collaborator Prof. Luc Lens. He liked the U so much, he is organizing a workshop here in April.
11/2011 Our new lab is complete and is looking great. Big thanks to Jose Rojas and the U crew who made it happen. Come visit.
