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April 16, 2021- Congratulations to Peyton Franklin for winning best presentation at ANS Day!  Peyton presented his work on occupancy modelling to determine which environmental variables best predict frog calling activity in Louisiana.

April 1, 2021- Dr. Earl got a grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents!!

Nov. 2, 2020- Congratulations to Simon Boycott for defending his thesis and finishing his corrections!!

May 20, 2020- Congratulations to Rebecca Cram for earning her MS degree and to Joseph Aubert for earning his BS degree!!

April 10, 2020- Dr. Earl won the ANS College Teaching Award for 100/200 level courses.

March 10, 2020- Congratulations to David Johnson for earning his B.S. in Environmental Science!!

May 18, 2019-  Congratulations to Rebekah Magee for earning her MS degree!!

Dec. 1, 2018- Simon Boycott arrived in Ruston to start his MS degree on Crawfish Frogs

Symposium for the Joint Meeting of Ichthyology and Herpetology 2017 in Austin, TX: "Science, Management, and Policy of Amphibian Conservation: Extending the Legacy of Ray Semlitsch"  Organizers: Julia Earl, Katie O'Donnell, Freya Rowland, and Michelle Boone; Support from: American Society for Ichthyology and Herpetology, Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, and the Herpetolgists' League

July 9, 2016: Received awards for Best Paper in Herpetology and Best Paper in Herpetology by a Young Scholar from Copeia for my 2015 paper!!

May 10-13, 2016: Attending the last meeting of the NIMBioS working group to assess the value of habitat patches with migratory networks.

April 2016: Symposium I'm lead organizer on was funded by the American Society of Ichthyology and Herpetology.  I'll be running (with help) a symposium on Amphibian Conservation in honor of Ray Semlitsch for the 2017 Joint meeting of Ichthyology and Herpetology in Austin, TX.

December 9, 2015:  My paper with Howard Whiteman on the ability for size and time to metamorphosis to predict fitness in amphibians was featured as Murray State University's Racer Scholar work of the week!

July 31, 2015:  Spoke at the American Ornithologists' Annual Meeting at the University of Oklahoma on the effects of climate on Lesser Prairie Chicken vital rates.

July 20-24, 2015: Participated in the third meeting of the NIMBioS working group to assess the value of habitat patches with migratory networks.

June 13-16, 2015:  Led two days of the South Central Climate Science Center Internship for Underrepresented Minorities in southeast Oklahoma.

• April 21, 2015:  Gave a seminar in the Forestry School at Purdue University.

February 9-11, 2015: I'm speaking at the Individual Based Model Symposium at the Midwest Fish and Wildlife Meeting in Indianapolis.

• January 23-28, 2015: I visited NIMBioS to work on a new network modelling framework for migratory species.

November 20, 2014: I'm headed to the South Central Climate Science Center Workshop to plan out new research directions on the effects of climate change on wildlife and ecosystems.

August 15, 2014: I started a new position at Oklahoma State University.  I'll be investigating the effects of climate change on wildlife.

June 13, 2014:  I gave a seminar to the Fisk University biomath summer research program.

I recently accepted a postdoctoral position at Oklahoma State University with Sam Fuhlendorf!

May 5-8: Participated in the NIMBioS working group on Migrations

April 3, 2014: My work is featured in the NIMBioS newsletter this month.

February 7, 2014: Gave a seminar at Oak Ridge National Lab

January 8, 2014: New paper published in Oecologia

August 1, 2013:  Gave a talk on the effects of Ranavirus on local populations of Wood Frogs at the Wildlife Disease Association meeting.

July 27, 2013:  Gave a talk on possible effects of Ranavirus introduction to the endangered Dusky Gopher frog at the Ranavirus Symposium.

June 13, 2013: Check out my video interview on the NIMBioS website.

May 6, 2013: My profile is now featured on the Live Science website!

April 18, 2013:  My NIMBioS interview profile is online.  All sorts of fun facts about me and my research!

• April 12, 2013:  Went to UGA for the Systems Theory Symposium where I presented a poster on the affects of animal movement on cross-ecosystem subsidies.

March 20, 2013:  Participated in the Girls STEM Breakfast at the L&N STEM Academy, where high school girls interviewed me about my job.  This activity and my participation are featured in this blog!

March 8, 2013:  Collaborative paper with Bill Peterman accepted to Landscape Ecology!

February 7, 2013:  Carryover Effects manuscript accepted for publication in Ecological Applications!!