by Kimberly Lato | Sep 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
This past week, the Thorne Lab gave a big congrats to Madeleine Foley, who defended her Master’s thesis entitled “Spatial and temporal predictability drive foraging movements in coastal birds”. Madeleine has worked hard over the last two years to add...
by Kimberly Lato | Jul 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
The start of the 2023 humpback whale drone surveys have begun! As part of our long-term project funded by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYS DEC), the Thorne Lab collects morphometric data on the humpback whales that frequent the south...
by Kimberly Lato | Jun 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
The Thorne Lab is working on a collaborative project with several institutions along the east coast, and led by Duke University, called Wildlife and Offshore Wind (WOW) that is investigating the impact of offshore wind development on marine wildlife. Recently, we...
by Kimberly Lato | Dec 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
November is a time of changing leaves, fall chill, and for the Thorne Lab, Seabird Surveys! As part of a larger interdisciplinary, multi-level monitoring project funded by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the Thorne Lab began...
by Kimberly Lato | Jul 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Thorne Lab celebrates the dissertation defense of Dr. Julia Stepanuk! Julia completed her Master’s of Science in Thorne Lab in 2017 and continued on in the Thorne Lab as a PhD student in the Ecology and Evolution department. Julia’s dissertation uses drone imagery...
by Kimberly Lato | Feb 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
The 2021-2022 field season is officially underway at Bird Island, South Georgia! By the time of our arrival in mid-December, both black-browed and grey headed albatross were incubating their eggs while the wandering albatross began egg laying a few weeks later. ...
