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Hello!

My name is Kerri Citterbart. I’m a first year PhD student in Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame. I work in the Belovsky lab with several other graduate students working on different community ecology questions. This is my lab webpage:

http://www.nd.edu/~kcitterb/Home_Page.html

If you click on the research tab on the top right, you can see some of my past work experiences and my current research ideas. I spent the last two years, working in environmental education, teaching school children and the public about animals and the environment. As a graduate student, I would like to continue with this work by interacting with the K-12 Stem community. When I begin my research this summer, I plan to use this blog to discuss the scientific method as I research the affect of bison and cattle grazing on grassland birds and their predators.  There will be more info on that soon.

I would love to have you join me as I being my research journey!

Me and a Barred Owl educating students

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Here’s an interesting article about genetically modified (GM) foods from a NY times food blog:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/why-arent-g-m-o-foods-labeled/?smid=tw-bittman&seid=auto

I’m interested in this issue because my lab has done a lot of work on how GM corn enters streams and may negatively effect stream invertebrates.  Additionally, there’s a decent amount of research going on in my lab studying Pacific salmon effects on stream ecosystems.  The articles my advisor has written about GM corn have drawn a lot of press and there was quite a bit of backlash from the agricultural community.  Just an interesting issue to keep in mind.

AJ

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On Monday, Valentine’s Day, the sun expelled one of the MOST powerful explosion of energy and material towards Earth yet!  Be on the lookout for Aurora tonight!
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110217.html

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I was informed today about a community meeting for the new tech high school in South Bend. It will be at 4:30pm today at the downtown library. I will be attending because I was asked by someone to sit in on the meeting who could not attend. But, the meeting is for everyone in the community and maybe will last an hour or two. If you are interested, stop by for as long as you like. It’s been awhile since I’ve been to a community meeting. As a South Bend native, I am interested on hearing the feedback.

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