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Caught on Camera!
The Bronx High School of Science, a New York City high school located near Jerome Park Reservoir in the Bronx, hosts an unique rich…
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Where’s the Restroom?
Earlier this week, the wonderful women over at Women of Fisheries posted about the struggles of going to the bathroom when doing fieldwork on…
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Recap: The Finer Points of Urban Adaptation
In August 2020, I recently published my first first-author paper about urban Anolis lizard claws! I have previously written about my research after doing field…
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Fieldwork on Urban Private Property: Staying Safe
This is part two of a two part series from Carly Ziter and Karen Dyson, adapted from a recent paper we wrote as a…
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Fieldwork on Urban Private Property: Getting Started
Let’s consider a scenario. You’re designing a new research project, and you realize that for the first time that you (or your students) are…
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Urban Galápagos: Part 1
What does it mean to be urbanized on a volcanic archipelago? With ‘Darwin Day’ (February 12th) just behind us, my upcoming research trip to…
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What Makes an Urban Habitat?
As a scientist that works in the field of urban evolution I often have to consider, “what makes an urban habitat?” While this seems…
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The Human Side of Urban Evolution: Integrating Identity and Community with Research
As life scientists that choose to study species within a city – habitats that are dominated by stochasticity, ecological traps, and, well, humans –…
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The Undergraduate’s Field Guide to Urban Ecology: Four Things You Should Know
Other posts here at Life in the City have covered the perils, issues, and occasional awkwardness of urban fieldwork from the perspective of the…
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Getting “Back on Track” with Common Milkweed
Sophie Breitbart, PhD student at University of Toronto Mississauga, tells us about her experience in the field working on milkweed. I’m sitting in the…
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How to Talk to Passersby About Urban Evolution… Without Sounding Crazy
Posted by Ruth Rivkin (PhD candidate at University of Toronto Mississauga) We’ve all been there: You’re hard at work sampling on someone’s lawn, in…
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Tools of the Trade: the Net Gun
Collecting samples in urban environments can present some challenges (as Matt Combs describes in “The Good, The Bad, and The Smelly” and Jane Remfert…
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The Good, The Bad, and The Smelly: Fieldwork in the Big Apple
I’ve spent years trapping rats across Manhattan in New York City as I study the urban evolution and ecology of brown rats (Rattus norvegicus). This…
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Wherefore and Whither the Non-urban Areas?
Posted by: Brian C. Verrelli, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA The esteemed evolutionary biologist Douglas J. Futuyma once famously wondered “Wherefore and whither the naturalist?”…
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Urban Residential Field Tip
Working in urban areas creates a lot of challenges when it comes to gaining access to private lands. Contributor Jane Remfert shares her experience from the…