Welcome to the Rogers Lab website.
Our research focuses on population and community ecology, plant-animal interactions, tropical biology, ecosystem services, and conservation.
Our research focuses on population and community ecology, plant-animal interactions, tropical biology, ecosystem services, and conservation.
Recent News
August 2018: The Rogers Lab presented at the Ecological Society of America conference in New Orleans! Great job to the presenters: Haldre Rogers, Evan Fricke, Hugo Thierry, McKayla Spencer, Brittany Cavazos, and Nick Lyon!
April 2018: Ann Marie Gawel published her masters thesis research in Royal Society Open Science!
April 2018: Alex Karnish presented his research at the Iowa State Capitol where he had the opportunity to share his findings with state representatives.
March 2018: Ann Marie Gawel was selected as one of the Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award recipients.
December 2017: Two new lab members have arrived. Hugo Thierry is a new Postdoc and McKayla Spencer the new Lab Manager!
December 2017: New EBL paper in Ecological Applications concerning seed dispersal as both a cultural and supporting ecosystem service.
November 2017: 1st Annual Marianas Terrestrial Conservation Conference and Workshop (planned by multiple organizations including the Rogers Lab) on Guam went very well.
October 2017: One job opening for a vertebrate ecology postdoc to work with the Mariana fruit bat.
September 2017: Two job openings in the Rogers lab - Quantitative ecology postdoc, and Lab manager.
August 2017: New EBL paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science from former postdoc, Lizzie Wandrag on how dispersal affects species richness and turnover.
July 2017: New EBL paper in Global Change Biology from postdoc, Evan Fricke, on compensation in seed dispersal networks.
May 2017: Brittany Cavazos rakes in another award. This time the Botanical Society of America Graduate Research Award. Nice work, Brittany!
May 2017: New EBL paper on mutualisms and coextinctions with data from the Marianas. Big congrats to EBL postdoc and lead author Evan Fricke!
May 2017: Brittany Cavazos wins the EEOB Graduate Student Organization Scholarship
March 2017: Andrea Colton presented her research at the Iowa state capitol where she had the opportunity to share her findings with state senators Quirmbach and Kinney, among others.
March 2017: New paper out in Nature Communications on how bird loss affects Guam's forests
February 2017: Big month in the Rogers Lab. Undergrad Andrea Colton will be one of 20 undergraduate students selected from Iowa State to present her research, "Patterns of Woody Encroachment Establishment in a Restored Prairie", at Research in the Capitol in Des Moines.
February 2017: Monika Egerer (REU on the Ecology of Bird Loss project in 2012) and current collaborator received the Kathleen S. Anderson Award for Promising Biologists for her work on the socio-ecological importance of frugivorous birds on the Marianas.
February 2017: Check out Haldre on the In Defense of Plants podcast discussing how forests are changing on Guam!
January 2017: Ann Marie Gawel was invited to the SESYNC Graduate Workshop on Socio-Environmental Synthesis in Annapolis, MD.
December 2016: Brittany Cavazos was invited to the SESYNC workshop on “Phylogenetic and Functional Trait Analyses for Ecology in R” in Annapolis, MD.
September 2016: Ann Marie is in the spotlight on the ISU EEOB website
August 2016: The first two Rogers Lab graduate students have arrived. Welcome to Ann Marie Gawel and Brittany Cavazos!
June 2016: We have a full set of field houses in the Marianas! Former Postdoc Lizzie Wandrag and collaborators Amy Dunham and Richard Duncan came to help with resurveys of our experimental gaps for a couple of weeks. We also had 4 post-grad interns, a high school intern through the Step-Up program, five undergraduate technicians, and three biologists, along with a few other volunteers this summer.
May 2016: Haldre, along with Clare Aslan from Northern Arizona University and Noelle Beckman from SESYNC, just organized an NSF-funded workshop on seed dispersal in Annapolis, MD. 35 participants. 1 week. Countless ideas. Tons of fun.
April 2016: We have two new grad students joining the lab in the fall. Welcome to Ann Marie Gawel and Brittany Cavazos!
November 2015: Haldre presents at the Annual Brown Treesnake Meeting in Guam.
September 2015: Check out the coverage on Haldre's Bacardi Award in Biotropica
September 2015: Lizzie's paper on seed banks is accepted for publication!
August 2015: Haldre moves to Iowa State
July 31, 2015: End of the summer research presentations @ UoG by the REU's and RET's!
July 2015: Haldre wins the Bacardi Award for Early Career Researchers at the Association for Tropical Biology & Conservation annual meeting
June 2015: NSF REU's Marlyn Naputi and Macy Ricketts start
June 2015: NSF RET's Daniel Pangelinan (Okkodo High School, Dededo, Guam) and Roque Indalecio (Hopwood Jr. High School, Saipan) start
June 2015: PostDoc Lizzie Wandrag moves on to a postdoc at the University of Canberra
April 2018: Ann Marie Gawel published her masters thesis research in Royal Society Open Science!
April 2018: Alex Karnish presented his research at the Iowa State Capitol where he had the opportunity to share his findings with state representatives.
March 2018: Ann Marie Gawel was selected as one of the Katherine S. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award recipients.
December 2017: Two new lab members have arrived. Hugo Thierry is a new Postdoc and McKayla Spencer the new Lab Manager!
December 2017: New EBL paper in Ecological Applications concerning seed dispersal as both a cultural and supporting ecosystem service.
November 2017: 1st Annual Marianas Terrestrial Conservation Conference and Workshop (planned by multiple organizations including the Rogers Lab) on Guam went very well.
October 2017: One job opening for a vertebrate ecology postdoc to work with the Mariana fruit bat.
September 2017: Two job openings in the Rogers lab - Quantitative ecology postdoc, and Lab manager.
August 2017: New EBL paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science from former postdoc, Lizzie Wandrag on how dispersal affects species richness and turnover.
July 2017: New EBL paper in Global Change Biology from postdoc, Evan Fricke, on compensation in seed dispersal networks.
May 2017: Brittany Cavazos rakes in another award. This time the Botanical Society of America Graduate Research Award. Nice work, Brittany!
May 2017: New EBL paper on mutualisms and coextinctions with data from the Marianas. Big congrats to EBL postdoc and lead author Evan Fricke!
May 2017: Brittany Cavazos wins the EEOB Graduate Student Organization Scholarship
March 2017: Andrea Colton presented her research at the Iowa state capitol where she had the opportunity to share her findings with state senators Quirmbach and Kinney, among others.
March 2017: New paper out in Nature Communications on how bird loss affects Guam's forests
February 2017: Big month in the Rogers Lab. Undergrad Andrea Colton will be one of 20 undergraduate students selected from Iowa State to present her research, "Patterns of Woody Encroachment Establishment in a Restored Prairie", at Research in the Capitol in Des Moines.
February 2017: Monika Egerer (REU on the Ecology of Bird Loss project in 2012) and current collaborator received the Kathleen S. Anderson Award for Promising Biologists for her work on the socio-ecological importance of frugivorous birds on the Marianas.
February 2017: Check out Haldre on the In Defense of Plants podcast discussing how forests are changing on Guam!
January 2017: Ann Marie Gawel was invited to the SESYNC Graduate Workshop on Socio-Environmental Synthesis in Annapolis, MD.
December 2016: Brittany Cavazos was invited to the SESYNC workshop on “Phylogenetic and Functional Trait Analyses for Ecology in R” in Annapolis, MD.
September 2016: Ann Marie is in the spotlight on the ISU EEOB website
August 2016: The first two Rogers Lab graduate students have arrived. Welcome to Ann Marie Gawel and Brittany Cavazos!
June 2016: We have a full set of field houses in the Marianas! Former Postdoc Lizzie Wandrag and collaborators Amy Dunham and Richard Duncan came to help with resurveys of our experimental gaps for a couple of weeks. We also had 4 post-grad interns, a high school intern through the Step-Up program, five undergraduate technicians, and three biologists, along with a few other volunteers this summer.
May 2016: Haldre, along with Clare Aslan from Northern Arizona University and Noelle Beckman from SESYNC, just organized an NSF-funded workshop on seed dispersal in Annapolis, MD. 35 participants. 1 week. Countless ideas. Tons of fun.
April 2016: We have two new grad students joining the lab in the fall. Welcome to Ann Marie Gawel and Brittany Cavazos!
November 2015: Haldre presents at the Annual Brown Treesnake Meeting in Guam.
September 2015: Check out the coverage on Haldre's Bacardi Award in Biotropica
September 2015: Lizzie's paper on seed banks is accepted for publication!
August 2015: Haldre moves to Iowa State
July 31, 2015: End of the summer research presentations @ UoG by the REU's and RET's!
July 2015: Haldre wins the Bacardi Award for Early Career Researchers at the Association for Tropical Biology & Conservation annual meeting
June 2015: NSF REU's Marlyn Naputi and Macy Ricketts start
June 2015: NSF RET's Daniel Pangelinan (Okkodo High School, Dededo, Guam) and Roque Indalecio (Hopwood Jr. High School, Saipan) start
June 2015: PostDoc Lizzie Wandrag moves on to a postdoc at the University of Canberra
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