We combine field research with laboratory manipulations and modeling to address questions at the interface of ecology, physiology, and evolution.
Recent News
September 2025
Great work! to Ripken Wellikson and Alex Kurtt. Ripken and Alex presented posters at the 2025 Guild of Rocky Mountain Ecologists and Evolutionary Biologists Meeting.
September 2025
Welcome! Alex Kurtt. Alex is joining us as a masters student in Zoology & Physiology.
July 2025
65 degrees of bee thermal biology-Colombia! Efforts to address global bee declines continue among researchers from the University of Wyoming, the University of Kansas, and the Universidad Militar Nueva Granada, Cajicá, Colombia.
May 2025
65 degrees of bee thermal biology! Addressing global bee declines requires multidisciplinary, coordinated, and collaborative action. This contribution highlights ongoing efforts to build multidisciplinary and international partnerships among researchers from the University of Wyoming, the University of Kansas, and the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, spanning nearly 65 degrees of latitude, to explore how bees respond to changing temperatures. View Publication
April 2025
Congrats! to Shayne Dodge. Shayne successfully defended his doctoral thesis and is now Dr. Shayne Dodge!!!
APRIL 2025
Great work! and Congratulations! to Sabrina White. Sabrina presented as a keynote speaker at the 62nd Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium. She also received the President’s Award for best paper.
MARCH 2025
Congratulations! to Sabrina White for passing her preliminary exams and advancing to candidacy. Nice work PhC White!
JANUARY 2025
Welcome! Ripken Wellikson. Ripken is joining the lab as a masters student in zoology and physiology.
December 2024
UW is supporting a cohort hire of postdocs in AI-enabled interdisciplinary research (View Posting). One theme is computing and technology for wildlife, in association with the Wyldtech Center (View Posting), which Michael directs. Reach out if you are interested!
December 2024
Great work! to Sabrina White for her presentation at the Rocky Mountain Community Science Conference.
November 2024
Congrats! to Sarah Waybright for her recent publication: “Soilscapes of Mortality Risk Suggest a Goldilocks Effect for Overwintering Ectotherms”. View Publication
November 2024
Congrats! to Sarah Waybright. Sarah successfully defended her doctoral thesis and is now Dr. Sarah Waybright!!!
October 2024
Congrats! to Ellen Keaveny. Ellen successfully defended her doctoral thesis and is now Dr. Ellen Keaveny!!!
May 2024
Congrats! to Sabrina White. Sabrina received the Lynn Feltner Student Author Award for her research on heat stress in bumble bee colonies.
April 2024
Congrats! to Ellen Keaveny. Ellen was featured in the Journal of Experimental Biology Early Career Researcher Spotlight. View Article
April 2024
Congratulations! to Ellen Keaveny for her recent publication: “A rapid return to normal: temporal gene expression patterns following cold exposure in the bumble bee Bombus impatiens”. View Publication
April 2024
Congrats! to Jordan Glass for his recent publication: “A thermal performance curve perspective explains decades of disagreements over how air temperature affects the flight metabolism of honey bees.” Jordan’s publication was highlighted in Inside JEB and featured in their Early Career Researcher Spotlight. View Publication
March 2024
Congrats! to Jordan Glass for his recent science communication article: “Artificial skies: why insects get stuck circling lights at night.” View Publication
February 2024
Congrats! to Shayne Dodge. Shayne received research funding from the Michael and Linda Tiernan Scholarship and Research Fund to continue his work on metabolism of diapausing bumble bees.
February 2024
Congrats! to Jordan Glass for his recent publication: “A call for clarity: Embracing the debate on pesticide regulation to protect pollinators.” View Publication
February 2024
Great work! to Jordan Glass. Jordan’s recent work was featured in the University of Wyoming’s news. See Article
January 2024
Congrats! to Jordan Glass for his recent publication: “Flying, nectar-loaded honey bees conserve water and improve heat tolerance by reducing wingbeat frequency and metabolic heat production”. View Publication
January 2024
Congrats! to Jordan Glass for his recent publication: “Heat-stressed lizards slow their metabolism, but at a cost”. View Publication
January 2024
Great work! to Jordan Glass, Ellen Keaveny, and Sarah Waybright. Jordan, Ellen, and Sarah presented their work at the Society for Integrative Biology conference in Seattle, Washington.