We would like to offer a hearty congratulations to Lucy Guarnieri for winning an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
Lucy
will be researching if existing urban conservation efforts provide value for urban moth communities.
Congrats to Lucy on this well-deserved and exciting recognition! We are thrilled to support you in your research!
Graduate researchers Ellen Danford and Michelle Pham presented posters on their recent research in urban ecology.
Congratulations also to our undergraduate researcher, Kiya Hailu, for presenting her first poster on her undergraduate research project!
Gardiner Lab students headed to Vancouver last week to present their research at the Entomological Society of America’s joint annual meeting.
In their downtime, students attended other talks, networked, and explored Vancouver’s many offerings.
Special congratulations to Michelle Pham, who won best talk in her session!
What are we up to in our free time? Supporting Chadwick Arboretum at their annual plant sale!
This is the moment we realized we needed another cart….
The Gardiner Lab has been mentally gearing up for field season throughout the long Columbus winter and been preparing materials for the last week (re: garage sale or shed clean-out), and we have good news: field season has officially begun!
Time to sample with all varieties of tools that may or may not be meant for catching bugs and soak in the sunshine as we move into the warmer months! We wish everyone a happy summer field season and a bee filled May term!
Congratulations Michelle for winning a NIFA pollinator travel award to attend and present at the IUSSI 2022 conference in San Diego this summer!
As well as presenting, she will be scouting out all the good food for Ellen to eat when she arrives in San Diego. Thanks in advance, and congratulations for your award!
A hearty congratulations to Sarah for winning the Department of Entomology Graduate Student Award for excellence in research!
Her work on bumblebees and heavy metals is comprehensive and many parts have been published and presented during her time in the Gardiner Lab. We are so proud of all the hard work, perseverance and research expertise you bring into the lab, and are so glad to see you recognized!
Congratulations to Ellen for being awarded a student assistantship to the ESRI User Conference this summer! She will be traveling to San Diego to learn more about using and applying ESRI GIS products in research, extension and everyday life.
Ellen has been working with GIS mapping softwares since her undergraduate degree, but she’s found that there are still many applications she has yet to discover. Ellen is excited to attend the conference to get some new ideas which she can bring back to the lab and her projects to make life even more geographical!
A hearty congratulations to Michelle Pham and Carlee Shepard for placing first and second in the CFAES PhD poster competition!
We are so proud of their hard work and wonderful posters, which you can see outside the G-lab on the first floor of Howlett Hall!
Five Gardiner Lab students presented their research at the CFAES Poster Competition this week! Michelle, Carlee, Ellen, Sarah and Lucy all created and presented posters of their completed research or preliminary data.
Great job everyone!
Posters are being displayed outside the Gardiner Lab in Howlett Hall for public viewing!
Congratulations to Michelle Pham who was awarded a fellowship from the prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship 
Program!
Michelle’s application is titled: ‘Municipal Investment in Urban Greening to Support Healthy Bee Communities’. She will be researching how the Community Backyards program has supported urban bee communities through garden rebates in Columbus.
Congrats to Michelle on this well-deserved and exciting recognition! We are excited to support you in your research!
Congratulations to Michelle Pham, Ellen Danford and Lucy Guarnieri for receiving a CFAES IGP grant this cycle. We are very proud of your efforts!
Their grants will go towards the conservation of bees and moths in Franklin County this coming summer!
Congratulations to Sarah Scott for placing second in the CFAES category of the Hayes Graduate Forum!
Her talk was titled, “Exposure to chromium alters urban bumble bee behavior”. Our most sincere commendation for this wonderful achievement!
Congratulations to Gardiner lab members who won awards at the fall 2021 DeLong Competition at the Ohio State University!
Michelle Pham received the Root Award for Urban Research and Carlee Shepard earned the Delong Award for oral presentation.
We are very proud of you both!
The 2021-2022 school year has started and we are back in person for some classes! Here’s hoping for a healthy and productive new year in the Gardiner Lab, as we welcome two new students (Ellen and Lucy) and continue working on our research projects and coursework.
Hello from the 2020-2021 Gardiner Lab! Zoom may be the normal for meetings, but we feel pretty original using it to take our lab photo. Here’s to a happy and healthy new school year of research!