10 September 2021: My paper on growth-defense trade-offs and eco-evolutionary dynamics in aspen stands is now up online at PNAS! https://www.pnas.org/content/118/37/e2103162118
9 September 2021: UW-Madison put out this nice press release ahead of my upcoming research article in PNAS: Study shows how aspen forests maintain the diversity needed to adapt to changing environments (wisc.edu)
1 July 2021: Big news: I will be joining Whitworth University in Spokane, WA as an Assistant Professor this fall! I'll be teaching courses in plant biology and continuing my research with undergraduates. Stay tuned!
22 June 2021: I will be giving a (prerecorded) talk at this year's Ecological Society of America meeting. Find me August 2nd at 12pm Pacific for "The role of timing in the ecology of intraspecific trait variation in plants".
4 January 2021: My latest article from my PhD work is now online in New Phytologist. We give a detailed look at plant trait responses to competition and how they play into competitive ability in aspen. Find it here: https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.17166
30 September 2020: Check out this feature from MSU on extreme weather research being done in the Wetzel Lab. Includes a sneak preview of my planned experiments testing impacts of spring warming events on milkweed-insect interactions! https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/investigating-the-impact-of-heatwaves-on-natural-and-agricultural-ecosystems
3 July 2020: Now out in Oecologia: my paper with Colorado colleagues addressing the associational effects of plant ontogeny on insect herbivory http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00442-020-04702-z
17 April 2020: Best news yet! The proposal I wrote with Will Wetzel for the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology ("Rules of Life" competitive area) was recommended for funding! I will head to East Lansing in the fall to work on questions of milkweed, ontogeny, variability, climate, and much more.
26 November 2019: I will soon be in St. Louis for this year's Entomological Society of America meeting. My talk is 10:00am Monday 11/18.
22 October 2019: I am headed to Colorado State tomorrow for an invited seminar in the department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management. The topic will be, as always: what drives within-species variation in plant defense?
12 September 2019: Here's a feature about me and our recent paper on the Functional Ecology blog: https://functionalecologists.com/2019/09/12/olivia-cope-grow-big-or-strong/
2 August 2019: Our decadal-scale study of herbivore defense in aspen trees is out online in Functional Ecology: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2435.13425
23 May 2019: My talk at the upcoming Ecological Society of America meeting is scheduled for COS 78: Herbivory, 9:50am Thursday 8/15. I will be speaking on competition-mediated costs of defense and their consequences for aspen populations.
6 March 2019: NSF Graduate Research Internship Program proposal funded! I will be off to Fort Collins, CO this summer to work with Ian Pearse at the USGS and Paul Ode at CSU on ontogeny of resistance in Lepidium draba.
9 September 2021: UW-Madison put out this nice press release ahead of my upcoming research article in PNAS: Study shows how aspen forests maintain the diversity needed to adapt to changing environments (wisc.edu)
1 July 2021: Big news: I will be joining Whitworth University in Spokane, WA as an Assistant Professor this fall! I'll be teaching courses in plant biology and continuing my research with undergraduates. Stay tuned!
22 June 2021: I will be giving a (prerecorded) talk at this year's Ecological Society of America meeting. Find me August 2nd at 12pm Pacific for "The role of timing in the ecology of intraspecific trait variation in plants".
4 January 2021: My latest article from my PhD work is now online in New Phytologist. We give a detailed look at plant trait responses to competition and how they play into competitive ability in aspen. Find it here: https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.17166
30 September 2020: Check out this feature from MSU on extreme weather research being done in the Wetzel Lab. Includes a sneak preview of my planned experiments testing impacts of spring warming events on milkweed-insect interactions! https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/investigating-the-impact-of-heatwaves-on-natural-and-agricultural-ecosystems
3 July 2020: Now out in Oecologia: my paper with Colorado colleagues addressing the associational effects of plant ontogeny on insect herbivory http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00442-020-04702-z
17 April 2020: Best news yet! The proposal I wrote with Will Wetzel for the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology ("Rules of Life" competitive area) was recommended for funding! I will head to East Lansing in the fall to work on questions of milkweed, ontogeny, variability, climate, and much more.
26 November 2019: I will soon be in St. Louis for this year's Entomological Society of America meeting. My talk is 10:00am Monday 11/18.
22 October 2019: I am headed to Colorado State tomorrow for an invited seminar in the department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management. The topic will be, as always: what drives within-species variation in plant defense?
12 September 2019: Here's a feature about me and our recent paper on the Functional Ecology blog: https://functionalecologists.com/2019/09/12/olivia-cope-grow-big-or-strong/
2 August 2019: Our decadal-scale study of herbivore defense in aspen trees is out online in Functional Ecology: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2435.13425
23 May 2019: My talk at the upcoming Ecological Society of America meeting is scheduled for COS 78: Herbivory, 9:50am Thursday 8/15. I will be speaking on competition-mediated costs of defense and their consequences for aspen populations.
6 March 2019: NSF Graduate Research Internship Program proposal funded! I will be off to Fort Collins, CO this summer to work with Ian Pearse at the USGS and Paul Ode at CSU on ontogeny of resistance in Lepidium draba.
