Media and news

Barrett Klein, Biology, authored the article "Slumber in a cell: honeycomb used by honey bees for food, brood, heating… and sleeping" in PeerJ published on Aug. 5 by PeerJ. What do honey bees do when they are inside honeycomb cells? Spoiler: It includes sleeping. https://peerj.com/articles/9583/#

Veronica Yovovich, University of California-Berkeley; Christopher Wilmers, University of California-Santa Cruz; and Meredith Thomsen, Biology; co-authored the article "Pumas' fear of humans precipitates changes in plant architecture" in Ecosphere and was accepted for publication by John Wiley & Sons.

Barrett Klein, Biology, authored the article "Exposing the murky depths: The value of scientific illustration for freshwater science - a multi-part series (part 1) " in "In the Drift" (newsletter) published on June 17 by Society for Freshwater Science . Ross Vander Vorste (UWL Biology), as editor, invited me to submit an article about the value of scientific illustration.

Jennifer Klein, Biology, was interviewed by IBM news on Thursday, June 18. Jennifer Klein describes her use of High Performance Computing to help design drugs to treat Covid 19.

Daniel Gibson-Reinemer, Adams State University; Scott Collins, Texas Tech University; Kristen Bouska, Nathan De Jager, Deanne Drake and Jeffrey Houser, all USGS; and Meredith Thomsen, Biology; co-authored the article "Conceptualizing alternate regimes in a large river floodplain: water clarity, invasive fish, and floodplain vegetation" in Journal of Environmental Management published on April 15 by Elsevier.