One of the pleasures of academia is the “seminar invite”.  I just returned from a visit to the University of Pittsburgh Pyamunting Laboratory of Ecology.  Only a 3 hour drive from my house:

Many thanks to Dr. Corinne Zawacki for the invitation and for hosting me and showing me around the field station.  This truly is an impressive place for doing field research.  Hopefully we can collaborate in the future.

Thanks also to my supportive grad students (who put up with disappearances) and the unwitting co-authors (Ray Danner, Jaime Chaves, Danielle Levesque).  I was speaking about our research on Darwin’s finches….