CTR People in the News
This page highlights interviews with CTR researchers and news features on CTR activities.
Media Highlights
El Comercio
“La vida secreta del pájaro paraguas longipéndulo”
(The secret life of the long-wattled umbrellabird)
Ecuadorian newspaper article (in Spanish) on study conducted by Dr. Jordan Karubian, CTR Latin America Director
El Comercio newspaper PDF
May 10, 2009
Faculty of 1000 Biology
Paper by CTR researchers A. Kirschel, D. Blumstein, and T. Smith chosen by Faculty of 1000 Biology as a "must read" (with a 6.0 rating)
by Jonathan Losos and Terry J. Ord
June 2, 2009
Original paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, "Character displacement of song and morphology in African tinkerbirds"
UCLA Newsroom
"UCLA scientists discover ultrasonic communication among frogs"
by Stuart Wolpert
May 8, 2009
Reporting on article published in PLoS ONE, "Pure Ultrasonic Communication in an Endemic Bornean Frog"
Our University
A Newsletter from the University of California President for the UC Community
April 2009
featuring UCLA Today article, "Teaching eco ethics in the Ecuadorean rainforest"
UCLA Today
"Teaching eco ethics in the Ecuadorean rainforest"
by Phil Hampton and Judy Lin
March 19, 2009
New York Times
"New World Wolves and Coyotes Owe Debt to Dogs"
by Mark Derr
February 6, 2009
Reporting on article published in Science Express, "Molecular and Evolutionary History of Melanism in North American Gray Wolves"
Additional news coverage from UCLA Newsroom
The Post News Line
"Gov't, Partners Mobilise Against Avian Influenza"
by Edith Wirdze
February 9, 2009
UCLA Magazine
"A New Jungle Book: Teaching Eco Ethics"
by Phil Hampton
January 1, 2009
National Geographic News
"PHOTO IN THE NEWS: Regurgitating Birds Aid Rain Forest"
by Hayley Rutger
November 25, 2008
Journal of Biology Publishes Minireview
"Islands in the sky: the impact of Pleistocene climate cycles on biodiversity"
by Allan J. Baker
Novermber 3, 2008
Minireview of paper by John McCormack et al. in BMC Biology
"Integrating paleoecology and genetics of bird populations in two sky island archipelagos"
UCLA Newsroom Press Release
"Global warming affects warm-weather species too, study finds"
by Phil Hampton
October 9, 2008
Article in Science magazine
"Global Warming, Elevation Range Shifts, and Lowland Biotic Attrition in the Wet Tropics"
by Robert K. Colwell et al.
October 10, 2008
UCLA College Report Volume 10
"Creating a New Defense for Biodiversity"
by Judith Forman
Summer 2008
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Press Release
"Could Preserving Biodiversity Reduce Disease? EPA Funds $2.25 Million to Research Connections"
Contact: Melissa Anley-Mills
July 23, 2008
Today Online
"UCLA goes back to nature at BioBlitz"
by Judy Lin
June 6, 2008
VenturaCountyStar
"Santa Monica Mountains bioblitz invites nature lovers 24 hour observation"
by Zeke Barlow
May 31, 2008
Molecular Ecology Podcast
Interview with Professors Thomas Smith and Louis Bernatchez, summit co-organizers and Molecular Ecology Special Issue Guest Editors
February 2008
Available on Molecular Ecology website
Focus the Nation Podcast
CTR Director Thomas Smith's address to the Focus the Nation audience at UCLA
January 31, 2008
http://www.sustain.ucla.edu
Also available on UCLA's iTunes U: http://www.sustain.ucla.edu/academics/sustainability_media_on_itunes_u.php
Université Laval's au fil des evénements
"L’éprouvette Terre"
by Jean Hamman
January 24, 2008
(to view English translation, click here)
UCLA Magazine
"First Response"
by Kathy Svitil
January 2008
UCLA Newsroom
"Global warming, other research from UCLA summit featured in journal"
by Phil Hampton
December 18, 2007
New Science
"Humans take control of evolution"
by Peter Aldhous
February 17, 2007
To view article, click here.
UCLA Daily Bruin
"Science & Health: Summit to link politics, environment"
by Seda Terzyan
February 8, 2007
National Wildlife Magazine
"The Lands Where Species Are Born"
by Steve Nadis
February / March 2005
Date Posted: 1/14/2009