It's been many months in the making, but the Umbers lab finally has a lab logo!
Kate to give Seminar at UNSW
Kate will give a talk in the UNSW E&ERC Seminar Series at 3pm on Friday the 12th of August. It will be a katydid bonanza!
mountain katydid Photo: Jordyn Crossley
New smartphone app for identifying insects in the Australian Alps
We are very excited to announce that you can now download our Alps Insects app for android! In collaboration with Rachael Slatyer, Nikolai Tatarnic and Ainsley Seago and with funding from the Norman Wettenhall Foundation we have produced a tool for identifying, recording and monitoring the insects of the Australian alps. This project was a dream of Rachael and Kate's since they started their PhDs in the mountains and we are delighted to see it come to fruition. We are currently looking for someone to write the code for iPhone, so apple users are fully equipped for their next alpine adventure too!
New 3rd Year Science Project students
Welcome to Jordyn and Michael who will be joining us for their third year projects, working two highly charismatic animals from the Australian Alps - the mountain katydid and the southern corroboree frog!
A displaying mountain katydid Photo: Jordyn Crossley
An attacked corroboree frog model Photo: Kate Umbers
Success at ASSAB16
In July our lab led the organising committee for the 2016 meeting of the Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour (www.assab.org) in Katoomba. We had a Sydney-wide team that included us from Western Sydney Uni, Daniel Noble and Lisa Schwanz from UNSW, Julia Riley, James Baxter-Gilbert, Fonti Kar, Brigit Szabo, Ajay Narendra, Tom White, Marie Herberstein and Andrew Barron from Macquarie University, Ros Gloag from University of Sydney. We have lots of reports that suggest that the conference was enjoyed by all. Kate and Julia gave talks on the mountain katydid and Michael, Griffin, Julia and Darsh presented posters. Michael & Griffin's and Darsh's posters both came away with Best Poster prizes!
Attendees at ASSAB 2016