Our team and equipment. The dry shipper made the customs folks very nervous. It turns out “hummingbird” sounds a little too much like “human-bird”. Read more below. We’ve arrived in São Paulo. The flight was rather uneventful, which was fine by me. I’m glad I paid extra for the non-stop flights from Toronto to São […]

Our Brazilian adventure begins late on Wednesday night with a 10 hour flight from Toronto to Sao Paolo. The flight is delayed by about 30 minutes, but that doesn’t seem like much considering we had to move our departure date back by 1 month already. Doing research in Brazil is hard. The bureaucratic hurdles are […]

Our Brazilian adventure begins late on Wednesday night with a 10 hour flight from Toronto to Sao Paolo. The flight is delayed by about 30 minutes, but that doesn’t seem like much considering we had to move our departure date back by 1 month already. Doing research in Brazil is hard. The bureaucratic hurdles are […]

Congratulations to MSc student Chris Chen on being awarded the University of Toronto Scarborough M.Sc. Graduate Research Award. Chris will receive the award in a ceremony on June 26th.

Congratulations to MSc student Derrick Groom on being awarded an American Museum of Natural History Frank M. Chapman Research Grant. These research funds will support Derrick’s field-based research on the evolution of fatty acid metabolism in hummingbirds taking place in Brazil in summer 2012.

Congratulations to MSc student Derrick Groom on being awarded a prestigious NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship! This funding will support Derrick as he continues his MSc thesis work.

Professors Welch, Boonstra, McGowan, and Weir were awarded an NSERC RTI that will support the purchase and installation of an “Environmental chamber for the study of wild-caught mammals and birds”.

Congratulations to incoming PhD student Brandy Velten on being awarded one of a handful of prestigious Ontario Trilliam Fellowships! Brandy will be joining the lab in fall 2012.

Congratulations to lab member Amina Allalou on being awarded a prestigious NSERC USRA fellowship! Amina will undertake her project in the Welch lab this coming summer.

Congratulations to lab member and MSc student Chris Chen on being named a Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award winner! From the UTSC press release: “The Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Awards were established in 1994 by the University of Toronto Alumni Association (UTAA) and the Division of University Advancement in order to recognize students who have […]