Jenn Weber, PhD: Eco/Evo of flowering plants
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Fieldwork & BSA in Alaska!

8/26/2022

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Field Season 2022 had graduate and undergraduate lab members (Kate, Taylor, Sarah) returning to Central Texas at the start of May for sampling pollinator diversity of Trio. After driving 15 hours through weather that felt like an act of god, they were greeted with an incredible study site at Stengl Lost Pines (UT Austin) where Triodanis was in abundance. As the heat of each day broke (it’s not the heat that gets you it’s the humidity) and field work ended for that afternoon, evenings were spent cooking dinner and enjoying the bird diversity that area of Texas provides. Sampling moved northward from there to the Dallas Fort Worth area where we met with a frequent collaborator, Kim Sasan. Fieldwork was also done in the lovely Flint Hills of Konza prairie and a military installation in Missouri with a homebase at Ozark Research Field Station (Missouri S&T) and finally wrapped in mid-June back in Southern Illinois
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above left: Kate T. & Sarah L. performing pollinator observations; above right: Taylor S. & Sarah L. doing pollinator surveys.

This year the whole lab went to Anchorage, AK to showcase their work at the Botanical Society of America’s annual conference. #TeamTrio was represented in two different poster sections (Biogeography and Pollination) with undergrads and grad students presenting work. Field trips out into the mountains surrounding Anchorage with academics and professionals from around the world, making new friends or catching up with old ones, enjoying bluebird days under the midnight sun, and many ice cream runs were some of the other highlights. 
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above left: the whole lab took a rainy, but fun trip to the Alaska Botanical Garden (Julia B., Morgan L., Sarah L., Jenn W., Taylor S., Kate T.; above right: fantastic lab pic t the conference center, check out those mountains!
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A lot Has happened, and we're still loving what we do

1/26/2022

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The Weber Lab has persisted and grown through these uncertain times as we relocated to Southern Illinois U, Carbondale from Southeast Missouri State U in 2019 (has it been that long already??). 

Returning to in-person classes and another grad student means that we have many hands to work on continuing and new projects. These include but aren’t limited to; ongoing phylogenetic work, field sampling, morphometrics, cataloging herbarium specimens, growth experiments, breeding system work, pollinator ecology and much more. The start of the year saw us visiting MOBOT to sample vouchers. That trip had been on our wish list for many months, but kept getting delayed due to the pandemic.  But last year wasn’t without highlights as we spent time growing and connecting (including some fun with the Brown Lab), with a Holiday Party before winter break and a picnic and visit to Scratch Brewery in warmer weather. 
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Fieldwork in TX was a Huge Success!

5/10/2019

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Three of us (Jordan Yglesia, Taylor Simmonds, Dr W) headed to TX in early spring on a hunt for *all* species of Triodanis. Our mission? To get leaf tissues, seeds, vouchers, and photos of all currently named species (n= 7). Amazingly, the weather was nearly perfect, and we had excellent herbarium and local naturalist info (from UT Austin & iNaturalist) - so the whole trip was a really big success. We could hardly believe it ourselves! This coming year, the lab will be busy processing leaf tissues for DNA work and we can't wait to grow up representatives of each species in a greenhouse and see if we can try some crosses both within and among species. 

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