Site-Wide Activity

Yesterday morning, Matt and Laura Galloway, our collaborators from UVA, joined us at Signal Tree, one of our field sites to see us in action. All our mornings were made when Sara and Elizabeth showed up to […]

A rising Senior, Biology Major at the College of Wooster originally from Chicago, IL.

Research Direction

For my Senior Independent Study, I am interested in quantifying pollinator efficiency of three main types […]

After taking an early weekend, the Bellflower team (minus Sara, who was working hard in the lab!) set out Sunday morning to set up our arrays. We were in the greenhouse shortly after 7am, and we all worked […]

In the life of an everyday plant, interaction with the surrounding ecological environment is a full-time job. And though there are some that believe plants are static beings, they would be sorely mistaken as the […]

Today was the first day we brought out the plants to a natural population in Cascade Valley! While Jack and Dr. Ison went to look through the trail for more populations, I stayed behind with the plants and other […]

Last Friday, the Bellflower posse anted up to the table… to pin some collected insects.  We had spent the last week or so collecting a various array of the natural pollinators from the area (bee catching photos […]

I am a senior biology major at the College of Wooster.

Research Direction

For my Senior Independent research, I will be looking at the maintenance of pollen color polymorphism in the American Bellflower […]

The high rainfall and high coastal ranges nourish the icefields of southern Alaska along and with the extensive carbon-rich forests and ecosystems of the Northern Pacific Coastal Temperate Rainforest […]

When tasked with the job of building a cage, there are a few things that first come to mind. Cube, six sides, material, bars… captivity? But it can’t be that bad, right? When tasked with building a pollinator […]

Originally from Colorado. I am a rising senior at the College of Wooster, in Ohio. I am currently studying Neurobiology.

Research Direction

Using a predetermined color scale I am interested in observing […]

Today was our first attempt as a group to investigate natural populations of the C. americana (Bellflower) our plant of study. The American Bellflower is native to the forests and prairies of the middle region of […]

Earlier this year, my friend Yeong-Choy Kam and I published a paper based on an experiment I conducted in his lab over ten years ago in Taiwan. Time flies! Previously, there had been anecdotal reports of […]

Today was our first day back on the job after returning from the University of Virginia on Saturday. This morning we set out for the OARDC around 9am and met with the greenhouse coordinator, Karli Shultz. With […]

Welcome to the Bellflower Fun page! During Summer 2017, Team Bellflower (Ashley, Jack, Elizabeth, and Sara) posted updates on their research. If you would like to see updates on research during Summer 2018 visit […]

7 hours and 450 miles later, we arrived at our picturesque Airbnb. Later that day, we met up with Matt, a post-doc in Dr. Galloway’s lab, at the University of Virginia. We told him about each of our projects and […]

This summer, several students will be working in the COW Tree Ring Lab on several different projects. Josh Charlton, Eduardo Luna, and Emily Randall have already been hard at work conducting research on Alaska […]

What a wonderful experience! Brava Tutti!

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