EEB Graduate Student Alison Robey wins Volterra Award

At the 110^th meeting of the Ecological Society of America held in Baltimore, MD, Alison Robey, PhD candidate in David Vasseur’s lab won the Volterra award for best student talk on ecological theory for her presentation “Temporal autocorrelation increases temperature-driven extinction risk”.  Alison’s talk seamlessly blended a combination of new ecological theory and experimental results demonstrating that temporal autocorrelation reduces the range of environmental conditions that a population can tolerate. 

This award is named after Vito Volterra, an Italian mathematician and physicist known for his contributions to the field of mathematical biology (and our now beloved Lotka-Volterra models!).  This award is given to one student each year by members of the Theory Section of the Ecological Society of America.

Congratulations Alison!