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[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”403″ img_size=”200 x 200″ style=”vc_box_shadow_3d”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]LIBA PEJCHAR<\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor
\nDept. of Fish, Wildlife & Conservation Biology
\nColorado State University<\/p>\n

Office: (970)-491-1819
\nliba.pejchar@colostate.edu<\/a>
\nResearchGate Profile<\/a>
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Lab News<\/strong><\/h4>\n

February, 2025<\/strong>: We have a new paper out on urban birds and ecosystems services<\/a> in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment<\/strong><\/em> – a really fun outcome of a sabbatical visit with Ian MacGregor-Fors at the University of Finland!<\/p>\n

February, 2025<\/strong>: Liba and Carolyn and colleagues are pleased to be awarded NSF funding for our project on North American songbirds and flower foraging!<\/p>\n

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October-November, 2024<\/strong>: Liba is thrilled to attend COP16 in Cali, Colombia as part of the CSU delegation<\/p>\n

October, 2024<\/strong>: Many lab members gave terrific talks and enjoyed the elk and aspen at AOS in Estes Park!<\/p>\n

January, 2024<\/strong>: We are thrilled to welcome new PhD student, Libby Mojica, to the lab! Libby’s collaborative work will advance conservation of Ferruginous Hawks<\/p>\n

August, 2023<\/strong>: Welcome Alex! Alex Badeaux, new PhD student and NSF Fellow, will use bird banding data to understand migratory birds, climate change, and phenology.<\/p>\n

May, 2023<\/strong>: Our lab is proud to share a new collaborative paper<\/a> in BioScience<\/strong><\/em> on sexual harassment, graduate students, and equity<\/p>\n

April, 2023<\/strong>: Kristin’s Davis’s paper on how land cover differentially affects the abundance of common and rare birds is now published in Global Change Biology<\/strong><\/em>!<\/p>\n

April, 2023<\/strong>: Liba is honored and humbled to recieve the Cermak Graduate Student Advising Award<\/strong><\/em> from CSU – many thanks to the lab for the nomination!<\/p>\n

March, 2023<\/strong>: Congratulations to PhD student Carolyn Coyle for receiving the Centennial Pollinator Fellowship<\/strong><\/em>!<\/p>\n

March, 2023<\/strong>: Liba is thrilled to receive a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award<\/strong><\/em> at the University of Naples Parthenope for her upcoming sabbatical in spring 2024<\/p>\n

February, 2023<\/strong>: Liba is delighted to receive funding to spend the first six months of her sabbatical collaborating with Dr. Ian McGregor-Fors at the University of Helsinki<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

July, 2022<\/strong>: Liba and Cozette enjoyed sharing their research at AOS\/BC in Puerto Rico – fantastic to meet in person again!<\/p>\n

May, 2022<\/strong>: Congratulations to Cozette and Carolyn for numerous successful grants in support of their research and conference travel!<\/p>\n

January, 2022<\/strong>: We are delighted to welcome new graduate students Teia Schweizer and Miranda Middleton to the lab!<\/p>\n

January, 2022<\/strong>: Mikko Jimenez’s paper on the benefits of urban habitat enhancement programs for native species is out in Landscape and Urban Planning<\/strong><\/em>!<\/p>\n

December, 2022<\/strong>: Congratulations to Kristin Davis for a new paper on habitat exchange programs in Conservation Letters<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

August, 2021<\/strong>: We are thrilled to welcome new graduate students Carolyn Coyle, Kathleen Urchek, and Cozette Romero to the lab!<\/p>\n

April, 2021:<\/strong> Congratulations to new graduate student Carolyn Coyle for being awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship!<\/p>\n

January, 2021<\/strong>: Moe Uili, a Fulbright fellow from Samoa, has joined our group to study the rare and unique Manumea or Tooth-billed Pigeon. Welcome Moe!<\/p>\n

May, 2020<\/strong>: Liba is delighted and humbed to receive the CSU Conservation Impact Prize from the Salazar Center<\/p>\n

January, 2020<\/strong>: We are thrilled to welcome new MS student Sarah Ramirez to the lab!<\/p>\n

June, 2019<\/strong>: Our new paper in Nature Ecology and Evolution<\/strong><\/em> shows underrepresented faculty play a disproportionate role in advancing diversity and inclusion<\/p>\n

June, 20<\/strong>19<\/strong>: Big congrats to Mikko Jimenez for his new position as Outreach Biologist with the National Audubon Society!<\/p>\n

June, 2019<\/strong>: Congratulations to former lab member Sara Bombaci for her new assistant professor position at Colorado State University!<\/p>\n

April, 2019<\/strong>: Liba is honored to be a plenary speaker at the Landscape Ecology conference<\/p>\n

February, 2019<\/strong>: Congratulations to former lab member Travis Gallo! We are so thrilled he is joining George Mason University as an Assistant Professor this coming year<\/p>\n

January, 2019<\/strong>: We are excited to welcome Ph.D. student Kristin Davis to the lab! She will use citizen science data to explore spatial and temporal patterns in invasive bird abundance<\/p>\n

September, 2018<\/strong>: New paper<\/a> with Swedish colleagues on the net effects of birds in agroecosystems published in Bioscience<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

September, 2018<\/strong>: Former postdoc Drew Bennett publishes exciting new paper<\/a> in Biological Conservation<\/strong><\/em> expanding the toolbox for private lands conservation.<\/p>\n

August, 2018<\/strong>: Sara Bombaci and Kate Wilkins finish excellent PhD research and are off to postdoc positions at Clemson University and CSU!<\/p>\n

December, 2017<\/strong>: CSU conservation biologists publish Bioscience<\/strong><\/em> paper<\/a>\u00a0urging scientists to engage in policy.<\/p>\n

September 15, 2017<\/strong>: Anna Mangan\u2019s\u00a0paper<\/a>\u00a0on the net effects of birds in apple orchards published in\u00a0PLOS ONE<\/strong><\/em>!<\/p>\n

July, 2017<\/strong>: Postdoc Drew Bennett accepts prestigious professor of practice position at Univ. of Wyoming \u2013 we will miss him when he heads north in February!<\/p>\n

May 1, 2017<\/strong>: Lab\u00a0article<\/a>\u00a0on gender gap in speakers at ecology conferences in\u00a0Bioscience<\/strong><\/em>!<\/p>\n

April, 2017<\/strong>: Sara and Kate awarded\u00a0amazing<\/em>\u00a0dissertation fellowships! \u2013 from the Ford Foundation and National Association of University Women<\/p>\n

February 1, 2017<\/strong>: Liba joins editorial team for\u00a0Biological Conservation<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

January 13, 2017<\/strong>: Liba is off to Sweden to spend four months as a guest researcher at\u00a0BECC<\/a>\u00a0at Lund University!<\/p>\n

December, 2016<\/strong>: Our lab book review on the \u201cparadox of the carnivorous conservationist\u201d is published in\u00a0Biological Conservation<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

October \u2013 November, 2016<\/strong>: Drew and Liba teach a workshop on ecosystem services at\u00a0NCBS<\/a>\u00a0in Bangalore, India \u2013 an awesome experience! We also loved visiting former lab member Monica Kaushik at her field site in the Himalaya<\/p>\n

August 31, 2016<\/b>: Members of the lab led two symposia and gave six talks at NACCB, ESA and NAOC in July and August!<\/p>\n

June 9, 2016<\/b>: Great\u00a0article<\/a>\u00a0on Lab alum Adam Miller and his successful NGO \u2013 Planet Indonesia<\/p>\n

May 13, 2016<\/b>: Congratulations to Doctor Gallo! \u2013 first Ph.D. student to fledge \u2013 and he has an exciting postdoc at the Lincoln Park Zoo!<\/p>\n

May 9-13, 2016<\/b>: Liba attends terrific NSF funded workshop on seed dispersal at SESYNC<\/p>\n

April 15, 2016<\/b>: Nice\u00a0media coverage<\/a>\u00a0on our research on the effects of game management on biodiversity!<\/p>\n

March 11, 2016<\/b>: Travis Gallo\u2019s article on the mixed effects of game management on biodiversity is published online in\u00a0Biological Conservation<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

March 9, 2016<\/b>: Graduate students Lani, Hannah and Kate passed their comprehensive exams and Travis defended his dissertation \u2013 all in the past ten days \u2013 congrats!!!<\/p>\n

February 1, 2016<\/b>: Former student Lucas Behnke\u2019s research on Kauai\u2019s rare honeycreepers is published in the\u00a0Condor<\/i><\/b>!<\/p>\n

January 29, 2016<\/b>: Sara Bombaci\u2019s grand review of the effects of woodland removal on wildlife is published online in\u00a0Forest Ecology and Management<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

November 17, 2015<\/b>: An award from the\u00a0National Geographic Society<\/b>\u00a0will support Sara Bombaci\u2019s research on New Zealand\u2019s mainland island sanctuaries!<\/p>\n

October 31, 2015<\/b>: Susan Culliney\u2019s research on the endangered Alala (Hawaiian Crow) is featured in an article in Hawaiian Airline\u2019s\u00a0Hana Hou<\/i>\u00a0magazine<\/p>\n

October 19, 2015<\/b>: Our lab\u00a0Conservation Biology<\/i><\/b>\u00a0paper on communicating science through twitter is highlighted\u00a0here<\/a><\/p>\n

October 5, 2015<\/b>: CSU\u2019s SEEDs chapter hosted a successful bioblitz at the mountain campus! Many members of the LibaLab participated \u2013 great article and video\u00a0here<\/a><\/p>\n

October 1, 2015<\/b>: Beautiful\u00a0article<\/a>\u00a0on Kate Wilkin\u2019s research on bison reintroduction!<\/p>\n

August 3, 2015<\/b>: Star undergraduate Molly Warner wins the R.S. Knaub Student Award! She will use wildlife cameras to study predator-prey interactions in western Colorado<\/p>\n

July 2, 2015<\/b>: Our article on introduced birds as an incomplete substitute for native frugivores in Hawaii is now published\u00a0online<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0AoB Plants<\/b><\/i>.<\/p>\n

June 9, 2015<\/b>: Our lab paper on using twitter to communicate conservation science has been accepted to\u00a0Conservation Biology<\/b><\/i>. Congratulations to all!<\/p>\n

June 6, 2015<\/b>: Anna shared her ongoing\u00a0work<\/a>\u00a0with fellow bird enthusiasts and researchers at the Colorado Field Ornithologists annual meeting in Salida, Colorado<\/p>\n

June 1, 2015<\/b>: Anna is the co-author of a paper published in the journal\u00a0Crop Protection<\/i><\/b>with collaborators at the National Wildlife Research Center on an avian repellent for the protection of specialty crops<\/p>\n

May 8th, 2015<\/b>: Former graduate student Nate Jones\u2019 research on the effects of energy sprawl on biodiversity and ecosystem services is highlighted on\u00a0Mongabay.com<\/a><\/p>\n

April 23, 2015<\/b>: Anna is a co-author on two articles on the transmission and molecular characterization of Salmonella associated with bird-livestock interactions in\u00a0Veterinary Microbiology<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

April 20th, 2015<\/b>: Cooper, Anna and Travis are all presenting their research at the Ecological Society of America (ESA) conference in Baltimore, Maryland this summer!<\/p>\n

April 8th, 2015<\/b>: An article by former undergraduate Adam Miller on Hawaiian bees, forest restoration, and implications for pollination is now published in\u00a0Pacific Science<\/i><\/b>. Congrats to Adam!<\/p>\n

March 25, 2015<\/b>: Abstracts by Travis and Liba for oral presentations at the International Congress for Conservation Biology (ICCB) 2015 were accepted. We are headed to Montpelier France in August!<\/p>\n

March 5, 2015<\/b>: Kate and Anna were awarded grants from the Colorado Field Ornithologists in support of their ongoing research \u2013 congratulations!<\/p>\n

February 6th, 2015<\/b>: Our\u00a0BioScience<\/i><\/b>\u00a0article, led by former graduate student Nate Jones, is the focus of a TNC\u00a0Cool Green Science Blog<\/a><\/p>\n

February 3rd, 2015<\/b>: Liba, Kate and colleagues are awarded a One Health Catalyst Grant to support their research on the ecological and social dimensions of bison reintroduction!<\/p>\n

January 8, 2015<\/b>: Sara, Cooper and Liba all play a leadership role in CSUs SEEDS Chapter, which was just awarded a grant from ESA to run a bioblitz at CSUs Mountain Campus next fall. We are thrilled!<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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