The Mason Lab studies avian evolution, ecology, and conservation at the Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science and the Louisiana State University Department of Biological Science since Fall 2020.
We are museum-based ornithologists. Our overarching goal is to study and document avian biodiversity, and natural history collections are central to that mission. We further promote the stewardship of our planet through education and outreach to increase ecological and evolutionary literacy and mitigate biodiversity loss.
News
07 Apr 2021Maggie, Alex Jahn, and Nick publish a preprint on the morphology of migration in kingbirds.
08 Mar 2021Samantha Rutledge joins the Mason Lab as a new PhD student to begin in Fall 2021. Welcome, Samantha!
26 Jan 2021MVZ undergrad Elisa Yang, Phil Unitt, and Nick publish a preprint on Dorsal color in "Oregon" Dark-eyed Juncos.
01 Jan 2021Happy New Year from the Mason Lab! Looking forward to a productive 2021.
20 Dec 2020
Nick and collaborators publish on agriculture and stable isotopes of Horned Larks in the Imperial Valley in Journal of Ornithology.
11 Nov 2020Subir and B10K collaborators (including many other LSUMNS members) publish 363 bird genomes in Nature.
16 Sep 2020New review in the Auk on the ecology, evolution, and quantification of plumage patterns led by Nick.
09 Sep 2020Welcome, Maggie! A new postdoc in our lab focusing on the evolution of migration in suboscines!