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A researcher carrying ~200 potted plants, a backpack, a watering can, and other equipment to a field site.

Kristin Olson presenting her undergraduate research project at the Plant and Animal Genome conference in San Diego, CA. December 2018.

Backpacking in the Alps with colleague Michelle D'Aguillo. August 2018.

Catching butterflies in the Twin Cities with Lindsey Kemmerling and undergrad students. July 2022.

Canoeing on Emerald Lake, CO with Jack Snow and Emily Chan. June 2017.

Botanizing with collaborator Ting-Shen Han in Colorado. Summer 2019.

An assortment of skulls from a comparative anatomy lab in the Duke's Biol 202L course. Fall 2015.

Phenotypic variation in Clarkia xantaina recombinant inbred lines. June 2022.

Phenotyping Clarkia xantiana lines in the greenhouse in Minnesota. Spring 2022.

Fieldwork with colleague Elsa Cousins at the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab. September 2019.

Botanizing in Hawaii with colleague Alex Loomis. May 2019.

Hiking on a ridge in Colorado dappled with patchy snow. Summer 2017.

Backpacking in the Chisos Mountains of Big Bend National Park with Sean Griffin. October 2020.

Bees visiting Clarkia xantiana in Kern County, CA. Summer 2022.

Backpacking in the southern Appalachians with colleague Becky Dalton. Fall 2018.

Boechera stricta germinants in a petri dish.

Kristin Olson performing controlled crosses with Boechera stricta at the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab. July 2018.

Hiking with Chase Nuñez near Mammoth Lakes, CA. June 2021.

Camping in northern New Mexico with artistic collaborator Erin Fox. July 2016.

Brooke Kern pipetting quantum dots onto Clarkia xantiana anthers at a field site.

Transplanting Clarkia seeds in the Kern River valley, CA, with Shelley Sianta. November 2021.

Brooke Kern wrangling Clarkia arrays in a greenhouse in Kern County, CA. June 2022.

HPLC maintenance with Julius Mojica. Fall 2017.

Shadows of friends on the red dirt in New Mexico.

A snowman near an experimental garden in Schofield, Colorado.

A Boechera stricta rosette in a greenhouse drought experiment. Fall 2016.

Herbivory on Boechera stricta in Colorado.

Gothic Mountain in Colorado, with wildflowers in the foreground.

Growth chamber self-portrait with Boechera. Fall 2019.

Field trip to the ancient bristlecone pine forests in eastern CA with Declan O'Leary, Brooke Kern, Monica Geber, and Vince Eckhart. June 2022.

Researchers wearing matching shirts during fieldwork in the Kern River Valley. Summer 2021.

Canoeing in Wisconsin with Anita Simha, Michela Dimond, and Lydia Geschire. September 2021.

Bellview Mountain, Colorado. Fall 2017.

Kayaking with Michela Dimond outside of New Orleans, LA. February 2018.

Euchloe ausonides butterfly on Boechera stricta in Colorado.

Ecology & Evolution Department

Biological Sciences Division

Chicago, IL

© Lauren Carley 2024

Artwork by Erin Fox