URCAD Selfie Contest Winner: Arushi Dalal

Mon, 03 May 2021 23:58:37 -0400

Congratulations to URCAD presenter Arushi Dalal, winner of the URCAD Selfie Contest in the category: Best Making-of an URCAD Presentation!

Arushi will receive a $50 gift card to the UMBC Bookstore!

The birds on Arushi's laptop are there to learn about her research, which was a comparison of song in the Grasshopper Sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum) populations in the Caribbean on the islands of Jamaica and Bonaire. These islands constitute two distinct subspecies of the sparrow (A. s. savannarum on Jamaica, and A. s. caribaeus on Bonaire) By studying these songs, she determined how songs across the islands varied and what these differences could mean for the species as a whole. Tweet! Tweet!

Mentor: Bernard Lohr, Biological Sciences