Carotenoids are a diverse group of pigments that are readily produced by plants and algae but must be obtained by animals through dietary means. They are used by many taxonomic groups including lizards, birds, fish, mollusks, and insects for myriad functions including visual pigmentation, photoprotection, antioxidation, and signaling.
[more]Arctic postdoctoral fellow Lauren Culler recently returned to Hanover from doing fieldwork in Greenland, where Dartmouth had just taken the helm of the U.S. contribution to the Joint Science Education Program (JSEP), a program jointly led and funded with the government of Greenland.
[more]In an age of impending extinctions, a new tarsier has been discovered in the Philippines, thanks to Dartmouth researchers and their colleagues.
[more]Not every college student wants to spend 10 weeks in rural Costa Rica, working long hours in the field while battling muggy weather and vicious mosquitoes. But count Ellen Irwin ’14 as one who does.
[more]Read the full story by Lee McDavid, originally published by the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding Institute of Arctic Studies.
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