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14 March 2012 The New Zealand Journal of Zoology has just put out a call for submissions for a special issue on the effects of wind farms on wildlife. Stuart Parsons and Phil Battley (Massey Palmerston North) will be acting as editors for the volume.
29 November 2010

At the recent Ecological Society of New Zealand Confernece, Kerry Borkin won the best student presentation in the symposium: Biodiversity and Production land. In other successes, Sarah Withers (Parsons Lab) and Chrissie Painting and Shelly Myers (Hollwell Lab) were three of only six recipients of ASSAB (Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour) student research grants.
16 September 2010 Congratulations to Kerry Borkin who successfully defended her PhD today!!
19 November 2009 A tutorial on the use of the software package Avicol is now available for download. Avicol is used with the lab's spectrophotometer.
2 December 2008 Research work on Australasian Gannets by PhD student Steffi Ismar was recently featured in the Dominion post.
1 December 2008 BSc(Hons) student Rachael Shaw has been awarded a prestigious Rutherford scholarship to pursue a doctoral degree at the University of Cambridge, UK. Congratulations Rachael!!.
29 May 2008 Matt Rayner, a PhD student in the lab has just received his PhD. The title of Matt's thesis was "Population biology, predator prey dynamics, foraging ecology, and conservation status of Pterodroma cookii"
10 March 2008 University of Auckland primatologist discovers new monkey in Amazon

"A primatologist at The University of Auckland has discovered a new species of monkey living in north-western Amazonia. Dr Jean Boubli, of the University’s Department of Anthropology, found the monkey while undertaking field work in the Aracá River, a left bank tributary of the Negro River, Amazonas, Brazil." [read the press release]
28 February 2008 Current SBS and former BayerBoost summer student Liz Fraser's morepork
research from Ark in the Park featured in today's NZ Herald:

14 December 2007


 PhD student Jeremy Corfield’s latest publication in Brain Behaviour and Evolution has attracted a lot of attention from the press. Articles on Jeremy’s work have appeared in the New Zealand Herald and the Christchurch Press. Jeremy was also interviewed on the Checkpoint programme, National Radio.
13 December 2007 PhD student Matt Rayner's upcoming paper in PNAS, on Cook's petrel conservation theory
and data, has been featured in the NZ Herald, New York Times, Conservation Magazine and other international and national news outlets this week.
28 March 2007 Mark Hauber and his colleagues from the Czech Republic and United Kingdom have earned one of only 2 Human Frontiers Science programme grants awarded to New Zealand (the other was to Michael Walker and colleagues, also in SBS). The grant, worth over US$1 million, is entitled “The chemistry of visual trickery: evolution and mechanisms of egg mimicry in cuckoos”. Well done Mark.
10 December 2006 Kate Lomas, who is currently completing her MSc research on the hearing ability and anti-pradator behaviour of weta, has won a prestigious scholarship to study under Prof David Yager at the University of Maryland. Kate will be learning the latest neurological recording techniques in Prof Yager’s lab with the intention of beginning a PhD in the EAB lab in 2007. Congratulations to Kate.
1 November 2006 Kerry Borkin has won a Bat Conservation International Scholarship to support her PhD research on Chalinolobus tuberculatus in Kinleath pine forest. Kerry’s work focuses on the use of the commercial pine forest by Chalinolobus, including habitat preference and roost site selection, and the effect of logging operations on the bats
1 March 2006 ake a look at our new gallery page. it contains links to images, movies, and sounds highlighting our work.
22 April 2006 Andrea Dekrout has won the best student oral presentation at the Australasian Bat Research Conference held recently in Auckland. Andrea’s talk was entitled “One sex in the city? Early indications of an extreme sex bias in the use of city habitats in Hamilton New Zealand and the ecology of long-tailed bats (Chalinolobus tuberculatus) at an urban-rural interface”.