Sara Mechael in a freeze-frame from her prize-winning video.
Four graduate students from the UWindsor Faculty of Science won prizes in NSERC’s Science Action video contest.
This photo by UWindsor’s Katrina Switzer and Lincoln Savi will be displayed this week in the new Essex Centre of Research as part of a travelling exhibition of finalists in the 2017 Science Exposed contest sponsored by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
The new Essex Centre of Research will house an exhibition this week of 20 finalists from NSERC’s 2017 Science Exposed photo contest.
PhD student Katrina Switzer’s minute-long video on yellow toads is one of six University of Windsor entries to be ranked among the 40 best research videos in Canada.
Six UWindsor entrants are hoping to improve in their ranking among the 40 best in a national video contest on graduate research.
UWindsor biological sciences PhD student Katrina Switzer is working with 3D-printed yellow toads in the forests of Costa Rica to see how females choose among similarly coloured males.
When the rains eventually blanket northwest Costa Rica, ushering in the country’s wet season, a booming chorus of yellow toads will fill the tropical forest.
And the moment that rain starts to fall, UWindsor’s Katrina Switzer will race to a pond in Santa Rosa National Park where she’ll match 3D printed “Robotoads” with unsuspecting mates.
“The Neotropical Yellow Toads have a large breeding event that really only happens once a year during the first massive rainfall,” Switzer explained, adding the rain usually starts falling in the middle of the night.
