“If one advances confidently in the direction of [her] dreams, and endeavors to live the life in which [she] has imagined, [she] will meet with success unimagined in more common hours.” -Thoreau, in Walden.
Amanda during her final thesis seminar
Congratulations to Amanda Gallinat for the successful defense of her doctoral dissertation “Effects of climate change and species invasions on autumn phenology and bird-fruit interactions in Massachusetts, USA.” Amanda’s thesis was notable for the strong connections between successive chapters, and her large number of collaborators and co-authors both at BU and elsewhere in the USA and internationally. Also, the first chapter of the thesis, “Autumn, the neglected season in climate change research” has already been published in the high-impact journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution. And the second chapter on using herbarium specimens to monitor fruiting phenology was accepted for publication in the American Journal of Botany two hours before the defense; great timing!
Amanda with her committee members after her successful defense!
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