Aimee Van Tatenhove
Science News ReporterAimee Van Tatenhove is a science reporter at UPR. She spends most of her time interviewing people doing interesting research in Utah and writing stories about wildlife, new technologies and local happenings. She is also a PhD student at Utah State University, studying white pelicans in the Great Salt Lake, so she thinks about birds a lot! She also loves fishing, skiing, baking, and gardening when she has a little free time.
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Last weekend, volunteers braved the winter cold to count birds for Bridgerland Audubon’s 68th annual Christmas Bird Count, joining Audubon chapters across the country to track bird populations. -
December’s USU Ecology Center seminars focused on how the U.S. Forest Service is changing the way they engage stakeholders in landscape management. -
Native and youth groups gathered on the steps of the Utah Capitol Building on Saturday to call for increased protections for Great Salt Lake. -
Author and soil microbe researcher Joshua Schimel will speak this week at Utah State University’s Ecology Center seminars on the Logan campus. -
USU hosted its first ever Science Story Slam, with exciting science-related tales from undergrads and graduate students. -
At a virtual press conference, the Utah Rivers Council announced new policy action guidelines to get more water into the shrinking Great Salt Lake. -
Federal infrastructure funding is helping Bonneville cutthroat trout conservation projects across the Bear River watershed. -
USU kicked off this semester’s monthly Ecology Center seminars with research on social aspects of environmental change. -
The Salt Lake City Council convened Tuesday to discuss a development plan for the 1500 acre Northpoint neighborhood at the southeastern tip of Great Salt Lake. -
Concerns over health impacts of toxic dust blowing off of Great Salt Lake’s exposed lake bed are growing as research continues to link air pollution to chronic disease and premature death.
