Danny Lough (M.S., Biology, ’17), WFU Biology Alumni from Dr. Miles Silman‘s lab, was featured in the Yadkin Valley Magazine’s September-October 2021 Issue. Lucky for the Yadkin Valley, Danny Lough earned a scholarship to Wake Forest University where he received his Masters degree. …Now as Davie County’s 4-H agent, Danny’s enthusiasm for the organization is…
The elevational gradient of flora in these forests is small, limiting species to a very narrow climatic range. “When we look at individual tree species, we can see them starting to shift themselves upslope,” said Dr. Miles Silman. In the past, cloud forests have been able to keep up with warming temperatures. But the climate…
Bob Buckley, reporter for My Fox News Channel 8, talked with Dr. Miles Silman about the research he has been doing with Wake Forest University’s Centro de Innovación Científica Amazónica (CINCIA) to reduce illegal gold mining and protect the Peruvian rain forest. We think of organisms out in the wild as just adornments – you…
Wake Forest University’s Centro de Innovación Científica Amazónica (CINCIA) has received $2.14 million in additional funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). We’re connecting what we do at the university – using the foundations of a liberal arts education to put science to its practical uses and make a difference in the real…
The documentary series “Now What” with Ryan Duffy, features the work of Max Messinger (BS 2013, MS 2015) and Professor Miles Silman in the Amazon. The piece follows Messinger’s work with drones in monitoring illicit gold mining in the Amazon and the scale of negative environmental impact these illegal activities have had. Messinger and Silman have worked…
Author Kerry King recently published an article on recent grad Cassie Freund. Cassie has recently become program director of the Gunung Palung Orangutan Conservation Program. Cassie cites Dr. Miles Silman and Dr. Ron Dimock as her most influential mentors at Wake. Cassie talks about what it is like working in the rainforest and the fascinating world…
By WILL FERGUSON Office of Communications and External Relations Victoria Erb stood in the back of the boat with her classmates and watched three sharks cut through the crystal clear water of Belize’s Great Blue Hole. The senior biology major then did the one thing the vast majority of people in this situation absolutely would not…
From the Charlotte Observer, Feb 9, 2014 by Reid Creager Sure, it resembles a spider on steroids. But a recently developed flying robot – soon to hover over the Peruvian cloud forest for the first time – has potential benefits for everyone. About a year and a half ago, a small team of Wake Forest…
Several news agencies have published stories recently about unique research conducted by Max Messinger and Miles Silman in the Department of Biology. Dr. Silman’s group is making use of “flying robots” to photograph and measure data from the forest canopy. Messinger is the local expert on how to turn these small multi-bladed helicopters into a…
An article focusing on the work of Miles Silman and his collaborators work on species diversity in the Amazon Rainforest was featured in UK news resource The Guardian. It references an important paper his group published in the journal, Science. Almost four hundred billion trees belonging to 16,000 different species grow in the Amazon, according…
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