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# Emery Lab

A place for insects

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## Pages

- [About me](https://saraemery.com/) - I’m an applied ecologist, with interests in agricultural entomology, biological control, integrated pest management and community ecology. I use a broad array of research methods, including large-scale field surveys, cage and lab experimentation, statistical ecology methods applied to large data sets (“big data”), and molecular methods to assess trophic links in agricultural insect communities. My
- [Opportunities](https://saraemery.com/opportunities/) - Graduate students interested in joining the Emery Lab are encouraged to contact me and apply to the Department of Entomology at Cornell University. Applications due annually in late autumn. Postdoctoral researchers interested in joining the Emery Lab are encouraged to contact me to discuss possibilities.
- [Publications](https://saraemery.com/publications/) - Emery, S., J. A. Rosenheim, R. Chaplin-Kramer, R. Sharp, D. Karp, 2024. Leveraging satellite observations to reveal ecological drivers of pest densities across landscapes. Science of the Total Environment. 924: 171591. Farmers have been struggling for decades to understand how landscapes affect pest control. The results are always so context dependent. We thought remotely sensed
- [Research](https://saraemery.com/research/) - Changes in within-year population patterns (climate change) There is a lot of discussion about the ways in which climate change can affect the timing of when a species becomes active in the spring. This had been closely examined in many tree species (monitoring when bud break occurs) and also with bird species (tracking the timing
- [Methods](https://saraemery.com/methods/) - Ecoinformatics, field work and molecular methods Predicting when and where crop pests are likely to outbreak is essential for reducing pesticide application rates. One thing we know is that pest populations are stochastic (they vary a lot in ways that are hard to predict). Ecologists have been calling for more and more data to try