"A good herpetologist gets you excited about herps, a good scientist gets you excited about the process of discovery, and a good mentor makes you feel like you belong doing all the above. Somehow, Alison has struck the perfect balance of doing all three."
When a U-M-led research team found last year that N. American migratory birds have been getting smaller and that their wings have gotten a bit longer, the scientists wondered if they were seeing the fingerprint of earlier spring migration.
