Ottar Bjornstad Lab

Population ecology and population dynamics with particular emphasis on mathematical and computational aspects

News and Announcements

Mooofins just out of the oven -- they could win first place in a national new food product-development competition.

'Mooofins' carry food product-development team into national finals

May 17, 2013

The Penn State Product Development team, a group of students in the food science department, recently was named one of three finalists in the Dairy Research Institute New Product Competition.

Periodical cicadas, sometimes mistakenly called 17-year locusts, are native to North America and exist nowhere else in the world.

Mysterious insect to emerge in parts of Pennsylvania

May 8, 2013

One of the world's most mysterious insects is about to invade the skies over wooded areas in eastern Pennsylvania and other states, but an expert in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences says it's not a cause for alarm. Residents of 17 Pennsylvania counties soon will see an emergence of periodical cicadas, commonly but mistakenly called 17-year locusts.

Mike Lohr, who graduated in 2005 with a degree in Wildlife and Fisheries Science, poses with a native Hawaiian sea bird. He is trying to protect their threatened populations from predators. It's the kind of work he always wanted to do, he said.

Student Stories: 'Bird scientist' does unique work in Hawaii

May 8, 2013

Mike Lohr early on knew exactly what he wanted to be. When he was a kid, he called it a "bird scientist." Now he knows the proper title is avian ecologist. The 2005 Penn State alumnus currently is involved in a groundbreaking conservation project at the Ka'ena Point Coastal Reserve in Hawaii.

CV & Biography

Ottar Bjornstad, Ph.D.

Professor of Entomology, Biology, and Statistics

515 ASI Building
University Park, PA 16802

Email: onb1@psu.edu

Phone: 814-863-2983