The Hamel Lab

Evora AJ*, Cocroft RB, Madhusudhana S, Hamel JA. 2024. Vibe-Py: An open-source tool for conducting high-fidelity vibrational playbacks. Invited submission. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata. 00: 1–8. doi: 10.1111/eea.13500. (journal website) (Open access)

Kernan CE, Symes LB, Robillard T, Martinson SJ, Dong J, Hamel JA, ter Hofstede HM. 2024. Levels of airborne sound and substrate-borne vibration calling are negatively related across Neotropical false-leaf katydids. Integrative and Comparative Biology. icae025. doi: 10.1093/icb/icae025 (journal website)

Cruz L, Vandermaas-Peeler M, Hall EE, Allocco AL, Patch K, Hamel JA, McLaughlin J. 2023. Mentoring undergraduate research in global contexts (MUR-GC): An integrated model. New Directions for Teaching and Learning. 2023, 29–39. doi: 10.1002/tl.20556 (journal website)

Greenway G, Hamel JA, and Miller CW. 2022. A tangled web: comparing inter- and intraspecific mating dynamics in Anasa squash bugs. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 35(1):91-99. doi: 10.1111/jeb.13965 (journal website)

Vandermaas-Peeler M, Hall E, Ketcham C, Allocco AL, Idriss M, Hamel JA, Marshall DJ. 2022. An ecological model of mentoring undergraduate research in global contexts. Mentoring and Tutoring. doi: 10.1080/13611267.2022.2031084 (journal website)

Greenway G, Hamel JA, and CW Miller. 2021. Exploring the effects of extreme polyandry on sexual selection and male reproductive success. Behavioral Ecology. doi: 10.1093/beheco/arab081 (journal website)

Hamel JA‡, ter Hofstede HM‡, Gauthier A, Lopatto D, Merton P, and D Vandermast. (‡ Contributed equally) 2021. Undergraduate research abroad: Shared themes in student learning from two models of undergraduate research in field biology study abroad courses. Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research. 5:1-13. doi: 10.18833/spur/5/1/11 (journal website)  (course details from this study)  (pre-departure survey from this study)  (post-departure survey from this study)

Sears M*, Barbosa F, and JA Hamel. 2020. Prolonged and variable copulation durations in a promiscuous insect species: no evidence of reproductive benefits for females. Behavioral Processes. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2020.104189 (journal website)

Hamel JA and RB Cocroft. 2019. Maternal vibrational signals reduce the risk of attracting eavesdropping predators. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 7:204. (journal website)

Hamel JA, Eskeland EE*, Lehmann T*, and Stover P*. 2018. Reproductive costs for hybridizing female Anasa tristis (Hemiptera: Coreidae), but no evidence of selection against interspecific mating. Journal of Insect Science. 18(4). (journal website)

Hamel JA, S Nease*, and CW Miller. 2015. Male mate choice and female receptivity lead to reproductive interference. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 69(6):951-956. (journal website)

Miller CW, JA Hamel, KD Holmes*, WL Helmey-Hartman, and D Lopatto. 2013. Expanding your research team: learning gains when a laboratory partners with a classroom. BioScience 63(9):754-762. (PDF).

Hamel JA and RB Cocroft. 2012. Negative feedback from maternal signals reduces false alarms by collectively signalling offspring. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 279:3820-3826. (PDF).

Hamel, JA. 2009. Anaxyrus americanus. (American toad). Egg cannibalism. Herpetological Review 40 (1):67-68. (PDF).

Petranka JW, EM Harp, CT Holbrook, & JA Hamel. 2007. Long-term persistence of amphibian populations in a restored wetland complex. Biological Conservation 138: 371–380. (journal website).

Reynolds BC, J Hamel, Isbanioly J, Klausman L & KK Moorhead. 2007. From forest to fen: Microarthropod abundance and litter decomposition in a Southern Appalachian floodplain/fen complex (USA). Pedobiologica 51: 273–280. (journal website).

BOOK CHAPTERS

S Madhusudhana, G Pavan, LA Miller, WL Gannon, A Hawkins, C Erbe, JA Hamel, JA Thomas. 2022. Choosing Equipment for Animal Bioacoustic Research. In: Exploring Animal Behavior Through Sound: Volume 1. Eds. Erbe, C., Thomas, J.A., Springer, Cham. (publisher website)

RB Cocroft, JA Hamel, Su, & J Gibson. 2014. Vibrational playback experiments: challenges and solutions. In: Studying Vibrational Communication. Eds. RB Cocroft, M Gogala, A Wessel, Springer. (publisher website)

RB Cocroft & JA Hamel. 2010. Vibrational communication in the “other” social insects: a diversity of ecology, signals, and signal functions. In: The Use of Vibrations in Communication: Properties, Mechanisms and Function across Taxa. Ed. CE O’Connell-Rodwell, Research Signpost.

POPULAR PRESS

Tim Forrest & Jen Hamel. 2016. Bug Camp: Where Every Day Is an Adventure. MoonDance Press. (publisher website)

MEDIA COVERAGE

August 2016: ELON Magazine Faculty Spotlight, by Katie DeGraffe, focused on Jen's research and mentoring insterests and described the Bug Camp book! Assistant Professor Jen Hamel advises us to take a close look at bugs

May 2015: Discover Magazine's Inkfish Blog, by Elizabeth Preston, featured our recent study on across-species mating! Why some bugs are attracted to the wrong species