Congratulations to Dr. Rivers Ingersoll
Rivers
Ingersoll successfully defended his PhD thesis, submitted all his chapters to excellent journals, and recently got hooded during commencement. In his research, he invented
a new instrument to make the first direct measurements of the aerodynamic force
that hummingbirds and nectar bats generate to hover and drink nectar on the
wing. He went to Costa Rica to make recordings on 20 species, a study that
included over 100 bird and bat individuals, the most extensive and revealing study
of the biomechanics of hovering vertebrates till date. The study earned him a
honorable mention from the SICB division of Comparative Biomechanics earlier
this year. Now Rivers moved on to make waves in industry. Congrats on all the
successes and accomplishments from everyone in the lab!
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