A big congratulations to Christine Madliger who recently published her paper entitled “Assessing baseline stress physiology as an integrator of environmental quality in a wild avian population: implications for use as a conservation biomarker” in Biological Conservation with co-authors Dr. Christina Semeniuk and Chris Harris. The paper outlines the complexities of using baseline glucocorticoids as a practical biomarker of large-scale environmental variation using tree swallows as a model. Well done Christine!