Postdoc news
Starting Jan 2012:
Assistant professor (Urban Ecologist) in the Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology at UC Davis.
May 2011:
Manuscript describing the fitness consequences of injury for American Crows in press in Journal of Field Ornithology.
April 2011:
Manuscript describing the responses of Black-throated Blue Warblers to climate change in review in Global Change Biology. Hear more about the relationship between people and American Crows on Wyoming Public Radio.
March 2011:
Comparative phylogeography of endemic birds of Hispaniola, first-authored by my former honors student, Nick Sly, published in Molecular Ecology.
February 2011:
Paper describing the genetic mating system of endangered Florida Scrub-jays in different landscapes in print in Behavioral Ecology.
January 2011:
Paper describing the over-wintering age- and sex-ratios of Bicknell’s Thrush, a species of special concern, accepted in The Wilson Journal of Ornithology.
August 2010:
Elected to the council of the Association of Field Ornithologists.
July 2010:
Beginning an NSF Biological Informatics Postdoctoral fellowship, with co-sponsors at the Smithsonian Institution and Cornell University. I will examine the behavioral and climatic drivers of population dynamics in migratory songbirds.
June 2010:
Paper describing phylogeography of the Hispaniolan Phaenicophilus Palm-tanagers, one of which is endemic to Haiti and critically endangered, in print in Conservation Genetics.
May 2010:
Paper describing the proximate factors predisposing inbred crows to disease in print in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
April 2010:
Learn about inbreeding in the American Crow and how to interpret the behavior of your neighborhood crows in the latest online edition of BirdScope.
March 2010:
Paper describing diseases in a wild populations of American Crows in print in Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigations.
January 2010:
Paper on the conservation genetics of Hispaniolan Olive-throated Parakeet accepted in the Caribbean Journal of Science.
December 2009:
Paper describing the direct benefits and genetic costs of extrapair paternity in print in American Naturalist.
Selected to speak in the Young Professional plenary session at the 2010 joint meeting of the Cooper Ornithological Society, the American Ornithologists’ Union, and the Society of Canadian Ornithologists. The Young Professional Award recognizes early-career ornithological researchers for their outstanding contributions to ornithology.
September 2009: Paper on introduced predators and predation of migratory songbirds in print in Condor.
August 2009: Beginning postdoc appointment to 1) examine mating tactics of threatened Florida Scrub-Jays and 2) complete a comparative phylogeography of Hispaniolan endemic birds