About MeI am a behavioral ecologist and population geneticist. I am currently an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow in Biology and Fuller Fellow at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
I am also affiliated with the Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department at Cornell University and the Biology Department at University of Rochester. |
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Research
My research aims to understand the evolution and adaptive value of social behavior, using birds as a model group. My current work investigates sociality in superb starlings, a cooperatively breeding species found in East Africa. Previously, I have studied vocal communication in herring gulls and fairywrens.
Read more about my research here and check out the video below: a short piece on my PhD research produced by Cornell University students with support from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Read more about my research here and check out the video below: a short piece on my PhD research produced by Cornell University students with support from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Latest News
Students from the 2024 Field Ornithology class at Shoals Marine Lab presented a poster on the class project, Investigating diurnal effects and joint nest defense behavior in Herring Gulls, at the Wilson Ornithological Society's meeting at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA.
The manuscript from the class project by Field Ornithology 2024 at Shoals Marine Lab is now available online as a preprint: Investigating diurnal effects and and joint nest defense behavior in Herring Gulls.
The manuscript from the class project by Field Ornithology 2024 at Shoals Marine Lab is now available online as a preprint: Investigating diurnal effects and and joint nest defense behavior in Herring Gulls.
