Ph.D.
student in Organismic
and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst
(I
am on the right, Justin Schuetz is on the left)
I
am interested in how individual decisions affect population-level patterns
(behavioral ecology),
and how population-level
patterns affect the fate of lineages (evolutionary ecology).
Previous work:
o Tree
Swallow (Tachycineta
bicolor)
life history, dispersal, and singing behavior with David W. Winkler
o Brood
parasitism in African finches (Estrilda
astrild and Vidua
chalybeata ) with Justin G. Schuetz
Current work:
o The
ecological role of post-juvenile song learning in Tree Swallows. with Jeff Podos
o Physiological
constraints on timing of breeding in Tree Swallows. with Wink
o A
phylogeny of hexapods
using 3 genes (COXI, ef1- a, and 18S) from all hexapod taxa in Genbank. with Benjamin Normark