Janis Dickinson
Director of Citizen Science at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
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Janis Dickinson is the Arthur A. Allen Director of Citizen Science at Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Associate Professor in the Department of Natural Resources at Cornell. Janis earned a B.S. in Biology from Binghamton University (1981) and a Ph.D. in Entomology/Animal Behavior at Cornell University (1981), studying the evolutionary ecology of insect mating systems. She made the taxonomic shift from butterflies and beetles to birds in 1988, embarking on a long-term study of the behavior and ecology of western bluebirds at UC Berkeley's Hastings Natural History |
| Reservation in upper Carmel Valley, California. During her eighteen years with Berkeley she used the western bluebird project as a model system for understanding the evolution of mating, parental, and dispersal behavior, sex ratio evolution, cooperative breeding, life history trait variation, and interactions within the bluebird-mistletoe-oak community. She has an ongoing relationship with the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley as a research associate and is a member of the graduate fields of Natural Resources and Neurobiology & Behavior at Cornell. Janis served for five years as a panelist for the National Science Foundation and has been active in the Animal Behavior Society (Membership chair) and the International Society for Behavioral Ecology (elected councilor). She was elected a Fellow of the American Ornithologist's Union in 2003 and returned to Cornell to join the staff of CLO in September 2005. |
