Jason Mobley
Acting Director of Education at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
 | Jason Mobley is the Acting Director of the Education program, head Instructor of the Home Study Course in Bird Biology (HSC), and a Research Associate at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Jason completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Kansas (BA 1994) and received his Ph.D. in Integrative Biology from the University of California at Berkeley in 2002. Jason completed his doctorate at Berkeley in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology exploring the systematic relationships and evolution of nest building behavior in a group of tyrant |
| flycatchers (Aves: Tyrannidae) known collectively as the 'Kingbirds and their Allies'. Jason formally joined the Lab as the HSC instructor in January 2003 and has served as Acting Director of the Education program since January 2005. One of Jason's ongoing initiatives is to combine his background in the practice of formal scientific inquiry and classroom based instruction with his interest in interactive learning and conservation outreach techniques to transform the HSC into a model web-based distance learning experience. Jason specializes in Neotropical birds, maintains broad research interests in phylogenetics, comparative methods, historical ecology, biogeography, speciation, migration, and breeding biology. Jason's field research has taken him from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, California, and Arizona to Puerto Rico, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil. |