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Numerous additional Lab staff have provided guidance, support, and answered student questions over the last 30 years. Most recently, HSC assistance has been provided by Dr. John Fitzpatrick, Dr. Ken Rosenberg, Dr. Andre Dhondt, Dr. Jason Mobley, and Charles Eldermire.

eCornell staff are responsible for all online exam-related aspects of the course. Please contact them for technical assistance: http://www.ecornell.com/help

To contact HSC staff, email hstudy@cornell.edu, or call 607-254-2452.


 



Megan Whitman
Project Leader

Megan oversees all course-related activities, including the revision of the next edition of the Handbook and the development of a new series of online courses. She earned her B.A. in Biology and Spanish from Earlham College where she first became interested in birds. After graduating she spent a number of years as an avian field biologist working in the U.S. and Central America. She earned her M.S. in Environmental Science at the University of Rhode Island where she studied ways of measuring changes in body composition of birds during migration.


 

KevinMcGowan


Kevin J. McGowan, Ph.D.
Course Instructor

Kevin is in charge of day-to-day course operations including answering student questions. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Zoology from the Ohio State University and a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of South Florida, where he studied the social development of Florida Scrub-Jays. He came to Cornell University in 1988 as curator of the Ornithology and Mammalogy collections in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. He moved to the Lab in 2001. He helped create the All About Birds web site and wrote the Bird Guide section. He just finished co-editing and writing much of the recently published book, The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in New York State.