Barry Bermudez
Marketing Manager
Bonnie Coffin
Financial Specialist
Daniel Fink
Research Associate Statistician
Daniel came to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in 2005 from the Department
of Statistical Science to work on the creation of the Avian Knowledge
Network. He works jointly with researchers at the Cornell Lab of
Ornithology and the Computer Science Department to develop models of
population abundance and distribution. His research centers on developing
highly adaptive, semi-parametric regression tools for challenging problems
in environmental and ecological sciences. Topics of interest include
hierarchical models, decision trees, data mining, and shrinkage estimation.
Tom Fredericks
Database Administrator
Tom first came to the Lab in 1997 as the Database Specialist for the then fledgling BirdSource group. He, together with Steve Kelling built the beginnings of what has grown into the Lab IS department. Prior to working at the Lab, he was a database manager and application developer at the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine.
Tom is responsible for database design and administration for the Lab of Ornithology's Bird Monitoring projects, working closely with co-DBA Tim Levatich to make up the Lab's Database Team. His database design projects include Project FeederWatch, eBird, The Great Backyard Bird Count, National Audubon's Christmas Bird Count, Birds in Forested Landscapes, and many others.
Jeff Gerbracht
Application Developer
Jeff has always had a very strong interest in natural history, which was encouraged by his family during their summer travels. His love of birds began when he was 9 and has continued ever since. His professional career has focused on project management and computer programming and his interest in ornithology and conservation led him to leave American Airlines and join the Lab as an application developer in 2001. He has developed several interactive GIS, data entry and analysis modules and applications for the Lab, including eBird, the Land Bird Monitoring Program and a Breeding Bird Atlas application. Jeff is currently developing a Citizen Science internet application to monitor and track the threatened Florida Scrub-Jay.
Marshall Iliff
eBird/AKN Project Leader
Marshall Iliff began birding at age 11 and has been birding obsessively ever since. After college he conducted several years of ornithological field work across the US and in Mexico, often working and traveling with Chris and Brian. He has worked on three state records committees, as North American Birds Regional Editor for two different regions on two different coasts, as well as on a number of other articles and books relating to birds, bird identification, and bird distribution. From 2000-2007 he was a full-time tour leader for Victor Emanuel Nature Tours, traveling across the United States and Canada, as well as through much of Central America and Mexico, and even as far as Kenya. Regretting his intermittent note taking through all those travels, he is making up for it now by entering whatever old checklists he can find into eBird!
Tim Lenz
eBird Application Programmer
Tim Lenz was born in Rochester, NY, spent 2nd through 5th grade in Ithaca, NY, and lived in Reno, NV until attending school at Cornell University. He first became interested in birds at the age of nine, when he demanded to go birding at Sapsucker Woods every weekend.
In Reno, Tim enjoyed downhill skiing, springboard diving, and computer games. He was two-time Nevada state diving champion and continued diving for Cornell as an undergraduate in the Engineering school. At Cornell, Tim realized there were other birders his age, so he became very active in the student birding club. He received a master's degree at Cornell in Computer Science in May 2004 and spent the summer in Reno working for an IT company that maps forest fires.
At the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Tim will be using Java technologies to upgrade and maintain the eBird website.
Tim Levatich
Database Administrator
Tim Levatich is a database designer and administrator at the Lab, assisting many departments and projects with a broad range of data management initiatives. His activities include the development of new databases and metadata publishing techniques for audio and video assets in the Macaulay Library, the management of the Lab's membership and bird monitoring databases, and the administration of our Oracle servers and data storage systems.
Tim came to the Lab in 2001 with data management experience in government, facilities administration, and the transportation industry, plus a strong interest and background in natural resource management. He is looking forward to the development of a scalable database infrastructure and metadata schemes that will allow the Lab to meet its data output demands from all people interested in birds and biodiversity.
Will Morris
Web/UI Designer
Will has been designing web sites and user interfaces for over ten years. He is responsible for the usability and visual design of Information Science sites and applications.
Stacy Oborn
Managing Editor
Stacy came from the land of humanities, liberal and fine arts to join ranks in the IS department at the Lab of Ornithology. Prior to her life at Cornell, she enjoyed an academic career focused on international literature, contemporary art theory and practice, and life as a working photographer and educator. In her free time she enjoys traveling to see art exhibits, writing essays on art and aesthetics on her website, reading and looking widely at the world around her.
At the Lab, Stacy serves as Managing Editor for the Birds of North America Online. She is the person responsible for making sure new content (in the forms of species articles and rich media) gets added to the database in a consistent and careful manner, and is the person to contact if you find any errors in the information or in its usability. She also often serves as the bridge in communication between her overtly technically-inclined colleagues in IS and the rest of the world, in as much as she is able to translate between the two.
Alan Poole
Editor, The Birds of North America
Alan Poole edits the Birds of North America (BNA) Online -- an 18 volume compendium on the life histories of North American birds. Initiated in 1991 as a print series, and completed in 2002, BNA is now an online project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, where Alan is a senior research associate. He enjoys having one foot in science and another in publishing, and takes great interest in the new world of online scholarly resources -- how they are used and how they are updated and maintained. Alan is also the author of Ospreys: a natural and unnatural history, published by Cambridge University Press in 1989.
Tom Schulenberg
Editor, Clements Checklist / Editor, Neotropical Birds
Brian Sullivan
eBird Project Leader
Brian Sullivan has conducted fieldwork on birds throughout North
America for the past twelve years. Birding travels and field projects
have taken him to Central and South America, to the Arctic and across
North America. He has written and consulted on various books, popular,
and scientific literature on North American birds. Research interests
include migration, conservation biology, seabirds, raptors and
field identification. He is currently eBird Project Leader.
Kevin Webb
Software Engineer
After considerable time spent relentlessly advancing corporate interests, Kevin is happy to be working at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology where his objective is the application of information science to facilitate discovery in conservation and biological sciences. He brings to the task a diverse set of knowledge and experience with beginnings in operations and manufacturing management, and most recently database centric software engineering. As much as he likes his work, he would much rather be outside with the birds.
Chris Wood
eBird Project Manager
Chris began birding at age five and still gets into the field enough to make
the rest of us jealous. His primary interests include bird distribution,
identification, vocalizations and conservation throughout the Americas. In
addition to his work at the Lab, Chris leads birding tours for WINGS to the
U.S., Canada, Mexico and Central America. He is a editor for the Colorado
and Wyoming region of North American birds and the departmental editor of
the BIRDING photo quiz, as well as the online photo quiz for the American Birding Association. He has
written and consulted on various books, popular, and scientific literature
on North American birds. Before coming to the Lab, Chris was a research
associate with Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory in Colorado. At the Cornell
Laboratory of Ornithology, Chris is the Project Leader for eBird.
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