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Wesley M. Hochachka
senior research associate
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
159 Sapsucker Woods Rd
Ithaca, NY, 14850, U.S.A.
Academic Positions
- Assistant Director of the Bird Population Studies program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- Cornell Senior Research Associate (2006–present)
- Cornell Research Associate (1998–2006)
- research associate, Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, University of Montana
- (1996–1998)
- research associate, Kluane Snowshoe Hare project, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia
- (1993–1995)
Education
- Post-doctoral researcher (1990–1993)
- Division of Life Sciences, Scarborough campus, University of Toronto
- PhD (1985–1990)
- Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia
- thesis title: Determinants of fitness in an insular population of Song Sparrows
- MSc (1984–1985)
- Department of Zoology, University of Alberta
- thesis title: The effect of food availability on Black-billed Magpie reproduction
- BSc First Class Honours (1980–1984)
- Department of Zoology, University of Alberta
Professional Recognitions & Awards
- Fellow, American Ornithologists’ Union
- (2014)
- Elective Member, American Ornithologists’ Union
- (2009)
- NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship
- (1990–1992)
- NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship
- (1984–1989)
- NSERC Undergraduate Summer Research Award
- (1983, 1984)
- William Rowan Memorial Price
- Department of Zoology, University of Alberta (1983)
Graduate Student Mentoring (as committee member; my position does not allow supervision of graduate students)
- Collin Edwards
- PhD candidate, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- (in progress)
- Holly L. Lutz
- PhD, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- (defended 2016)
- Ryan Germain
- PhD Faculty of Forestry, UBC
- (defended 2015)
- Sarah L. States
- PhD, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- (defended 2012)
Funded Grant Applications
- Avian Abundance Estimation Across the Pacific Flyway for Full Life-cycle Conservation Planning
- co-PI with with Steve Kelling (Cornell), Daniel Fink (Cornell)
- NASA Ecological Forecasting for Conservation and Natural Resource Management program
- grant #12-ECOF12-0009 (2013–present)
- Ecological drivers of virulence evolution in an emerging avian pathogen
- Cornell co-PI with Dana Hawley (NIH PI: Virginia Tech), André Dhondt (Cornell), Steve Geery (UConn), Andy Dobson (Princeton), David Ley (NC State University), Meghan May (U. of New England)
- NIH/NSF Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases program
- NIH grant #1R01GM105245 (2012–present)
- BirdCast: novel machine learning methods for understanding continent-scale bird migration
- co-PI with Steve Kelling (lead-PI: Cornell), Andrew Farnsworth (Cornell), Thomas Dietterich (lead PI: Oregon State University)
- NSF Information and Intelligent Systems program
- NSF grant #IIS-1125098 (2011–2016)
- Finding interesting patterns through analysis of complex prediction models
- co-PI with Mirek Riedewald (lead PI: Northeastern University), Daniel Fink (Cornell), and Steven Kelling (Cornell)
- NSF Information Integration and Informatics-Contextual Research program
- SGER grant #III-CXT-6635426 (2007–2009)
- Community dynamics of an emergent pathogen: intrinsic versus extrinsic mechanisms
- co-PI with A.A. Dhondt, I.J. Lovette, E. Cooch, G. Kollias (all Cornell), and A.P. Dobson (Princeton)
- NSF Ecology of Infectious Diseases (EID) program
- award #EF-0622705 (2006–2010)
- Tracking environmental change through the data resources of the bird-monitoring community
- co-PI with S. Kelling, R. Caruana, M. Riedewald, and J. Fitzpatrick (Cornell Lab of Ornithology & Computing Sciences Department)
- NSF Information Technology Research (ITR) for National Priorities program
- grant #EF-0427914 (2004–2007)