Senior Research Associate<\/em> Researcher in the Center for Avian Population Studies, Cornell Lab of Ornithology<\/strong> Research Associate, Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, University of Montana Research Associate, Kluane Snowshoe Hare project, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia Postdoctoral Researcher<\/strong>\u00a0(1990\u20131993) PhD<\/strong> (1985\u20131990) MSc<\/strong> (1984\u20131985) BSc<\/strong> First Class Honours (1980\u20131984) Fellow, American Ornithologists’ Union<\/strong> Elective Member, American Ornithologists’ Union<\/strong> NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship<\/strong> NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship<\/strong> NSERC Undergraduate Summer Research Award<\/strong> William Rowan Memorial Price<\/strong> (as committee member; my position does not allow supervision of graduate students)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Collin Edwards<\/strong> Holly L. Lutz<\/strong> Ryan Germain<\/strong> Sarah L. States<\/strong> Avian Abundance Estimation Across the Pacific Flyway for Full Life-cycle Conservation Planning<\/strong> Ecological drivers of virulence evolution in an emerging avian pathogen<\/strong> BirdCast: novel machine learning methods for understanding continent-scale bird migration<\/strong> Finding interesting patterns through analysis of complex prediction models<\/strong> Community dynamics of an emergent pathogen: intrinsic versus extrinsic mechanisms<\/strong> Tracking environmental change through the data resources of the bird-monitoring community<\/strong> Wesley M. Hochachka Senior Research AssociateCornell Lab of Ornithology159 Sapsucker Woods RdIthaca, NY, 14850, U.S.A. Academic Positions Researcher in the Center for Avian Population Studies, Cornell Lab of Ornithology \u2003Senior Research Associate (2006\u2013present)\u2003Research Associate (1998\u20132006) Research Associate, Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit, University of Montana\u2003(1996\u20131998) Research Associate, Kluane Snowshoe Hare project, Department of Zoology, University… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":19,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_birdpress_hero_toggle":false,"_birdpress_hero_type":"image","_birdpress_hero_image_type":"image","_birdpress_hero_style":"default","_birdpress_hero_ratio":"","_birdpress_hero_h1":"","_birdpress_hero_media_id":0,"_birdpress_hero_media_array_id":[],"_birdpress_hero_media_array":[],"_birdpress_hero_media":0,"_birdpress_hero_video_id":0,"_birdpress_hero_video":0,"_birdpress_hero_youtube":"","_birdpress_hero_content":true,"_birdpress_hero_byline":"","_birdpress_hero_byline_bottom":"","_birdpress_hero_button_link":"","_birdpress_hero_button_text":"","_birdpress_hero_button_color":"","_birdpress_hero_date":false,"original_guid":"","_birdpress_hide_search":false,"_birdpress_page_width":"","_birdpress_global_cta":false,"_birdpress_widget_sidebar":"","_birdpress_next_article":0,"_birdpress_next_article_title":"","_birdpress_prev_article":0,"_birdpress_prev_article_title":"","_birdpress_sub_navigation_id":0,"_birdpress_sub_navigation":"","_birdpress_sub_navigation_title":false,"_birdpress_anchor_navigation_id":0,"_birdpress_anchor_navigation":"","_birdpress_postType":"both","_birdpress_categoryID":0,"_birdpress_tagID":0,"_birdpress_parentPostID":0,"_birdpress_parentPostTitle":"","_birdpress_menuID":0,"_birdpress_menuName":"","_birdpress_listHeader":"","_birdpress_listLayout":"card-display","_birdpress_listColumns":"","_birdpress_maxItems":12,"_birdpress_listPaginate":true,"_birdpress_displaySort":true,"_birdpress_sortOrder":"DESC","_birdpress_sortBy":"date","_birdpress_listID":"","_birdpress_listClass":"","_birdpress_displayImages":true,"_birdpress_displayCaptions":false,"_birdpress_displayExcerpts":false,"_birdpress_attTop":"","_birdpress_attBottom":"","_birdpress_showLogos":false,"_birdpress_post_logo":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-131","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/hochachka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/hochachka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/hochachka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/hochachka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/hochachka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/hochachka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/131\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/hochachka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/hochachka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
159 Sapsucker Woods Rd
Ithaca, NY, 14850, U.S.A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nAcademic Positions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\u2003Senior Research Associate (2006\u2013present)
\u2003Research Associate (1998\u20132006)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/strong>\u2003(1996\u20131998)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/strong>\u2003(1993\u20131995)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nEducation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\u2003Division of Life Sciences, Scarborough campus, University of Toronto<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2003Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia
\u2003thesis title: Determinants of fitness in an insular population of Song Sparrows<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2003Department of Zoology, University of Alberta
\u2003thesis title: The effect of food availability on Black-billed Magpie reproduction<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2003Department of Zoology, University of Alberta<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nProfessional Recognitions & Awards<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\u2003(2014)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2003(2009)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2003(1990\u20131992)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2003(1984\u20131989)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2003(1983, 1984)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2003Department of Zoology, University of Alberta (1983)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nGraduate Student Mentoring <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\u2003PhD candidate, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
\u2003(defended)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2003PhD, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
\u2003(defended 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2003PhD Faculty of Forestry, UBC
\u2003(defended 2015)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2003PhD, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
\u2003(defended 2012)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nFunded Grant Applications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\u2003co-PI with with Steve Kelling (Cornell), Daniel Fink (Cornell)
\u2003NASA Ecological Forecasting for Conservation and Natural Resource Management program
\u2003grant #12-ECOF12-0009 (2013\u2013present)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2003Cornell co-PI with Dana Hawley (NIH PI: Virginia Tech), Andr\u00e9 Dhondt (Cornell), Steve Geery (UConn), Andy Dobson (Princeton), David Ley (NC State University), Meghan May (U. of New England)
\u2003NIH\/NSF Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases program
\u2003NIH grant #1R01GM105245 (2012\u2013present)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2003co-PI with Steve Kelling (lead-PI: Cornell), Andrew Farnsworth (Cornell), Thomas Dietterich (lead PI: Oregon State University)
\u2003NSF Information and Intelligent Systems program
\u2003NSF grant #IIS-1125098 (2011\u20132016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u20132009)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2003co-PI with A.A. Dhondt, I.J. Lovette, E. Cooch, G. Kollias (all Cornell), and A.P. Dobson (Princeton)
\u2003NSF Ecology of Infectious Diseases (EID) program
\u2003award #EF-0622705 (2006\u20132010)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2003co-PI with S. Kelling, R. Caruana, M. Riedewald, and J. Fitzpatrick (Cornell Lab of Ornithology & Computing Sciences Department)
\u2003NSF Information Technology Research (ITR) for National Priorities program
\u2003grant #EF-0427914 (2004\u20132007)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"