{"id":5,"date":"2016-05-19T14:54:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T18:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/hochachka\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2023-11-30T09:54:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T14:54:50","slug":"home-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/hochachka\/","title":{"rendered":"Wesley Hochachka &#8211; Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wesley Hochachaka<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>I am an ecologist whose research has mostly been on studies of birds\u2019 behavioural ecology, population ecology and evolution. Most of my current work falls under two themes: disease ecology and the interaction between a bacterial pathogen and its songbird host, and the use of citizen science to discover patterns and processes that shape bird species\u2019 distributions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, I have had the good fortune to work on a series of shorter projects, typically with students or postdocs here at Cornell, on a range of interesting topics. Much of this work involves the analyses of large, preexisting sets of data.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Two themes have characterized my training and research work: big data and collaboration. I have been working with ever larger data sets from my MSc research, which made use of 5 years of field data for an 18 month MSc thesis because I inherited the field component of a project on which I had started as an assistant, until now where the Cornell Lab of Ornithology\u2019s citizen-science data contain tens of millions of records. So, while I am an ecologist by training, I have had to become comfortable with the management and analysis of large sets of data.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group negative-margin-bottom is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-custom-content-position is-position-center-left\" style=\"min-height:371px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\"><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1922\" height=\"819\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-257 lazyload\" alt=\"\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/hochachka\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/banner_phylogeny.png\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/hochachka\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/banner_phylogeny.png 1922w, https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/hochachka\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/banner_phylogeny-720x307.png 720w, https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/hochachka\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/banner_phylogeny-768x327.png 768w, https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/hochachka\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/banner_phylogeny-1280x545.png 1280w, https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/hochachka\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/banner_phylogeny-1920x818.png 1920w, https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/hochachka\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/banner_phylogeny-480x205.png 480w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1922px) 100vw, 1922px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1922px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1922\/819;\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">I study disease ecology and evolution.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The bacteria causing eye disease in House Finches has evolved through time, with a single successful jump of hosts from domestic poultry to House Finches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Proc. 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