Former Postdoctoral Fellows

Çağlar Akçay (2011–2013)

Research focus: Behavioral ecology of western bluebirds (specifically, vocal communication, kin and individual recognition)
Affiliated Lab program: Citizen Science
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Marcelo Araya-Salas (2016-2018)

Research focus: Role of social learning in shaping vocal signals at different evolutionary scales
Affiliated Lab program: Macaulay Library
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Brian Barringer (2011–2012)

Research focus: Oak Ecology
Affiliated Lab program: Bird Population Studies
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Lilly Briggs (2016-2019)

Research focus: Environmental Education & Citizen Science
Affiliated Lab program: Education & Citizen Science
Finca Cántaros
The Children’s Forest of Coto Brus

Mike Burns (2019-2022)

Research focus:
Affiliated Lab program: Evolutionary Biology
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Leonardo Campagna (2013–2016)

Research focus: Processes that generate and maintain avian biodiversity
Affiliate Lab program: Evolutionary Biology
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Matt Carling (2008–2011)

Research focus: genomics of avian hybridization
Affiliated Lab program: Evolutionary Biology
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Nancy Chen (2014–2015)

Research focus: population genomics, quantitative genetics, conservation genomics
Affiliated Lab program: Evolutionary Biology
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Aurélie Coulon (2006–2008)

Research focus: Landscape Genetics and Conservation
Affiliated Lab program: Evolutionary Biology
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Dolly Crawford (2010–2012)

Research focus: Conservation and management of the Golden-winged Warbler
Affiliated program : Conservation Science
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Anastasia Dalziell (2014–2017)

Research focus: The function and evolution of integrated song and dance displays in the Superb Lyrebird.
Affiliated Lab program: Macaulay Library
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Ashley Dayer (2013–2015)

Research focus: conservation social science and private lands
Affiliated Lab program: Conservation Science
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Roi Dor (2008–2011)

Research focus: avian phylogenomics and adaptation
Affiliated Lab program: Evolutionary Biology
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Jenélle Dowling (2015–2016)

Research focus: Evolution of avian vocal communication in response to social and physical environment.
Affiliate Lab program: Bioacoustics
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Elise Ferree (2007–2010)

Research focus: Breeding behavior in Western Bluebirds
Affiliated Lab program: Janis Dickinson and Evolutionary Biology
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Alexandra Class Freeman (2014–2016)

Research focus: Developing materials to educate, pique interest, and advocate for active public participation in bird conservation.
Affiliate Lab program: Education

Ryan Germain (2017-2019)

Research focus: Sexual selection, environmental variation, breeding ecology
Affiliated Lab program: Macaulay Library
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Camila Gomez (2018-2021)

Research focus:
Affiliated Lab program: Avian Population Studies
SELVA

Emma Grieg (2010–2013)

Research focus: Behavioral ecology, acoustic communication, evolution
Affiliated Lab program: Macaulay Library
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Stephanie Harris (2021-2022)

Research focus:
Affiliated Lab program: Avian Population Studies
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Daniela Hedwig (2016–2018)

Research focus: Using passive acoustic monitoring to investigate elephant abundance and activity; develop a warning system to mitigate human-elephant conflict and support anti-poaching patrols; investigate the function of forest elephant vocalizations
Affiliated Lab Program: Elephant Listening Project

Daniel Hooper (2017-2019)

Research focus: Avian speciation and sex chromosome evolution
Affiliated Lab program: Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program
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Kyle Horton (2017-2019)

Research focus: Radar ornithology
Affiliated Lab program: Information Science/BirdCast
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Allison Injaian (2018–2020)

Research focus: Impacts of noise and light pollution on avian behavior and physiology
Affiliated Lab program: Conservation Bioacoustics
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Alison Johnston (2013–2014)

Research focus: Developing and applying statistical models to large-scale ecological patterns using eBird data
Affiliated Lab program: Information Science/eBird
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Sara Kaiser (2013–2014)

Research focus: Ecological and evolutionary implications of behavior
Affiliated program: Macaulay Library
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Lincoln Larson (2012–2014)

Research focus: Human dimensions of natural resource management
Affiliated Lab program: Bird Population Studies
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Alexander Lees (2015–2016)

Research focus: Patterns of taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional diversity and establishment of conservation priorities throughout the Amazon basin.
Affiliated Lab program: Conservation Science
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Russell Ligon (2015–2020)

Research focus: Evolutionary elaboration of ornamentation in the birds-of-paradise
Affiliated Lab program: Macaulay Library
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Victoria (Vicki) Martin (2017-2019)

Research focus: Environmental social science, science communication, citizen science, human behavior
Affiliated Lab program: Citizen Science
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Sabrina McNew (2018-2022)

Research focus:
Affiliated Lab program: Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program
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Eliot Miller (2016–2018)

Research focus: Foraging behavior, patterns of diversification, and adaptations to novel environment
Affiliated Lab program: Citizen Science
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Bret Pasch (2014–2016)

Research focus: Ecology and mechanisms of animal acoustic communication
Affiliated Lab program: Macaulay Library
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