Staff Directory

I collaborate with expert instructors and course developers to create educational videos about science and nature as part of Bird Academy, the Lab's online learning initiative.

I help lead the production efforts for eBird Status and Trends and the development of geovisualizations of these products for public engagement, science, and conservation.

I design the print layout for Living Bird, our quarterly membership magazine.

I am editorial director at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, where I oversee content strategy and production for the Cornell Lab’s online and print publications.

I manage NestWatch, the Lab's citizen-science project focused on nesting birds. The Cornell Lab has been monitoring nesting birds' reproductive success since the 1960s, and this long-term database is the nation's richest source of information on avian reproductive biology.

I am the program leader for the Cornell Land Trust Bird Conservation Initiative, and I help provide strategic planning, resources, and tools to advance the pace of land trust protection.

I design, implement, and evaluate programs and events that serve our regional community both here at the Visitor Center and off-site. My role is to engage volunteers and the public in the Lab's mission.

I study hybridization across five hybrid zones in the Great Plains: Indigo and Lazuli Buntings, Rose-breasted and Black-headed Grosbeaks, Eastern and Spotted Towhees, Baltimore and Bullock’s Orioles, and the yellow-shafted and red-shafted forms of Northern Flicker.

I work as a software engineer developing the Cornell Lab's Raven application.

I assist current and potential donors and members of the Lab with questions about their membership status, about making a donation, or renewing or giving a gift of membership.

I study the causes and consequences of elaborate coloration in birds using physiological, behavioral, and ecological studies.

I focus on developing the field of citizen science as a tool for science, conservation, and education.

In addition to supervising various citizen science programs, I'm an avian ecologist focused on mentoring undergraduate research, teaching field courses, and engaging the public in scientific research.

My work at the Lab focuses on engaging people across the globe in science, birds, and all of the amazing things that the Macaulay Library does. In a nutshell, I love writing and talking about all things bird and I am lucky enough to do just that every day.

I'm a marine acoustician that focuses on the automatic detection of whale signals in large datasets using AI and experiments on opportunistic ways to capture bioacoustic recordings.

I provide the strategic vision, editorial direction, and administrative and financial oversight for the Conservation Media program.

I support Development staff with projects and events, schedule team meetings and travel, and provide administrative support for the entire program. I also provide backup to the Cornell Lab’s Membership Program during busy season when necessary.

I am a research postdoctoral fellow at the Lab. I study why animals do what they do. Specifically, I am interested in how bird communication (both song and plumage) varies geographically, as well as spatial cognition and female mating decisions.

I work in content creation and new feature development for the Merlin Bird ID app.

I study how and why distantly related fishes have evolve to look very similar to one another. Specifically, I am looking at whether natural selection has caused South American and African freshwater fishes to evolve similar body shapes.

I use genomic tools to study the evolution of avian systems, generally in the early stages of speciation. I use similar strategies to understand the evolutionary processes that generate differences among species.

I work as a data visualization developer on the BirdCast project.

I am in charge of the team that works on all of our fundraising campaigns, as well as the folks who handle our customer service for the Cornell Lab's more than 120,000 donors and members around the world.

As a member of the Financial Affairs team, I provide support to our faculty, students and staff for contracts and other financial matters.

I work with the Web Communications team on the Cornell Lab's website, All About Birds, Merlin for the Web, and service the Lab's web needs.

I operate our research vessel and organize field work; mostly placing sound recording devices in the ocean.

I'm a software developer for the Swift Recorder project in the Cornell Lab's K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics group. I help expand the software functionality and deployment platforms for the Swift autonomous sound recorders.

I develop software and computer infrastructure used to manage content related to the life histories of birds.

I collaborate with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's staff, partners, and supporters to raise awareness of the Lab's mission and to grow the communities who join us to learn about birds and nature, advance science, and protect the natural world.

I study how and why animals listen to and produce sounds to communicate, navigate, find food, maintain social networks, and survive.

I manage the relationships between the Cornell Lab and our partners in the private sector.

My main research interests are primate behavior, ecology and conservation. I aim to develop tools that can be used to improve conservation efforts of vocal primates across the globe.

My research focuses on seabird ecology. Studying these birds can indicate how forage fish populations are responding to a changing environment. I use a range of genomic and field methods to study different aspects of seabird ecology, including metabarcoding of fecal samples and GPS tracking.

As a Course Developer, I create engaging content for the Bird Academy’s online courses. I write material for course pages and scripts for videos, and I design games for our audiences to enjoy, while expanding their knowledge about birds.

I facilitate and provide support for all aspects of media production from concept to archive.

My focus is on enhancing engagement and communication among eBird contributors, regional data editors, and our scientific partners. I work to develop resources to support and instruct eBirders and eBird reviewers alike; because an active, knowledgeable eBird community means more high-quality data for bird conservation!

I am responsible for management of the specimens housed in the Museum of Vertebrates and also assist with areas of regulatory compliance.

I am an applied quantitative ecologist, broadly interested in how we can improve our understanding and monitoring of biodiversity and ecosystem health in a changing world.

I develop educational materials, webinars and other online resources tailored to diverse communities. I also organize and facilitate educational workshops for educators, community leaders, and youth in Latin America and the United States.

I assist with producing Living Bird magazine and the All About Birds website, including writing, editing, research, fact-checking, and photo selection.

I design and coordinate bird-related research, and teach and supervise research of undergraduate and graduate students. I also collaborate with colleagues both at Cornell and elsewhere.

I work as the staff biological illustrator and graphics editor for Living Bird magazine as well as the Lovette Evolutionary Biology Lab.

I study the seasonal migrations of birds, and use weather radar networks as well as individual tags to address questions in migration ecology. I also develop software tools for biologists using weather radar as a tool in their research.

I build and maintain the Android version of the eBird Mobile App.

I have more than 20 years of high-level engineering experience in commercial and defense industries focused on applied analytical software development systems science.

I lead the Bird Cams project at the Cornell Lab.

I am responsible for the quality, safety, and availability of the entire Macaulay Library archive, and also provide engineering support, and am involved in lab wide workflows and storage solutions.

As a primate ecologist, I combine markers of organismal and habitat health with behavioral, ecological, and acoustic data to understand the impacts of environmental change and human disturbance on wild primate populations, primarily in Indonesia.

I use passive acoustic technology in the context of ecology and conservation. Most of my current research is focused on baleen whale spatiotemporal acoustic occurrence in anthropogenically active marine environments in order to better understand habitat use and inform management decisions.

I oversee the membership team that provides customer service to our members and donors. This team is also the group of data specialists to process memberships and donations that allows the Lab to be all that is can be.

I study bird migration both by physically observing birds and by using radar and acoustic remote sensing.

I help out with Project FeederWatch as a project assistant, and am involved in providing support for data entry on our website and in our mobile app, managing project social media pages, co-managing our email inboxes, and aiding the shipping processes for each project.

I work with the Lab's K-12 Education team to help educators support young people in getting outside, contributing to citizen science, and doing their own science investigations‚ all inspired by birds.

I help manage the bird collections here at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates. I love museums and the opportunities they provide to share knowledge about birds and biodiversity with others.

I help develop statistical models and data products to understand the broad-scale patterns of species' distributions using data from the citizen scientist project eBird.

As Executive Director of the Lab from 1995–2021, I oversaw all aspects of the Lab's affairs and conducted research as a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Since stepping down from the directorship in July 2021, I am still closely involved in Lab affairs, and I am active in a variety of research projects, including my long-term project on the Florida Scrub-Jay.

I am a marine ecologist who uses passive acoustics to understand communication behavior, and the impacts of marine resource management decisions on underwater ecosystems.

My job at the Cornell Lab is to design and manage the databases that hold participants' data for our Citizen Science projects.

I work with Project FeederWatch participants to ensure they have a smooth experience; this includes everything from troubleshooting problems, answering questions, shipping printed materials, and more.

I assist in the operation and maintenance of our internal and external facing IT systems.

I help support the Cornell Lab's financial needs.

I help run the eBird Help Center, answer questions related to eBird policy, and beta test new developments in the eBird Mobile app and website.

I develop a variety of web applications that engage the public with the Cornell Lab's mission and citizen science projects.

I am leading an initiative to revisit the sites of Frank Chapman's 1910 expedition to Colombia and to integrate historical and current data to evaluate changes in Colombian bird assemblages over the past 100 years.

I help design, build and maintain the Lab's Citizen Science program's websites and mobile apps for Celebrate Urban Birds, NestWatch and Project FeederWatch.

I help to keep Project FeederWatch and NestWatch moving smoothly by providing support for data entry, managing social media, responding to email, and helping participants enjoy their experience.

I manage Project FeederWatch, a program in which people who feed birds in their backyards send counts of those birds to the Lab, enabling long-term monitoring of populations.

I work with individuals who are interested in supporting the Cornell Lab's strategic goals and objectives.

I support the staff of the K. Lisa Yang Center for Bioacoustics and the Center for Engagement in Science and Nature.

I'm interested in the behavior, movement and life history of individual animals, and how this scales up to influence population dynamics. My current research at the Cornell Lab focuses on the population status of two bustard species, the African Houbara and the Asian Houbara. By combining GPS tracking, breeding monitoring, population surveys, and information on captive-bred-released birds, I'm developing models to understand the declines of these two species.

I am the assistant to Cornell Lab director John Fitzpatrick and the liaison to the Lab's administrative board.

I support the social research work of the Center for Engagement in Science & Nature.

I am a behavioral and conservation biologist who studies various functional aspects of mammalian vocal communication systems and how we can apply such information to improve current passive acoustic monitoring methods. While my research interests comprise diverse species, ranging from gorillas to manatees, I currently focus on the elusive African forest elephant.

I oversee content, create new courses, and provide creative direction for Bird Academy.

I direct the Coastal Solutions Fellows Program, with the main goal to build conservation capacity along the Pacific coast from Mexico to Chile for communities and shorebirds.

I support member and donor outreach, and assist in the coordination of the Lab's fundraising campaigns and initiatives.

I work as a research scientist at the Lab of Ornithology, mostly on studies that aim to identify why bird species live where they do.

I work with researchers to support outreach and education goals by creating illustrations for the Cornell Lab and its publications.

In my role as the Program Assistant for the Cornell Lab's Land Trust Bird Conservation Initiative, I develop outreach materials and resources that educate land trust organizations and private landowners on how they can collaborate with one another as well as use birds as a tool to strengthen their conservation efforts.

I help manage the eBird project, with a particular focus on data quality and review of our scientific output.

I am an application developer in Information Science focused mainly on eBird and Merlin.

I am the first mate on the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics research vessel, the R/V Jaeger, and help deploy and recover bioacoustic equipment in the field.

I research, document, and produce media that supports partnerships and conservation outcomes around the world. My role in the Cornell Lab spans pre-production partnership-building, story research and writing, field production logistics and cinematography.

I coordinate Project FeederWatch's print and email communications, help maintain the project's website, and help answer questions from participants.

I am a computer scientist working on algorithms that can identify birds by sound to help researchers monitor and protect our birds.

I direct the field-based, student research and training program in avian biology at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, mentor student research, teach field courses, and provide additional, year-round training opportunities through my research program in the Caribbean Islands and locally in central New York at a migration banding station that I am working to establish.

My role is to help institutions and keen birders find, purchase, and enjoy Birds of the World, a subscription-based online database containing more than 10,700 species accounts.

I provide customer support to the users of Birds of the World, a subscription-based online database containing over 10,000 species accounts (one for every bird in the world). My job is to ensure that anyone who needs or wants access to this one-of-a-kind resource gets it and that they continue to enjoy the valuable content it provides.

I am the managing editor for Birds of the World.

I work with supporters who want to make a planned gift to the Cornell Lab. I enjoy helping people create a legacy that expresses their love for birds and nature.

I tell conservation stories through media, specifically video production. I love the intersection of art and science, which to me, is exactly what conservation filmmaking is!

I enjoy welcoming people from all over the world to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and answering their questions either in person or by email.

I lead the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, where our team works on acoustic monitoring of wildlife, developing hardware and software for marine acoustic monitoring, and studying the impacts of anthropogenic noise on animals.

I work with Lab friends to garner the financial support that fuels our work to conserve birds and biodiversity.

I work on the design and production of the Swift acoustic recorder—a small terrestrial field recorder used for capturing the sounds of birds and other animals.

I manage the Cornell Lab's funding-focused outreach to most of its members, donors, and potential supporters.

I am a research ecologist whose work explores the macroecology, biogeography, and conservation of plants and birds with a special focus on migratory birds and global change.

I write software that enables people to contribute observations of bird populations and behavior in human-modified as well as natural environments.

I oversee the development and delivery of customized print and digital ad campaigns in Living Bird magazine and All About Birds website.

I am an associate publisher and book editor for the Cornell Lab Publishing Group. I collaborate with writers, illustrators, editors, and scientists to create products aimed to inspire an interest in birds for the novice, and also meet the exacting standards of serious birders.

I write articles and news releases about research conducted by Cornell Lab scientists, field hundreds of media inquiries each year, and connect reporters with relevant experts.

I work on the database servers at the Cornell Lab, which store and serve data for projects such as eBird, Project FeederWatch, the Macaulay Library, and others.

I help develop curricula for grades K-12 and professional development initiatives for teachers. Our goal is to support teachers in engaging students in inquiry-based science and outdoor experiences

My role is focused on developing, implementing, monitoring, evaluating and advancing strategic plans and activities that support the Center for Avian Population Studies and contribute to the mission, overall goals, and objectives of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

I work on the eBird Status and Trends team which produces modeled data and maps of bird abundance and year-to-year trends across the entire Western Hemisphere. My role is to support scaling this process up towards the goal of analyzing all 10,000 bird species across the entire globe and extending the software and processes to work in multiple compute environments as well as troubleshooting any computing issues we run into.

I'm a producer and cinematographer capturing images and sharing stories of the world's birds and the remarkable people working to study and conserve them.

I use my training in evolutionary and conservation biology to research and produce visual media for bird and habitat conservation.

I shape the development of new eBird features in their earliest design phases, working with developers and project leaders to decide how features should look and behave.

I study the incredible diversity of the world’s birds and work with many different kinds of students through my roles as the Fuller Professor of Ornithology, and the Director of the Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program, the Cornell Museum of Vertebrates, and the Cornell Lab’s Academic Affairs.

My areas of responsibility include the mechanical design of customized autonomous audio recording devices, system testing and integration, rapid prototyping of custom electrical and mechanical hardware, system troubleshooting, and the occasional mentoring of students and staff.

My current research involves developing solutions for automatic source separation in continuous ambient audio streams and the development of acoustic deep-learning techniques for unsupervised multi-class classification in the big-data realm.

I work at the intersection of social and ecological science in order to find the best ways to promote and support conservation action. I also support the Center of Engagement in Science and Nature by tracking and visualizing progress in achieving strategic goals across all center programs.

I educate people about birds. I write and teach online courses about bird identification, behavior, and biology, including our university-level course, “Ornithology: Comprehensive Bird Biology.”

I support the Director of Development and Philanthropy, Planned Giving, Membership and Annual Giving.

I am a postdoc researching how birds defend themselves against parasites and pathogens.

I work with the Macaulay Library's media specialists to engage new and existing contributors to preserve their media in the library's archive.

I am a part-time graphic designer at the Lab, working on projects for various departments.

In partnership with other team members, I nurture relationships and raise philanthropic support for Lab strategic priorities.

I work on fundraising database management, including researching, developing, consolidating, reporting and analysis of data, organizing and optimizing data management systems, and training and helping users.

I am the field operations and procurement manager for the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics. I grew up right here in Ithaca, New York, and attended Ithaca High School and Ithaca College. Prior to working at Cornell, I worked for more than 20 years in the microelectronic sales and marketing field.

I work with the Database Administration team to manage the Lab's database systems—including eBird, Macaulay Library, and Data Warehouses—ensuring optimal performance, availability, security, and integrity of each.

I support the planning, coordination, and implementation of the Coastal Solutions Fellows Program.

I produce educational and instructional videos for the Cornell Lab’s eLearning website, Bird Academy. I have the joy of working with knowledgeable instructors and high-quality media to create videos that both educate and inspire.

As Donor Relations Manager, I remind our amazing supporters of the positive impact their gifts have on people, birds, and the natural world.

I model nocturnal bird migration as a flow and quantify the landing and take-off of birds using weather radar data. I also work on tracking intra-African bird migration with geolocators.

I create interactive data visualizations that enable users to explore eBird data in a dynamic, data-driven manner.

As Executive Director I oversee the Lab’s scientific, public, operational, and fundraising programs. I also guide the strategic development of the Lab and relationships with the Lab’s Administrative Board and broader Cornell leadership. In addition, I'm a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, where I advise graduate students. My main research interests are in large-scale patterns in life histories, mating systems and extinction risk, and evolution in wild populations.

I work on the development of the eBird app for iOS, and help develop and maintain the eBird Basic Dataset (EBD) building process.

I oversee the operations and maintenance of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology/Johnson Center for Birds and Biodiversity facility and its over 500 acres of property, including the 225-acre Sapsucker Woods Sanctuary.

My chief responsibility is to organize and archive the vast data collection of the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, now more than 0.5 petabyte and growing at approximately 5–10% per year. I have created and manage a FileMaker database for this purpose and also manage several NAS devices and several computers and servers for the analysis staff.

I do front-end and WordPress web development, as well as some design and UI work, on the Lab's homepage, All About Birds and Bird Cams.