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'm responsible for developing and maintaining the Android version of the Merlin Bird Id app. I believe Merlin is a powerful tool for bringing new people from all around the world into birding, and thus raise their awareness of birds and the environment. Tools like Merlin can change people's and birds' lives.

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 am an acoustic and spatial ecologist with a focus the audio-visual display of male lyrebirds. My research also investigates how animal cultures such as bird song can be integrated into conservation.

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 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 focuses on engaging people in science, birds, and nature. I manage and coordinate the Cornell Lab's communications, helping us maximize our impact to reverse pervasive bird declines. I love writing and talking about science, helping people see the amazing things in our world, and I am lucky enough to be able to do 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 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 provide the strategic vision, editorial direction, and administrative and financial oversight for the Conservation Media program.

I work on the data in the Membership Department by analyzing and segmenting audiences, optimizing data entry processes, finding automated solutions, and completing fundraising campaign-specific data functions.

I am the permissions editor for the Handbook of Bird Biology. I also coordinate trips to the Galapagos Islands that are especially designed for Cornell Lab members.

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

At the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, I use bioacoustics data collected from California’s Sierra Nevada to model several avian focal species in the context of habitat, forest restoration, and wildfire. The overarching goal of this work is to inform conservation decisions into the future, especially in the face of an uncertain climate.

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.

The focus of my role is to work with the administrative and finance teams to support the Cornell Lab's strategic needs.

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 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.

I use acoustic data to investigate the ecology of marine and aquatic species, such as marine mammals and fish.

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.

I help develop computational tools to detect patterns in bird species distributions using data from the Cornell Lab's eBird project.

I study bird migration using weather surveillance radar as a tool to understand how patterns of migration differ between seasons and over time.

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'm investigating the genomic mechanisms behind the processes in which new species of birds arise and persist in nature.

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.

My research interests are broadly focused on population ecology and natural resource decision-making, with special emphasis on developing effective monitoring programs.

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.

I support the Cornell Lab's Center for Engagement in Science and Nature, and handle everything from ordering supplies to coordinating events. I work alongside teams at the Cornell Lab, ensuring they have what they need to run their programs.

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 write the code that makes eBird work. As a birder, I find it rewarding to work on a product that I (try to) use every day, and has brought me a lot of joy.

I work with the IT team to help Cornell Lab staff with their tech needs, preventing problems or making them disappear. It's fun to find the best solution for the occasion, and it's awesome that I get to do it for the Cornell Lab.

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.

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 am a technical lead for Avian Population Studies at the Cornell Lab and oversee software development and system architecture teams that serves eBird, Birds of the World and a number of other projects.

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

My responsibilities include computer endpoint management, watching over the servers and various storage systems used at the Cornell Lab, assisting staff with computer/technology questions, and working with the rest of the IT team to keep the computers behaving well.

As part of the capacity building team at the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, I develop learning materials, organize workshops and training programs, and conduct collaborative bioacoustics research—all with the goal to make passive acoustic monitoring accessible to anyone wanting to use it for conservation.

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 keep NestWatch running smoothly, and am involved with almost all facets of the NestWatch project.

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 am the assistant to Ian Owens, Louis Agassiz Fuertes Director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and liaison to the Cornell 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'm an engineer who helps to create machine learning models including Photo and Sound ID from the vast Macaulay Library archives.

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 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 provide support for the Cornell Lab's Golden-wing Society program ensuring that our members feel valued and appreciated. I am delighted to be working at the Cornell Lab surrounded by people working to protect birds and nature.

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.

Systems Engineer

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 use an integrative approach to understand how and why birds produce ornamentation, and specifically color.

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.

As a Bartels science illustrator, my role is to provide illustrations for the Cornell Lab's various needs, which can include illustrations for post-doc research, membership premiums, textbook illustrations, and illustrations for Living Bird magazine.

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