Most of my time is focused on eBird, which has grown from a small traditional participatory-science project into a collaborative global enterprise. We have developed a novel approach to participatory science by engaging diverse communities interested in watching birds while developing partnerships with scientists in a wide variety of fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I work with diverse teams around the world\u2014conservation biologists, quantitative ecologists, statisticians, computer scientists, GIS and informatics specialists, application developers, data administrators and expert birdwatchers\u2014 that has enabled eBird to reach a global audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
eBird has become a major source of biodiversity data, increasing our knowledge of the dynamics of species distributions, and having a direct impact on the conservation of birds and their habitats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’m also a good point of contact for high school students interested in careers having to do with birds, and am active in the yearly Young Birders Event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After two years of carefully, if unsuccessfully, searching my 6 by 4 foot sandbox for dinosaur fossils, I put up a bird feeder in my backyard in Morrison, Colorado. Soon after, a stunning bird appeared on the feeder that I had never seen before. I looked through various bird books and found the bird: an Evening Grosbeak. I was hooked. I decided I wanted to see all the birds in the book. While I have succeeded in seeing the 200 birds in this backyard bird guide, I acquired hundreds more books and am still trying to see as many of them as I can. These days, I’m almost as interested in finding a new “patch” bird at Monkey Run in Ithaca, New York, as I am in seeing new birds. And I’ve never really given up on the dinosaurs\u2014I just focused on their closest living relatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2075,"parent":0,"template":"","program":[156],"project":[38,97],"class_list":["post-5882","staff","type-staff","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","program-avian-population-studies","project-ebird","project-young-birders-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/5882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/staff"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=5882"},{"taxonomy":"project","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project?post=5882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}