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new postdoc!

10/1/2014

Starting a postdoctoral fellowship with Robert Fleischer at the Center for Conservation & Evolutionary Genetics, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Washington, D.C.!

presented at joint aou/cos/sco meeting

9/24/2014

Presented "Ecological and temporal constraints affect the opportunity for extra-pair mating in the black-throated blue warbler" at the Joint 132nd Annual American Ornithologists’ Union Meeting, 84th Annual Cooper Ornithological Society, 31st Annual Society of Canadian Ornithologists in Estes Park, CO

new paper: behavioral and hormonal responses to environmental change

7/17/2014

"Phenotypic plasticity in hormonal and behavioural responses to changes in resource conditions in a migratory songbird" was chosen as the Featured Article in the October issue of Animal Behaviour. 🔗

featured in "living bird" magazine

7/15/2014

My research on black-throated blue-warblers and climate change was featured in a recent article published in "Living Bird" released in time for the spring arrival of migratory birds.

"Come with us into the New Hampshire mountains to look in on Black-throated Blue Warbler research. Ecologist Sara Kaiser studied nesting behavior of these dapper warblers and found some optimistic indications that the birds may be flexible enough to cope with gradual climate change." - Gus Axelson

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invited seminar at the smithsonian

2/21/2014

Invited to speak as part of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute's Seminar Series at the Migratory Bird Center in Washington, D.C.

presented at gordon research conference

1/10/2014

Presented "Role of top-down selection pressure by predators on lay-date adjustment in response to spring temperature" at the Gordon Research Conference, Predator-Prey Interactions: From Genes to Ecosystems to Mental Health in Ventura, CA

invited seminar at rochester birding association

11/1/2013

Presented a talk to the Rochester Birding Association. What a great group of committed birders with deeper interests in avian mating systems. I've decided to donate my speaker fee (I didn't realize I had one) to their local conservation fund.

student poster ranks at national wildlife meeting

10/9/2013

Alisa Muniz ranked in the top 20 best posters in the Undergraduate Student Research in Progress poster competition at The Wildlife Society meeting in Milwaukee, WI for "Spatial and temporal variation in nest predation rates of a migratory songbird across an elevation gradient"

aou best student presentation award

8/17/2013

Board of Director's Best student presentation award at the joint AOU/COS meeting in Chicago, IL for "Habitat-specific reproductive strategies in response to food supplementation increase male fitness in a songbird"

finalist in abs allee symposium

8/1/2013

Invited to present in the Allee Symposium at the Animal Behavior Society Conference in Boulder, CO

defended dissertation!

7/9/2013

Defended dissertation "Reproductive Trade-offs and Environmental Constraints in a Migratory Songbird"

presented at naoc

8/30/2012

“Sex-specific parental responses to weather-induced availability in food resources across a climate gradient”, V North American Ornithological Conference, Vancouver, Canada, August 2012

contributed to art installation

8/1/2012

Scientific contributor to artist Maya Lin's "What Is Missing" memorial

contributed to climate change documentary

7/31/2012

Scientific contributor to "The Northeast Avifauna Puzzle", a film documentary produced by the Museum of Science and Emerson College

hubbard brook cooperator's meeting

7/1/2012

Presented a talk, "Parental response to weather-driven prey reductions", at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Hubbard Brook Cooperators, North Woodstock, NH July 2012

contributed to "saving songbirds" film

6/1/2012

“Saving Songbirds” won the 35th Boston/New England Emmy for outstanding environmental program and outstanding public service campaign, June 2012!

cornell's outstanding teaching award

4/1/2012

CALS Outstanding Teaching Assistant in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, April 2012

presented at sicb

1/9/2012

"Population-level variation in endogenous testosterone, mating and paternal effort across an elevation gradient", Annual Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Meeting, Charleston, SC January 2012

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