FIELD WORK

Montana: Uncovering and prospecting for fossils from Upper Cretaceous rocks (~ 66 million years ago). Particular focus on avian and non-avian dinosaurs, squamates, amphibians, and fish.

West Virginia: Assessing the foraging ecology of a nocturnal caprimulgid (Antrostomus vociferus) and measuring prey species richness and diversity. Field work for Master’s of Science thesis.

Washington: Tidal and estuarine avian species wintering and breeding population research. Assessing anseriform and charadriiform responses to intertidal habitat management.

California: Environmental consultant monitoring California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus) and Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) activity in proximity to wind turbine activity in southern California.

Canada: Paleontological research in the Wapiti Formation in North Western Alberta (Grande Prairie) (~ 70 million years ago). Particular focus on hadrosaurs and ceratopsians.  

Oregon: Northern Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) demography work. Habitat assessment, banding of individuals, recording of range fluctuations. 

Hawaiian Islands: Palila (Loxioides bailleui) Mauna Kea survey lead, and transect point-counts for critically endangered Hawaiian honeycreeper. Also breeding response to invasive predator management, breeding behavior assessment, and behavioral ecology in the Hawaii Elepaio (Chasiempis sandwichensis) with focus also on Apapane, I’iwi, and Hawaii Amakihi. Also worked with Hawaiian hoary bats, and endemic anchialine pool invertebrates.

Kentucky: Assessment of the effects of patch-burning on avian breeding preferences. Particular focus in grassland passerines and galliforms. 

Ohio: Migratory bird banding (passerines, falconids, accipiters)