People
Undergraduate DIS Students
Abigail Kreuser
Fall 2016-Spring 2017
Project Title: Task partitioning or division of labor? Patterns of nest maintenance in a cooperatively breeding bird
Project Title: Growth and development of brown-headed nuthatch chicks
Michelle Martin
Fall 2016
Project Title: Quality or Quantity? Provisioning differences in the cooperatively breeding brown-headed nuthatch
Miguel De Villa
Spring 2014-Summer 2014
Project Title:The relationship between breeder and helper age and parental effort in a cooperatively breeding species, the brown-headed nuthatch
Field Technicians
Amy Janik
Spring 2017
Amy was my field technician for the spring 2017 field season. In addition to assisting me collect data for my dissertation, Amy collected her own data for her independent project investigating individual variation in adult aggression in response to a snake model. Amy is now a graduate student at Western Michigan University
Simon Fitz-William
Spring 2016
Simon was my field technician for the spring 2016 field season.
Juan Botero
Spring 2015
Juan was my field technician for the spring 2015 field season. In addition to assisting me with data collection during a particularly challenging field season, Juan conducted an independent project investigating how helpers contribute to breeders during the incubation stage of reproduction. Juan received his master's degree at the College of William and Mary.
Emma Schlatter
Spring 2014
Emma was my field technician for the spring 2014 field season.
Undergraduate Research Technicians and Volunteers
Brandy Shea
ResearchTechnician, Fall 2017-Spring 2018
Brandy assisted with our research on alloparental care and fledging behavior of brown-headed nuthatches. She graduated from Florida State University in May 2018 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Science and a minor in Chemistry. Brandy is heading to Africa to continue her work as an animal veterinary technician and will be attending veterinary school in fall 2019.
Stasia Pietraszun
Volunteer, Spring 2018
Cesar Estien
Volunteer, Spring 2018
Veronica Sitaras
Volunteer, Fall 2017
Austin (Mark) Halperin
Field Volunteer, Spring 2016
Nicholas Hanley
Field Volunteer, Spring 2015
Bethany Willians
Field Volunteer, Spring 2014
