David’s commentary in The Auk provides a nicely balanced perspective on the opportunities and challenges of using different criteria to define avian species. Clicking on this post will open this announcement in a window where you can download David’s full commentary: Toews 2014 species commentary
A warm welcome to Fausto, who is the in-country leader and organizer of all of our Galapagos courses for Cornell students and trips for Lab of Ornithology members — and who is also an exceptional Galapagos naturalist in general. This is Fausto’s first visit to Cornell, though he already has…
Bienvenidos to Arturo Olvera Vital, who is here on a one-day visit as part of a tour of many avian specimen collections. Arturo is a student in Adolfo Navarro’s lab at UNAM, and he is collaborating with our graduate student Nick Mason on studies of Sporophila torqueola.
Thanks to Nick for helping coordinate the Center for Teaching Excellence UWide Teaching Conference, in which he also led a workshop on Experiential Learning that featured our field courses in Kenya & the Galapagos.
This has been a very, very good day for three of our lab alumni: PhD alumnus Dan Rabosky, now an assistant professor at Michigan, has been named one of this year’s 18 Packard Fellows, a truly significant (and well deserved) honor! More information here. Undergrad alumni Mike Harvey and Glenn…
A warm welcome to Dr. Cecilia Kopuchian and Dr. G. Sebastian Cabanne, who are both visiting the lab from their home institutions in Argentina. Here they will be learning to use new genomic approaches for investigating their research questions about differentiation and conservation genetics. Cecilia comes to us from the…
You can read more about Jake’s study of continga relationships here: http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=b35ddb671faf4a16c0ce32406&id=e46626901d&e=0011c99ba8
Curatorial/Research Associate — Ornithology and Mammalogy Collections — Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology — Cornell University The Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates (CUMV) is seeking an ornithologist or mammalogist to curate and grow the collections through an organized program of accession involving Cornell students in all aspects of museum-based…
And one on a spectacular avian radiation too: Berv, J. S., and R. O. Prum. 2014. A comprehensive multilocus phylogeny of the Neotropical cotingas (Cotingidae, Aves) with a comparative evolutionary analysis of breeding system and plumage dimorphism and a revised phylogenetic classification. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.
A warm welcome to new postdoc Dr. David Toews, who comes to the Lab as an NSERC postdoctoral fellow. David did his PhD on the hybridization genetics of Yellow-rumped Warblers at the University of British Columbia, where he was supervised by Darren Irwin.