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Recipients of

2000 AOU Research Awards


Daniel R. Ardia, Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University -- Geographic variation in interactions among individual quality, immune function and reproductive effort

Elena C. Berg, Ph.D. candidate, University of California-Davis -- Reproductive cooperation and conflict in the White-throated Magpie-Jay (Calocitta formosa)

Peter Christie, M.S. candidate, Queen's University -- Song structure and mate choice from a distance in Black-capped Chickadees

Mario Cohn-Haft, Ph.D. candidate, Louisiana State University -- Biogeographic patterns of morphological, vocal, and genetic variation in Amazonian Hemitriccus flycatchers

Emily H. DuVal, Ph.D. candidate, University of California-Berkeley -- Cooperative mating display in the Lance-tailed Manakin (Chiroxiphia lanceloata)

Mark E. Hauber, Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University -- Conspecific recognition in a brood parasitic bird

Jeffery A. Johnson, Ph.D. candidate, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee -- Conservation genetics of the Greater Prairie Chicken

Daniel Joshua Mennill, Ph.D. candidate, Queen's University -- The ecology and evolution of female eavesdropping and female choice of extra-pair partners

Troy Murphy, Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University -- Sexual selection and assortative pairing in the Turquoise-browed Motmot (Eumomota superciliosa)

Jennifer Owen, Ph.D. candidate, University of Southern Mississippi -- Avian immune function and the energetic demands of long-distance migration

Sunshine A. Van Bael, Ph.D. candidate, University of Illinois -- Avian insectivory in neotropical forest canopies

Matthew Wasson, Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University -- An experimental investigation of calcium limitation in the reproduction of a North American passerine bird

Pamela Yeh, Ph.D. candidate, University of California-San Diego -- Evolution of the Dark-eyed Junco following invasion of a novel habitat


Members of the 2000 AOU Research Awards Committee

Gary Ritchison, Chair
Randall Breitwisch
Charles R. Brown
Perri Eason
Rebecca L. Holberton
Jeffrey S. Marks
Michael T. Murphy
Beth Slikas
Charles F. Thompson
Doris Watt