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Recipients of
2001 AOU Research Awards


Eva Sanders Allen, Ph.D. candidate, Indiana University - Genetics of the hybrid zone between Bullock's Oriole and Baltimore Oriole

Barbara Ballentine, Ph.D. candidate, Duke University - Does vocal performance influence female choice in Swamp Sparrows?

Isabelle-Anne Bisson, Ph.D. candidate, Queen's University - Evolutionary origin of avian migration in a tropical kingbird

Patricia L. R. Brennan, Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University - Mating strategies of the Great Tinamou, a species with uniparental male care

Alexis Chaine, Ph.D. candidate, University of California-Santa Cruz - Sexual selection, signaling, and plumage variation in Lark Buntings

Jill L. Deppe, Ph.D. candidate, University of California-Riverside - Selection of stopover habitat by trans-gulf Nearctic-Neotropical migrant landbirds in Yucatan, Mexico

Joseph J. Fontaine, M.S. candidate, University of Montana - Nest predation and phenotypic expression in breeding birds

Ada C. Fowler, Ph.D. candidate, University of California-Davis - Population structuring in Cackling Canada Geese

Cameron Gillies, Ph.D. candidate, University of Alberta - Land cover change and bird movement in the tropical dry forests of Costa Rica

Jennifer Grindstaff, Ph.D. candidate, Indiana University - Effects of the maternal environment on antibody transmission to eggs and the consequences for offspring growth and immune development

Mark E. Hauber, Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University - Social experience and species recognition in brood parasites

Dana M. Hawley, Ph.D candidate, Cornell University - Immunocompetence as currency for carotenoid ornamentation in House Finches

Michael M. Kasumovic, M.S. candidate, Queen's University - Settlement patterns and fitness consequences associated with territory position within a Least Flycatcher cluster

Auston Marm Kilpatrick, Ph.D. candidate, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Evolution of host resistance to a new parasite: the effect of avian malaria on the breeding performance of a native Hawaiian honeycreeper, the Hawaii Amakihi

Alan Krakauer, Ph.D. candidate, University of California-Berkeley - Reproductive coalitions in Wild Turkeys: Why do subordinate males stay?

Elizabeth R. Loos, Ph.D. candidate, University of Louisiana at Lafayette - Clutch size limitation in precocial birds: beyond energetics

Lynn B. Martin II, Ph.D. candidate, Princeton University - Is variation in House Sparrow life histories related to immunocompetence?

Kevin David Matson, Ph.D. candidate, University of Missouri-St. Louis - Maintenance of immune system function in Hawaii's introduced birds

Troy G. Murphy, Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University - An investigation into the function of elaborate plumage in the monomorphic Turquoise-browed Motmot

Laura R. Nagy, Ph.D. candidate, Dartmouth College - Determinants of annual breeding productivity of a Neotropical migrant bird, the Black-throated Blue Warbler

Jacqueline K. Nooker, M.S. candidate, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee - An experimental study of female condition and offspring sex ratio in Tree Swallows

Ryan Norris, Ph.D. candidate, Queen's University - Linking summer and winter events in a long-distance migratory bird

Kathleen D. O'Connor, M.S. candidate, University of British Columbia - Effects of extra-pair fertilizations on estimates of effective population size

Tara A. Paton, Ph.D. candidate, University of Toronto - Complete mitochondrial genome sequences to determine family-level relationships among the Charadriiformes: the affinities of Glariolids, Jacanas, Painted-snipes, Thick-knees, and Plovers

Kevin M. Pilz, Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University - Do yolk androgens modify chick competitiveness? A test in the European Starling

Rebecca Jo Safran, Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University - The role of individual decisions in forming population-level patterns: female reproductive strategies and variation in group-size of breeding Barn Swallows

Justin Schuetz, Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University - Fickle females?: mate choice and the loss of elaborate tails in a group of African finches

Elisa Tarlow, M.S. candidate, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign - Energetic costs of passerine migration

Rebecca Tittler, Research Assistant, University of Quebec-Montreal - 15N levels and songbirds in agricultural and forest landscapes

Jason D. Weckstein, Ph.D. candidate, Louisiana State University - A cophylogenetic analysis of avian hosts and their parasites: toucans and chewing lice

C. Morgan Wilson, Ph.D. candidate, University of Mississippi - Adaptations for reproducing under different time and energy constraints by the Yellow Warbler


Members of the 2001 AOU Research Awards Committee

Gary Ritchison, Chair
Randall Breitwisch
Charles R. Brown
Perri Eason
Jeffery S. Marks
Michael T. Murphy
Beth Slikas
Charles F. Thompson
Doris Watt
Joseph Wunderle