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Field work experience
Although these days I work mainly with data (real and simulated) I spent much of my early career in the field, chasing, capturing, and observing birds in various areas around the Western Hemisphere.
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Summary of fieldwork
New paper: importance of parakeet social history
A new paper, led by Hobson Lab postdoc Annemarie van der Marel, was just published! In this paper, we wanted ...
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Press release! Importance of parakeet social history
Mike Miller did a great press release for our recent paper on rank dynamics and social history in monk parakeets ...
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Recruiting field assistants for Jan 2023!
The Hobson Lab at the University of Cincinnati is recruiting 1-3 field assistants to collect data and run social experiments ...
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New preprint: Perturbations shift social dominance patterns
Annemarie led our latest work on parakeet social dynamics and posted a preprint with our early results. The preprint is ...
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New preprint! The importance of social history on rank in parakeets
We just posted a new preprint "Social manipulations disentangle rank effects of individual characteristics and social history". This paper was ...
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Recruiting field assistants for Feb 2022!
The Hobson Lab at the University of Cincinnati is recruiting 1-2 field assistants to collect data and run social experiments ...
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New paper! Deciding whether to pool behaviors
Our lab has a new paper out in Current Zoology! The paper was led by Hobson Lab postdoctoral researcher Annemarie ...
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New lab members! (of the parakeet variety)
We were happy to hear that two new chicks have hatched into our parakeet population! We look forward to including ...
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New paper & fieldwork coverage from UC
Mike Miller at UC News did a nice write up of the lab's new paper that also touched on some ...
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Parakeet research: pool party!
The parakeets adapted rapidly to life in the flight pen. On the first day, just hours after releasing them into ...
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Parakeet field season 2020
This year's crew was led by Hobson Lab postdoc Annemarie van der Marel who was joined by awesome field assistants ...
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Recruiting field assistants for March 2020!
I am currently recruiting 3-4 field assistants to collect data and run social experiments with Monk Parakeets. The goal of ...
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Monk parakeet project, Florida
I traveled to Gainesville Florida for some of my dissertation work on monk parakeet sociality. I worked with a captive ...
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Monk parakeet project, Argentina
Graduate research -- Entre Ríos, Argentina I captured and marked monk parakeets, observed behavior, recorded vocalizations, and conducted experimental manipulations as ...
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Monk parakeet project, Connecticut
Graduate research -- Connecticut I conducted pilot work for my dissertation research. I recorded invasive monk parakeet calls, trapped birds, ...
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Parrot trapping, Costa Rica
Consultant -- Guanacaste, Costa Rica I assisted my lab-mate Alejandro Salinas-Melgoza in his PhD work on call learning in Amazona auropalliata (yellow-naped ...
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Hawk trapping, Nevada
Educator, HawkWatch International, Goshute Mountains, Nevada Conducted educational outreach at field site, presented talks to visitors about raptor biology, assisted with ...
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Honeycreeper banding, Hawaii
Research Assistant, University of Hawaii -- Hakalau National Wildlife Refuge, Hawaii I worked as a bird bander at the Hakalau National ...
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Prikichi Project, Bonaire
Research Assistant, Cornell University -- Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles From September to December 2004 I assisted Susannah Buhrman-Deever in her Ph.D. research on ...
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Bird banding season 2, Oregon
Supervising Biologist, MAPS Program, Institute for Bird Populations --Siuslaw, Willamette, & Fremont National Forests, Oregon. I trained interns in extraction, banding, aging ...
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Tambopata Macaw Project, Peru
Research Assistant, Duke University, Tambopata Macaw Project Tambopata Research Center, Peru From May to August 2003, I worked at the Tambopata Macaw ...
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MAPS banding season 1, Oregon
Bird bander, MAPS Program, Institute for Bird Populations -- Umatilla National Forest, Oregon Operated constant effort mist nets, banded birds Map tile by ...
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Roseate Tern project, US Virgin Islands
Research Assistant, University of Alaska Fairbanks -- Lovango Cay & Leduck Island, U.S. Virgin Islands I assisted Hector Douglas in his ...
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