I am very grateful to UC for funding an internal grant proposal to support new work with our bobwhite quail.
I’ll be recruiting undergrads to help with this research soon! Visit this page for information.
From UC’s Office of Research Press Release: (see the full version here)
Congratulations Collaborative Research Advancement Program Pilot Grant Awardees & Finalists!
The Collaborative Research Advancement Program Pilot Grants, as part of the Office of Research’s goal to seed interdisciplinary collaborative research, provide support for high-potential team research and creative activities. The program aims to help teams develop their research and increase their competitiveness and capacity for major external awards and funding opportunities.
Each year, following a two-stage application and evaluation process, up to eight $25,000 grants and up to two $25,000 space-specific grants are awarded.
Congratulations to the following awardees & finalists!
Elizabeth Hobson
Biological Sciences
College of Arts & Sciences
Identifying bobwhite quail individuals by song & applications to conservation management
“Northern bobwhite quail are an iconic but now-threatened species; in Ohio, just 2,400 quail remain in the wild compared to 4.5 million birds 50 years ago. Because of this steep and rapid population decline, cost-effective and accurate methods to quantify and track populations are urgently needed. This project will (1) form new interdisciplinary collaborations with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and bioacoustics experts, (2) test for individual differences in male “bob-white” songs, and (3) determine whether we may be able to infer caller identity of wild bobwhite quail from recordings. In addition to aiding conservation efforts of the quail, the project will also provide UC undergraduate and graduate students new research opportunities and training in computational biology.”
