I believe that mentoring and training students is integral to how I conduct my scientific research program. I am fortunate to work with motivated students who willingly challenge themselves to gain new skills and develop their critical thinking. My students have worked with me on a variety of projects, and have developed and pursued their own research questions to achieve peer-reviewed publications, honors theses, and career advancement.
Christina Ziccardi
Kings Park High School, class of 2023. Project: Projected spatial overlap of Atlantic menhaden with wind farm lease areas in New York Bight
Nicola Love
Cornell University undergraduate, class of 2018. Senior honors thesis: Do blue jays respond to information about predators encoded in tufted titmice alarm calls?
Matthew Lam
Cornell University undergraduate, class of 2018. Lab training and independent research: Blue jay alarm call classification and blue jay feeding behavior responses to predators. Major in Biology and Economics
Julia Dorn
Cornell University undergraduate, class of 2018. Lab training and independent research: Predator threat information encoding in black-capped chickadee alarm calls Major in Biology and Society
Stephanie Izard
Cornell University undergraduate, class of 2016. Lab training and independent research: Predator threat information encoding in black-capped chickadee alarm calls
Elizabeth McDonald
Cornell University undergraduate, class of 2013. Senior Honors Thesis: Changes in acoustic behavior of sperm whales in the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Published McDonald, E., J. L. Morano, A.I. DeAngelis, A. N. Rice. 2017. Building time-budgets from bioacoustic signals to measure population-level changes in behavior: a case study with sperm whales in the Gulf of Mexico. Ecological Indicators 72: 360-364. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.08.028