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Jennifer (Ficken) Buchanan (M.S.)
1983 Parent-offspring conflict in Northern Mockingbirds.
Biologist,
Mississippi Bureau of Marine Resources, Moss Point, MS.
Trecia Osadchuk Neal (M.S.) Spatial
memory in migratory Savannah Sparrows. Teacher, Science & Math
School, DeKalb County, GA.
Patricia Simm (M.S.) 1984 Foraging
behavior of a migratory bird, the Yellow-rumped Warbler.
Ph.D., candidate, Institute of Marine Science, The University
of Southern Mississippi, Ocean Springs, MS.
Alicia Mathis (M.S.) 1986 Geomagnetism
and the homing orientation of the Box Turtle. Associate
Professor, Southwest Missouri State University.
Diane Loria Rose (M.S.) 1988 Stopover
ecology and feeding behavior of migratory Red-eyed Vireos.
Physician, New Orleans, LA.
Amy Jo Kuenzi (M.S.) 1989 Stopover
biology of nearctic-neotropical passerine migrants on
East
Ship Island, Mississippi. Assistant Professor, Montana
Tech, Butte, MT.
Julie Shieldcastle (M.S.) 1991 Relationship
between spring migration and the breeding of Yellow Warblers
along the southwestern shore of Lake Erie. Director,
Black
Swamp Bird Observatory, Upper Sandusky, OH.
Yong Wang (Ph.D.) 1993 Stopover ecology
of spring intercontinental migratory thrushes along the
northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Associate
Professor, Alabama A&M University, Huntsville,
AL.
Mark Woodrey (Ph.D.) 1995 Stopover
behavior and age-specific ecology of neotropical passerine
migrant landbirds during autumn along the northern coast
of the Gulf of Mexico. Research Coordinator/Research Biologist,
Mississippi State University, Grand Bay National Estuarine
Research Reserve, Moss Point, MS.
Mark can be reached at
mark.woodrey@dmr.state.ms.us
David Aborn (Ph.D.) 1996 Habitat,
selection, movement, and activity budjects of neotropical
landbird migrants following trans-gulf migration. Assistant
Professor, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chatanooga,
TN.
Jill Busby
High (M.S.) 1996
Sleep patterns and effect of sleep loss on a migratory bird,
the Yellow-rumped Warbler. Consultant, High Consulting,
Inc., Gulfport, MS.
Colleen (Dwyer) Heise (M.S.) 1999
Age-related differences in the pre-migratory behavior
of Gray Catbirds.
Adjunct instructor, North Carolina Central University,
Raleigh, NC.
David Cimprich (Ph.D.) 2000 Predation
risk and the predator avoidance behavior of migrant birds
during stopover. Coordinator of Black-capped VireoProject,
Texas Nature Conservancy, Ft. Hood, TX.
Chris Szell (M.S.) 2000 Reproductive
ecology of the interior population of Least Tern along the
lower Mississippi River. Geographic Information System
Assistant, The Nature Conservancy, Durham, NC.
Stefan Woltmann (M.S.) 2000 Autumn
migration behavior and winter distribution of migratory
hawks. Ph. D. candidate, Tulane University, New Orleans,
LA.
Sarah Mabey (Ph.D) 2002 Sex-biased
differential migration: An examination of proximate causes
and ecological consequences. Assistant Professor,
Hiram College, Hiram, OH Jeff Farrington (M.S.) 2003 Habitat
use by migratory birds during fall migration at a stopover
site in Alabama. High school teacher, Cape Cod, MA.
Jeff Mollenhauer (M.S.) 2003 Effect
of arrival fat on song and song-flight performance of male
Bluethroats (Luscinia svecica) South
Carolina Department of Natural Resources.e-mail:
mollenhauerJ@dnr.sc.gov
Rob Smith (Ph. D.) 2003 Resources
and arrival of landbird migrants at northerly breeding grounds:
Linking en route with breeding season events. Assistant
Professor, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA.
Mike Guilfoyle
(Ph.
D.) 2004 Hierarchical relationships of breeding and
wintering bird communities to tree-fall canopy gaps in
southern bottomland hardwood
forests. Wildlife Biologist, Waterways
Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS.
Jen
Owen (Ph. D.)
2004 Avian immune function and the energetic
demands of long-distance migration. Research Associate,
The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg,
MS.
Rachel Bru (M.S.) 2005
Effects of song on spring Zugunruhe in the female Indigo
Bunting, Passerina cyanea.
Jeffrey Buler
(Ph. D.)
2006. Understanding habitat use by landbirds during migration
along the Mississippi Gulf coast using a scale-dependent
approach. Research Associate,
Wetlands Research Center, Lafayette, LA, and
Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology, University of
Delaware.
Sarah Wheeless (M.S.)
2006. Use of a dredged material island by landbird
migrants: implications for conservation and restoration
of stopover habitat. Ph. D. student, The University of
Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS.
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and past chief bander for many of our projects.

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