GRADUATE STUDENTS

Current and Past Doctoral Students:

ALCOCK, JOHN J., JR.(M.S. 1997). Thesis: Hood-building in the fiddler crab (Uca musica musica). (Paul W. Sherman served as co-advisor.) Current position: Intern in emergency medicine at the University of New Mexico hospital, Albuquerque.

ANDRADE, MAYDIANNE (Ph.D. 2000). Thesis: Mating behavior and constraints on reproductive success in a spider with male sexual sacrifice. (Paul W. Sherman served as co-advisor.) Recipient of 2000 Frank Pitelka Prize from the International Society for Behavioral Ecology; Recipient, 2002, Outstanding Young Investigator Award from the Animal Behavior Society. Current position: Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto at Scarborough.

BIRKS, SHARON (Ph.D. 1996). Thesis: Paternity and Parental Care in the Australian Brush Turkey. (Paul W. Sherman served as co-advisor.) Postdoctoral with Dr. Scott Edwards, University of Washington, Seattle; Current Position: Department of Ornithology, Burke Museum, University of Washington, Seattle.

BRENNAN, PATRICIA (Ph.D. 2005). Breeding biology and ecology of great tinamous: female joint-nesting, extra-pair paternity and natural history. (Paul W. Sherman is serving as co-advisor.) Undergraduate Institution: Universidad de Bogota "Jorge Tadeo Lozano" in Bogota-Colombia.

BUSTON, PETER (Ph.D. 2002). Thesis: The breeding system of the clown anemonefish, Amphiprion percula, in Madang Lagoon, Papua New Guinea. (Paul W. Sherman served as co-advisor.) Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Robert Warner at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

DALE, JAMES (Ph.D. 2000). Thesis: Visual signaling of individual identity and phenotypic quality in male red-billed queleas.. (Paul W. Sherman served as co-advisor.) Current position: NSERC Postodctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University with Dr. David Lank.

DOMINEY, WALLACE J. (Ph.D. 1981). Thesis: The mating system of the Bluegill Sunfish (Centrarchidae: Lepomis macrochirus). Current Position: Non-academic employment. (I served as acting advisor for Dr. Dominey during the final two years of his thesis work, after his chairperson, Dr. Ruth Buskirk, had moved elsewhere.)

HAUBER, MARK (Ph.D. 2001). Thesis: Behavior, ecology, and recognition mechanisms in brood parasitic cowbirds. (Paul W. Sherman served as co-advisor.) Miller Postodoctoral Fellow with Dr. Eileen Lacy at the University of California, Berkeley. Current position: Assistant Professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

HEGNER, ROBERT E. (Ph.D. 1981). Thesis: Aspects of territoriality, foraging behavior, and breeding energetics of the White-fronted Bee-eater in Kenya. Postdoctoral with Dr. John Wingfield, University of Washington; Current Position: Project Manager, IFC, Inc., Fairfax, VA.

HOWARD, RONALD A. (Ph.D. 1977). Thesis: Habitat structure, polygyny, and the evolution of upland nesting in red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus). Current Position: Professor, Texas A&M University.

JACOBS, JUDY F. (M.S. 1979). Thesis: Behavior and space usage patterns of the nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) in Southwestern Mississippi. Current Position: Endangered Species Biologist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Annapolis, MD.

LANK, DAVID B. (Ph.D. 1983). Thesis: Migratory behavior of semipalmated sandpipers at Inland and Coastal staging areas. Postdoctoral with Dr. Lewis Oring, Univ. of North Dakota and with Dr. Fred Cooke, Queens University, Ontario; Current Position: Senior Research Associate and Adjunct Associate Professor, Simon Frasier University, Burnaby, British Columbia.

LECK, CHARLES F. (Ph.D. 1970). Thesis: The seasonal ecology of fruit and nectar eating birds in lower middle America. Current Position: Professor of Zoology, Rutgers University.

LEVIN, RACHEL N. (Ph.D. 1988). Thesis: The adaptive significance of antiphonal song in the bay wren, Thryothorus nigricapillus. Postdoctoral with Dr. John Wingfield, University of Washington; Current Position: Associate Professor, Pomona College, Los Angeles, CA. NSF Career Development Award, 1992-1997.

MUELLER, ULRICH G (M.S. 1987). Thesis: Dimorphic males in the European wool-carder bee, Anthidium manicatum (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). (My colleagues, Paul W. Sherman and George C. Eickwort, served as co-advisors.) PhD with Dr. George Eickwort, Cornell University; Postdoctoral with Dr. Tom Eisner, Cornell University, and with Dr. Biff Bermingham, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama; Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Texas, Austin.

MURPHY, CHRISTOPHER G. (Ph.D. 1991). Thesis: The Mating System of the Barking Treefrog Hyla gratiosa. (Paul W. Sherman served as co-advisor.) Postdoctoral with Dr. Carl Gerhardt, University of Missouri; Current Position: Asociate Professor, James Madison University, Virginia.

MURPHY, TROY (Ph.D. 2005). Thesis: Adaptive significance of elaborate plumage when expressed in both sexes: multiple functions of the racketed-tail of the turquoise-browed motmot (Eumomota superciliosa). (Paul W. Sherman served as co-advisor.) Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Queen's University with Robert Montgomerie.

RICHARDSON, W. JOHN (Ph.D. 1975). Thesis: Bird migration over Southeastern Canada, the Western Atlantic, and Puerto Rico: A radar study. Current Position: Executive Vice President, LGL Limited Environmental Research Associates, Toronto.

RIKER, DONALD K. (Ph.D. 1977). Thesis: Nocturnal locomotor activity of the white-throated sparrow (Zonotrichia albicollis): A latent circannual behavior related to catecholamine metabolism. Postdoctoral at Yale University; Current Position: Director, Clinical Research Department, Richardson-Vicks, Inc., Shelton, CT.

RUBENSTEIN, DUSTIN (Ph.D. pending). Physiological and hormonal mechanisms underlying cooperative breeding in birds. Undergraduate Institution: Dartmouth College, N.H.

RYBCZYNSKI, ROBERT M. (Ph.D. 1977). Thesis: Dynamic aspects of bird flocking: The influence of weather, and patterns of spatial utilization. Current Position: Non-academic employment.

SHEN, SHENG-FENG (Ph.D. pending). Evolution of cooperative breeding in the Taiwan Yuhina. (Sandra Vehrencamp is serving as co-advisor) Undergraduate Institution: National Taiwan University, Taipei.

SNAPP, BARBARA D. (Ph.D. 1973). Thesis: The occurrence of colonial breeding in the barn swallow (Hirundo rustica) and its adaptive significance. Current Position: Senior Research Associate and Lecturer, Stanford University.

TERSHY, BERNIE S. (Ph.D. 1998). Thesis: Sexual dimorphism in the Brown Booby. (Paul W. Sherman served as co-advisor.) Current Position: Director, Island Conservation Program, Center for Ocean Health, University of California, Santa Cruz.

TRAIL, PEPPER W. (Ph.D. 1984). Thesis: The lek mating system of the Guianan cock-of-the-rock: A field study of sexual selection. Postdoctoral with Dr. Neal Smith, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, and with Dr. Luis Baptista, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco; Current Position: Senior Forensic Specialist/Ornithology, National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Lab, Ashland, Oregon.

VEHRENCAMP, SANDRA L. (Ph.D. 1976). Thesis: The adaptive significance of communal nesting in groove-billed anis. Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Jack Bradbury at the Rockefeller University, New York City; Current Position: Professor of Neurobiology & Behavior, Cornell University.

WATSON, PAUL J. (Ph.D. 1988). Thesis: The adaptive functions of sequential polyandry in the spider, Linyphia litigiosa (Linyphidae). (Paul W. Sherman served as co-advisor.) Postdoctoral with Dr. Randy Thornhill, University of New Mexico; and with Dr. William Hamilton, at Oxford University, U.K.; Current Position: Adjunct Research Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico.

WEBSTER, MICHAEL S. (Ph.D. 1991). Thesis: The Dynamics and Consequences of Intrasexual Competition in the Montezuma Oropendola: Harem-Polygyny in a neotropical Bird. (My colleague, Paul W. Sherman, served as co-advisor.) Postdoctoral with Dr. Stephen Pruett-Jones, University of Chicago; Current Position: Associate Professor, Washington State University, Pullman, WA; NSF Career Development Award, 1996-2000.

WOLFENBARGER, LARESSA (Ph.D.1996). Thesis: Fitness effects associated with red coloration of male Northern Cardinals (Cardinalis cardinalis). (Paul W. Sherman served as co-advisor.) Current Position: Postdoctoral Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Nebraska at Omaha.