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Walter D. Koenig, Senior Scientist, Bird Population Studies, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and Department of Neurobiology and Behavior

Member of the graduate field in

Neurobiology and Behavior

I am interested in taking Ph.D students in the graduate field of Neurobiology and Behavior (Animal and/or Plant Behavioral Ecology). My particular interests are in animal social behavior and in the behavioral ecology of oaks.

A brief presonal history

I came to Cornell in summer 2008 after spending more than 30 years with the University of California, Berkeley, where I was a Research Zoologist with the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology. For most of this time, I lived and worked at Hastings Natural History Reservation in upper Carmel Valley, California, where I still conduct long term research on the social behavior and ecology of acorn woodpeckers and patterns of acorn production in California oaks. In the past, I have also studied the population ecology of tiger salamanders and dragonflies and had students who have studied yellow-billed magpies, phainopeplas, wild turkeys, and African mongooses. At Cornell I teach Advanced Behavioral Ecology (BIONB4340, which I'll be teaching again during the first half of winter semester 2010) and in the introduction to Animal Behavior course (BIONB 2210), as well as graduate seminars in conjunction with Dr. Janis Dickinson.

Curiculum vita - click here for Walt's vita and publications

Publications - click here for a list of Walt's publications (pdf)

 

Acorn woodpeckers at Hastings Reservation. Photo by Ron Mumme